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C.P. Giuliani. Italian, novelist, playwright. History lover, theatre-mad, elephant collector. The Tom Walsingham Mysteries. #HistFic #HistoricalFiction

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Tom Walsingham sleuths on with @SapereBooks! https://t.co/LQeZLirZdT #HistoricalFiction

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I'm thrilled: my unpublished novel Sweet Ned (Elizabethan London playhouses - almost no murders) has made the Category Short List in the #hnsfirstchapterscompetition! #historicalnovelsociety, #historicalfiction

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Hooray! Death at Home, Tom Walsingham's eighth adventure, is out with @SapereBooks!! And this time, trouble is as personal as it gets... https://t.co/K3rnRpyBvy #HistoricalFiction #HistoricalMystery #TudorHistoricalFiction

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May I go a little fangirl, and gush about the influence of @patriciafinney's witty, clever, wonderful Carey&Dodd series on my Tom Walsingham Mysteries? You know, the kind you lovingly sigh over, wishing you could write something even a tenth as good...

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@WalleyVision @SapereBooks Thanks! :-)

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So! Tom Walsingham sleuths on... The Man from Morocco will be out on the 28th (https://t.co/tmwqMiYCGV, and Death at Home is just out for preorder - all of it with @SapereBooks . https://t.co/IT5CAyzieE #HistoricalFiction

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@silverpebble :-D Want vs. Need! Who likes declensions at 14? But "lift up your heart(s) is always a nice nudge on blue days. All else apart (and thinking of music, in a way) doesn't"sursum corda" sound like a deep breath and some (up)lifting?

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@CarlBovisNature Adorable! And yes, I do have a friendly Robin in my garden - very much like this one and fond of my pond.

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New notebook, new story, new books to find, new history to research... Time to begin work on Tom Walsingham's ninth whodunnit-cum-espionage adventure. There's always a kind of back-to-school excitement to it. #amwriting #HistoricalFiction

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And in the end I went for "junket" - not quite what i had in mind at first, but it does the job.

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Talking about rabbit-holes... I'm searching for a 16th century Kentish cheese, white and soft enough that a character can insult another by telling him he has a liver like an XXX cheese... Been at it for more than an hour. #amwriting, #historicalfiction

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@CarlBovisNature I see it - and how lovely! (Also, a bit of synchronicity, since I just met a robin in my orchard, friendly and fearless: he perched on a bush first, and then moved nearer on the wall, and looked at me for quite a while as I told him how adorable he was...)

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Bad fit of procrastination. I must write this email, let me get that phone call out of the way, oh, let me water that poor plant... You know the sort. So now it's nearly 8 pm, I've fallen badly behind schedule - and... argh! #amwriting (Or, at least, I wish I were)

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@AliceBooks333 I once wrote a number of acquaintances into a book... Amusingly enough, almost all were recognised by family and friends; no one - but no one - recognised themselves.

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@TheKentAcorn I have a bed of them in the garden of my family's house - planted by my great-grandmother, and blossoming year after year. They are not very common here in Italy, and always an absolute joy.

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@SheldrickTrust I never fail to be touched and awed by the wonder that are elephants...

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An 800-year-old medieval door with beautiful craftsmanship at Wells Cathedral in South West England

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You know those moments when one of two possible characters must enter stage left, bringing news that a body was found - and you waste half the morning trying to decide which one actually does it? #amwriting

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@Dr_TheHistories So astonishing, actually, that I believe Bertos faced witchcraft charges over it, and had to demonstrate his skill before the Inquisition to clear himself. Or so the story goes...