Alice Jolly

Novel 'The Matchbox Girl' about Dr Asperger @BloomsburyBooks 6 Nov 2025. Agent: @rcwlitagency
Oxford Uni #whistleblower Also #climatejustice #defendourjuries

[Alice Jolly @JollyAlice]

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.

[Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction @waltscottprize]

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

[Alice Jolly @JollyAlice]

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

[Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction @waltscottprize]

Next to catch the spotlight in our Walter Scott Prize shortlist Tasters series is ONCE THE DEED IS DONE by RACHEL SEIFFERT 📚Find out more via the link 🔗https://t.co/KZDkoONus7 #HistoricalFiction #Booksky #BookRecommendations #Shortlist #WalterScottPrize #BookClub #BookFestival

[Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction @waltscottprize]

Meet our shortlistee for the #WalterScottPrize, Graeme Macrae Burnet 📚 Find out more via the link: https://t.co/JXad7jQOzM 🔗

@GMacraeBurnet @BirlinnBooks

#HistoricalFiction #Books #BookRecommendations #BookClub

[Alice Jolly @JollyAlice]

Thank you so much!

[Valeria Vescina @ValeriaVescina]

For outstanding #historicalfiction, look no further than @JollyAlice's The Matchbox Girl and Rachel Seiffert's Once The Deed Is Done. The two novels are on the shortlist of the @waltscottprize. Here is my review of both. https://t.co/W3jqeNmG90 @BloomsburyBooks @virago #histfic

[Barbara Byar @BarbaraByar]

Gotta hand it to Granta, they actually found a way to make this worse

[Alice Jolly @JollyAlice]

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

[Kate Clanchy @KateClanchy1]

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 👇

[Alice Jolly @JollyAlice]

I am reading this right now and am thoroughly captivated! Original, funny with particularly strong women characters ......

[Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction @waltscottprize]

Kicking off our Walter Scott Prize Shortlist Tasters series is THE PRETENDER by JO HARKIN. Find out more via the link: https://t.co/KZDkoONus7

#HistoricalFiction #BookTok
#BookRecommendations #Shortlist #WalterScottPrize #Books #BookClub

[Alice Jolly @JollyAlice]

Reminder: Tomorrow in the Painswick Centre 7.30. #stroud #cotswolds #Gloucestershire#stroud #cotswolds

https://t.co/6vyRMnWra1

[Alice Jolly @JollyAlice]

Survival of the shameless.

[21group @21percentgroup]

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

[Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction @waltscottprize]

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

[Alice Jolly @JollyAlice]

@MollyConisbee @Bloomsbury @SwindonLitFest @waltscottprize Thank you - and send her my thanks as well. I am writing for the tough!

[Alice Jolly @JollyAlice]

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

[21group @21percentgroup]

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

[WhatCathyReadNext @Cathy_A_J]

Treats galore for historical fiction fans on the Walter Scott Prize 2026 shortlist #books #historicalfiction #bookreviews #walterscottprize @waltscottprize https://t.co/6nzF3j8KCX via @Cathy_A_J

[Sally Bayley @SallyBayley1]

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

[Alice Jolly @JollyAlice]

@MirandaFrance1 @painswickFTP @BloomsburyBooks @waltscottprize Thank you. Very kind. Hope we will meet in person soon.

[Alice Jolly @JollyAlice]

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

[Alice Jolly @JollyAlice]

Very pleased that my novel 'The Matchbox Girl' @BloomsburyBooks is on the shortlist for the £25,000 @waltscottprize for historical fiction.

[Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction @waltscottprize]

Announcing the Shortlist for the #WalterScottPrize 2026 from Abbotsford, home of Sir Walter Scott and the Prize.

https://t.co/KZDkoONus7

@BordersBookFest @AbbotsfordScott #bordersbookfestival #Shortlist #HistoricalFiction #Bookstagram

[Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction @waltscottprize]

Announcing the Shortlist for the #WalterScottPrize 2026 from Abbotsford, home of Sir Walter Scott and the Prize.

https://t.co/KZDkoONus7

@BordersBookFest @AbbotsfordScott #bordersbookfestival #Shortlist #HistoricalFiction #Bookstagram