Dorothy L Sayers Soc

Dorothy L Sayers Society: dedicated to the works of Dorothy L Sayers, writer, translator, poet and lay theologian, creator of Lord Peter Wimsey and Harriet Vane

[Dorothy L Sayers Soc @DLSSoc]

Lovely piece by @Emily_Michelson on academics and detectives, our late patron P. D. James and a real tribute to Gaudy Night @SomervilleOx https://t.co/BP9KA46GFD

[Geraldine Perriam @gmperriam]

@DLSSoc https://t.co/rPk24qeNXb

[Dorothy L Sayers Soc @DLSSoc]

@bbpmac @UKHouseofLords Thank you.

[Dorothy L Sayers Soc @DLSSoc]

The Society is looking for an historian of @UKHouseofLords , specifically, trials of peers in the HoL . Sayers readers will know which novel, published 100 years ago featured the trial of the Duke of Denver in the HoL. We have tried 1/2

[Bloody Scotland @BloodyScotland]

Today's episode of the podcast has a distinctly transatlantic feel as Catriona McPherson joins us from California and @MalcolmKempt dials in from Newfoundland! Listen here: https://t.co/uaWzaCsTP5

[Elly Griffiths @ellygriffiths]

Just a reminder that you can still vote for the @HarrogateFest Theakstons Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year shortlist. All the longlisted books are great but I’d be very grateful if anyone wanted to vote for The Frozen People 😊
https://t.co/2XJTIoPHnV

[Bloody Scotland @BloodyScotland]

It's time to reveal Denise Mina's first special guest who will be joining us in September, and they don't come any more special than the absolute legend that is @LeeChildReacher Get your tickets here before they're all gone: https://t.co/NTDjFVCd5Z

[Woolwich Centre Library @WoolwichLibrary]

We have some incredible new books in a dyslexic-friendly format at #WoolwichLibrary! Check out some popular fiction from across the world, including mythology, thrillers, romance and more! 📚 @GreenwichLibs @Royal_Greenwich @Better_UK #LoveYourLibrary

[Amanda Craig @AmandaPCraig]

Look out for Rose Tremain's stunning new novel The Housekeeper, about the "real" Mrs Danvers with whom DDM had an affair. You'll never read Rebecca the same way afrter.

[Dorothy L Sayers Soc @DLSSoc]

contacting the HoL library, as well as other avenues. So far zero response. If you know of anyone who can speak on this topic please contact us! Either DM here or email: [email protected] 🙏2/2 ends

[Amanda Craig @AmandaPCraig]

Looking forward to talking to P. Hill/Camden/Kentish Town readers @oPrimroseHillLibrary tonight. Here’s my 10th novel High & Low in @OwlBookshop window right now!

[International Crime Fiction Association @CrimeFic]

#BOTW: George Bellairs's Death in Dark Glasses (1952) follows Inspector Thomas Littlejohn of Scotland Yard as he investigates the murder of a recluse who the murderer thought would not be missed...

[Galileo Publishers @Galileobooks]

Out today: Villainous Saltpetre, bringing Galileo’s list of Clifford Witting reissues to twelve!

We hope you enjoy this mystery, which is set in Cornwall & centres around the death of an unsuccessful playwright - who’d already staged his own disappearance 25 years earlier!

[Tataritaritatá @tataritaritata]

A grande vantagem de dizer a verdade é que ninguém acredita nela...
Dorothy Sayers & muito mais nas dicas de livros & artes do TTTTT: https://t.co/p5JConMGX8
#tataritaritata #livroterapia @DLSSoc

[The Soho Society @sohosocietyw1]

@RobertBathurst @LornaSimes @DLSSoc @AmandaPCraig Dorothy L Sayers was Churchwarden of @AnnesSoho where her ashes are also interred beneath @sohosocietyw1 HQ - the Clocktower @DLSSoc

[Clothes in Books @ClothesinBooks]

Another festive entry from an O Douglas book. The excellent contining character Lady Jackson has a new dress, in red and gold brocade https://t.co/pazZsy5kzx

[Mark W. @DurhamWASP]

History is now and England.

Ralph Fiennes reads from Little Gidding - Four Quartets by T.S. Eliot

[Lucy S. R. Austen @LucySRAusten]

If you haven't yet read Gina Dalfonzo's Dorothy and Jack: You should! I just finished and *thoroughly* enjoyed it.

[Jem Bloomfield @jembloomfield]

Agatha Christie brilliantly sets the post-war (1950) atmosphere by having a character read out classified ads in the local paper, and comment on them
(A Murder is Announced)

[#WOMENSART @womensart1]

'I will cut adrift—I will sit on pavements and drink coffee—I will dream; I will take my mind out of its iron cage and let it swim—this fine October" - Virginia Woolf
#WomensArt

[Andy Marshall 📸 @fotofacade]

🚴John Betjeman said that it was worth cycling 40 miles in a headwind to see them.
🪽The early C16th Angel Roof at St Wendreda in Cambs is adorned with over 100 oaken angels.

[Eleanor Parker @ClerkofOxford]

Since today is the anniversary of the Battle of Hastings, I can't resist sharing this again...