Lesley Crooks

Mum to 2 smilers. Publishing Manager at Allison & Busby. Current read: The God of the Woods by Liz Moore. Views my own.

[The Bookseller @thebookseller]

Allison & Busby has acquired The Original by Priya Parmar, a biographical fiction about Katharine Hepburn 👇 https://t.co/htiCBMmaa2

[Lesley Crooks @lesleycrooks]

@greateranglia Credit to the driver of the 1632 from London Liverpool Street for his communication over the past nearly two hours of being stuck outside Ingatestone. Really think you need to rethink your ‘rescue train’ procedures.

[Natalie Normann, also writing as Anna Normann. @NatalieNormann1]

My #TuesNews A blogtour alert for #TheSilentResistance From Sunday Feb 15th. Lots of lovely bloggers. It will be fun, I promise🥳📷@LinaLanglee @lesleycrooks @AllisonandBusby #HistoricalFiction
@HistRom @HistoricalRoma2 @RNAtweets #TuesNews #RomFicFeb26

[Lesley Crooks @lesleycrooks]

@greateranglia why were tfl / underground staff telling me that this wasn’t valid this evening? Anything I can do to stop the ticket machines giving me this annoying ticket which doesn’t work on tube ticket barriers?

[Lesley Crooks @lesleycrooks]

Elizabeth line saying good service now, took ages to find the right bus stop and now wondering if it would be quicker to retrace steps back to Farringdon.

[Lesley Crooks @lesleycrooks]

@TfL when I set off from Essex this morning, Elizabeth line was ‘good service’. Have had to get off at Farringdon and (hoping to) continue journey by bus as it was only going to stop at Paddington. Was that a temporary blip or can I expect that over the course of the strikes?

[Lesley Crooks @lesleycrooks]

@essexhighways I’m delighted to hear that, thank you.

[Lesley Crooks @lesleycrooks]

@essexhighways if there’s not confusion over open reference number 2958813 you’ve deemed that this does not need immediate repair. This is the crossing towards a primary school that has not had a lollipop man in months. It is now not possible to cross here with a buggy 1/2

[Lesley Crooks @lesleycrooks]

… (I saw a few parents having to negotiate around into traffic today) and it is not clear to on-coming traffic in either direction on this very busy road that this is a pedestrian crossing point. It is missing a bollard and the surface that has moved is unsafe. 2/2

[Lesley Crooks @lesleycrooks]

@greateranglia just handed to a member of GA staff a laptop left on the Colchester Town 16.32, platform 11. Train was empty when boarded, left on a fold down table in carriage third from the front (or from back as it was arriving into LS.) poss name ‘Jack Davey’ on login screen.

[𝐓𝐫𝐢𝐩Fiction 📚🧳 #travelbybook @TripFiction]

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[Lesley Crooks @lesleycrooks]

Telling it like is with characteristic efficiency.

[Marlene Robertson🇨🇦 @marlene4719]

Germany:
“Please Not the Horror-clown”

[Allison & Busby @AllisonandBusby]

This month we are stepping into Glennis Virgo's CITY OF SILK 🪡- the atmospheric historical novel that won the Debut Writers Over 50 Award.

Here Glennis sets the scene and introduces her heroine, the impetuous seamstress Elena.
Get your copy with 50% off: https://t.co/rRX2FFUXL3

[Allison & Busby @AllisonandBusby]

Next Tuesday evening, 12th November, Flora Johnston Writer will be in Hackney Wick talking about and signing copies of The Paris Peacemakers.

We'll see you there! Reserve your free ticket 🎫: https://t.co/uctPG5f1uX

#newbooks #authorevent #bookevent #theparispeacemakers

[Allison & Busby @AllisonandBusby]

Join us on a short trip to Renaissance Bologna, the setting of Glennis Virgo's City of Silk. It is a bustling but often dangerous place to live …

Get your copy (with 50% off!) from our website - https://t.co/rRX2FFUpVv

#newbooks #bologna #historicalfiction #cityofsilk

[Lesley Crooks @lesleycrooks]

@FirstEssex I’m afraid I can’t make it out very clearly either, though would have thought that from the timing provided the particular bus on the route would have been possible.

[Lesley Crooks @lesleycrooks]

@FirstEssex buses should not mount the pavement, no matter how bad the traffic. This is Victoria Road, steps from a primary school, just now 17.10. Please tell me that the driver will be spoken to.

[Allison & Busby @AllisonandBusby]

✨COVER REVEAL✨
Introducing the heartbreaking World War Two historical novel by Anna Normann... The Silent Resistance

Out 5th December 2024.
Pre-order your copy: https://t.co/QdM6lhGFfl
Request on NetGalley: https://t.co/osyxpxmZTZ

@NatalieNormann1

[Lesley Crooks @lesleycrooks]

@TripFiction @AllisonandBusby Wow - going above and beyond for the perfect book backdrop! Enjoy!