AppleGidleyAuthor
@applegidleyauthor
Award-winning Novelist (7 books), global nomad currently living in England. Miss the tropics! @HistNovSoc.bsky.social @RomanticNovelists.bsky.social @Societyofauthors.bsky.social Published @VineLeavesPress.bsky.social
Sad, sad, sad, and very angry. Bella, my assistant editor, was run over by a speeding car four nights ago. Her pelvis was smashed and her leg broken yet she still managed to crawl home, and drag herself up the stairs. My study is empty #SpeedingKills #VillageLife #Ickleton #20mph ignored!
Really looking forward to next Saturday! If you're in the area-Stowmarket, why not stop in and say hello, and even better, buy a book from any one of the wonderful authors who will be there #SummerReading #books #BookFairs #BeachReads #Authors @forewordfestivaluk.bsky.social
Silver Medal in #TheWishingShelfBookAwards - woohoo! Carol, on Goodreads says, “I loved the historical detail in this novel. You can tell Apple Gidley has done her research, but the emotional story always comes first.” Annie will be @hertsbookfest.bsky.social this weekend. Stop by and say hello!
Dad, John Havelock Girling OBE, died 16 years ago today. He really was a charming man!
This train station looks very different to the one Annie was on in 1941 - then it wasn't lads in jeans, it was boys and men in army fatigues, either going to or returning from the hell of war! #WarFiction #AwardWinningBook #HistoricalFiction #PacificWar #WarNurses
The business news, the world news, the war news, is unutterably depressing, and it's all down to three old white men #Trump #Netanyahu #Putin Ditch your paper and escape into a time when #war was a moral obligation #WWII and not the whim of crooks.
Honestly, if I were him, I'd choose Have You Eaten Rice Today? It seems to appeal to men more, and has been picked up by men's #bookclubs #JungleWarfare #Malaya #1950s The war that wasn't a #war because of insurance companies #HistoricalFiction
Yippity do dah day! Silver Medal #HistoricalFiction @lindasbookbag.bsky.social @cathiedunn.bsky.social #BookClub #BookCompetitions #WarFiction #history Annie's preferred drink was whisky, she loved listening to #Metallica and #AndreaBocelli and I think #CateBlanchet should play Annie 🙄
#ThomasDambo the Danish recycle artist got it right! I feel I need to cling to a tree to keep grounded as I try to figure out which way to jump in my next #novel! Perhaps I just need to start the damn thing #writing or not #ContemporaryFiction or not #AmLost
Tired of your commute? Join Amelia and her gondolaful of friends on a sometimes sad, sometimes joyful journey of self-discovery among Venetian canals#ContemporaryFiction #Widowhood #Daughters #hope #Italy #AustraliansAbroad Finalist #WishingShelfAwards
I am so thrilled that both Annie's Day and Finding Serenissima are finalists in #TheWishingShelfAwards @vineleavespress.bsky.social #HistoricalFiction #ContemporaryFiction #WomenAuthors @janejohnsonbakrim.bsky.social @katmezzacappa.bsky.social @lizharris.bsky.social @carolinejames1.bsky.social
I love readers sending in photos of my book! This from Australia! #WW2Australiannurse @vineleavespress.bsky.social The cover shows not only beauty but fear. The terror of Japanese bombs falling on the #EmpireStar after Annie's evacuation from #singapore in Feb1942 follows her all her life. 5* Review
Just two writers having fun in Aegina, with a wonky horizon! @HarryBunn writes #crime #thrillers - in a former life I truly believe he was a spy! Read his books, they're fun!
Find out why @carolinejames1.bsky.social said, "A literary gem that immediately seized my heart." Finding Serenissima, my first foray into contemporary fiction - a heartwarming tale of second chances #ItalianFiction #Romance #Venice #ThatsAmore #friendship
Delighted @histnovsoc.bsky.social have named Annie's Day as an Editors' Choice. @vineleavespress.bsky.social @australianbooks.bsky.social @cathiedunn.bsky.social @wwiimuseum.bsky.social #IWM #WorldWar2 @bluebookclub.bsky.social #Bookclubs
What a sky! Driving in Oz. Trying to focus on beauty and goodness, rather than the bad and ugly. #health #sanity #nature #Greenland #Denmark
It's chilly, curl up with coffee & find warmth in Amelia's quest for serenity #Venice as she learns the customs & canals of the island city @womenover50travel.bsky.social @necessaryfiction.com @romanticnovelists.bsky.social #BookClubReads #ContemporaryFiction #belonging #SoloTravel #GlobalLiving
Such fun to answer interesting questions about #belonging and #home from the #FIGT #Bookclub when we talked about #Annie'sDay @vineleavespress.bsky.social @histnovsoc.bsky.social @romanticnovelists.bsky.social #GlobalAwareness
Always a thrill! Annie's Day out in the world now! #WW2 from an Australian nurse's perspective. Gorgeous cover #JessicaBellDesign @vineleavespress.bsky.social #HistoricalNovel #Fiction #War #Nurse
Today's the day! Huge thanks to all at @vineleavespress.bsky.social who have guided Annie's Day through the editing and publishing process. And to fellow authors for their encouragement! @janejohnsonbakrim.bsky.social @katmezzacappa.bsky.social @deborahswift.bsky.social @lizharris.bsky.social
I don't know about you, but the news around the world is pretty awful these days. If I hadn't written Finding Serenissima, I'd be tempted to pick up a copy and escape to #Venice #Travel #Italy @australianbooks.bsky.social @bars.bsky.social @margieinitaly.bsky.social @womenover50travel.bsky.social
Cape Leeuwin in #WestAustralia one of the "three great capes" of the world named by English navigator Matthew Flinders after the first ship known to have sailed the waters. Pretty damn awesome to stand at the #lighthouse imagination soaring.
Annie's Day drops Nov 18 @vineleavespress.bsky.social #AustralianFiction @australianbooks.bsky.social #WWII #BerlinAirlift #NewGuinea @maxuechtritz.bsky.social #IWMLondon #Sydney #ContemporaryFiction @histnovsoc.bsky.social Available for Pre Order shorturl.at/cUXbU @katmezzacappa.bsky.social
Here I am in #Armidale #NSW #Australia - my old stomping ground through seven years at boarding school #NEGS A lot of buildings gone, and a lot of new buildings in their place, but the most striking thing was the same ethos permeates the premises. #schooldays #writing #Fiction
Nov 18, 2025 is when @vineleavespress.bsky.social release Annie's Day - yippeee! Available for PreOrder now shorturl.at/cUXbU @romanticnovelists.bsky.social @histnovsoc.bsky.social @australianbooks.bsky.social #Australianfiction @bookclubfriends.com #NewGuinea #BerlinBlockade #Singapore #warfiction
