✍️ The Secret Life of the Savoy. Before that, Gin Glorious Gin: How Mother's Ruin Became the Spirit of London 🍸🍹🎉
Joined May 2011
- Tweets3.9K
- Following1.7K
- Followers2K
- Likes2.6K
The place that started me on my second book 👀 @NTRiviera
This Post is from an account that no longer exists. Learn more
Olivia Williams retweeted
You look at the new Orient Express La Dolce Vita and think: what a train. I look at it and see my new life. My escape. Open shirts and vests. Cream linen trousers. Slicked back hair. Dog-eared Umberto Eco novels. Glasses of Mille e una Notte. Bye!
Olivia Williams retweeted
Two hundred years ago today, the romantic poet Percy Bysshe Shelley’s body was cremated on the beach at Viareggio in northern Tuscany, having drowned at sea.
He’d been staying with Mary Shelley in the beautiful Ligurian bay now known as the Golfo dei Poeti. Morning run 🏃♂️ 🇮🇹🇬🇧
Olivia Williams retweeted
Candle-lit vigil for Tiananmen, Victoria Park, Hong Kong, 4 June 1997, weeks before the handover. Hong Kong people exercising the freedoms they were promised would continue under the Joint Declaration for 50 years after 1997. Tonight, Victoria Park is empty, the vigil banned
This review made me laugh so much, I might be buying my first novel of the year – at Kensington, London
This Post is from an account that no longer exists. Learn more
The idea of ‘official pudding’ makes me happy – at Kensington, London
Lemon and Amaretti trifle to be official pudding of Queen's Platinum Jubilee
bbc.in/3PlEfsf
If you’re curious about Claridge’s boardroom drama (niche, granted) you could also skim through my book ( amazon.co.uk/gp/aw/d/1472269… ) on.ft.com/3xeLUBZ
Olivia Williams retweeted
To the person who first said “cheer up, it might never happen!” - I hope you’re happy, now that everything has indeed happened.
