Only 1 week to go until #thehoneymoonaffair is out in Ireland and the UK! Don’t forget to pre-order a copy or grab one on the 9th of May ☀️🏝️

Thursday 25 July, 7pm! I will be talking about art in fiction Leighton House and Sambourne House with Tim Knox, Director Royal Collection Trust – #TiepoloBlue , #TheVioletHour , art as a character, the history of collecting, Leighton House as literary setting, & more: tickets available HERE👇 leightonhouse.digitickets.co.uk/event-tickets/…

We are delighted to announce Fleur Sinclair of Sevenoaks Bookshop as the BA’s new President, who will be supported in her new role by Mairi Oliver of Lighthouse - Edinburgh’s Radical Bookshop and Debbie James of Kibworth Books as Vice Presidents.

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So thrilled that Joseph O’Connor’s My Father’s House is shortlisted for the #WalterScottPrize for #HistoricalFiction !

Exciting news about your summer odyssey, Petroc Trelawny ! You might be interested in visiting Harrison & Harrison, organ builders? Their factory used to be in Hawthorn Terrace,where I visited my friend when she was at Durham University. Factory moved now to new premises nearby.

Lovely to meet you both! 😊

It’s like Kay Dick, in her prophetic 1977 dystopian novel They, knew what Royal Mail would be reduced to in 2024.

Here's our latest curated trio of titles. WILD PERSPECTIVES is a book bundle containing #poetry by James McDermott 🌈 Ian Humphreys and Isobel Dixon together for just £19.99.
Immerse yourself in wild nature courtesy of these beautiful books.
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Just announced by Petroc Trelawny: this summer, we’ll be taking BBC Radio 3 Breakfast on the road, winding our way through the North East of England and broadcasting from a different spot each morning, before arriving The Glasshouse International Centre for Music for the BBC Proms. theglasshouseicm.org/seasons/bbc-pr…

Duke Ellington b otd 125 years ago!
'The wise musicians are those who play what they can master.'
'My attitude is never to be satisfied...never.'
'A problem is a chance for you to do your best.'
'Gray skies are just clouds passing over.'
'Music will be there when money is gone.'

Loved it too Paul_Edmondson!
#BachBefore7 Petroc Trelawny BBC Radio 3 #CoffeeCantata

Just putting on my pot of coffee as Bach's coffee cantata chirps away in the corner of my kitchen on 'Bach Before 07.00.' Thank you BBC Radio 3 Petroc Trelawny Sir Stanley Wells

Breakfast is live BBC Radio 3 Today Victor Ewald – pioneer of Soviet building methods & writer for brass quintet; Carolyn Sampson 🇪🇺 seeks coffee, Fritz Wunderlich hears a lark in The Merry Wives Of Windsor and where is Breakfast off to this summer ? Join us - now on until 0930.

There’s something adorable about Moonwort (Botrychium lunaria) #yorkshire #wildflowerhour ⁦BSBI: Botanical Society of Britain & Ireland⁩

What a lovely photo! A bright gathering of authors (& look at that sky too!)! Colonsay Book Fest Graeme Macrae Burnet

The stellar Graeme Macrae Burnet in conversation with Pru Irvine, rounding off the Colonsay Book Festival…. until next year

Sharing with Doug Robertson too, Simon Barraclough. The most disconcerting edition of Moby-Dick ever? 📘🐋👀

Thanks king's co-op bookstore & the book binders!

Our film with Nik Millard Alice Doyard Haneen Abdeen on the death of baby Sabreen. Thank you to her family for allowing us to tell the story and to our brave colleague in Rafah.

Primarily a painter in oils, a trip to Italy in the early 1890s prompted Marianne Stokes to change to painting in tempera and her art turned from scenes of mothers and children and more toward religious, symbolic and decorative works.

One of the leading artists of her day, it…