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Andrew Kenrick @andrewkenrick.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

If, for some reason, you were in bed instead you can listen to it on catch up (I'm on at about the 2 hr 37 minute mark) - I'll stick a link in my bio.

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Andrew Kenrick @andrewkenrick.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

If you were up in the middle of the night last night/this morning, you might have heard me talking to Paul Ross on TalkSport Extra Time show about Rex Juba, which is also their book of the week (must be the football analogy in my prologue).

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Andrew Kenrick @andrewkenrick.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

They were very welcome faces to spot in the audience!

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Andrew Kenrick @andrewkenrick.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

On my way to Londinium to talk Roman North Africa, Juba II the “most fortunate captive alive”, elephants (and castles) and more besides at @southwarkcathedral.bsky.social History Book Festival. Talks all day, I’m on at 2pm cathedral.southwark.anglican.org/whats-on/220...

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Mary Dudziak @marydudziak.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Beginning my research seminar, as always, with Lynn Hunt's essay How Writing Leads to Thinking (and Not the Other Way Around). Should be mandatory reading in light of the impact of AI. www.historians.org/perspectives...

Writing is stressful. Sitting in my computer chair my neck and shoulder muscles almost immediately tense up as I dig around in my brain for the best phrase or even any coherent string of words, whether I am writing an essay like this one, a book chapter, a letter of recommendation, or an email message to a friend. Writing is time-consuming. It’s a great way to pass the time on a long airplane flight because you lose track of the passage of time altogether. It’s even better, from that point of view exclusively, than watching an episode of Mad Men on your laptop. Writing means many different things to me but one thing it is not: writing is not the transcription of thoughts already consciously present in my mind. Writing is a magical and mysterious process that makes it possible to think differently.

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Andrew Kenrick @andrewkenrick.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

I mean, I’m sure any multinational megacorporation can provide if you look at their uk website…

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Andrew Kenrick @andrewkenrick.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

I should have added though, it is available in the US in ebook and audio book versions!

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Kate Watson @loreandordure.com · 03/07/2026

This whole saga has very much reminded me that most readers (and apparently some fiction writers too!) believe that writing narrative non-fiction is stenography: you find out the facts and then you write them down in order. Whereas it is absolutely, 100% considered storytelling!

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Andrew Kenrick @andrewkenrick.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

There’s no US deal so far, I’m afraid…

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Andrew Kenrick @andrewkenrick.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

There were definitely moments when it felt that way to me.

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Andrew Kenrick @andrewkenrick.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

It was great to see a few of my @citylitwriting.bsky.social students at the book launch too!

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Andrew Kenrick @andrewkenrick.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

Thanks for hosting me Dan! I had a blast, lots of great questions!

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Paul Cooper @paulmmcooper.com · 29/07/2026

Having got an advanced copy of this, I can say it is very good.

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Andrew Kenrick @andrewkenrick.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

I’m doing an AMA about Rex Juba over at the @askhistorians.bsky.social Reddit this afternoon: www.reddit.com/r/AskHistori...

Andrew holding up a copy of his book in front of his face

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Stan J Wild @stanjwild.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Looking forward to reading @andrewkenrick.bsky.social new book on Rex Juba - a fascinating life Great interview here hinterlandnonfiction.substack.com/p/authoredit...

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Author/Editor Interview: Andrew Kenrick

Q&A with the contributors from Hinterland.

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Andrew Kenrick @andrewkenrick.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

It’s publication day for Rex Juba today! Surreal to see it not only in the window of the Book Hive but also ready to listen to on Spotify this morning! Link in bio to find out more, order it etc - or you could just walk into your local bookshop and pick up a copy!

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Andrew Kenrick @andrewkenrick.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

It was recorded! It will be on YouTube in the next few days.

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Andrew Kenrick @andrewkenrick.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

Surreal moment today when that thing you’ve spent years typing and writing on a screen and in notebooks turns out to be an actual printed book! Amazing. And if you want one too, there’s a link to preorder Rex Juba in both print, ebook and now audio versions in my bio!

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Atlas Shvitzed @therafischwartz.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

Unfortunately, a stunned Paris is how they all got into this whole mess to begin with

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Andrew Kenrick @andrewkenrick.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

A proper pinch-me moment this week as Rex Juba was turned into an audio book, narrated by the lovely Sebastian Humphreys, whose voice you might recognise as the narrator of Madeline E Miller’s Circe amongst other things. Here he is, pronouncing yet another difficult Roman name!

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Stan J Wild @stanjwild.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

@hinterlandnf.bsky.social arrived—featuring a piece on my son’s diagnosis & battle. Huge thanks to: @greatormondst.bsky.social · @younglivesvscancer.bsky.social · @rainbowtrust.org.uk · @braintumourcharity.bsky.social and many more Billy & Leon are doing great right now 💛

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Andrew Kenrick @andrewkenrick.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

I’d love to be an activist historian.

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Andrew Kenrick @andrewkenrick.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

If you pardon the pun, I can’t wait to dig into this over the weekend!

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Andrew Kenrick @andrewkenrick.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

Doesn’t get much sicker than this guy.

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Andrew Kenrick @andrewkenrick.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

Thanks for saying so Matt - i loved that game too, and was glad we didn’t have a pork-based meal the next day for dinner 😅

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Andrew Kenrick @andrewkenrick.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

I was lucky enough to get to edit this - check it out for a fast-paced, pared-back roleplay experience.

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Gaz @evilgaz.bsky.social · 14/03/2026

Check out some How War v2 from @malcolmcraig.bsky.social and @handiworkgames.bsky.social When mysterious Border Science expert Kurt Langer goes missing from the camps, a fractious SIG team must find out what's happening - and take individual advantage... youtu.be/FF9Mrwf6OIU?...

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Hot War Second Edition : One Shot | The Langer Sanction | Actual Play

YouTube video by Unconventional GMs

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Andrew Kenrick @andrewkenrick.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

Been sitting on this news for a while but my first book - a biography of the 1st century North African King Juba II - is out 6th August from @penguinrandomhouse.bsky.social via their Torva imprint, and I have the great pleasure of showing off the cover! More info and preorder via the link in my bio.

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Hinterland Magazine - open for submissions @hinterlandnf.bsky.social · 25/10/2025

We are at the Small Publishers Fair @conwayhall.bsky.social all day today! We’re here till 7pm, with freshly printed copies of Issue 17 on sale and special show offers too - so if you’re in London come and say hi @smallpublishers.bsky.social

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Andrew Kenrick @andrewkenrick.bsky.social · 22/10/2025

Great to see my horror rpg Dead of Night get a mention in the latest Tabletop Magazine - thanks @giantbrain.co.uk! If Iain has piqued your interest, you can grab your own copy here: steampowerpublishing.com/dead-of-night/

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The Delicious Legacy Podcast @deliciouslegacy.bsky.social · 29/08/2025

Who and What is the Serve It Forth Food History Festival? Check our videos! youtube.com/@serveitfort...

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Serve It Forth

Serve It Forth is a new online food history festival taking place on 18 October 2025.

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Andrew Kenrick @andrewkenrick.bsky.social · 26/08/2025

Come see this face in person this Saturday!

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Andrew Kenrick @andrewkenrick.bsky.social · 05/07/2025

Amazing! We went to see A Comedy of Errors there last year. It was amazing but I wish we’d been down in the pit.

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Andrew Kenrick @andrewkenrick.bsky.social · 21/06/2025

I hope you do - well worth it, packed with some fantastic artefacts from Knossos and beyond.

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Andrew Kenrick @andrewkenrick.bsky.social · 21/06/2025

Delighted to stumble upon this in Heraklion Archaeological Museum just the other day.

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Hinterland Magazine - open for submissions @hinterlandnf.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

Over on our Substack today, the inestimable @jarredmcginnis.bsky.social picks the books that inspire his own writing, books that push the form of nonfiction and memoir - from Hong Kingston to Harry Crews. hinterlandnonfiction.substack.com/p/the-non-fi...

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The Non-fiction That Shapes Us: Jarred McGinnis

Hinterland authors reflect on the non-fiction that inspires their own writing.

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Hinterland Magazine - open for submissions @hinterlandnf.bsky.social · 02/06/2025

Join us for our new workshop, First Steps in Writing Creative Non-Fiction, in person in Norwich on 12th July. We can’t wait to meet you and share what we’ve learned from writing, editing, publishing and talking about creative non-fiction over the last 6 years www.eventbrite.com/e/hinterland...

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Andrew Kenrick @andrewkenrick.bsky.social · 02/06/2025

Another thing I’m doing (it’s going to be a busy ol summer!) is running this nonfiction writing workshop for beginners, in the newly renovated Carrow House here in Norwich. Come join me!

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