Signing 1,300 copies for the wonderful @GoldsboroBooks 'The Matchbox Girl' @BloomsburyBooks is out from 6 November. It tells the story of the real Dr Asperger and what happened to the Curative Education Ward at the Vienna Children's Hospital when the Nazis annexed the city.
Read shortlisted author Rachel Seiffert’s fascinating account of how she researched Once The Deed Is Done and how it was inspired by real people and records.
Full interview via the link: https://t.co/qfgQG90gcu
@ViragoBooks#HistoricalFiction#Shortlist#WalterScottPrize
Reminder: event at Leeds Central Library this Sat 6 June at 13.00. The art of the short story with me and @nicholasroyle and @NaomiBooth#shortstory#litfic Hope to see you there.
https://t.co/oeQUu0RSCs
Will be speaking about #shortstoy Leeds Central Library on Sat 6 June 1-3 pm. With @NaomiBooth and Nicholas Royle, event chaired by Stu Hennigan. Tickets below. Hope to see you there.
https://t.co/zyuWjIa8zF
Carole Tonkinson was one of my chief persecutors in Macmillan. She advocated for my book to be pulped on moral grounds. But look who she was signing up. How publishers go mad. link 👇
What happened to Registrar who oversaw the financial catastrophe engulfing Nottingham University?
He got job in Legal Consultancy at Shakespeare Martineau
SM represent many Universities in tribunals & courts
Eg Bury St Edmunds Tribunal, 1-28 June 2026
https://t.co/23KQTMMHbw
The Borders Book Festival has launched its official 2026 programme!
We will announce the winner of the Walter Scott Prize at the Book Festival and also have our two Young Walter Scott Prize winners set to receive their awards there 📚
https://t.co/Z6aHaCytJY
Will be speaking about my novel 'The Matchbox Girl' @bloomsbury books with Lucy Mangan (author of Bookish) @SwindonLitFest on Saturday 9th May. Also teaching! Link here. @waltscottprize
https://t.co/MOSwtnRmjZ
Strikes at Cambridge University over pay
Vice Chancellor is the most highly paid in UK, the 'Golden Fifty' have seen seen huge increases in pay
Everyone else had real term pay cuts
No excuse as Cambridge Uni has more resources than many countries 😉
https://t.co/pC2bvgitx9
Sally will be accompanied by award winning actress Elisabeth Gray who will perform uniquely dramatised extracts from Sally’s novel. Free to book, reserve your spot now. https://t.co/rVd6zylE3n
Will be talking about my novel 'The Matchbox Girl' @painswickFTP on 7th May 7.30-9.30. Novel is about Dr Asperger, the story of the first #autism diagnosis and the rise of fascism in 1930s Vienna. @BloomsburyBooks@waltscottprize
https://t.co/6vyRMnWra1