Sarah Freethy
@sarahfreethy.bsky.social
Permanently tired, brain like a meat raffle. Writer of Historical Fiction - The Porcelain Maker & The Seeker of Lost Paintings Mother of dogs and a flaxen headed child.
Dipping a toe in the Substack waters with this unpublished extract from The Seeker of Lost Paintings…
A Recipe for foccacia from a Roman kitchen under occupation
An unpublished extract from The Seeker of Lost Paintings
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September 30, 2025 at 10:24 AM
Dipping a toe in the Substack waters with this unpublished extract from The Seeker of Lost Paintings…
Really loved writing this - The Seeker of Lost Paintings, out now!
New in Historia!
Sarah Freethy reveals the extraordinary story of Syndrome K, the supposedly deadly disease that saved lives in German-occupied Rome in 1943.
It helped inspire her new book, The. Seeker of Lost Paintings
Find out more at historiamag.com/syndrome-k
@sarahfreethy.bsky.social
Sarah Freethy reveals the extraordinary story of Syndrome K, the supposedly deadly disease that saved lives in German-occupied Rome in 1943.
It helped inspire her new book, The. Seeker of Lost Paintings
Find out more at historiamag.com/syndrome-k
@sarahfreethy.bsky.social
September 13, 2025 at 11:52 AM
Really loved writing this - The Seeker of Lost Paintings, out now!
This time next week, The Seeker of Lost Paintings hits the shelves in the UK 🥀
Available for pre-order, or contact me directly for a personalised copy #theseekeroflostpaintings
Thank you @ajwestauthor.bsky.social for your kind words ♥️
Available for pre-order, or contact me directly for a personalised copy #theseekeroflostpaintings
Thank you @ajwestauthor.bsky.social for your kind words ♥️
September 4, 2025 at 4:32 PM
This time next week, The Seeker of Lost Paintings hits the shelves in the UK 🥀
Available for pre-order, or contact me directly for a personalised copy #theseekeroflostpaintings
Thank you @ajwestauthor.bsky.social for your kind words ♥️
Available for pre-order, or contact me directly for a personalised copy #theseekeroflostpaintings
Thank you @ajwestauthor.bsky.social for your kind words ♥️
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Your periodic reminder that the estimated cost to end hunger in the U.S. is $25 billion.
July 28, 2025 at 4:03 PM
Your periodic reminder that the estimated cost to end hunger in the U.S. is $25 billion.
A fascinating insight into life in Rome under occupation, the subject of my second novel The Seeker of Lost Paintings, out in September, Simon & Schuster
‘The irony of Rossellini’s title was that Rome was anything but open. Much of the quotidian detail of life under the occupation that appears in the film also appears in Aunt Marjorie’s diary.’
Inigo Thomas on Roman life in the 1940s: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Inigo Thomas on Roman life in the 1940s: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Inigo Thomas · Diary: Rome, Closed City
Roberto Rossellini’s Rome, Open City, released at the end of 1945. The movie begins with a version of the disclaimer...
www.lrb.co.uk
April 15, 2025 at 9:38 AM
A fascinating insight into life in Rome under occupation, the subject of my second novel The Seeker of Lost Paintings, out in September, Simon & Schuster
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April 12, 2025 at 4:48 PM
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So Lumon hired a hundred employees to be a marching band, but they only have one supervisor to monitor an entire floor, which also includes a full time sacrificial goat farm. Who signed off on this? Their finance department must be huffing ether.
#Severance
#Severance
March 22, 2025 at 10:52 AM
So Lumon hired a hundred employees to be a marching band, but they only have one supervisor to monitor an entire floor, which also includes a full time sacrificial goat farm. Who signed off on this? Their finance department must be huffing ether.
#Severance
#Severance
Anyone else getting real Goldeneye (the game) vibes from the sound edit in the Severance finale? Coupled with endless corridors lit by alarms and massive balloon heads, I’m calling it an influence at least.
March 21, 2025 at 11:48 PM
Anyone else getting real Goldeneye (the game) vibes from the sound edit in the Severance finale? Coupled with endless corridors lit by alarms and massive balloon heads, I’m calling it an influence at least.
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I often wake up worried about Normally Weird & Weirdly Normal but with this sort of thing and the Panorama doc of a while back I am also feeling that I am getting ready for quite a fight
very worried about Suzanne O Sullivan’s book about over diagnosis - in particular on ADHD - a Radio 4 book of the week loved by The Guardian - having spent a great deal of time talking to neurodivergent people -knowing the battles they’ve had & have - I fear this will be ammo for cynicism
March 17, 2025 at 10:06 AM
I often wake up worried about Normally Weird & Weirdly Normal but with this sort of thing and the Panorama doc of a while back I am also feeling that I am getting ready for quite a fight
Severance: aerial view of Salt’s Neck
Me (to camera): My, that looks like a very cold harbour…
#severance
Me (to camera): My, that looks like a very cold harbour…
#severance
March 9, 2025 at 10:28 AM
Severance: aerial view of Salt’s Neck
Me (to camera): My, that looks like a very cold harbour…
#severance
Me (to camera): My, that looks like a very cold harbour…
#severance
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The question is settled, this is going to funnel money to quacks and grifters to create a CDC-approved fake "study" that supercharges vaccine misinformation.
It's not just a public health failure, it's a terrorist attack on public health.
It's not just a public health failure, it's a terrorist attack on public health.
Man
*CDC PLANS STUDY INTO VACCINES AND AUTISM: REUTERS
*CDC PLANS STUDY ON POTENTIAL AUTISIM-VACCINES CONNECTION: RTRS
*CDC PLANS STUDY INTO VACCINES AND AUTISM: REUTERS
*CDC PLANS STUDY ON POTENTIAL AUTISIM-VACCINES CONNECTION: RTRS
March 7, 2025 at 6:10 PM
The question is settled, this is going to funnel money to quacks and grifters to create a CDC-approved fake "study" that supercharges vaccine misinformation.
It's not just a public health failure, it's a terrorist attack on public health.
It's not just a public health failure, it's a terrorist attack on public health.
You know the ‘rise’ in autism? People thought girls & women couldn’t be autistic or might exhibit different traits. But gender isn’t relevant to neurotype, so it follows an equal split ought be autistic. The current ratio is roughly 3:1 male to female. We’ve got a way to go… #autism
March 5, 2025 at 10:05 PM
You know the ‘rise’ in autism? People thought girls & women couldn’t be autistic or might exhibit different traits. But gender isn’t relevant to neurotype, so it follows an equal split ought be autistic. The current ratio is roughly 3:1 male to female. We’ve got a way to go… #autism
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Andrew Tate being allowed to come to the U.S. and avoid facing trial for sex trafficking in Romania is beyond stomach-churning. This man is a HUGE influencer and uses his platform/following to further abuse women who have accused him. Now he won’t face justice, reaffirming his lies to his followers
February 27, 2025 at 1:17 PM
Andrew Tate being allowed to come to the U.S. and avoid facing trial for sex trafficking in Romania is beyond stomach-churning. This man is a HUGE influencer and uses his platform/following to further abuse women who have accused him. Now he won’t face justice, reaffirming his lies to his followers
What’s missed in covering cuts is that most government programmes providing aid only exist because they’re shown to provide a greater saving in the long run. Government of any stripe is designed that way - there was never any such thing as a free lunch. These cuts will end up costing more.
February 27, 2025 at 11:51 AM
What’s missed in covering cuts is that most government programmes providing aid only exist because they’re shown to provide a greater saving in the long run. Government of any stripe is designed that way - there was never any such thing as a free lunch. These cuts will end up costing more.
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Oh good shout, Trackotheday. It's like the Sunshine On Leith of classical music, simple but obliteratingly beautiful. Version for piano and violin here too...
music.apple.com/gb/album/spi...
music.apple.com/gb/album/spi...
February 19, 2025 at 5:40 AM
Oh good shout, Trackotheday. It's like the Sunshine On Leith of classical music, simple but obliteratingly beautiful. Version for piano and violin here too...
music.apple.com/gb/album/spi...
music.apple.com/gb/album/spi...
If you only listen to one podcast get on this. So insightful, intelligent, vital & realistically optimistic. Can’t be a coincidence that both hosts of The Daily Show are consistently having the best conversations. Really necessary in this moment. Ruha Benjamin, Christiana Mbakwe Medina & Trevor Noah
RIP… D.E.I. with Ruha Benjamin [VIDEO]
What Now? with Trevor Noah · Episode
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February 14, 2025 at 3:13 PM
If you only listen to one podcast get on this. So insightful, intelligent, vital & realistically optimistic. Can’t be a coincidence that both hosts of The Daily Show are consistently having the best conversations. Really necessary in this moment. Ruha Benjamin, Christiana Mbakwe Medina & Trevor Noah
@timmiller.bsky.social Listening to your fantastic podcast with Ben Stiller and wanted to say Bottoms was the best comedy film of the last few years - highly recommend.
February 7, 2025 at 1:26 PM
@timmiller.bsky.social Listening to your fantastic podcast with Ben Stiller and wanted to say Bottoms was the best comedy film of the last few years - highly recommend.
The Wiener Library has been an incredible resource for decades and this new initiative makes it even more accessible. @wienerlibrary.bsky.social
'Announced on Holocaust Memorial Day, the Wiener Holocaust Library’s new online platform includes more than 150,000 items collected over nine decades. Users can view letters, pamphlets and photographs that record the rise of fascism in Britain and Europe.' Link: www.whlcollections.org/index/
‘New way of bearing witness’: one of biggest Holocaust archives goes online
Exclusive: Wiener Holocaust Library has digitised more than 150,000 items including letters, pamphlets and photos
www.theguardian.com
January 27, 2025 at 11:04 AM
The Wiener Library has been an incredible resource for decades and this new initiative makes it even more accessible. @wienerlibrary.bsky.social
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Auschwitz was at the end of a long process. It did not start from gas chambers.
This hatred was gradually developed by humans. From ideas, words, stereotypes & prejudice through legal exclusion, dehumanization & escalating violence... to systematic and industrial murder.
Auschwitz took time.
This hatred was gradually developed by humans. From ideas, words, stereotypes & prejudice through legal exclusion, dehumanization & escalating violence... to systematic and industrial murder.
Auschwitz took time.
January 27, 2025 at 10:00 AM
Auschwitz was at the end of a long process. It did not start from gas chambers.
This hatred was gradually developed by humans. From ideas, words, stereotypes & prejudice through legal exclusion, dehumanization & escalating violence... to systematic and industrial murder.
Auschwitz took time.
This hatred was gradually developed by humans. From ideas, words, stereotypes & prejudice through legal exclusion, dehumanization & escalating violence... to systematic and industrial murder.
Auschwitz took time.
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My introduction to #booksky I guess?
📚 Reading is political
🎧 Audiobooks count as reading
📖 Reading is not a competition
🤔 Reading critically & reading for fun are not mutually exclusive
👉 If you support problematic authors, you deserve to be called out on it
🚫 Toxic positivity can eff off
📚 Reading is political
🎧 Audiobooks count as reading
📖 Reading is not a competition
🤔 Reading critically & reading for fun are not mutually exclusive
👉 If you support problematic authors, you deserve to be called out on it
🚫 Toxic positivity can eff off
January 19, 2025 at 3:52 AM
My introduction to #booksky I guess?
📚 Reading is political
🎧 Audiobooks count as reading
📖 Reading is not a competition
🤔 Reading critically & reading for fun are not mutually exclusive
👉 If you support problematic authors, you deserve to be called out on it
🚫 Toxic positivity can eff off
📚 Reading is political
🎧 Audiobooks count as reading
📖 Reading is not a competition
🤔 Reading critically & reading for fun are not mutually exclusive
👉 If you support problematic authors, you deserve to be called out on it
🚫 Toxic positivity can eff off
The Porcelain Maker has been selected for the Kindle monthly deal throughout January, alongside Holocaust Memorial Day.
January 1, 2025 at 4:55 PM
The Porcelain Maker has been selected for the Kindle monthly deal throughout January, alongside Holocaust Memorial Day.
New writing of a different form - excited to be a script consultant on #Patience a new crime drama, coming to Channel 4 in January…
The First Trailer for 'Patience' Was Worth the Wait
The Astrid remake Patience will hit U.K. screens first in 2025, debuting on Channel 4 in January. Check out the official trailer!
tellyvisions.org
December 19, 2024 at 1:25 PM
New writing of a different form - excited to be a script consultant on #Patience a new crime drama, coming to Channel 4 in January…
AKA Dystopian Greige
Pantone has announced its 2025 color of the year: Mocha Mousse. In an oversaturated, digital world, does it stand a chance at defining next year? Our reporters and editors sat down to debate.
Pantone’s 2025 Color of the Year Is Mocha Mousse
Is this shade of dusty brown a repudiation of “Brat” green?
www.nytimes.com
December 5, 2024 at 8:26 PM
AKA Dystopian Greige
Really informative piece on Mussolini’s hard turn to dictatorship almost 100 yrs ago. My next novel is set in fascist Rome during WW2 & under Nazi occupation. It’s vital we acknowledge the echoes between now and then - Historical Fiction is a really effective lens for viewing how we live today.
December 5, 2024 at 6:53 PM
Really informative piece on Mussolini’s hard turn to dictatorship almost 100 yrs ago. My next novel is set in fascist Rome during WW2 & under Nazi occupation. It’s vital we acknowledge the echoes between now and then - Historical Fiction is a really effective lens for viewing how we live today.
My debut novel, The Porcelain Maker, is out in paperback today with a new cover for north America. An epic love story, set against the backdrop of Germany’s slide into an authoritarian regime (feels rather timely!) Thank you to everyone who bought it already & here’s hoping it finds new readers.
December 3, 2024 at 6:07 PM
My debut novel, The Porcelain Maker, is out in paperback today with a new cover for north America. An epic love story, set against the backdrop of Germany’s slide into an authoritarian regime (feels rather timely!) Thank you to everyone who bought it already & here’s hoping it finds new readers.