Perfect Halloween reading 🎃👻💀#halloweenreads #victoriangothic #historiccrime

Excited to be a part of the first ever Cheshire Crime Writers Festival If you love literary crime, bag an early bird ticket before the rates increase on Halloween 🎃

It's tomorrow!! 👑📚The HWA Crown Awards shortlists are announced on Wednesday 15th! We'll post them live, here, from 11am and publish the full details in Historia. Six books in each category - Gold, Non-fiction and Debut - go through to the final round #HWACrowns25 1/2🧵

🥰fabulous review from a brilliant author 🥰

Love historical fiction? There's some great books coming out soon! Here are my top picks: Spider, Spider, by LC Winter A Scrooge Mystery, by @AndreinaCordani The Surgeon's House, by @JCooksleyAuthor Estella's Fury, by Barbara Havelocke (me!) The Three, by Kelsey O'Brien

👑📚Find out more about some of the books longlisted for the HWA Crown Awards in Historia at historiamag.com/2025-hwa-cro… • Features by Giles Kristian, Florence Olajide, Keith Lowe, Cathryn Kemp and Catherine Hanley • Carolyn Kirby interviews Clare Mulley and AD Bergin #HWACrowns25

Do you enjoy reading historical fiction? Or history? (Or both!) 👑📚Get your HWA Crown Awards longlist books via Bookshop at uk.bookshop.org/shop/Histori… The link's also at the bottom of our Historia feature about the longlists: historiamag.com/2025-hwa-cro… #HWACrowns25

‘The Surgeon’s House is both tense murder mystery and a detailed illustration of a slice of history, and makes an excellent fist of both’ Thank you to Lynne Patrick for this lovely review of The Surgeon’s House in Mystery People 🖤🖤 full review link in bio

The Small Museum: Jody Cooksley A dark Victorian tale of gaslighting, exploitation and wrongful arrest, all in the name of science. This macabre, gothic nightmare twists up the horrors to the outcome of a spine-chilling court case #HWACrowns25 30/

Fab review from The Historical Novel Society historicalnovelsociety.org/r… #gothicfiction #newbooks #victoriancrime

We have great pleasure in introducing Nia Broomhall, Painshill's Poet in Residence. Here, Nia talks about her relationship with Painshill and the inspiration behind this summer's poetry trail installation, Find What You Find. Find What You Find is a trail of 25 enchanting poems, displayed at 25 locations across our beautiful landscape, giving visitors an opportunity to experience Painshill in new and inspiring ways. Created by Nia, this trail provides a unique walk through words and nature as you explore the 160 acre historic landscape of Painshill. Over an 18-month residency supported by @ace_national , Nia has written evocative new poems with Painshill as inspiration. You’ll also discover thought-provoking poems penned by members of our local community who took part in Poetry Writing Workshops led by Nia, as part of her Painshill residency. Join us to ‘find what you find’ and let poetry and nature inspire your summer. 🔗For further information and to book, see painshill.co.uk/events/find-… #poetry #poetrylovers #poetryislife #poetrycommunity #surrey #heritage #painshill #surreyevents #history #daysout #historymatters #historylovers #words #poem #poemoftheday #poemsdaily #lovepoems #findwhatyoufind @niaandthepoems @VisitSurrey @ace_national

Lunch time readers! Get yourself to this museum....it's nothing like any museum you have seen before, trust me..... thebooktrail.com/authorsonlo… @AllisonandBusby @JCooksleyAuthor

Come and say hello! Today I’m in the fabulous @lionsheartbookshop in Woking from 12-4. Creepy cupcakes on offer too 🖤 #booksigning #gothicfiction #victoriangothic

*NEW BLOG POST* Best Reads May 2025 lotuswritingtherapy.com/2025… #HappyIsTheOne @KatieAllen @OrendaBooks #TheSurgeonsHouse @JCooksleyAuthor @AllisonandBusby #Vianne @Joannechocolat @orionbooks @FiftyMinutes @TrapezeBooks #TheCliffhanger @MsEmilyFreud @QuercusBooks #mayreads

Nearly time for this fine book to come out into the world! Meet Jody as she shows us around The Surgeon's House..... thebooktrail.com/authorsonlo… @AllisonandBusby @JCooksleyAuthor #authorsonlocation

Loving the new gothic mystery from @JCooksleyAuthor #TheSurgeonsHouse is out on 22nd May from @AllisonandBusby #currentread #mayfiction

If you have never been to Evergreen House with its hidden secrets or the small museum with its gothic horrors to unearth, then you are missing out.... thebooktrail.com/book-trails… @JCooksleyAuthor @AllisonandBusby

Reading a dark gothic book and just look at that shadow!! @JCooksleyAuthor what are you doing to me? Brilliantly chilling! @AllisonandBusby