Mrs Trefusis

AKA Helen Brocklebank, host of The Books That Built Me. Low-rent Madame Récamier, Mrs Dalloway manqué. By day, I'm CEO of Walpole, championing British Luxury.

[Mrs Trefusis @mrstrefusis]

I wrote something about why I like to read big books on hols, even if all twelve books of #ADancetotheMusicofTime took up all my baggage allowance https://t.co/PsuweuXkJR

[Dr Iain Overton @iainoverton]

The way big parma is funding Olympic sports is a scandal too Gouda not to report on. I’ll Brie the first to condemn this. The feta of sports is at stake (ok. Enough now).

[Mrs Trefusis @mrstrefusis]

Tune into @BBCRadio3 this evening for @WiggishHistory’s intriguing ‘Death in Trieste’ - a true crime story turned cultural history & why the 1768 murder of famous art historian Johann Winckelmann teaches us to always read art of the past personally & intimately, in the present.

[Mrs Trefusis @mrstrefusis]

@iainoverton Wrong but Wromantic, obvs

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@suladoyle I completely agree. Love that book so much

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Best casting ever

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This was such fun. Talking to Michael about Succession made me realise it’s almost more documentary than drama

[Michael Hogan @michaelhogan]

Scheming super-brats! Sweary CEOs! Boar On The Floor! I spoke to five business insiders - including @brucedaisley, @MikeSoutar, @mrstrefusis and @nca_ldn - about whether #SuccessionHBO is realistic https://t.co/ksLF7xvOZZ

[Mrs Trefusis @mrstrefusis]

@LissaKEvans Yes… and Maybe a bit like offices now it has turned many of us into only occasional visitors

[Mrs Trefusis @mrstrefusis]

Meeting up with @juliahobsbawm in NYC and taking part in her fantastic Nowhere Office podcast was so much fun. The world of work is changing super fast and Julia is its super-chronicler

[thenowhereoffice @nowhereoffice]

Luxury New York episode! Not only with @mrstrefusis @Walpole_UK but also from the blue collar side of those who build offices and work behind the scenes. With @juliahobsbawm @stefanstern (one them worked remotely!)

[Elizabeth Diaferia @TheDearFairy]

Luxury is about storytelling and as brands we need to be telling the story of British luxury and the British soft power #softpower @Walpole_UK @BrandFinance

[Mrs Trefusis @mrstrefusis]

@BelgianWaffling Hmmm… that could be super interesting. I’m up for it, once o have finished writing Cold comfort farm meets Midsommar…. I have a feeling you got me hooked on Zola with your love of railway based sex and murder mystery La Bête Humaine…

[Mrs Trefusis @mrstrefusis]

Who has read Zola’s Ladies Paradise (aka Au Bonheur des Dames)? An amble round Harrods last week prompted me to re-read it and it is just so good https://t.co/1Aczu3lfT2

[Mrs Trefusis @mrstrefusis]

@coachpolly1 @LissaKEvans 😘
I have been wallowing in Twitter nostalgia enough to dip my toe in the water of a return.

[Mrs Trefusis @mrstrefusis]

@LissaKEvans I hear you. Rissoles are the unsung hero of the make do and mend menu, somewhere between a fish cake and Aranchini. On reflection, perhaps someone trendy should revive their reputation

[Mrs Trefusis @mrstrefusis]

@LissaKEvans My neighbour was fond of rissoles (as she called the things made with sausage meat) and of ‘shapes’ both savoury (usually tomato) and sweet (some kind of milk jelly).

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@LissaKEvans In 1998, I think, maybe 1999, but still…

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@jessicacadams I was channelling the full Elizabeth Taylor - fellow Pisces (& Jupiter back in Pisces right now is spotlighting all that loveliness)❤️

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Fourteen years on from the Esquire party at which my Mrs Trefusis profile shot was taken, the Mrs Trefusis updo rides again… older, wiser, less bouffant

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@theactualsara Ha, well, only on special occasions. I find i now have to anoint my feet in ibruprofen gel to wear the really crazy ones

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@AlexHayBooks So excited about your book Alex! I remember you telling me you were writing one and I couldn’t be more thrilled you’re publishing it!