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Marian L Thorpe: writer & birder @marianlthorpe.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Since my first book was published in 2015 I’ve struggled to explain what I write. Alternate-world historical fiction seems to be the best description. This descriptor is now on my website, Amazon, and here. For more information: ✍️ marianlthorpe.com

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Marian L Thorpe: writer & birder @marianlthorpe.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

Grasslands NP, Saskatchewan. My protagonist Lena, from the Empire's Legacy series, would have loved this place. In fact, the grasslands Lena rides through in Empire's Daughter were created from my memories of here and the high plains of Colorado. ✍️

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Cathie Dunn – Historical Fiction & History 🥰📚 @cathiedunn.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

Check out The Coffee Pot Book Club #BookOfTheMonth: 🦁Courage Anthology by Helen Hollick & Friends🦁 Discover a 5* "stellar collection" of captivating short stories through the ages! thecoffeepotbookclub.blogspot.com/2026/07/book... #HistoricalFiction #ShortStories 💙📚 @helenhollick.bsky.social

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Marian L Thorpe: writer & birder @marianlthorpe.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

Enduring the randomness of life - and death - is a form of courage often overlooked. ✍️ #courageanthology #shortstories #historicalfiction ofhistoryandkings.blogspot.com/2026/06/comi...

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Marian L Thorpe: writer & birder @marianlthorpe.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

Out today! in both paperback and ebook. Courage comes in many forms — as you will see in these fifteen short stories, set across time and worlds — by a group of talented, award-winning writers.✍️ #courageanthology #shortstories #historicalfiction books2read.com/courageantho...

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Marian L Thorpe: writer & birder @marianlthorpe.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

Today the spotlight's on Annie Whitehead and her story of quiet courage, Daisy Chain, in the lead-up to the publication of Courage: Stories of History, Mystery and Hope on June 17th. #courageanthology #shortstories #historicalfiction ofhistoryandkings.blogspot.com/2026/06/toda...

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Marian L Thorpe: writer & birder @marianlthorpe.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

Today the spotlight's on @jarnopp.bsky.social and her story in the upcoming Courage anthology. ofhistoryandkings.blogspot.com/2026/06/comi...

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Patricia Furstenberg, Author @patfurstenberg.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

15 stories 15 lives at the edge of fear #COURAGE, Tales of History, Mystery and Hope 📌Mybook.to/COURAGE-Anth... ✨️OUT 17 JUNE @helenhollick.bsky.social @abelfrageauthor.bsky.social @alisonmorton.bsky.social @cathiedunn.bsky.social @writerjeangill.bsky.social Crossposted with @openvibe.social

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@HelenHollick @helenhollick.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

The lion is a symbol of courage. Bravery is found where the lion lies hidden, waiting to be called on. But can a mother find the courage to see her children leave? A glimpse at today's short story @marianlthorpe.bsky.social ofhistoryandkings.blogspot.com/2026/06/comi... #Courage #Anthology

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Marian L Thorpe: writer & birder @marianlthorpe.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

New covers for the first series, so they blend nicely with the covers of the upcoming ones.

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Marian L Thorpe: writer & birder @marianlthorpe.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

Southern Britain, the frontier between the Belgae and the Atrebates AD 471 When escape means more than just running for your life... In Courage: Tales of History, Mystery and Hope. #courageanthology #shortstories #historicalfiction ofhistoryandkings.blogspot.com/2026/06/comi...

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COMING SOON: Derek Birks COURAGE: Tales of History, Mystery and Hope

A blog about pirates, 1066, King Arthur, history, mysteries, writing and general chit-chat interesting bits and pieces

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Marian L Thorpe: writer & birder @marianlthorpe.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

Ffteen short stories on the theme of Courage in this new historical fiction anthology. One links the last book of Empire's Legacy with the first of my new books. (BTW, the other 14 are marvellous!) Pre-orders open. #courageanthology #shortstories #historicalfiction www.amazon.ca/COURAGE-Tale...

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Marian L Thorpe: writer & birder @marianlthorpe.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

All my books are getting new covers, so that the cover for An Unwise Prince and its sequel appear related but separate. But I wanted these omnibus editions to stand out, so readers didn’t mistake them for additional books in the series. So their new covers are very different.

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Marian L Thorpe: writer & birder @marianlthorpe.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

0.99 e-book sale in most markets!🏳️‍🌈✍️📖 One seeks to save an empire. The other seeks to save his soul. 'A dangerous world of seduction and intrigue...the storytelling is gripping...the dialogue as keen as an assassin's blade.' Alistair Tosh, author of Siege books2read.com/empresssoldier

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Marian L Thorpe: writer & birder @marianlthorpe.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

'behind the stories were, perhaps, real people, ones who laughed and loved, grieved and feared' #bookreview #greekmyth

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Pasiphaë: by Jane Dougherty

A review

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Marian L Thorpe: writer & birder @marianlthorpe.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

Stained glass, wheatears, and my 68th birthday. mlthorpeauthor.substack.com/p/10-weeks-2c2

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10 Weeks

Week 9 - some of it in France.

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Marian L Thorpe: writer & birder @marianlthorpe.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

Utterly delightful street signs in Chartres.

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Marian L Thorpe: writer & birder @marianlthorpe.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

One seeks to save an empire. The other seeks to save his soul.✍️📖 'A dangerous world of seduction and intrigue...the storytelling is gripping...the dialogue as keen as an assassin's blade.' Alistair Tosh All 51 chapters of Empress & Soldier are now up and free for you to read.

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Empress & Soldier Table of Contents

All chapters now available.

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Marian L Thorpe: writer & birder @marianlthorpe.bsky.social · 28/03/2026

“There are plenty of other ghosts.” “Not of our rank, Augustus. No one else who understands.” mlthorpeauthor.substack.com/p/a-comfort-...

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A Comfort to Many Men

And perhaps to two ghosts.

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Joseph P. Garland @jpgarlandauthor.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

@reneegendron.bsky.social @einetogi.bsky.social @anelsonlmpotter.bsky.social @marianlthorpe.bsky.social Please share. Searchable database of works included. None of mine appear. secure.anthropiccopyrightsettlement.com

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Marian L Thorpe: writer & birder @marianlthorpe.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

Larches know it’s spring: new leaves, upright, pink female cones, downward-facing yellow male cones. When the wind caught branches today, clouds of pollen were released.

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Marian L Thorpe: writer & birder @marianlthorpe.bsky.social · 22/03/2026

Bean geese, spoonbills, and Roman Emperors in this week’s journal. mlthorpeauthor.substack.com/p/ten-weeks

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Ten Weeks

Week 6

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Bjørn Larssen (he/him) @handle.invalid · 16/03/2026

The sixteenth #TheHollowFlame story is now live on my Patreon and ko-fi: www.patreon.com/posts/hollow... ko-fi.com/post/The-Hol... Includes audio version read by me. A one-off $3 donation gets you access to all stories so far!

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The Hollow Flame #16: Drawing | Bjørn Larssen – Author

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Marian L Thorpe: writer & birder @marianlthorpe.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

Sea wrack and shells on a North Norfolk beach.

Shells, seaweed, and black and golden sand, seen from above.

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Marian L Thorpe: writer & birder @marianlthorpe.bsky.social · 15/03/2026

Castles, chapels, chiff-chaffs and Cetti’s warblers, and the next stages of editing.✍️🦜 mlthorpeauthor.substack.com/p/this-write...

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This Writer's Diary: Ten Weeks

Week 5

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Marian L Thorpe: writer & birder @marianlthorpe.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

One of my favourite views in King’s Lynn, looking up the cobbled College Lane at the 15th C Trinity Guildhall, now the Town Hall. College Lane is named for the 16th C Thoresby College, founded for the chantry priests that served Trinity Guildhall.

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Marian L Thorpe: writer & birder @marianlthorpe.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

Common gulls and black-headeds, greylags and Canadas on the lake; siskin and goldfinches and chaffinches in the trees; robins and wrens in the undergrowth. Old sandpits, dug for sand to make glass, now a peaceful lake beside a road that’s been there since Saxon times.

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Marian L Thorpe: writer & birder @marianlthorpe.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

Norwich Castle, built at the order of William the Conquerer. where I spent a good chunk of today in the rebuilt Great Chamber, and at the Medieval Life gallery — research for detail in An Unwise Prince.

A square castle keep high on a hill with bare tree branches framing it.

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Marian L Thorpe: writer & birder @marianlthorpe.bsky.social · 07/03/2026

Medieval detail at the top of a flying buttress, Ely Cathedral.

Decorative tile, gargoyle head, and decorated columns at the top of a flying buttress (a support wall perpendicular to the building) at Ely Cathedral.

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Marian L Thorpe: writer & birder @marianlthorpe.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

The light in Ely yesterday was extraordinary, so clear that details of the cathedral I’ve never noticed before stood out, like these colours on the side facing the town. The whole building almost glowed.

A section of Ely cathedral wall, showing a blue door, turquoise and yellow staining on some sections, the puprle-brown of some bricks and the golden tone of others.

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Marian L Thorpe: writer & birder @marianlthorpe.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

I sat this morning on a bench at Roydon Common. The sky was a cloudless blue. Two buzzards circled and cried. The air was full of lark song, and I saw my first butterfly of the year, a peacock.

Grassy field with evergreen trees and flowering blackthorn in the background, and a vivid blue sky.

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Bjørn Larssen (he/him) @handle.invalid · 02/03/2026

The fifteenth #TheHollowFlame story is now live on my Patreon and ko-fi: ko-fi.com/post/The-Hol... www.patreon.com/posts/hollow... Includes audio version read by me. A one-off $3 donation gets you access to all stories so far!

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The Hollow Flame #15: Cat

Bjørn Larssen published a supporter-only post on Ko-fi!

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Marian L Thorpe: writer & birder @marianlthorpe.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

The Norman (12th C) font at St Laurence’s, Castle Rising, Norfolk. Those are cats’ heads adorning it: the font was moved from the original Norman church dedicated to St. Felix, the saint I wrote about (not very piously) in the link below. #writing mlthorpeauthor.substack.com/p/st-felix-a...

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Marian L Thorpe: writer & birder @marianlthorpe.bsky.social · 01/03/2026

‘Out on the mudflats oystercatchers and curlew feed in large groups; closer in are redshank and ringed plover. Something puts the golden plover up, and they wheel and glitter in the sun.’ #birds #nature #walking #Norfolk #writing mlthorpeauthor.substack.com/p/this-write...

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This Writer's Diary: Ten Weeks

Week 3

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Marian L Thorpe: writer & birder @marianlthorpe.bsky.social · 28/02/2026

"I want you to teach us to dance." ✍️ mlthorpeauthor.substack.com/p/play-for-m...

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Play for Mortal Stakes

A vignette

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Right to Roam @righttoroam.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

This May sees the release of Our Land - a feature length documentary film about the Right to Roam campaign, directed by Orban Wallace. www.youtube.com/watch?v=est-...

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Our Land Trailer

YouTube video by MetFilm Distribution

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