historicalnovelsociety.org/launch-apple... Fun to be interviewed by HNS writer Leslie S Lowe @vineleavespress.bsky.social #Australia #Fiction #WorldWarII #BerlinBlockade #London #Cambridgeshire @waterstones.bsky.social

Launch: Apple Gidley’s Annie’s Day - Historical Novel Society

INTERVIEWED BY LESLIE S. LOWE A nomadic life has seen Anglo-Australian Apple Gidley live in twelve countries as diverse as Equatorial Guinea and the Netherlands, the experiences and cultures of which ...

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Sad, sad, sad, and very angry. Bella, my assistant editor, was run over by a speeding car four nights ago. Her pelvis was smashed and her leg broken yet she still managed to crawl home, and drag herself up the stairs. My study is empty #SpeedingKills #VillageLife #Ickleton #20mph ignored!

youtu.be/l7KwIijidI4 Fun being interviewed by #TGTrouper a few days ago. #HistoricalFiction #WW2 @authorinterviews.bsky.social @vineleavespress.bsky.social #CaribbeanLit #Malaya #NursesInWar @australianbooks.bsky.social #AustralianLiterature @lrb.co.uk @cambridgeradio.bsky.social

Author interview #38, with Apple Gidley

YouTube video by TG Trouper

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Just finished reading #EddaMussolini by #CarolineMoorehead - if you have any doubts about the rise of #Fascism in #USA read this book. It will curdle your blood. #DumpTrump and his accolytes.

Really looking forward to being interviewed tomorrow by author extraordinaire #TGTrouper #LetsTalkBooks #AmWriting

@histnovsoc.bsky.social @royalhistsoc.org #HistoricalFiction #WW2 @newguineagirl.bsky.social #NewGuinea #Singapore #Romance #ExpatAustralians @warnurse.bsky.social #AustralianNurses #SilverMedal @vineleavespress.bsky.social

If the companies fixed burst pipes in a more timely manner perhaps a hosepipe ban would lose some of its imperative! Our village #Ickleton waited two and half weeks for a pipe to be fixed, thus losing hundreds of thousands of gallons #AnglianWater

Hertfordshire@hertfordshireuk.bsky.social · 4w ago

What does a hosepipe ban mean for the UK's driest region? #Herts #Hertfordshire #BedsBucksHerts

Swimming to happiness!

Lucky Shitt 🇨🇦 🇪🇺 🇲🇽 🇺🇦@luckyshitt.bsky.social · 4w ago

And now, for your entertainment, PUPPY BUTT

It's infuriating, and despite knowing some of the red flags, I've still almost been sucked in!

Rob Bignell, Editor/Author@inventingreality.bsky.social · 4w ago

How to tell a scammer from his email address #bookmarketingscam #writingcommunity #authors #fiction #author #writing #amwriting #amediting #writer #booksky #writerslife #indieauthor #shortstory writerbeware.blog/2026/06/30/...

Yippee - hope to see you there tomorrow. Amazing authors to meet, amazing books to buy for your summer holidays!

Foreword Festival UK@forewordfestivaluk.bsky.social · 4w ago

Holiday booked? Staycationing this year? Don't forget your most important summer accessory – a story to sweep you away! Find your perfect beach read at the Foreword Festival UK Beach Reads Book Fair. Escape into books from local authors! 📚💙 TOMORROW, Saturday 11th July, John Peel Centre, 11-3.

Really looking forward to next Saturday! If you're in the area-Stowmarket, why not stop in and say hello, and even better, buy a book from any one of the wonderful authors who will be there #SummerReading #books #BookFairs #BeachReads #Authors @forewordfestivaluk.bsky.social

Smorgasbord Blog Magazine Weekly Round Up - June 15th - 21st - Blogger Meet Up, Big Band, Chart toppers, Cuisine Pakistan, Book Review, Summer Book Fair, Funnies smorgasbordinvitation.wordpress.com/2026/06/21/s... @patfurstenberg.bsky.social @applegidleyauthor.bsky.social @joyyorkauthor.bsky.social

Smorgasbord Blog Magazine Weekly Round Up – June 15th – 21st – Blogger Meet Up, Big Band, Chart toppers, Cuisine Pakistan, Book Review, Summer Book Fair, Funnies

Welcome to the round up of posts you might have missed this week on Smorgasbord. I hope you have enjoyed your week so far… it has certainly thrown up one or two surprises for us. One being th…

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US politics is utterly exhausting. Each time I think it can't get any worse, it does. The extreme right Christian fundamentalists are trying to get a 'one household' voting policy - that means the 'man-of-the-house' votes for his little woman. The US is going backward in voting rights. Sod you!

Thrilled to share space on the Smorgasbord Summer Fair with #ElizabethGauffreau and #PatSpencer Thank you @sallycronin.bsky.social #HistoricalFiction #Love #War #Fiction #WomenatWar

Sally Cronin@sallycronin.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Smorgasbord Summer Book Fair - #SocialHistory #Compassion #Audio Elizabeth Gauffreau, #Love #War #Courage Apple Gidley, #History #SouthAfrica Pat Spencer smorgasbordinvitation.wordpress.com/2026/06/17/s... @lizgauffreau.bsky.social @applegidleyauthor.bsky.social

#BookFairs #reading #WritingCommunity applegidley.wordpress.com/2026/05/18/b...

Books and Fleet Feet

Ashoke Ganguli, in Jhumpa Lahiri’s debut novel, The Namesake, says ‘That’s the thing about books. They let you travel without moving your feet.’ He is responding to Mr. Ghosh, an elderly man, who i…

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Silver Medal in #TheWishingShelfBookAwards - woohoo! Carol, on Goodreads says, “I loved the historical detail in this novel. You can tell Apple Gidley has done her research, but the emotional story always comes first.” Annie will be @hertsbookfest.bsky.social this weekend. Stop by and say hello!

#ANZAC Day - a day of remembrance for all Australians and New Zealanders. Annie's Day tells of an Aussie nurse serving in the #AANS in ##NewGuinea #War #Nursing #WartimeRomance @australianbooks.bsky.social @australia.theguardian.com @asauthors.bsky.social "Absorbing" says @KatherineMezzacappa

A little piece to take our minds off the hell of current events. applegidley.wordpress.com/2026/04/21/p...

Paddington and Pompoms!

Have you noticed how much more sensible women and girls are about shoes these days? So much so that I wonder if chiropodists and podiatrists are going out of business, due to bunions and hammertoes…

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Dad, John Havelock Girling OBE, died 16 years ago today. He really was a charming man!

Two gooney birds who really are albatrosses around the world's neck!

Sarah Murphy@13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 4mo ago

“Farage rarely turns up to do his actual job. Yet he finds time to jet off around the world on his donor’s private plane and trouser half a million quid while families struggle. Reform are not on your side. They’re just in it for themselves” It’s so obvious, it hurts. www.desmog.com/2026/04/18/n...

This train station looks very different to the one Annie was on in 1941 - then it wasn't lads in jeans, it was boys and men in army fatigues, either going to or returning from the hell of war! #WarFiction #AwardWinningBook #HistoricalFiction #PacificWar #WarNurses

And the list just keeps growing - it's exhausting!

Wajahat Ali@wajali.bsky.social · 4mo ago

The corruption is just stunning. www.thedailybeast.com/chief-justic...

The business news, the world news, the war news, is unutterably depressing, and it's all down to three old white men #Trump #Netanyahu #Putin Ditch your paper and escape into a time when #war was a moral obligation #WWII and not the whim of crooks.

Just when you think it can't get any worse, it does! #CatholicChurch #papacy #Trump #Warmonger

@randy39.bsky.social · 4mo ago

What the actual fuck….

Or perhaps hiding his head because he can't bear to read anymore headlines about the incumbent of the White House!

Miss Molly Mol@missymollymol.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Asleep and hiding his head with his paws in case anyone tries to steal it

I've just finished #TheMeasure by Nikki Erlick - I'm still trying to decide whether I liked it. Certainly thought-provoking, disturbing, and raised a lot of questions.

Kathleen 🌲@mossgatherer.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Good morning bsky. What are you reading this week?! I'm reading The Boy from the Sea for book club. It's not really my type of book at all but as this sort goes it's pretty much the best possible. High praise from me! I think for the right person it's great. #booksky

Ceasefire - yet another word Trump and Netanyahu don't understand. Another word they seem to have confused is 'win'. Could someone, anyone, please explain to me how it is a win for the US and the world, if it now costs the world to use the Straits of Hormuz, when before Trump's War it was free?

The New York Times@nytimes.com · 4mo ago

Lebanon began a period of national mourning on Thursday, a day after Israeli forces unleashed airstrikes across the country in the deadliest day of the war with the Iran-backed militant group Hezbollah. At least 203 people were killed and 1,000 others wounded. Read more: nyti.ms/4tc26y0

Just finished reading #TheMeasure by Nikki Erlick - thought provoking indeed! #bookclub Raised a lot of questions around #death #euthanasia #choice

That face! 😍

Gina@createnewpaths.bsky.social · 4mo ago

So….. I got a dog today😁 I went to the dog shelter and they brought in this cutie and it was instant love This is Ida my 5 month old puppy We are both exhausted!! Good night BlueSky😴💤🌙

Honestly, if I were him, I'd choose Have You Eaten Rice Today? It seems to appeal to men more, and has been picked up by men's #bookclubs #JungleWarfare #Malaya #1950s The war that wasn't a #war because of insurance companies #HistoricalFiction