Clare Chambers

Novelist, optimist and nice person (non-practising). Small Pleasures 🍊- UK: July 2020, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, US: Oct 2021, Custom House.

[Clare Chambers @ClareDChambers]

Our son, who lives in Brisbane, fully 10,000 miles out of earshot, has just sent our daughter, who lives under our roof, some bagpipes.

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@MikeBales I'm working on a dating app for the same demographic called Twinge.

[Bookaholic Bex @BexBookaholic]

Tickets booked to see the amazing @JoannaCannon in conversation with the equally fabulous @ClareDChambers - so excited! Anyone else coming? #BookTwitter @nicsmaller

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The people at Kindle must be having a clear-out. (I'm doing much the same thing with my towels cupboard so they have my sympathies.)
Anyway, yours for 99p for the month of February.

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@LissaKEvans I didn't love TCB. Generally prefer her non-fiction, but The Spare Room is tremendous. PS Just bought The Ginger Tree on your rec.

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@ianarchiebeck A crisp and hopeful dawn. Happy New Year to you, Ian.

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@JillLeatherbar1 Thank you. Happy Christmas to you too.

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https://t.co/QPJnGWjiyQ
Some of us have always felt this. #Croydon

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@lynninglis @Waterstones Thank you so much.

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Thank you @Waterstones - this has cheered up a blue Monday! 💙

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@AmandaPCraig Agree - my favourite play by my favourite playwright.

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@BarbaraPym1 Thank you for your kind message, and how interesting about your dad. For people who remember it, that tragedy still resonates.

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@DCYakabuski Thank you for your thoughtful review.

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@NicolaKSmith740 Thank you!

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There are lots of good books up for auction on this site supporting this year's @BBCCiN ❤️📚

https://t.co/FxdHvRNYW2

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I'm heading north to Farsley Lit Fest @TrumanBooks on 30th October to talk about #ShyCreatures and other bookish matters so if you are in the area at a loose end, please come along and say hello.
https://t.co/5jRp0OGQlU

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I’m thrilled to be on this shortlist in such fine company. Thank you! @HistoriaHWA

[Historia – the HWA @HistoriaHWA]

@Shotsblog @DMan1504 @thebooktrailer @RobertsonImogen @AspectsHistory @waltscottprize @thebookseller @northodoxpress @adberginwriter @RachLouDriscoll @harvillbooks @BlackSpringUK @cathrynkemp @carmellalowkis @MushensEnt @DoubledayUK @rosamundmtaylor @LucyLethbridge @DrFrancisYoung @TheHistoryPress @KateHordern @SamiKent @picadorbooks @WmCollinsBooks @exlarson @KeithLoweAuthor @johnmurrays @DHAbooks @EAlpsten_Author @MarkEllis15 @FeinLouise @AlisonJoseph1 @AmyMc_Books @franquinn @novelcarolyn @DrLindaPorter1 @CWAgencyUK @wnbooks @GreeneandHeaton @LissaKEvans @FairlightBooks @bonnierbooks_uk @AnnieWHistory The HWA Gold Crown Award judges for 2025:
Louise Hare (chair), Ellen Alpsten, Maggie Brookes, Mark Ellis, Louise Fein, Alison Joseph, Amy McElroy, Frances Quinn, Carolyn Kirby and Linda Porter
#HWACrowns25 25/27

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@LGfosse28844 No - this is public. Reply to my direct message instead.

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Our son, who lives in Brisbane, fully 10,000 miles out of earshot, has just sent our daughter, who lives under our roof, some bagpipes.

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@LGfosse28844 Please can you follow back me so I can send you a direct message.

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Thrilled to be on this longlist in such great company. Thank you! #HWACrowns25

[Historia – the HWA @HistoriaHWA]

@rjblackmore1 @JulietPickering @dialoguepub @RachLouDriscoll @harvillbooks @AEGoldin @PushkinPress @BlackSpringUK @cathrynkemp @carmellalowkis @MushensEnt @DoubledayUK @JoannaMAuthor @FigTreePenguin @ktgreenst @picadorbooks @LucyLethbridge @DrFrancisYoung @rosamundmtaylor @TheHistoryPress @KateHordern @4thEstateBooks @LucyHH @SamiKent @WmCollinsBooks @exlarson @KeithLoweAuthor @wnbooks @claremulley @johnmurrays @DHAbooks @riverrunbooks @annesebba @jonathanwatts @EdwardWilsonLee @EAlpsten_Author @MarkEllis15 @FeinLouise @AlisonJoseph1 @AmyMc_Books @franquinn @novelcarolyn @DrLindaPorter1 @GreeneandHeaton @JohnsonAlcock @AllisonandBusby @headlinepg @MtLeopardPress @ChrisRickaby2 @LissaKEvans That brings us to the end of the 2025 HWA Gold Crown longlist. Congratulations to the authors!
It’s also the end of all the #HWACrowns25longlists.
Thanks for joining us!
And a huge thank you to all our hardworking, brilliant judges – see below for well-deserved credits
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