Elizabeth Fremantle

Yes

I love that play. Stoppard at his very best

Quite!

Oh dear!

Siri - give me an example of irony …

An early work by Artemisia Gentileschi has been acquired by a Spanish foundation: exhibition in Madrid In Spain, important acquisition for the María Cristina Masaveu Peterson Foundation (FMCMP) in Madrid, which recently enriched its collection with a work by Artemisia Gentileschi that was sold at aucti...

An early variant of Artemisia Gentileschi's Madonna and Child acquired by the María Cristina Masaveu Peterson Foundation in Madrid

👑📚With the HWA Crowns winners revealed next week, we asked 2024 Gold Crown winner Elizabeth Fremantle to tell us about the intriguing background to her latest book, Sinners.
Read about the enigmatic Beatrice Cenci, killer - or victim - at historiamag.com/beatrice-cenci
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Beatrice Cenci, executed for killing her father in 1598, is elusive.
Was she an innocent victim or a cunning murderer?
Both, says Elizabeth Fremantle, whose novel, Sinners, is a powerful reinterpretation of Beatrice's story.
Find out more at historiamag.com/beatrice-cenci
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The writer’s bookshelf: Emma Darwin Eight questions about writers, books, and reading…

Delighted to host the great @emmadarwinwriter.bsky.social on the Writer's Bookshelf this week talking about the books that have inspired and influenced her. mathewlyons.substack.com/p/the-writer...

What amazing company to be in

What can you buy for 99p? SINNERS but just for today!

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For me - not for the environment

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Waiting for the paperback of SINNERS? Waterstones are offering an amazing 25% off on pre-orders until Friday. @waterstones.bsky.social @michaeljbooks.bsky.social Here's the link: www.waterstones.com/book/sinners...

Waterstones are offering an amazing 25% off paperback pre-orders of SINNERS. Here's the link: www.waterstones.com/book/sinners...

Hard agree

I’d watch Jessie Buckley read the phone book. Can’t wait to see her in this

Headline from the Times: "Bestselling novelist Jilly Cooper dies in fall aged 88", illustrated with a rather famous black and white picture of Virginia Woolf

Epic; no notes

Can’t decide what to buy on Prime Day?

Try: absolutely nothing, and then go support indie bookstores instead 📚

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So, I managed to get in touch with Nat West directly and they say they will accept dollar cheques if you take them into the branch. Result!

It looks like the only way – and of course my session has times out now, so I have to start the claim all over again. Grrr!

Apparently Nat West stopped accepting them in 2024 along with several other banks

That's what I thought but it turns out that Nat West won't accept US dollar cheques. I feel that can't be right

Authors! Is anyone else making a claim from the Anthropic Settlement? I've filled in the whole claim form but there doesn't appear to be a payment option that works for the UK. Anyone got advice?

We know it but seeing it reported like this is so depressing

Artemisia Gentileschi, Hercules and Omphale, about 1635–37. Oil on canvas, 78 3/4 × 98 7/16 inches (200 × 250 cm). Sursock Palace Collections, Beirut, Lebanon © 2025 J. Paul Getty Trust.

"Artemisia Gentileschi: Naples to Beirut" at the Columbus Museum of Art in Ohio, October 31, 2025–May 31, 2026 www.columbusmuseum.org/exhibitions/...

Fathers and Daughters – Part 1 | Nicholas Hall Introducing a study of Artemisia Gentileschi and Lavinia Fontana, art historian Elizabeth Cropper exposes the bias against female artists whose personal lives have been ignored or simplified in view o...

Elizabeth Cropper on Lavinia Fontana, Artemisia Gentileschi, and women in art history.

Hard agree!

A great endorsement from @lizfremantle.bsky.social for Women Who Ruled the World: 5000 Years of Female Monarchy. Elizabeth has written so many wonderful historical novels, including Firebrand, on which the major feature film was based last year

‘A fascinating exploration’

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