Annie Garthwaite
The King's Mother Cecily
Annie Garthwaite
 

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Just John Films options Cecily

Just John Films options TV rights for CECILY…

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Guest post: Recreating Joan of Arc

Author Katherine J Chen describes how she approached the writing of this timeless character…

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CECILY for your Book Group

Reading CECILY for your book group? This list of questions should help…

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Guest post: Author Pam Petro delves into the motivations for memoir...

Guest post. Pamela Petro, author, artist and educator, delves into the motivations for memoir…

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A classic cocktail to celebrate Cecily's arrival...

Get ready for Cecily’s arrival on 29 July. And here’s the perfect drink to celebrate…

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Guest post: What gets agent Imogen Pelham excited?

Guest post. Agent Imogen Pelham of Marjacq Scripts tells us what gets her excited about a submission.

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Happy Birthday Cecily!

Cecily was born 606 years ago - on 3 May 1415. How did her early years effect her character?

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Bringing Cecily to life

The many-year journey that ended in this book

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Who was Cecily Neville - really?

Duchess of York and longest living survivor of the Wars of the Roses

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Well, this is more than a bit exciting! The King Richard III Visitor Centre is 10 years old this summer, and I've been invited to come talk about #TheKingsMother as part of the celebrations! Also there will be Philippa Langley and Matt Lewis, talking
The Mortimer History Society is offering two £1,000 bursaries for students researching the Medieval Welsh March, the Marcher Lordships or the Mortimer family. See if you're eligible! @themedievalmagazine @medievalistsnet @historytoday.mag @ri
Come 11 July, your favourite indy bookshop may be stocking this special edition of #TheKingsMother with beautiful blue sprayed edges and bonus content from me, which dives into the lives of the women of the #WarsoftheRoses. Find out who they were, wh
When my first book was published Covid was upon us, so a London launch event was an unrealised dream. But, it's happening now for The King's Mother. Thank you @waterstonestcr. And thank you to the glorious AK Blakemore, who I will be honoured to be i
Having fun in the 21st century for a change! Liverpool with the wimmin and we are having a ball. And yes, of course we took a ferry 'cross the Mersey...
Glorious Gloucester Cathedral!
I'm so excited to announce a London launch event for #TheKingsMother in this glorious venue. Come at 7pm, the bar will be open, and I'll be in conversation with the super-talented AK Bkakemore. We'll talk about royal ladies, mothers and sons, love an
I'm so proud that the national launch of The King's Mither will be at Cecily Neville's childhood home, Raby Castle in Yorkshire. I'll be in conversation with Julie Biddlecombe-Brown, Raby's curator and custodian. And there will be a special introduc
@drjaninaramirez in full swing at today's @gloshistfest. What a great festival - fabulously friendly, wonderfully well organised with a great line up in a stunning venue. And this was just the spring warm up! Just wait till September when the full 16
A wonderful evocation if the experience of displacement felt by tefugees, and the difficulty of returning to a lost homeland. - both its geography and its people. I admire the writing so much. Ad the dark humour. And Leo Vardiashvili's willingness t