Jane Dunn
@janedunnauthor.bsky.social
Once a happy biographer, now a happy fiction writer, but who knows what's next? N.Y.Times & Sunday Times bestseller with 'Elizabeth & Mary' Elected Fellow of RSL
Loves whippets, ancient houses, trees & Avebury
Agent:Jim Gill at Felicity Bryan Associates
Loves whippets, ancient houses, trees & Avebury
Agent:Jim Gill at Felicity Bryan Associates
I was lucky to enjoy much success over the years as a biographer & so surprised by joy when these #Regency historical romances sprang from my brain My late-flowering - Jan '23, The Marriage Season, to my latest, The Reluctant Debutante, Jun '25. I've had a ball thanks to you all
#books #regency
#books #regency
September 8, 2025 at 11:04 AM
#OTD 30th Aug 1797 Mary Shelley was born, daughter of radical philosophers Mary Wollstonecraft & William Godwin, lover then wife of radical poet Percy Bysshe Shelley & blessed with her own genius as creator of a new literary genre & author of Frankenstein (illus. Angela Barrett) #romantics #book
August 30, 2025 at 7:55 AM
#OTD 30th Aug 1797 Mary Shelley was born, daughter of radical philosophers Mary Wollstonecraft & William Godwin, lover then wife of radical poet Percy Bysshe Shelley & blessed with her own genius as creator of a new literary genre & author of Frankenstein (illus. Angela Barrett) #romantics #book
As the blessed rain begins to fall, grab yourself an uplifting read about a scarred hero of the Napoleonic wars, a wild-swimming country spinster & a foundling who finds her family. Costs less than a coffee & is better for the heart. My late summer bunch from the garden - dahlias + roses #Regency
August 29, 2025 at 4:35 PM
As the blessed rain begins to fall, grab yourself an uplifting read about a scarred hero of the Napoleonic wars, a wild-swimming country spinster & a foundling who finds her family. Costs less than a coffee & is better for the heart. My late summer bunch from the garden - dahlias + roses #Regency
I LOVE portraits & auctions & found this vibrant young man by G. de Sanctis (1858-1924) whose bread & butter was painting aloof Belle Époque women. This portrait is different, bursting with vitality & love, surely a special friend? Signed "a-mon-ami-Padova"
Reader, I bought him!
Reader, I bought him!
August 26, 2025 at 1:41 PM
I LOVE portraits & auctions & found this vibrant young man by G. de Sanctis (1858-1924) whose bread & butter was painting aloof Belle Époque women. This portrait is different, bursting with vitality & love, surely a special friend? Signed "a-mon-ami-Padova"
Reader, I bought him!
Reader, I bought him!
I love this rose so much I'm a bore & want to share it with everyone. La Rose du Petit Prince is French (2009) & flowers continuously (photo this am) Very big but the gorgeous huge lilac blooms make up for that. Not as much scent as I like but is disease-resistant & magnificent #gardens #roses
August 23, 2025 at 10:16 AM
I can't resist messing about in the garden & sticking flowers in a vase then plonking my books, or books I'm reading, in the picture. Here my 2nd, Unsuitable Heiress, whose characters Corinna, Alick, Ferdy & Lord Purfoy return in my 5th, The Accidental Debutante #Regency @boldwoodbooks.bsky.social
August 18, 2025 at 10:46 AM
I can't resist messing about in the garden & sticking flowers in a vase then plonking my books, or books I'm reading, in the picture. Here my 2nd, Unsuitable Heiress, whose characters Corinna, Alick, Ferdy & Lord Purfoy return in my 5th, The Accidental Debutante #Regency @boldwoodbooks.bsky.social
400 reviews/ratings 2 mths after publication! Thank you to my wonderful readers who joined me on a Great Romantic Escape from the world's reality - & cared enough to review it. It makes such a difference.Thank you all #readers #bloggers #reviewers #bookcommunity
@boldwoodbooks.bsky.social
@boldwoodbooks.bsky.social
August 14, 2025 at 12:44 PM
400 reviews/ratings 2 mths after publication! Thank you to my wonderful readers who joined me on a Great Romantic Escape from the world's reality - & cared enough to review it. It makes such a difference.Thank you all #readers #bloggers #reviewers #bookcommunity
@boldwoodbooks.bsky.social
@boldwoodbooks.bsky.social
I love my jackdaws. They nest in our chimneys & rear their young on our lawn, now just a mossy, bald patch! I put out water for them but when they bathed in it I gave them an old baking tin as a pool. They splash about. I'm not a good enough photographer to capture them but Birdfun on YouTube is
August 12, 2025 at 6:14 PM
I love my jackdaws. They nest in our chimneys & rear their young on our lawn, now just a mossy, bald patch! I put out water for them but when they bathed in it I gave them an old baking tin as a pool. They splash about. I'm not a good enough photographer to capture them but Birdfun on YouTube is
In my latest The Accidental Debutante we're off to the circus! My heroine, lost as a child in Bath, is found by the circus & trained as a trick rider. She runs away to find her family & finds much more - friendship, love, adventure, danger - the joy in living.
#Regency #books #readers
#Regency #books #readers
August 11, 2025 at 9:20 AM
Just finished The Invention of Charlotte Brontë
@grahamwatson.bsky.social what a tour de force! Such scholarship & beautifully written too, rich with feeling & insight with the momentum of a thriller. 2 literary giants, C Brontë & Mrs Gaskell, utterly unalike yet forever united - & seen anew
@grahamwatson.bsky.social what a tour de force! Such scholarship & beautifully written too, rich with feeling & insight with the momentum of a thriller. 2 literary giants, C Brontë & Mrs Gaskell, utterly unalike yet forever united - & seen anew
August 4, 2025 at 2:18 PM
Just finished The Invention of Charlotte Brontë
@grahamwatson.bsky.social what a tour de force! Such scholarship & beautifully written too, rich with feeling & insight with the momentum of a thriller. 2 literary giants, C Brontë & Mrs Gaskell, utterly unalike yet forever united - & seen anew
@grahamwatson.bsky.social what a tour de force! Such scholarship & beautifully written too, rich with feeling & insight with the momentum of a thriller. 2 literary giants, C Brontë & Mrs Gaskell, utterly unalike yet forever united - & seen anew
Sundays when you're an old rescue whippet - well every day really! Just an old sofa for your use alone, with a nice bank of comfy cushions and a faux fur blanket. Mmmm... wake me up for supper
#sunday #RescueDogs #whippet
#sunday #RescueDogs #whippet
August 3, 2025 at 6:01 PM
Sundays when you're an old rescue whippet - well every day really! Just an old sofa for your use alone, with a nice bank of comfy cushions and a faux fur blanket. Mmmm... wake me up for supper
#sunday #RescueDogs #whippet
#sunday #RescueDogs #whippet
My #Regency flowering - thanks to brilliant
@boldwoodbooks.bsky.social 6 yrs old today. They publish my books with such éclat I've had a ridiculous amount of fun! The latest is The Accidental Debutante (Jun) I'm filled with huge gratitude to them, & all #readers #reviewers #bloggers #retweeters🙏
@boldwoodbooks.bsky.social 6 yrs old today. They publish my books with such éclat I've had a ridiculous amount of fun! The latest is The Accidental Debutante (Jun) I'm filled with huge gratitude to them, & all #readers #reviewers #bloggers #retweeters🙏
August 1, 2025 at 4:32 PM
My #Regency flowering - thanks to brilliant
@boldwoodbooks.bsky.social 6 yrs old today. They publish my books with such éclat I've had a ridiculous amount of fun! The latest is The Accidental Debutante (Jun) I'm filled with huge gratitude to them, & all #readers #reviewers #bloggers #retweeters🙏
@boldwoodbooks.bsky.social 6 yrs old today. They publish my books with such éclat I've had a ridiculous amount of fun! The latest is The Accidental Debutante (Jun) I'm filled with huge gratitude to them, & all #readers #reviewers #bloggers #retweeters🙏
My wonderful daughter @lilydunn.bsky.social on a proof drop with publisher @manchesterup.bsky.social for her next book 'Into Being: The Radical Craft of Memoir & its Power to Transform' (pub Oct) She teaches memoir & her own memoir 'The Sins of my Father' was a Guardian Book of the Year #book
August 1, 2025 at 5:56 AM
My wonderful daughter @lilydunn.bsky.social on a proof drop with publisher @manchesterup.bsky.social for her next book 'Into Being: The Radical Craft of Memoir & its Power to Transform' (pub Oct) She teaches memoir & her own memoir 'The Sins of my Father' was a Guardian Book of the Year #book
I'm in the drought-stricken SE and thought my garden had had its last hurrah - but no!
I picked these this morning. Some roses are still going strong, lovely salvias of course, dahlias, astilbe & Russian sage - and ever-pretty-in-lime, alchemilla mollis. #gardening #Roses
I picked these this morning. Some roses are still going strong, lovely salvias of course, dahlias, astilbe & Russian sage - and ever-pretty-in-lime, alchemilla mollis. #gardening #Roses
July 29, 2025 at 9:21 AM
I'm in the drought-stricken SE and thought my garden had had its last hurrah - but no!
I picked these this morning. Some roses are still going strong, lovely salvias of course, dahlias, astilbe & Russian sage - and ever-pretty-in-lime, alchemilla mollis. #gardening #Roses
I picked these this morning. Some roses are still going strong, lovely salvias of course, dahlias, astilbe & Russian sage - and ever-pretty-in-lime, alchemilla mollis. #gardening #Roses
No 2 in Audio Regency Romance Charts. Hurrah! I hope it's not too childish but I so love being the Resistance to the Bridgerton tsunami & with my 4 last novels in the top 40, thanks to you wonderful listeners.
Thanks too - Richard Attlee superb narrator &
@boldwoodbooks.bsky.social
Thanks too - Richard Attlee superb narrator &
@boldwoodbooks.bsky.social
July 18, 2025 at 7:19 PM
No 2 in Audio Regency Romance Charts. Hurrah! I hope it's not too childish but I so love being the Resistance to the Bridgerton tsunami & with my 4 last novels in the top 40, thanks to you wonderful listeners.
Thanks too - Richard Attlee superb narrator &
@boldwoodbooks.bsky.social
Thanks too - Richard Attlee superb narrator &
@boldwoodbooks.bsky.social
Secrets of the Rose by @nicolacornick.bsky.social
is such a wonderful book, beautifully written with a true sense of history, drama & deep emotion, set in atmospheric Bamburgh on the Northumberland coast, I thought I'd give it a floral tribute with what remains in my drought-stricken garden
is such a wonderful book, beautifully written with a true sense of history, drama & deep emotion, set in atmospheric Bamburgh on the Northumberland coast, I thought I'd give it a floral tribute with what remains in my drought-stricken garden
July 18, 2025 at 7:15 PM
Secrets of the Rose by @nicolacornick.bsky.social
is such a wonderful book, beautifully written with a true sense of history, drama & deep emotion, set in atmospheric Bamburgh on the Northumberland coast, I thought I'd give it a floral tribute with what remains in my drought-stricken garden
is such a wonderful book, beautifully written with a true sense of history, drama & deep emotion, set in atmospheric Bamburgh on the Northumberland coast, I thought I'd give it a floral tribute with what remains in my drought-stricken garden
How I love a story of sisters & @michkenneybooks.bsky.social
has conjured up four sparky modern-minded Fairfax girls. The dialogue's quick-fire, plot complex & satisfying, the men heroic & rich. Good-hearted & good fun. Well done! A great escape on a hot day, with a cuppa in the shade.
#Regency
has conjured up four sparky modern-minded Fairfax girls. The dialogue's quick-fire, plot complex & satisfying, the men heroic & rich. Good-hearted & good fun. Well done! A great escape on a hot day, with a cuppa in the shade.
#Regency
July 15, 2025 at 2:42 PM
How I love a story of sisters & @michkenneybooks.bsky.social
has conjured up four sparky modern-minded Fairfax girls. The dialogue's quick-fire, plot complex & satisfying, the men heroic & rich. Good-hearted & good fun. Well done! A great escape on a hot day, with a cuppa in the shade.
#Regency
has conjured up four sparky modern-minded Fairfax girls. The dialogue's quick-fire, plot complex & satisfying, the men heroic & rich. Good-hearted & good fun. Well done! A great escape on a hot day, with a cuppa in the shade.
#Regency
The precious little Bestseller flag's still flying. My new book (pub 14th June) is only holding on thanks to all you wonderful #readers #reviewers #bloggers #retweeters likers and supporters in this terrific #book community. Thank you all🙏
& super-publisher @boldwoodbooks.bsky.social
& super-publisher @boldwoodbooks.bsky.social
July 8, 2025 at 11:09 AM
The precious little Bestseller flag's still flying. My new book (pub 14th June) is only holding on thanks to all you wonderful #readers #reviewers #bloggers #retweeters likers and supporters in this terrific #book community. Thank you all🙏
& super-publisher @boldwoodbooks.bsky.social
& super-publisher @boldwoodbooks.bsky.social
Climbing rose Ophelia decided it was too hot to climb & long branches flopped down from the shed wall, the flowers & buds in varying degrees of maturity & colour. I cut them at 9 last night & photographed them despite the low light as they looked lovely #gardening #Roses #heatwaveuk
July 2, 2025 at 10:49 AM
Climbing rose Ophelia decided it was too hot to climb & long branches flopped down from the shed wall, the flowers & buds in varying degrees of maturity & colour. I cut them at 9 last night & photographed them despite the low light as they looked lovely #gardening #Roses #heatwaveuk
Some authors don't care to listen to audio versions of their books. I absolutely LOVE mine. Richard Attlee (legendary soap hero Kenton Archer) does a terrific job with my latest, "The Accidental Debutante", adding a whole new layer of meaning & pleasure
@boldwoodbooks.bsky.social #Regency #book
@boldwoodbooks.bsky.social #Regency #book
June 30, 2025 at 6:51 AM
Some authors don't care to listen to audio versions of their books. I absolutely LOVE mine. Richard Attlee (legendary soap hero Kenton Archer) does a terrific job with my latest, "The Accidental Debutante", adding a whole new layer of meaning & pleasure
@boldwoodbooks.bsky.social #Regency #book
@boldwoodbooks.bsky.social #Regency #book
My windblown roses in evening light. We are so short of rain in the SE of England and today a brisk warm wind heralds the next heatwave. However, the scent is lovely.
#gardening #rose
#gardening #rose
June 27, 2025 at 9:11 PM
My windblown roses in evening light. We are so short of rain in the SE of England and today a brisk warm wind heralds the next heatwave. However, the scent is lovely.
#gardening #rose
#gardening #rose
11 days' old, & this unexpected pleasure - Bestseller in Historical Regency Fiction! - So grateful to all the wonderful readers, bloggers, reviewers, supporters & retweeters. It's lonely work but lovely when something connects 💕 #writerscommunity #books #BloggingCommunity #readerscommunity
June 25, 2025 at 6:14 PM
11 days' old, & this unexpected pleasure - Bestseller in Historical Regency Fiction! - So grateful to all the wonderful readers, bloggers, reviewers, supporters & retweeters. It's lonely work but lovely when something connects 💕 #writerscommunity #books #BloggingCommunity #readerscommunity
My new #Regency just pub @boldwoodbooks.bsky.social . Eliza Gray is lost aged 7 on the streets of Bath to be saved by the circus & trained as a trick rider. At 18 she runs away to find her family & discovers more than she bargained for, but achieves all her heart could ever desire #romance #books
June 24, 2025 at 8:06 AM
My new #Regency just pub @boldwoodbooks.bsky.social . Eliza Gray is lost aged 7 on the streets of Bath to be saved by the circus & trained as a trick rider. At 18 she runs away to find her family & discovers more than she bargained for, but achieves all her heart could ever desire #romance #books
Happy Publication Day, Emma Orchard for your wonderful book, To Catch a Lord. Fast-paced adventure & a delightfully layered love story with helpings of scandal, wickedness & danger on the side. I raise my curly brimmed hat to you!
@boldwoodbooks.bsky.social
#Regency #Romance #Books
@boldwoodbooks.bsky.social
#Regency #Romance #Books
June 21, 2025 at 12:14 PM
Happy Publication Day, Emma Orchard for your wonderful book, To Catch a Lord. Fast-paced adventure & a delightfully layered love story with helpings of scandal, wickedness & danger on the side. I raise my curly brimmed hat to you!
@boldwoodbooks.bsky.social
#Regency #Romance #Books
@boldwoodbooks.bsky.social
#Regency #Romance #Books
Just read this truly sparkling novel, 'To Catch a Lord'. Wonderfully layered love story with helpings of scandal, wickedness & danger on the side. Pub June 21 & full of terrific characters, romance & authentic language. Congratulations Emma! boldwoodbooks.bsky.social @dianabeaumont.bsky.social
June 17, 2025 at 2:18 PM
Just read this truly sparkling novel, 'To Catch a Lord'. Wonderfully layered love story with helpings of scandal, wickedness & danger on the side. Pub June 21 & full of terrific characters, romance & authentic language. Congratulations Emma! boldwoodbooks.bsky.social @dianabeaumont.bsky.social