I wrote a blog post about my wonderfully atmospheric launch for 🕯️THE SHADOW KEY🕯️at The Old Operating Theatre Museum & Herb Garret! Check it out here: susanstokeschapman.com/blog/the-shado… [Best viewed on PC] HarvillSecker Vintage Books

Love this photo of Becky Jago and @davidwhiteleytv - the sunniest, kindest TV duo in the business! 💗

#Pompeii AD 79

Last in the #WolfDen trilolgy
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The Temple of Fortuna by Elodie Harper

‘The Temple of Fortuna brings to a successful conclusion a series that conjures up the ancient Roman world in vivid detail’

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It's been a big week, with an OB from Papworth Hospital, and an election special.

I also really enjoyed hearing about 'Read Easy Norfolk.'

If you'd like to get better at reading, or volunteer, below is my interview with the charity's supporter Jake Humphrey

I am now officially the youngest labour councillor… maybe even the youngest in the U.K!!

Thanks for everyone’s support in Fletton & Woodston- i look forward to representing you. Let’s keep that red flag flying🌹.
#labour #youthvoice #YL #Peterborough

Catch up on a dramatic night of local election results in the ITV News Anglia region - and we'll be updating as the results come in through the day.

All the details 👇

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'We've bucked that trend...'

Dan Swords hails an 'incredible' victory for Conservatives on #Harlow Council, where the party's majority was cut from nine to a single seat.

Labour by-election and local council gains: What does this mean for a general election? ITV News Deputy Political Editor Anushka Asthana reports

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It’s publication day for THE NIGHTINGALE’S CASTLE. This book is incredibly special to me and I’m so thrilled to see it out in the big wide world

It can be easy to overlook how involved the women of Homer’s #Iliad are in Trojan War tactics. Andromache advises Hector to station men ‘by the fig tree’ having counted 3 attempts by the Greeks on that section of wall. Hector tells her to return to her weaving #TheMissingThread

📚'Set in Pompeii only a few years before the city’s destruction'

Sandra Danby reviews House with the Golden Door by Elodie Harper Elodie Harper

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📢 EXCITING EVENT 📢

Catch Elodie Harper on May 1st at Waterstones Covent Garden discussing all things women in historical fiction and #TheWolfDen alongside Francesca Haig/Francesca de Tores and Anna Mazzola (is away) 📚

Book your tickets now 👉 bit.ly/3JoHOMs

🏴‍☠️ 'A triumph of the imagination' Elodie Harper
🏴‍☠️ 'A ravishing picaresque told with fireworks, finesse and gusto' Paul Lynch

#Saltblood – Francesca Haig/Francesca de Tores's compelling new novel, breathing new life in the story of pirate Mary Read – is out now in hardback, ebook and audio!

Plato's last words? 'Either that Thracian flautist goes or I do'? More on a new document about Plato's final hours from the Villa of the Papyri near Pompeii via The Guardian: theguardian.com/books/2024/apr…

A courtesan in Rome.
Playing for power.
Haunted by her past.
Her name is Amara.
How will her fortunes fall?

#TheTempleOfFortuna by Elodie Harper is coming in paperback this May! Pre-order now 🏺 bit.ly/44h5Tic

This stunning #Roman bipartite eye makeup container Getty is made of free-blown colourless glass & was used for Kohl. 3rd or 4th Century.
The 2 parts of the vessel are formed by a tube folded upon itself. It includes a thin bronze applicator.
#romanmakeup #romanglass

It appears tonight on ITV News Anglia I’m presenting with Veronica Corningstone aka Becky Jago
The hair is almost on a par.
News Team: Assemble.
(Check out the retro phone!)

My dream job in journalism is to write Allister Heath’s headlines

'Historical fiction at its best' ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
'Everything about this trilogy is perfection' ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

Are you ready to finish #TheWolfDen series by Elodie Harper? We are publishing #TheTempleOfFortuna in paperback this May!

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