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The lovely people at Waterstones are running a special offer this weekend: 25% off pre-orders of selected books! And #ReadingLessons is one of them! If you'd like to order the gorgeous new paperback (out on 6 March) then hop over to waterstones.com/campaign/25-of….

Completely absorbed in #LittleAlien at the moment. Gorgeous, quirky book (and the Voynich Manuscript plays a starring role!) Definitely recommended!

Miss Stott sounds fabulous! #readinglessonscomp

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Gorgeous flowers from ⁦Fig Tree⁩ to celebrate publication day for the paperback edition of #ReadingLessons! Couldn’t be prouder of this book.

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Spotted this morning. What’s Jane’s favourite event? #booktwitter, you decide.

I do love a literary pilgrimage. Here’s the view from the Torre dei Leoni at the Castello Estense in Ferrara. Stunning views, and part of a display was dedicated to Alfonso II, although no mention of any duchesses.

Seeing this in Waterstones Manchester Deansgate - a bookshop where I spent many long hours as a student - absolutely made my day!

Spent this afternoon at my favourite theatre, Royal Exchange Theatre, watching an excellent production of Abigail’s Party. Just as teeth-grindingly, deliciously awful as you’d imagine, with Kym Marsh an utter monster as Beverly, and plenty of lovely 70s detail. Definitely recommended!

This is a brilliant book! I was lucky enough to read a proof copy. A clever, passionate account of the importance of music.

I have vivid memories of being trooped down to the hall at my Catholic infants’ school to watch the funeral of Pope John Paul I in 1978. Big television with wheels and doors, all of us cross-legged in rows. I was six. Those of a similar vintage, did anyone else’s school do this?

✨ Non-Fiction Shortlist ✨ • A Bookshop of One’s Own by Jane Cholmeley • Dispersals by Jessica J. Lee • Ingrained by Callum Robinson •Reading Lessons by Carol Atherton • The Garden Against Time by Olivia Laing • Welcome to the Club by DJ Paulette #IndieBookAwards

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#otd 1826 Patrick Bronte bought 12 toy soldiers for his son Branwell. Branwell shared them with his sisters Charlotte, Emily and Anne and they soon started making stories about them. From this spark, the great Bronte writing came. In 1829 Charlotte Bronte gave this account: