Happy publication day Anna Stuart for this thoroughly gripping, moving & impeccably researched WW2 novel and thank you to the genius publishing team bookouture esp natasha harding & the superb rights team ILA

This is a day when all Americans from every walk of life unite in our resolve for justice and peace. … None of us will ever forget this day. Yet, we go forward to defend freedom and all that is good and just in our world. (George W. Bush - 09/11/2001)

#writersquote A mind needs books as a sword needs a whetstone, if it is to keep its edge. (George R.R. Martin)

Coming soon!

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I’ve just made up a new day - History Friday - to provide some book recommendations for the weekend.

Thank you so much to everyone who came to my launch event at Blackwell's Edinburgh last night and particularly to those who had a hand in organising and setup. Spy disguises, banners, balloons and, my favourite, book cake. What a night!

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#AuthorsOfTwitter #tattoolab #writers #writersoftwitter As a symbol of my journey as an author, and to stimulate me on the more challenging moments. No better day than on Friday the 13th! My first tattoo!!! The older, the crazier I get 🤣🤣🤣

#writersquote Please, no matter how we advance technologically, please don’t abandon the book. There is nothing in our material world more beautiful than the book. (Patti Smith)

Thanks to you all for reminding us just how fragile our democracy is at this time.

If you awoke on a remote island with no memory of who you were, what would you do? What if you were a robot... THE WILD ROBOT: amzn.to/4e95bYw Read the book BEFORE you watch the film... that's always the best way 📚 😜 #BookRecommendation #SciFi

#writersquote Any book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his deep and continuing needs, is good for him. (Maya Angelou)

50 days to save our democracy!

#writersquote It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, who had ever been alive. (James Baldwin)

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A decade ago, I started work on the biography of the diplomat, spy and adventurer, Robert Bruce Lockhart. Today, that mission ends with its publication. A toast to the #rogueagent Elliott & Thompson History Books intellbooks #newbook #History #spy #secret #historybook

A friend who does no social media sent this note out his email contacts and made my day! “Today’s front page article in the Washington Post about Putin’s youth movements is an eerie reminder of David K. Wessel’s description of the Hitler youth groups….. Larry”

So my debut novel (Choosing Sides) came out six months ago. Causation … or correlation? publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/in…