That’s brilliant news! It’s such a great work of scholarship, and also a fascinating story, as I said in my review (extract below) www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Other best 2025 reads feat US history:

- Butcher’s Crossing, John Williams
- The Heart in Winter, Kevin Barry
- James, Percival Everett

Also loved:
The Colour, R Tremain (gold rush NZealand)
Scaffolding, L Elkin
Our Evenings, Hollingshurst
Everything by E Strout, T Hadley, S Rooney, C Lombardo

Liked the side-reference to links betw history, lit and film - which has culminated in the (not unhappy) event of rewatching Master and Commander.

That’s wonderful and much-deserved, Jen!

Thanks @evienash.bsky.social and others for organising!

Great speaker line-up @satisfactory20.bsky.social @lisaberrywaite.bsky.social @emmapeplow.bsky.social @drdavesteele.bsky.social @alexprior.bsky.social @elizabethbiggs.bsky.social @amdharrington.bsky.social @sophiapsarra.bsky.social @courtenayilbert.bsky.social Colin Lee, Naomi Gibson, James Orchin

Thanks so much, Alex. Very kind!