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📖 May's Book of the Month is here! First up: Ausländer by Michael Moritz - a powerful memoir of family, exile, and the search for belonging. Click here for an exclusive preview, a limited discount and a personal note from the author: shorturl.at/hqpyb @ProfileBooks

I had fun talking to the History Extra podcast 👇👇👇👇👇

At #CharltonLibrary we’re celebrating #AlanBennett’s latest collection #EnoughSaid! With thanks to @readingagency, @profilebooks + @faberbooks for the materials. Write a note and post it in the fan box for Alan, reflect on the years 2016-2024 as the book does 📚

Ancient history is for everyone ✨ @wmarybeard returns with #TalkingClassics, an entertaining collection of lively stories, curious facts and some juicy gossip to explain why ancient history still matters today. OUT TODAY: tinyurl.com/TalkingClassic…

Now here's an offer for you London folk. My publisher @ProfileBooks partnering with @Maison_Bertaux to give free hot drinks & pain aux raisins to celebrate #TalkingClassics publication on Thurs! Early customers also get £4 off book at Foyles Charing Cross, 16th April only.

Get £4 off #TalkingClassics by @wmarybeard at Foyles Charing Cross Road when you pick up a flyer from @Maison_Bertaux TOMORROW – early customers also get a free pain aux raisins and hot drink! While stocks last, Thurs 16th April only 🥐

Great to see #TheIllegals by @shaunwalker7 included in the @theipaper's 'best books out in paperback in April 2026'! 'It is one of those gripping, real-life tales which reads like a spy thriller' Read the full piece here: tinyurl.com/mr2sdmwr

There's just 1 week until we publish @wmarybeard #TalkingClassics. To celebrate, we're partnering with @Maison_Bertaux (on Greek Street, no less!) to give early customers a free pain aux raisins and hot drink on publication day! While stocks last, 16th April only 🥐

Today we publish #TheIllegals, a pacy, character-driven history of the KGB's deepest cover spies in the West, by @shaunwalker7 in paperback. 'Absolutely fascinating' Andrew Marr Order your copy here: profilebooks.com/work/the-illeg…

To celebrate #EnoughSaid, Alan Bennett’s latest collection of diaries being an instant #1 Sunday Times bestseller, @waterstones is offering a special prize: the chance to win the only signed copy. Order a copy before 12 April to be automatically entered: tinyurl.com/33vyjxva

My wonderful publishers ⁦@ProfileBooks⁩ have just sent me this cut out Venus … advertising my new book, Talking Classics, out in a couple of weeks). Here she is in front of the grandkids’ toy basket!

My new book, Talking Classics, is out on 16 April. It asks why the deep past is worth studying, and gives some non-standard answers! Publisher have made it look very nice. Thank you @ProfileBooks

A Ghost, a Witch, and a Princess in the Age of Enlightenment 7 May 2026 Join @HistoryHit's Madeleine Pelling & Anthony Delaney discussing Maddy's new 'Hoax'. @ConwayHall May contain Cock Lane ghost. conwayhall.org.uk/whats-on/event… @ProfileBooks

Authors Mary Beard, Alan Bennett, Janice Hallett and Simon Jenkins attended @ProfileBooks founder Andrew Franklin’s retirement party, held ahead of the London Book Fair 👇 ebx.sh/ZQAbFM

🎟️ EVENT TOMORROW 🎟️ Join Jacqueline Riding in conversation with Lucy Worsley at Southwark Cathedral, discussing her new book #HardStreets: Working-Class Lives in Charlie Chaplin's London. 📍Southwark Cathedral ⏰ Thursday 19th Feb, 7:15pm cathedral.southwark.anglican.org/whats-on/hard-…

Get 25% off Alan Bennett's upcoming fourth collection of diaries, #EnoughSaid, when you pre-order from @waterstones until February 20th and use code: FEB26 Pre-order your copy here: tinyurl.com/3tpnp32d

my beautiful people!!! I have some HUGE NEWS!!! I wrote another book and it's coming out this November! it's a little like a birdwatching guide, except it's a word watching guide! i poured my heart into it!! you can even pre-order it now!! link in biooo

Waterstones are offering a 25% discount on my forthcoming book Worlds of Fear and Wonder: Living with the Supernatural, Past and Present, between 17 and 20 February only. Enter “FEB26” at the checkout. The offer will be exclusively available on the Waterstones website and app.

25% off my new book here from Waterstones 👇👇If you have already preordered, the easiest thing to do is cancel that and order again using the discount code.