I don’t know. I love this Joseph Fasano poem and have it pinned on my office door but I don’t know what to actually do about any of this.

From Faber the FAB Prize highlights new talent from underrepresented backgrounds with a publishing deal for the winner. Please share :)

London traffic yesterday 🐴

Just hanging out in the library with Hozier and some unicorns. (Serious study, albeit a bit of a side quest)

When you accidentally attend an eighteenth-century dancing lesson and accidentally buy a biography of the Duke of Wellington #history #amreading

Early bird catches the moon, the owls, and some time to read about whisky and taxes. Fun times.

Nothing says Thursday like coffee cake and an article on illicit whisky in the long eighteenth century. Let the dissertation commence 🥃 #history #amstudying #student #cake #eighteenthcenturylife

Hairdresser time equals a perfect opportunity to catch up on some ARC reading. This eARC of @lorajones.com’s ‘The Woman in the Wallpaper’ is glorious so far and the illustrations are 👌🏻 (gifted / PR product) #amreading

POV: you’re thinking about POVs and persons. I always thought third was my favourite, but I’m learning to love others. A new character materialised earlier this week and she wants this novel to be first person. She also wants to address the reader directly, and kiss the antihero #amwriting

Coffee of the day. More coffee plotting. Thinking about carriages and coachmen. And library books.

Yesterday was coffee cake and plotting; today is copyright quibbles and stale stollen. Apprehensive about what tomorrow might bring.

Cake and plotting 👀 At the wonderful stage of a novel where all the potential is visible and none of the plot holes 😝

Giveaway alert (but please don’t enter too much as I would like to win, please and thank you).

Daughter’s history homework. Genius. #historyjokes #gameofthrones

Flashes of colour in the frost this morning. Helping my thoughts on Frankenstein, Walter Scott, and piracy.

Incentives to finish this essay: some fabulous historical fiction ARCs. Halfway through Sycorax, which is a sensory wonder so far, debating whether to go for revolutionary wallpaper or Victorian art mystery next?

Obligatory snow picture. Very helpful for Frankenstein reading.

Celebrating my first 1k followers on 🦋 by giving away a hardback copy of my fave book of 2024, #Costanza by Rachel Blackmore! 🍊💛 All you have to do is follow & repost. Happy to ship internationally, so tell your friends. Will pick a winner next Friday. #BookSky 📚

If you’re looking for romantic cheer in the gloom this is essential viewing and it’s on iplayer now. Seems I’m not alone in my love for this 1944 magical, mystical, whimsical masterpiece from #PowellandPressburger Lovely piece in today’s guardian: amp.theguardian.com/film/2024/no...

How I spent my Saturday: looking at the Duke of Wellington’s false teeth. Nice.

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