Freya Berry
@FreyaBBooks
Writer type. THE BIRDCAGE LIBRARY= mystery of books & botany. An Amazon book of 2023 🪶 @headlinepg 🇬🇧 @unionsquandco 🇺🇸 THE DICTATOR'S WIFE as seen on BBC2
This ought to be very special from the superb @seanlusk1
Out THIS very week! Order from your lovely local #bookshop and make an author (and yourself, I hope) ever so happy. #awomanofopinion #paperback #penguinbooks #HistoricalNovels
Very authory day yesterday, giving a talk at the @OpenUniversity symposium on writing place in fiction at the v imposing Senate House. Then off to @Hatchards summer party where I completely failed to take any photos but did nearly spill champagne on William Dalrymple and wore…
I have idly wondered this about once a week for about 15 years and NOW I KNOW
How people in the middle ages used to wake up
Can’t wait to get stuck into this one @StonexEmma! ☀️🧡☀️🧡☀️
☀️#TheSunshineMan☀️ is published today! This book has been such a journey and I’m really proud of it. Big thanks to everyone who’s kindly reviewed it so far and of course the team @picadorbooks for publishing it so brilliantly. Here comes the sun! ☀️ 💛💫
I'm speaking at the Open University! Please join me and the wonderful Priscilla Morris, author of the very moving Black Butterflies, as we talk about creating worlds in fiction. Part of a whole day's cultural symposium for just £25 NB: I once took an @OpenUniv course in marine…
Ten Great Novels set in the GOLDEN AGE of Detective Fiction tripfiction.com/ten-great-nove… Including @medwardsbooks @TomMeadAuthor @FionaVeitchSmit @CLMillerAuthor @FreyaBBooks
“The key difference between us? He had the internet to read at night whereas I had Terry Pratchett and Judy Blume.” We have to ban phones for children now - no ifs or buts or weasel equivocations. We are ruining young lives by failing to act. theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2…
Turns out gene editing is a lot like book editing theguardian.com/science/2025/m…
We think MPs should listen to what's gone wrong in Canada's assisted dying. Donna Duncan's story must be heard - told by her brave daughter Alicia. It's one of somersaulting horror - and state and professional failure of a fiercely independent woman.
Lecteur, l’homme que j’aime cherche à me tuer…Très heureux que mon livre sorte en français aujourd’hui! My schoolgirl French really helped me with writing the translation of Le Bibliothèque aux Oiseaux, aka The Birdcage Library. Just joking - the translation is courtesy of Anouk…
The Guardian is cancelling my contract after 19 years continuous employment with no pay-off so totes happy to go to the Indie to continue my investigation into Evgeny’s dad, the ex-KGB spy. The UK media: so many fine choices. theguardian.com/media/2019/nov…
This photo made my day. Solidarity with #GiselePelicot and all survivors.
After the incredible events in #Syria this last week, I was so honoured to be invited onto @LBC to discuss the fall of Asma al Assad, a key inspiration for my novel The Dictator’s Wife. I find her and women like her completely fascinating. Do they soften these men, or whitewash…
On @LBC in 15 mins with the marvellous @ShelaghFogarty to discuss the rise and fall of Asma al-Assad and the appalling fascination of dictators' wives
Currently in Japan where the autumn leaves are making me happy - as is the fact that today is the day The Birdcage Library comes out in the US! Thank you so much to all at @UnionSqandCo for all their hard work on this absolutely beautiful edition! Please do check out for all your…
