Good to know that, at the end of a long Christmas Day, I can still fair-and-square beat my nephew in an arm-wrestle! Happy Christmas everyone 🌲🌲🌲🎄

Wonderful to see #AgentZo on the @kcsi.uk (King’s College Centre for the Study of Intelligence) recommended book list!- thank you!

Wonderful to see #AgentZo on the @kcsi.uk (King’s College Centre for the Study of Intelligence) recommended book list!- thank you!

#AgentZo made the cover of today’s Polish national @rp.pl , with a double page inside about the women who helped bring freedom to Poland during & after #WW2, & why the west needs to better remember this history… & it’s resonance today.

#AgentZo made the cover of today’s Polish national @rp.pl , with a double page inside about the women who helped bring freedom to Poland during & after #WW2, & why the west needs to better remember this history… & it’s resonance today.

Delighted to see my biography - #TheSpyWhoLoved - of the 1st woman to serve Britain as a special agent in #WW2, ie #KrystynaSkarbek aka #ChristineGranville, mentioned in this @thetimes.com coverage of #MI6 chief #BlaiseMetreweli’s speech.

Ok, party-ready… Happy Christmas everyone…

I’m lucky to have wonderful friends in #Warsaw. Thanks to #AlinaNowobilska who guided me & my girls around the #WarsawUprisingMuseum. Last year Alina, #RogerMoorhouse & I produced a 63+ episode podcast to mark the 80th anniversary of the uprising.

I’m lucky to have wonderful friends in #Warsaw. Thanks to #AlinaNowobilska who guided me & my girls around the #WarsawUprisingMuseum. Last year Alina, #RogerMoorhouse & I produced a 63+ episode podcast to mark the 80th anniversary of the uprising.

Great to return to Polish TV in #Warsaw today, to talk about the inspirational #ElżbietaZawacka… #AgentZo!

Beautiful cold #Warsaw… with Chopin’s heart resting in a church pillar, rose-jam donuts, & many other wonders :)

Still pinching myself after being awarded the Polish Foreign Ministry’s Best History book for 2024/25 by Polish deputy PM & Foreign Minister @radeksikorski , for my book #AgentZo, now published in Poland as #AgentkaZo…

Back in #Warsaw… in the winter mist! Night everyone; it’s a big day tomorrow…

Back in #Warsaw… in the winter mist! Night everyone; it’s a big day tomorrow…

Nice early Christmas present to receive these copies of #SpiesInHistory for which I write on #KrystynaSkarbek aka #ChristineGranville whose remarkable story I told in my bk #TheSpyWhoLoved. These essays were first published in the excellent #EngelsbergIdeas

Hello #Cambridge… I’ll be signing books at @waterstones.bsky.social next Sat 1-3pm… come & say hello :)

Hello #Cambridge… I’ll be signing books at @waterstones.bsky.social next Sat 1-3pm… come & say hello :)

It’s beginning to feel Christmassy… ‘Agent Zo’ makes a perfect gift for your uncle, or your mum, your daughter or yourself…. ⭐️ Winner, Polish Foreign Ministry, Best History Book 2025 🌟Silver Prize, Military History Matters, Best Book 2025 💫 Shortlisted, Women’s Prize for Non Fiction 2025

Feeling all Christmassy at the #PolishEmbassy #ChristmasParty in lovely #London dressed in lights - & I now have a beautiful new bauble for my tree - Dziękuję i wesołych świąt!

It’s beginning to feel Christmassy… ‘Agent Zo’ makes a perfect gift for your uncle, or your mum, your daughter or yourself…. ⭐️ Winner, Polish Foreign Ministry, Best History Book 2025 🌟Silver Prize, Military History Matters, Best Book 2025 💫 Shortlisted, Women’s Prize for Non Fiction 2025

Nice early Christmas present to receive these copies of #SpiesInHistory for which I write on #KrystynaSkarbek aka #ChristineGranville whose remarkable story I told in my bk #TheSpyWhoLoved. These essays were first published in the excellent #EngelsbergIdeas

1 year ago already, talking about #AgentZo at the @SpyMuseum in #WashingtonDC - what fun!

IWM Duxford displays #WW2 US pilot's escape archive for first time… www.bbc.com/news/article...

IWM Duxford displays #WW2 US pilot's escape archive for first time… www.bbc.com/news/article...

Always a thrill & a joy to find my book on bookshop shelves! This is one of a few now signed copies in @blackwelloxford found after a stop in their lovely cafe with my middle daughter 🙂 📘📙📗📕📚😁

Always a thrill & a joy to find my book on bookshop shelves! This is one of a few now signed copies in @blackwelloxford found after a stop in their lovely cafe with my middle daughter 🙂 📘📙📗📕📚😁

Such a cute thanksgiving dinner with my middle daughter & her mates at Exeter College this evening. Thanks to Williams College! Oxford so beautiful in the dark…

Such a cute thanksgiving dinner with my middle daughter & her mates at Exeter College this evening. Thanks to Williams College! Oxford so beautiful in the dark…

#Cambridge people… I’ll be signing copies of #AgentZo, the dramatic story of the only woman to parachute into Nazi-occupied Poland, at @waterstones.bsky.social , 1-3pm, Sat 13 Dec. Please come & say hello!

#Cambridge people… I’ll be signing copies of #AgentZo, the dramatic story of the only woman to parachute into Nazi-occupied Poland, at @waterstones.bsky.social , 1-3pm, Sat 13 Dec. Please come & say hello!

‘Infectious & mesmerising’… #AgentZo heads @wsj.com #WallStreetJpurnal’s list of 2025’s best books to buy for the Christmas hols!

📯📯Spectacular News!! 📯📯 The Polish Foreign Ministry has awarded AGENT ZO first prize in their prestigious awards for best history book over the last 2 years! 🇵🇱🇬🇧📘📗📙📕📖📚📚 I am absolutely thrilled to have helped bring Zo’s dramatic story out of the shadows!

📯📯Spectacular News!! 📯📯 The Polish Foreign Ministry has awarded AGENT ZO first prize in their prestigious awards for best history book over the last 2 years! 🇵🇱🇬🇧📘📗📙📕📖📚📚 I am absolutely thrilled to have helped bring Zo’s dramatic story out of the shadows!

Dining under an amazing assortment of #USAAF #2WW aircraft, to close the 18th The National #WWII Museum conference in #NewOrleans last night! Thank you so much to everyone who organised, hosted & came along. You can still see the sessions online…

A day at America’s extraordinary national WW2 museum, & still haven’t reached many galleries. Here is their beautiful tribute to #AnneFrank (the museum includes a replica of her Amsterdam rooms), &...

A pleasure & privilege to meet USA veteran Mr Paul Hilliard at the US natl WWII museum in #NewOrleans, before my talk on #AgentZo today. Paul volunteered at 17, served among the aircrew in the Pacific theatre. At 100, he’s still attending conferences, & sharing his time & knowledge.

A pleasure & privilege to meet USA veteran Mr Paul Hilliard at the US natl WWII museum in #NewOrleans, before my talk on #AgentZo today. Paul volunteered at 17, served among the aircrew in the Pacific theatre. At 100, he’s still attending conferences, & sharing his time & knowledge.

It was an honour to pay tribute to the extraordinary courageous and effective women of the SOE this morning, at the annual conference of @wwiimuseum of America. Wonderful to see a live audience of 300 people, & many more online. I’ll be speaking again tomorrow, on #AgentZo!

It was an honour to pay tribute to the extraordinary courageous and effective women of the SOE this morning, at the annual conference of @wwiimuseum of America. Wonderful to see a live audience of 300 people, & many more online. I’ll be speaking again tomorrow, on #AgentZo!

Already in love with #NewOrleans! Wooden trams, paddle steamers, the French quarter, air boats in the bayou, ‘gators’ whose stomach acids can dissolve bone in 40 days, cocktails on balconies above the streets, jazz on Bourbon Street…

Already in love with #NewOrleans! Wooden trams, paddle steamers, the French quarter, air boats in the bayou, ‘gators’ whose stomach acids can dissolve bone in 40 days, cocktails on balconies above the streets, jazz on Bourbon Street…

Just touched down in #NewOrleans baby! I’ll be giving a couple of talks at the @wwiimuseum conference this week… Meanwhile trying to press on through at the #rosietheriveter bar on the roof of our hotel 💪💪🔧🔧🍺🍺

Just touched down in #NewOrleans baby! I’ll be giving a couple of talks at the @wwiimuseum conference this week… Meanwhile trying to press on through at the #rosietheriveter bar on the roof of our hotel 💪💪🔧🔧🍺🍺

Excellent 1-day history festival with #2WW gang @jamesholland.com #SaulDavid #RogerMoorhouse & #StephenPrince organised by #JoanneOoi at the #JockeyClubRooms #Newmarket. (Yep, that’s a horse statue. There were many.)

Excellent 1-day history festival with #2WW gang @jamesholland.com #SaulDavid #RogerMoorhouse & #StephenPrince organised by #JoanneOoi at the #JockeyClubRooms #Newmarket. (Yep, that’s a horse statue. There were many.)

Excellent 1-day history festival with #2WW gang @jamesholland.com #SaulDavid #RogerMoorhouse & #StephenPrince at the #JockeyClubRooms. (Yep, that’s a horse statue. There were many.)

What has Tracey Ulman found in my book?!?! Such a great night speaking about the inspirational, radical, passionate, compassionate #EglantyneJebb, founder of @savethechildren.org , with among others the brilliant #TraceyUlman… ½

What has Tracey Ulman found in my book?!?! Such a great night speaking about the inspirational, radical, passionate, compassionate #EglantyneJebb, founder of @savethechildren.org , with among others the brilliant #TraceyUlman… ½

My chosen #BooksOfTheYear 2025… - @annesebba.bsky.social #TheWomensOrchestraOfAuschwitz - #YaelVanDerWouden #TheSafekeep - @rachelclarke.bsky.social #TheStoryOfAHeart Read them all; they’re absolutely brilliant!