Absolutely thrilled that Your Every Move is already an Eason Number One bestseller! Massive thanks to everyone who has read and reviewed and to everyone who preordered ❤️❤️🙏 It's in shops now and there are oodles of signed copies in all the shops so grab your copy now! 📚💙

Total bargain!!

Getting into Food Writing by Kate Ryan, Flavour.ie I fell into food writing by accident, which, when you speak to food writers, is how most of us got into it. It’s a rare thing for someone deciding on a career in food writing on leaving college, so, whether your 21 or 65 the good news is: it’s…

Officially out 1st Jan, Your Every Move should be on shelves today! 🎉🥂 @mariankeyes.bsky.social eagle eye spotted a review in @theguardian.com!!! 😲😍 "zippy chicklit/psychological thriller mashup with a dash of romantic suspense is just the job for a long winter evening"🎉 tinyurl.com/5t46xbcf

Black Cloud, Red Sea by Arlinda Rotate John Leitch, writing as Arlinda Rotate, on why he chose to use a pen-name when writing his crime thriller, Black Cloud, Red Sea . . . For me, it was a case of presenting my novel under a pen-name or pulling the plug on the entire project: it all happened on…

Food Writing So Good You Can Taste It by Dianne Jacob American author Dianne Jacob's book, Will Write for Food: The Complete Guide to Writing Cookbooks, Blogs, Reviews, Memoir, and More, is an essential reference book for food writers and food bloggers that has won two international awards from…

My Christmas read, quite an incredible book - have you read it? Would love to hear your thoughts 📚💙

Some of you have forgotten that only three years ago you were perfectly capable of writing a text, writing an email, telling a bedtime story to a child, and it should worry you that powerful companies have convinced us we can’t do things we’ve been doing since the dawn of time.

I have to place this in the context of the ongoing refusal across the political spectrum to do literally anything about infectious diseases like COVID. This exists as it does because of society's greater desire to pretend what's happening isn't actually happening.

And the finest Christmas tradition has arrived — #DuvetKnowItsChristmas is today! 1) Follow @rhodri.biz 2) post your pics of your makeshift Christmas Eve sleeping arrangements and 3) give money to the homeless @centrepointuk.bsky.social

Rare footage of St Paul’s Cathedral testing its giant flamethrower

If you missed out on the Newgrange solstice livestream this morning you can find it here. Really worth it for the authoritative, evocative commentary. www.youtube.com/watch?v=lRgu...

Earlier this week, we gathered at the Royal Irish Academy of Music for the Dublin launch of DRUID THEATRE: FIFTY YEARS by @pflonergan.bsky.social, published by @lilliputpress.bsky.social.

Just 2 weeks till Your Every Move hits the shelves!! 🥂 but also 😬 Blurb: Irish estate agent Rosie Kinsella loves her new job in London luxury property, but then she's targeted by a mysterious stalker& her amazing life turns upside down... You can preorder now! 🙏❤️ samblakebooks.com/books/your-e...

Loving the 'There you are now' greeting on the Insomnia app - and a free coffee perk, what could be better?! Getting to grips with a new story, love writing in cafes! This is joy in a mug, here's to getting energised 😊

More thanks! Book bloggers are so brilliant and so important, helping to bring books to readers ❤️❤️🙏🙏

Thank you so much Emma! "Featuring strong & intelligent female characters Your Every Move is written in the trademark atmospheric & glamorous style of a Sam Blake novel. Shady dealings, a malicious stalker & vivid descriptions... another sleek & contemporary psychological thriller."

House of Commons All Parties Writers Group winter reception this week & delighted to meet Ed Newton-Rex. The force behind Fairly Trained he's instrumental in showing how the unlawful use of copyrighted material by tech to train AI impacts the creative industries. With Anna Ganley, SoA CEO.

Highlights included seeing Kieran Marsh, shortlisted for Short Story of the Year and a member if the Writers Ink coaching and mentoring group, and discovering that my next book was in some of the goody bags!

Bit late with this! Very actually, but a fab night at the An Post Irish Book Awards last night and a brilliant winner for the Crime Novel of the Year, an author you might have heard of: Andrea Mara! The evening opened with former president Michael D Higgins and celebrated some incredible books 🎉💙📚

Feels like a day for this #painting. "Poolbeg, Kayakers, Sunlight" came out of monthly cycles past Scotsmans Bay where I would invariably stop and enjoy the views across Dublin Bay and wait for kayakers to paddle into my picture. #SpeirGhorm #ArtYear #Scape

❄️❄️❄️ We have #SIGNED copies of SNOWBLIND by #RagnarJonasson @orendabooks.bsky.social with lovely patterned edges LUXURY 10th ANNIVERSARY EDITION ❄️Signed bookplate ❄️Beautiful sprayed edges ❄️Bonus story, Fadeout ❄️New introduction www.foxlanebooks.co.uk/product-page...

Did you know that we’re one of the few organisations to award grants to writers for works-in-progress? Daniel Rachel received an Authors' Foundation grant from us to help fund research for his work-in-progress, This Ain't Rock and Roll, which has now been published by White Rabbit Books.

Edinburgh O'Clock - 3 minutes to every hour. - we run fast so you don't miss your train. A new hourly image to brighten your day taken in #Scotland very often #Edinburgh and shared with love by Tom Duffin @tomduffinphotos.bsky.social. Please repost with your own caption.

Fabulous story 👏👏👏

A daily dose of vitamin c. One of the three limited edition prints available in my print shop. #oilpainting #art

Every so often it’s useful to answer some of the questions I get asked on here. 1. Yes they are. 2. Not the whole message, obviously. 3. In the garage, mainly. 4. No, it wouldn’t be practical. Sorry. 5. Purely random. Cheers, T.

It is a little later than I'd intended but here's our "usual" start to #SundayMorning. This is "Sunday Morning, Farringdon Road" by Cecil Osborne from 1929. It is in the collection at Brighton & Hove Museums. Cecil lived almost opposite at 221 Farringdon Road Buildings #CecilOsborne #EastLondonGroup

Tent Campers 10”x10” Oil on cradled wood panel . Available

If you can access BBC iPlayer, I recommend watching the Val McDermid In Her Own Words documentary as soon as you possibly can. However well you think you know Val and her work, you will learn things that astonish you.

Voting closes for the An Post Irish Book Awards tomorrow! 💙📚 If u've enjoyed my books, The Killing Sense is shortlisted for Irish Crime Novel of the Year. You can vote at www.irishbookawards.ie/vote - you don't have to vote in every category, but u *can* vote from anywhere! Thank you, thank you 🙏🙏❤️

Many of David Tindle's paintings possess what might be called a quiet profundity. For the art critic Brian Sewell, Tindle was: 'a painter in that quietly Romantic tradition of British art ... concerned with everyday, intimate, domestic subjects.'

Marbles is a big girl now y'all #cats #kittens #blackcat

Table is set! Find me at #ThoughtBubble! I have stuff!

Blue lemons. My print shop is now open for the next 72 hours with 3 limited edition prints. I only open my print shop once a year. #oilpainting #art

After what has been quite a busy & stressful week here (one way or the other), another #SaturdayMorning has crept up on me quite unexpectedly so here's our weekly antidote to stress &, hopefully, a restful week-end for us all: this is "Interior" by Brynhild Parker from 1930. #BrynhildParker

Butterflies still on the wing, late blooms and confused wildlife are the latest signs that Britain’s seasons are slipping out of sync as the climate warms

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via @faberbooks.bsky.social Christine Falls by John Banville is the One Dublin One Book choice for 2026,

The Killing Sense is now out in shops in the handy paperback size, and it has the opening chapter of my January 2026 book Your Every Move in the back! It's perfect for travelling so here are some photos that might inspire you...

More pics of Paris! 🇫🇷 The Killing Sense is out in paperback - the very handy size for travelling, AND it's shortlisted at the An Post Book Awards for Irish Crime Novel of the Year - you can vote from anywhere in the world, I'd so appreciate it! Www.irishbookawards.ie/vote 🙏🙏❤️

Let me take you to Paris! 🇫🇷 The Killing Sense is out in paperback - the very handy size for travelling, AND it's shortlisted at the An Post Book Awards for Irish Crime Novel of the Year - you can vote from anywhere in the world, I'd so appreciate it! Www.irishbookawards.ie/vote

Hey! Calling all Wonder Women! We all are sisters…pulling together with one spirit. 50 years ago today the first episode of the series Wonder Woman aired.

Leonard Cohen who died on this day 2016: I did my best, it wasn't much I couldn't feel, so I tried to touch I've told the truth, I didn't come to fool you And even though it all went wrong I'll stand before the Lord of Song With nothing on my tongue but Hallelujah

It’s 6 November, and you know what that means, don’t you? YES, THAT’S RIGHT. It’s the 156th anniversary of the death of Dante Gabriel Rossetti’s pet wombat

On Toad’s birthday Frog gave him a hat. Toad was delighted. “Happy birthday,” said Frog. Toad put on the hat. It fell down over his eyes.

Thanks so much M!

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