It's paperback publication day! And look at this smashing new cover. Thank you so much to everyone who has reviewed The Russian Doll on Amazon and recommended it here. I'm very grateful!

Delighted to have made the longlist. 🎉🥳 Many congratulations to my fellow #histfic writers. #HWADDSS26 #shortstory

Here is the longlist for the 2026 HWA Dorothy Dunnett Short Story Competition. 25 impressive short stories set in the past #HWADDSS26 #histfic #HistoricalFiction #ShortStories 1/6

We're thrilled to announce the 2026 #WolfsonHistoryPrize shortlist, showcasing six exceptional books that explore how societies navigate periods of seismic change. 📕'The Boundless Deep: Young Tennyson, Science and the Crisis of Belief' by Richard Holmes (@wmcollinsbooks) 📕 'Vanished: An Unnatural History of Extinction' by Sadiah Qureshi (@AllenLaneBooks) 📕 'Summer of Fire and Blood: The German Peasants’ War' by Lyndal Roper (@BasicBooksUK) 📕'Liverpool: A Story of Britain' by @samwetherell (@HoZ_Books) 📕'The Library of Ancient Wisdom: Mesopotamia and the Making of History' by @lswisnom (@AllenLaneBooks) 📕'Silence of the Gods: The Untold History of Europe's Last Pagan Peoples' by @drfrancisyoung (@cambridgeup) Congratulations to all the authors! 👏📚 wolfsonhistoryprize.org.uk/p…

Decisions, decisions...

It’s incredible to have ‘Silence of the Gods’ shortlisted for The @WolfsonHistory Prize, and I’m so pleased that the largely forgotten history of northern and eastern Europe’s last pre-Christian religious traditions is finally receiving the attention it deserves 📚

Thrilled to be on the longlist for the HWA gold crown. Thanks so much to the judges and congratulations to all my fellow nominees 💚

Was such an honour to be asked to be a judge for the HWA Non-fiction Crown this year!!! The long list has just been announced 😀 An amazing list of books with an array of themes and time periods! Follow the @HistoriaHWA posts for more details! 👏👇😁 #HWACrowns26

More wonderful books here!

Mad Tom's Rising: Ian Breckon The story of a mad man who aspired to a seat in parliament but ended up starting the ‘last battle fought on English soil’. Provides insight into the conditions of the rural poor at the turn of the Victorian period. Well researched #HWACrowns26 15/

Woohoo! It's longlist day! Some brilliant looking debuts here, going straight on the TBR pile

Gasp! 😱 #TheSilentAppeal is straight in at Number 6️⃣ in today’s chart! 🥹 Thank you so much to everyone who pre-ordered, bought, reviewed and recommended it ❤️ 🙏

Best delivery ever 🤩#TheHouseofCromwell out 24/9

I’ve signed a contract with @politybooks for ‘A History of Folklore’ – the first major history of the discipline of folklore in Europe in decades. It will chronicle folklore’s key role in European nation-building and propose a new way forward for the discipline. Coming 2028! 📚

Happy publication day @louisatreger #AFatalLove is a superb read! @BloomsburyBooks

August so far. All reviews on independentbookreviews.co.uk

OMG - spotted in the wild, a week before official publication!! ‘…page for page, ‘My Name is MacKenzie Bly’ has more good jokes than any novel I’ve read in years.’ (The Times)

Being in the pub when one of those national alerts goes out is a trip…

Congratulations to Cathryn Kemp on the release of They Can't Burn Us All! Iceland, 1655: a witch-hunting craze targets men of learning and Þuríður's father and brother are condemned to burn. When the pastor turns on her, he finds she is no ordinary woman. amazon.co.uk/dp/1787637166,

🏖️📚History lovers! Looking for a new book to read this summer? Historia suggests 21 history and historical fiction books, recommended by top authors. Find them at historiamag.com/summer-readi… Fiction and fact ranging from 6th-century BC Greece to 21st-century America

I simply adore this trailer for ‘The Opposite of Murder’!