Harlots & Hangers On
Tickets are now on sale for my event in Broadstairs on 24 September with my friend & fellow author Hallie Rubenhold. Please spread the word, thank you.
Please donate for Hurricane Irma’s victims
Please donate to help those in the BVI whose lives have been devastated by Hurricane Irma, thank you. https://www.justgiving.com/crowdfunding/bvi-touristboardhurricaneirma
The US paperback of Princess Louise
Queen Victoria’s Mysterious Daughter, my biography of the sculptor Princess Louise, is now out in paperback in the US, published by Thomas Dunne Books. https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781250130365
Stanfords Travel talk, 13 September
On 13 September I’ll be talking about travel writing and my new book The Writer Abroad (published by the British Library) at Stanfords Travel bookshop in Covent Garden, London. Tickets are on sale now, please spread the word. http://www.stanfords.co.uk/event-the-writer-abroad-literary-travels-from-austria-to-uzbekistan
Walk in Dickens’s Footsteps
If you live in, or are visiting, London, you can walk in the footsteps of my great great great grandfather with my downloadable walking tour: https://voicemap.me/tour/london/charles-dickens-from-furnival-s-inn-to-doughty-street
Is it too early to mention Christmas…?
I know it’s still only July but, at the moment, if you pre-order my upcoming book Dickens and Christmas (which is due out at the end of October), you’ll get ?ú4 off. https://www.pen-and-sword.co.uk/Dickens-and-Christmas-Hardback/p/14004
Gibraltar Literary Festival 2017
This November, I’ll be speaking about my book “Charles Dickens and his Circle” at the Gibraltar Literary Festival. http://www.gibraltarliteraryfestival.com/speakers/2017/lucinda-hawksley-62
Harlots & Hangers-On
On 24 September I’m doing an event in Broadstairs, Kent, with my friend and fellow author Hallie Rubenhold. Twitter has been making me laugh today, as it has been pointed out that the lack of a comma in this flyer has turned Hallie into my great great great grandmother…
Warwick Literary Festival
This October, I’ll be speaking about Bitten by Witch Fever at the Warwick Literary Festival. Come along and found out how Victorians were being poisoned by their own homes.