Happy publication day to Ghosted! This book was so much fun to research and write, and I can't wait to go on a ghost hunt again. Thank you to everyone who's ordered a copy! I hope you enjoy reading it...with all the lights on, obviously. 👻 (Note: video plays crackling static sound)

Reflections on leaving salaried academia: lessons I've learned. profandrewking.me.uk/2025/08/31/r...

I'll be running Writing Women again in the new semester through Aberystwyth University's Lifelong Learning. ✶ Online course ✶ Self-paced ✶ One to one feedback ✶ Expert guidance Here's the link to my course, but there are heaps of others to choose from too! www.aber.ac.uk/en/lifelong-...

Ghosted is published in one month! It's all getting very exciting. Bev the Haunted Doll is positively crawling the walls. No, really. She's crawling up the walls. Send help. Pre-order: www.bloomsbury.com/uk/ghosted-9...

‘This famine is an engineered one – a war on our bodies, our clarity, our ability to move’ Read Sondos Sabra’s Letter from Gaza in The New Statesman. www.newstatesman.com/internationa...

"Is there a felicity in the world superior to this?" Celebrating meeting a Big Deadline with a holiday to reconnect with the chalk of my childhood. Have I been finding myself crying every now and then at the scenery I've not seen for 4 years? Yes. Am I relaxed, and feeling at ease? Also yes.

Aberystwyth MusicFest is a truly glorious thing - we're so lucky to have it & all the wonderful variety of music it brings to Aber. Very much looking forward to this evening's offering: Jane Austen @ 250: The Beautiful Cassandra - a recital of some of Austen's letters underscored by piano music...

👻GHOSTED pre-order offer at Waterstones!👻 From now until Thursday, you can get 25% off pre-ordered copies of Ghosted with the code SUMMER25. Everyone who pre-orders it will be forever blessed by Bev the Haunted Doll. #paranormal #ghosthunting #nonfiction www.waterstones.com/book/ghosted...

When I say I am very excited about this... Mari has done something really rather special with Witsh, shedding some much-needed light on the witch trials in Wales - not as well known as those in Scotland or Pendle, but no less indicative of the precarious position of women in a patriarchal society

Delivered a paper at our conference this week? Why not turn it into a full article for the next general issue of Victorian Popular Fictions? Our latest issue is out now and is open access: victorianpopularfiction.org/publications...

Hear hear! It's the @vpfa's deeply rooted refusal of hierarchy in the interest of welcome and joy combined with serious intellectual ambition, isn't it? It's proof renewed every year that fun and rigour make a great alloy!

Well, #VPFAExtremes has been wonderful - the height of my summer so far, as ever! I am deeply grateful to be part such a fantastic, extremely warm and collegiate association. Thoroughly enjoyed the last few days - diolch pawb!

Fantastic work by a fellow Aberystwythian! Really interesting paper about the connections between Corelli and Curie, the assumed relationship between women working and then aging, and, of course, the patriarchy... (Women being able to work *despite* going grey? The horror!!) #VPFAExtremes

A great meal with great conference pals! @vpfa.bsky.social #VPFAextremes

HUGE shout out to Keira for handling being the sole speaker like a pro! I certainly enjoyed chairing this panel, even if it was a slightly unconventional one. I'm *always* game for talking about Jane Eyre - this was an absolute pleasure. Thank you Keira for being such a good sport! #VPFAExtremes

Unfortunately, the other presenters on this panel (Kailey Pire and Rida Leonard) have been unable to attend, so we are now having a Brontë-themed chat instead. Currently wondering, why DID Jane marry Rochester?? #VPFAExtremes

Day 2 of #VPFAExtremes is a-go! We have more fantastic panels on the way, and some exciting lunchtime excursions on the menu ...

We're all a big family at VPFA! So great to see so many familiar and new faces joining us every year ❤️ #VPFAExtremes

Day 1 of the @VPFA1 conference is drawing to close. What a lovely way to end. Victorian silent movies accompanied by pianist @bianca.vancea_pianist See you all for day 2 tomorrow #VPFAExtremes #silentmovies #victorian #history

It's been a lovely 1st day at VPFA 2025! @vpfa.bsky.social #VPFAextremes

I had the best time presenting this paper! It was such a great panel to be on - by a *wild* coincidence, we had two separate papers, featuring two separate books that both just so happened to have a character with the last name of Tempest, and someone accidentally selling their soul... #VPFAExtremes

As The Proclaimers once said, "I'm on my way [to #VPFAExtremes]". Very much looking forward to the next few days, and reconnecting with such a fantastic bunch of people @vpfa.bsky.social

Exciting new issue of VPFJ is now out in the world, featuring my review for Helena Esser's fantastic Steampunk London: Neo-Victorian Urban Space and Popular Transmedia Memory. I'm a big fan. Get your libraries on it. @vpfa.bsky.social @helenaesser.bsky.social doi.org/10.46911/TWO...

Very exciting times ahead! We have a wonderful selection of papers this year. I'm particularly looking forward to *finally* doing something with Alcott's bonkers-but-brilliant A Long Fatal Love Chase. There's heights, there's depths, and there's extremes in them there pages ...

Need focused time to write before the VPFA conference? Join us for a Virtual Writing Retreat designed specifically for those presenting at the conference in July. Not a member? Membership renews on the 31st May, with full membership for £25 and a discounted student rate of just £10!