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Julie Anderson
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Writes historical crime fiction. Listed CWA Ian Fleming Steel Dagger 2023. Latest 'A Death in the Afternoon' (Hobeck Books) OUT APRIL 29th 2025. Chair Clapham Book Festival. Reviews for Time & Leisure magazine. Quite bookish. www.julieandersonwrite
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If you're in Basingstoke next Friday (24th), I'll be at Only Murders in the Library, Basingstoke Discovery Centre talking about historical fiction with the fab Jim Kelly and @matthewsweet.bsky.social . Tickets at shop.hants.gov.uk/products/his... @hobeckbooks.bsky.social @hantsconnect.bsky.social
Poster for the event showing the three authors and the covers of their books.
October 19, 2025 at 1:45 PM
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This 👇👇👇is happening tomorrow at @omnibustheatre.bsky.social in Clapham. @claphambookfest.bsky.social has a great line-up this year. Oyinkan Braithwaite discusses her new book, Joanne Harris talks about the prequel to 'Chocolat' and Time Tate and Gavin Esler dissect the Spycatcher affair.
Poster showing Oyinkan Braithwaite, Joanne Harris, Michele Roberts, Elizabeth Buchan, Julie Anderson, Tim Tate and Gavin Esler.
October 10, 2025 at 2:34 PM
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Given that I haven't posted for a while, here's what I saw on Saturday night at @operahollandpark.bsky.social A wonderful La Traviata, with the sublime Alison Langer as Violetta.
Pic of the stage before the opera begins. Behind a gauzy curtain Violetta the courtesan prepares herself for her party. In front are the players in the orchestra. Curtain call
July 21, 2025 at 9:39 AM
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It's been fabulous working as a history consultant with @stpaulsopera.bsky.social on L'Elisir d'Amore, the final performance of which was on Saturday night. Tremendous, life affirming production. Plus you can read my Rehearsal Diaries on the SPO website www.stpaulsopera.org/rehearsal-di...
Programme cover for Donizetti's L'Elisir d'Amore Programme Credit as official chronicler of the production and historical advisor Curtain call for principal singer Martins Smaukstelis (Nemorino) Curtain call for principal singer Fiona Hymns (Adina).
July 7, 2025 at 11:10 AM
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Super time at Bread & Roses Theatre, Clapham last Sunday for The Big Read II with fab friends and fellow crime writers @heidiamsinckwriter.bsky.social @jennieensor.bsky.social Ivy Ngeow @jonrichter.bsky.social @alicemcastle.bsky.social @annecoates.bsky.social @tonywhite.bsky.social
Pic of the author reading from A Death in the Afternoon Jon Richter speaking with the audience Poster for the event Pic of Heidi Amsinck reading from her latest Jensen book
July 7, 2025 at 10:47 AM
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Tonight this 👇👇👇if you happen to be in St Albans, why not join us at the Mad Squirrel tap next the Abbey.
Poster advertising event - Noir at the Bar - including a list of writers attending.
June 12, 2025 at 7:54 AM
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On a summer night, a full performance of Milton's epic poem at St Paul's, Covent Garden by the tremendously talented William Spaulding of the Royal Ballet And Opera Tickets at actorschurch.org/whatson/para... @poetrysociety.bsky.social @rsliterature.bsky.social @ucllibraries.bsky.social
Poster for the event saying 'All it takes is one bad apple.'
June 9, 2025 at 10:06 AM
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On a chilly but dry Friday night to @operahollandpark.bsky.social to see the fabulous Itch, with excellent company, Paul, Tim, Ruth and Andrew.
Group pic around a table with drinks. Curtain call for the cast of Itch, fabulous new opera by Jonathan Dove.
June 8, 2025 at 1:25 PM
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Back at @sadlerswells.bsky.social on Tuesday for the fabulous trio of talent from Jerez - Mercedes Ruiz, Santiago Lara and David Lagos - not to mention Jose Maldonado and the palmista twins. Superb. Viva Jerez!
Curtain call of the five artists involved. Curtain call for Mercedes Ruiz, fabulous flamenco dancer
June 5, 2025 at 2:57 PM
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Tremendous performance at @sadlerswells.bsky.social last night. Manuel Linan and company in 'Muerta de Amor'. Stupendous!
Picture of the cast at curtain call lined across the stage.
June 3, 2025 at 12:22 PM
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Interested in literature and history? Why not join me on the Clapham Literary Walk as part of Wandsworth Arts Fringe on 14th June. Tickets at payhip.com/b/NpAj8 £10, £7 concessions - all proceeds to the Clapham Book Festival.
Poster advertising the Clapham Literary walk 14th June 2025
June 3, 2025 at 11:13 AM
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Prepping for the book launch/insight event at St Pauls on Wednesday... some of the documents are over a hundred years old, so scanning with great care. @stpaulsopera.bsky.social @hobeckbooks.bsky.social @rcnlibraries.bsky.social
Image of a desk on which lie a number of old documents about the South London Hospital for Women and Children in front of a keyboard, mouse and PC monitor.
May 26, 2025 at 8:18 AM
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How did a road in Clapham become the name of a character in a globally best-selling book series? Which Nobel Laureate honed his trade in Clapham? Learn the answers and more on the Clapham Literary Walk, Sat 14th June. #WelcometoWandsworth #WAF2025 All proceeds to @claphambookfest.bsky.social
Listing item showing the Clapham Literary walk, date and ticket button
May 1, 2025 at 2:32 PM
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Lovely publication day flowers from a dear friend. So thankful.
White, red and pink roses in a glass vase on a mantlepiece with large, Victorian mirror behind.
April 29, 2025 at 11:00 AM
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So... this begins tomorrow. Can't wait to see what folk think about this!
Poster showing the dates and contributor to a blog tour for 'A Death in the Afternoon' by Julie Anderson
April 27, 2025 at 4:03 PM
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Second to the Riverside Book shop for @heidiamsinckwriter.bsky.social wonderful book launch for Jensen 4. @muswellpress.bsky.social Sarah acted as MC, actor, Leo read a thrilling chapter and a good time was had by all.
Speeches on the stairs Fun chatting Leo reads Chapter One
April 25, 2025 at 9:20 AM
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Had a very full evening yesterday. First, a lovely exhibition at the @rcn.org.uk on nursing in prisons. The Prison Medical Service was established long before the NHS, but some of its practices were dubious - force feeding suffragists for example. It's on until December if you're in Cavendish Sq.
Board describing how suffragist women were treated in prison Memorabilia of incarceration, including a Women's Suffrage leaflet, Holloway Division The glorious ceiling of the Council Room of the Royal College of Nursing. Exhibition leaflet - Prison Nursing Unlocked.
April 25, 2025 at 9:17 AM
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For Nat. Crime Reading Month join the crime writers for a free Sunday afternoon of crime and mystery @heidiamsinckwriter.bsky.social @alicemcastle.bsky.social @annecoates.bsky.social @victoriadowd.bsky.social @jonrichter.bsky.social @tonywhite.bsky.social RSVP app.lineupnow.com/event/nation...
Poster with pics of ten crime writers participating, plus details of the event
April 4, 2025 at 4:11 PM
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Today's images for 'A Death in the Afternoon' are a brace of police stations, Cavendish Road (with cells attached) and Union Grove. I remember the former as a working police station. @hobeckbooks.bsky.social @claphambooks.bsky.social
Black and white photo of the Edwardian police station complete with blue lamp out front and cell block attached. Photo of large Union Grove police station, when operational as a local station, with blue lamp and flagpole outside.
April 2, 2025 at 12:02 PM
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This week's three images for 'A Death in the Afternoon' are photos of housing in Clapham. These were built in the 1930s and 40s and one is a pre-fab - the 100,000th pre-fab in the UK was built in Clapham in 1947. Houses like them appear in the book. @hobeckbooks.bsky.social
Photo of Westbury Court a 1930s apartment block above Clapham South tube station. Line of pre-fabricated houses in Rodenhurst Road, Clapham. Large, relatively low-rise apartment block of the 'international' style on the South Circular, Clapham.
March 26, 2025 at 11:04 AM
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Walked past another south London women's hospital this morning, the General Lying-In Hospital, York Road. Opened 1767, closed 1971. @hobeckbooks.bsky.social
Pic of the 1830ish building of the Lying-In Hospital, complete with neo-classical Greek columns, and frieze.
March 24, 2025 at 4:34 PM
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The Crime Writers' Association 'Hot Off the Presses' for April includes 'A Death in the Afternoon' (@hobeckbooks.bsky.social). It's in some very good company. Available for pre-order now from www.hobeck.net/product-page... or Mr Besos' emporium.
List, with cover pictures, of crime fiction published in April 2025, as 'Hot Off the Presses' from the Crime Writers' Association.
March 24, 2025 at 3:30 PM
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The annual 'blooming magnolia' pics. To lift the spirit!
Two pink magnolia trees in full bloom outside a double-fronted Edwardian house. A single, super-large flowered magnolia in full bloom, peering over a sculpted brick wall.
March 24, 2025 at 1:21 PM
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This morning the postman delivered these 👇👇👇wonderful proof copies of 'A Death in the Afternoon'. 😁Out on 29th April and available for pre-order now from @hobeckbooks.bsky.social www.hobeck.net/product-page... or Amazon www.amazon.co.uk/Death-Aftern...
Six books fanned out in front of a computer screen showing the front cover of the book 'A Death in the Afternoon'. Six copies of 'A Death in the Afternoon' arranged in a fan shape.
March 22, 2025 at 3:09 PM
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This week's images to inspire the cover of my new book are prints of Clapham I found online and an LU postcard. I'm afraid I don't know who to credit for the prints, but they are redolent of the style of the early LNER posters, with stylised forms and restricted pallet. @hobeckbooks.bsky.social
Print of Clapham Common Underground Station with the spire of the church behind. Pallet of blues, whites, greys and black. Post card cartoon-type image showing a station master showing the modern tube to a group of well-dressed women, as compared to a greyed out version of a Victorian couple about to board a much earlier type of tube train. Print of deckchairs lined up on the grass in front of the Clapham Common Band Stand. Pallet of green, white, grey and muted orange. Print of the clock tower and Clapham Common Underground Station in a pallet of greys, browns, blues and white.
March 21, 2025 at 5:07 PM