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I honestly didn't know if I could ever write a crime novel when I started Dangerous, but I loved every moment and this review is the cherry on the cake: My thanks to To the Max: New Crime with Maxim Jakubowski. @CrimeTimeUK crimetime.co.uk/to-the-max-new…

This week from Pumblechook Theatricals: Teresa Guccioli, Byron's last inamorata, visits Blighty to set his venerable English coterie to rights⤵️ jpumblechook.com/teresa-in-engl…

My interview about The Fascination with the wonderful Ellen Alpsten ... youtu.be/fJws3cg6JhM?si… @OrendaBooks #victoriangothic #fairgrounds #twins #theatre #ghosts

Before manga and psychedelia, Alphonse Mucha imagined a world in bloom. On his birthday, let’s honor his vision of art. 🧵 👇

Byron had had a huge influence - through his own work, and through the imaginations of others. Including me.

This November, Tate Britain will present the first major exhibition to explore the lives of JMW Turner and John Constable. The show will feature over 170 paintings and works on paper including Constable's 'Cloud Study (with birds) from 1821. The exhibition closes April 2026.

For @LauraSRobinson - the wrong era, but how beautiful! And perhaps deadly too!

'Clouds in Finland.' (1908) Konrad Krzyżanowski, is one of the most outstanding representatives of Young Poland’s art (Arts and Crafts Movement) and was an artist of original, expressionist painting. This work was made when he was a professor at the Warsaw School of Fine Arts.

After a mere seven years in the making, The Cultural History of Magic is finally here!! #earlymodern #twitterstorians

At Harrogate, launching Venice Noir in the company of David Hewson, @essiefox , @BarbaraNadel and DV Bishop. It's going to be fantastic. Hope to see you there. venicenoir.com

TALKING THE GOTHIC with @essiefox Just caught up with the latest episode of this sublime podcast. So much great content, including a guide to the development of the haunted castle/house through ‘The Monk’, the novels of Ann Radcliffe, and the works of Edgar Allan Poe, a…

Like Dürer almost 400 years before him, van Gogh found single blades of grass and weeds to be worthy of our full attention ~ here’s Dürer's Large Piece of Turf (1503) and Van Gogh’s Patch of Grass (1887)

I spoke to the New Statesman about the dawn of the post-literate society. Books are rapidly being replaced by addictive screen slop. In my view it is the most significant cultural and political and disaster of our time youtube.com/watch?v=hAVsoj…

The Spanish galleon Andalucia is making her way into Bristol

I'll be in Harrogate tomorrow, signing and dedicating books at the Imagined Things bookshop, at 1 pm.

This is what happens when you use Chat GBT to decide on the new colour for your front door instead of making the decision for yourself.

Twickenham Library is currently closed whilst... we remove a fox! We apologise for the inconvenience caused.

Winifred Knights painted the broad sweep of the limestone cliffs at Beer in Devon in 1922 in a series of atmospheric seascapes but this is the only one where she had used such luminous colour to create one of the most evocative pictures of this beautiful coastline.

"Byron belonged more to humanity than most men of genius, who were isolated representatives of thought; statues, so to speak, animated and enlightened by immortal ideas. Byron was born to love and to be loved." Emilio Castelar, 1875

Wine bowl made from a single piece of rock crystal. Mughal, from the reign of Shah Jahan, 19 Jan 1628 - 31 July 1658. (British Museum)