In #Dublin 14/6 at 4pm? #booklaunch at Teachers' Club for #luciedumas @stairwellbooks.bsky.social Free but please reserve so's I can calculate refreshments... #historicalfiction #samuelbutler #victorianlondon @historia-hwa.bsky.social @histnovsoc.bsky.social www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/launch-of-...

Thank you @linneatanner.bsky.social for (again) hosting me on your blog, this time with #luciedumas #historicalfiction www.linneatanner.com/2026/04/27/k... on the research process @stairwellbooks.bsky.social

Thank you to #mercedesrochelle for featuring an excerpt from #luciedumas on #blogtour @cathiedunn.bsky.social historicalfictionblog.com/lucie-dumas/ the double life of the Victorian 'gentleman' #historicalfiction #victorianlondon #samuelbutler

Read an excerpt from #luciedumas @stairwellbooks.bsky.social on #blogtour - her early life in Lyon - with themysteriousuniverseofbooks.blogspot.com/2026/05/luci... @cathiedunn.bsky.social #historicalfiction

Just a few of the sources I used when researching the background to my latest #historicalnovel #luciedumas Find out more with Ruins&Reading @cathiedunn.bsky.social #blogpost here: ruinsandreading.blogspot.com/2026/04/prom... @stairwellbooks.bsky.social

Another highlight of this past week was the Ladies Club (and some gentlemen) at St George's, #madrid, who made me very welcome when I came to talk about #luciedumas @stairwellbooks.bsky.social #historicalfiction #writingcommunity

Love this sensitive and nuanced review of #luciedumas @stairwellbooks.bsky.social #historicalfiction #victorianlondon yourbooksoryourlife.blogspot.com/2026/04/book... #blogtour @cathiedunn.bsky.social

My #bookreview of @lcwinter.bsky.social's debut Spider Spider for @histnovsoc.bsky.social historicalnovelsociety.org/reviews/spid... 'This haunting, atmospheric novel has more than a tinge of Wilkie Collins' #historicalfiction #victorianlondon

Thank you to @ohlookanotherbook.bsky.social for hosting #luciedumas on #blogtour @stairwellbooks.bsky.social #historicalfiction #samuelbutler #victorianlondon ohlookanotherbook.blogspot.com/2026/05/luci... @cathiedunn.bsky.social

Thank you @booknook21.bsky.social for spotlighting #luciedumas on #blogtour with @cathiedunn.bsky.social #historicalfiction #truestory #irishwriting #writingcommunity #samuelbutler #victorianlondon

My home all of May in Ventspils, #latvia, at the Writers and Translators House, where I'm writing a novella inspired by the life of #ottiliepatterson. The permanent resident is Watson (apparently he looks like an actor who played him in a Sherlock film) #historicalfiction #irishwriting #cat

Thank you Maisie @theuniverseofbooks.bsky.social for hosting #luciedumas on #blogtour with @cathiedunn.bsky.social #thecoffeepotbookclub (and I LOVE that graphic!) #historicalfiction #samuelbutler #victorianlondon

Read the beginning of #LucieDumas here on www.elizabethjstjohn.com/guest-author... @elizabethstjohn.bsky.social thank you for hosting me #blogtour #historicalfiction #womensfiction @stairwellbooks.bsky.social @cathiedunn.bsky.social

Thank you Annie @leftontheshelf1.bsky.social for featuring me on your blog today #blogtour #LucieDumas @stairwellbooks.bsky.social Read here about Lucie's early life in Lyon, city of silk #historicalfiction

Thank you @gracereadsbooks402.bsky.social for this wonderful #bookreview of #LucieDumas @stairwellbooks.bsky.social @cathiedunn.bsky.social #historicalfiction @histnovsoc.bsky.social @historia-hwa.bsky.social

There were four mourners with the priest at the graveside of #luciedumas in St Mary's cemetery, Kensal Green. Read about three of them (and more) in thecoffeepotbookclub.blogspot.com/2026/04/join... @cathiedunn.bsky.social Images: StJohn'sCollege Cambridge Wikicommons #samuelbutler

Thank you @tonyriches.bsky.social for spotlighting #luciedumas today on #blogtour @stairwellbooks.bsky.social #historicalfiction #victorianlondon

Thank you #books_and_coffeepots for hosting me #blogtour Read the historic background to the story of #luciedumas mythslegendsbooks.blogspot.com/2026/04/five... @stairwellbooks.bsky.social #historicalfiction #victorianlondon Image: Wellcome Collection, WikiCommons

Celebrating #worldbookday2026 with #luciedumas #irishwritersunion @europeanwriterscouncil.eu #thehumanauthorsfacebehindthebookwrittenbyahumanauthor #thafbtbwbaha #writingcommunity Any #author can join in, union member or not #protecthumanauthors #worldbookday26 #humanauthorsfirst #behindeverybook

Thank you @archaeolibrarian.bsky.social for hosting me today @cathiedunn.bsky.social

'I have been a femme entretenue, a flagellant, a penitent, a streetwalker, an inhabitant of night houses, a demimondaine... The rules are different for such as I.' #blogtour with @archaeolibrarian.bsky.social archaeolibrarian.wixsite.com/website/post... (Images Dutton NY & StJohnsCantab WikiComms)

Read about Lucie Dumas's earlier life in the silk city of Lyon on @helenhollick.bsky.social's #blogspot ofhistoryandkings.blogspot.com/2026/04/my-c... Photo: Lyon silk pattern book, 1861, credit La Canute @cathiedunn.bsky.social @historia-hwa.bsky.social @histnovsoc.bsky.social #historicalfiction

Imagine the life of a young woman working in a #CoventGarden brothel in #victorianlondon, in this excerpt from #LucieDumas on charlenenewcomb.com/2026/04/luci... Holman Hunt's The Awakening Conscience, Wikicommons Tate Britain @stairwellbooks.bsky.social #historicalfiction @cathiedunn.bsky.social

Welcome to Day 3 of our #blogtour for ༻*·Lucie Dumas·*༺ by Katherine Mezzacappa! Check out today's tour stops, sharing intriguing excerpts from this compelling story! thecoffeepotbookclub.blogspot.com/2026/03/blog... #HistoricalFiction #WomensFiction #WomenInHistory @katmezzacappa.bsky.social

You can read an excerpt here - those all-important opening pages of my new novel #luciedumas @stairwellbooks.bsky.social on #blogtour with #thecoffeepotbookclub @maryanneyarde.bsky.social maryanneyarde.blogspot.com/2026/04/luci... #historicalfiction @historia-hwa.bsky.social @cathiedunn.bsky.social

Read my #q&a on #luciedumas @stairwellbooks.bsky.social @whisperingbookworm.bsky.social's #blog thewhisperingbookworm.blogspot.com/2026/04/on-t... St Mary's Cemetery, Kensal Green image BDS685 Wikicommons @cathiedunn.bsky.social #historicalfiction

Thank you @maryannbernal.bsky.social for featuring #luciedumas on your blog today maryannbernal.blogspot.com/2026/04/book... @cathiedunn.bsky.social #historicalfiction #victorianlondon #womensfiction

Love this review from @shadosofthepast.bsky.social thorough, perceptive and considered #blogtour #LucieDumas @stairwellbooks.bsky.social #historicalfiction #womensfiction #victorianlondon @cathiedunn.bsky.social

Lovely start to my #blogtour for #LucieDumas with @rachelelwjoyce.bsky.social www.rachelelwissjoyce.com/rachels-blog... 'What sparked my interest was that this was the story of a ‘fallen woman’. When have we ever heard of the story of a ‘fallen’ man?' Exactly! @stairwellbooks.bsky.social

Love this review! First day of my @blogtour for #LucieDumas @shadosofthepast.bsky.social @stairwellbooks.bsky.social

Delighted to feature on Mary's Bookcase #blog today with this excerpt from my latest novel, #LucieDumas @stairwellbooks.bsky.social #historicalfiction #womensfiction #victorianlondon marysbookcase.blogspot.com/2026/04/read... #coffeepotbookclub

Just under a week to go for a packed #blogtour for #LucieDumas @cathiedunn.bsky.social @stairwellbooks.bsky.social #womensfiction #coffeepotbookclub #historicalfiction #victorianlondon

Delighted that #TheBalladofMaryKearney is on #kindlepromotion 99c until Sunday #histriabooks #historicalfiction #Ireland

It's #publicationday #LucieDumas #historicalfiction @stairwellbooks.bsky.social www.amazon.co.uk/Lucie-Dumas-... 1871: Samuel Butler takes a young French streetwalker as his mistress, later sharing her with his best friend. A tale from the shadows of Victorian literary life, based on true events.

Not long now! #publicationday 30th March #historicalfiction #victorianlondon @histnovsoc.bsky.social @historia-hwa.bsky.social @cathiedunn.bsky.social @stairwellbooks.bsky.social

Loved doing this #podcast with #askfosca #foscainflorence www.askfosca.com/podcast/the-... Fosca is a fantastic interviewer #historicalfiction #writingcommunity #firenze www.askfosca.com/sustainable-...

Stoneleigh Community Library is run by a group of dedicated volunteers. I'm delighted to have been able to donate my books - the contact was made through @historia-hwa.bsky.social @zaffrebooks.bsky.social @fairlightbooks.bsky.social @romaunce.bsky.social #Histria #writingcommunity #historicalfiction

Very good news from @fairlightbooks.bsky.social #TheMaidenofFlorence is number 1 #bestseller currently on Amazon US kindle for Italian #historicalfiction. And there's an ebook discount for US readers until Thursday. I'm up there with John Banville and Kate Quinn! #writingcommunity

My #bookreview of Bill Hodson's Worktown for @histnovsoc.bsky.social historicalnovelsociety.org/reviews/work... #historicalfiction #1930s #bolton the lives the volunteers assiduously recorded on paper... are recounted with an empathy both uncompromising and devoid of sentimentality.

My #bookreview Richard Dennis's Rumbling of the Waters @histnovsoc.bsky.social #historicalfiction #1920s 'an absorbing historical and psychological thriller... warning of what happens in a democracy when the rule of law is subverted and instrumentalised.' historicalnovelsociety.org/reviews/the-...

My #bookreview of Martin Campbell's The Insanity Inspectors for @histnovsoc.bsky.social 'Individual case notes are heartrending, taking the reader into a world remote in time and geography' #historicalfiction #scottishhistory #insanity historicalnovelsociety.org/reviews/the-... #victorian

My #bookreview of Rosemary Griggs 'The Mistress of Dartington Hall' for @histnovsoc.bsky.social 'Griggs’s achievement lies in her ability to evoke vividly an intimate portrait of life in a 16th-century West Country manor house' historicalnovelsociety.org/reviews/mist... #historicalfiction #devon

My #bookreview Pnina Shinebourne's Love in the Time of the Medici for @histnovsoc.bsky.social: a tragic story, in which Livia is punished for her attempt to exercise free emotional will in defiance of patriarchal convention #historicalfiction #renaissance historicalnovelsociety.org/reviews/love...

My #bookreview of @livimichael.bsky.social's Elizabeth and Ruth @saltpublishing.com for @histnovsoc.bsky.social historicalnovelsociety.org/reviews/eliz... #historicalfiction #victorian #manchester 'the best-intentioned philanthropists...saw frailty and weakness where they ought to have seen heroism'

My #bookreview of Mike Hollow's The Bloomsbury Murder for @histnovsoc.bsky.social historicalnovelsociety.org/reviews/the-... #cosycrime #noir #historicalfiction 'This is cosy crime at its best, confidently written and painstakingly researched'

Something to do over Christmas, people. #Flashfiction #competition with the Florentine Literary Society; 150 words inspired by Florence (not hard, surely?) and your work could feature in @theflorentine.bsky.social www.theflorentine.net/2025/10/31/f...

No, I've not been sulking about being pipped to the post by none other than Kevin Barry for @historia-hwa.bsky.social Gold Crown award; I've just been madly busy. I'd a great time at the awards evening and was so pleased to have made it to such a stellar #shortlist #historicalfiction #irishwriting

My #bookreview of @annaluciaauthor.bsky.social's Broken Madonna #historicalfiction #italia for @histnovsoc.bsky.social historicalnovelsociety.org/reviews/brok... 'a lyrical, elegiac and empathetic portrait of a small-town community and a vanished way of life'

My #bookreview of John Banville's Venetian Vespers @faberbooks.bsky.social for @histnovsoc.bsky.social 'This tour de force of a novel has all the creeping menace of The Turn of the Screw' #historicalfiction #irishwriting historicalnovelsociety.org/reviews/vene...

Gulp! #TheMaidenofFlorence made it onto the #shortlist! #historicalfiction @historia-hwa.bsky.social Thank you @fairlightbooks.bsky.social for believing in this book and to @irishwriterscentre.bsky.social for the residency that made it possible #firenze #renaissance #irishwriting #writingcommunity