Thanks to all the adoptees who have responded, and everyone who has shared - the survey is open till Thursday 30 April:)

So many female journalists I know has at least one me too story they couldn’t get over the line because it’s so hard. You need so many victims to go on the record. And for so many good and understandable reasons - like fear of being sued - victims are scared.

Thanks so much to all the adoptees who have responded so far - and everyone else who has shared this. The survey is open till Thursday 30th April at 5pm, so please share if you can!

Fellow adoptees, I need your help! I'm doing a journalism project on how the NHS treats adoptees, including a survey. It's anonymous and will take 5-15 minutes to do. More info in the survey: forms.gle/xXeiGJ1fJcrZbjfu7 #adoption #adopteerights #adopteehealth

Fellow adoptees, I need your help! I'm doing a journalism project on how the NHS treats adoptees, including a survey. It's anonymous and will take 5-15 minutes to do. More info in the survey: forms.gle/xXeiGJ1fJcrZbjfu7 #adoption #adopteerights #adopteehealth

🎧 Collected Podcasts: 🎙 Episode 504: Katharine Quarmby is in conversation with Jonathan Tulloch. The episode also features work from Karl Whitney and Rosie Fiore-Burt. 🎙 Episode 505: Hugo Williams is in conversation with Julia Copus. Listen to both podcasts here: https://podcast.rlf.org.uk/

In this article for The Tablet magazine, I looked at philanthropy, Georgian style, and how churches attempted to reform girls like Ann, a girl from my hometown who inspired my novel, The Low Road, transported to Australia in 1828. #philanthropy #CatholicHistory #ConvictAustralia #ElizabethFry

In this article for The Tablet magazine, I looked at philanthropy, Georgian style, and how churches attempted to reform girls like Ann, a girl from my hometown who inspired my novel, The Low Road, transported to Australia in 1828. #philanthropy #CatholicHistory #ConvictAustralia #ElizabethFry

Wrote about why protecting world heritage sites - from the Buddhas of Bamyan in Afghanistan to the beauty of the Iranian city of Isfahan - is essential. Oh, and David Beckham, of course: katdetective.substack.com/p/finding-be... #Iran #Isfahan #DavidBeckham

Very chuffed to be on the crime shortlist for this - what an honour to be with fellow historical writers. And thanks to the judges and HNS for all the admin and work that goes on behind the scenes.

Are you an author over 60? Submit your poem, short story, flash fiction or novel by 31 May 2026 to the Never Too Late Award from the @bridportprize.bsky.social! bridportprize.org.uk/news/new-nev...

100 flood warnings have been issued across England and with that in mind, I'm re-sharing some of the articles our European journalism team have published on flooding across the continent. I wrote this for @prospectmagazine.co.uk on the awful aftermath: www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/world/enviro...

Floods are the biggest natural disaster in Europe. Our cross-border environmental journalism team wrote this overview, with expert input from our EU-watcher, Staffan Dahllöf, about our flooding project for #EUObserver: euobserver.com/200660/how-e... #environmentaljournalism #afterthefloods

When Tehran finally falls, it will be thanks to brave young women like Rubina Aminian | Katharine Quarmby www.independent.co.uk/voices/iran-...

The east coast of the UK is the fastest eroding in Europe, and each storm that hits it, like the one that this month, is measured in human misery. I wrote this long-read late last year as part of a European project, After The Floods asking how we are going to cope in a more watery future. #floods

The death toll in Iran is likely to be at least 2000, the BBC reports. I wrote for The Independent about the bravery of those opposing the Iranian regime - amongst them so many brave young women. bbc.co.uk/news/article...

I'm talking about flooding and climate change, chaired by @tomshakespeare.bsky.social, next Tuesday, following on a journalism project: muckrack.com/katharine-qu.... If you're in South London and want to come along, do join 20 January, free tickets here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/flooding-a...

I'm talking about flooding and climate change, chaired by @tomshakespeare.bsky.social, next Tuesday, following on a journalism project: muckrack.com/katharine-qu.... If you're in South London and want to come along, do join 20 January, free tickets here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/flooding-a...

Wrote this on the sheer bravery of so many women and men in Iran protesting against the regime. The death toll is mounting and those of us with family there are watching with horror - and a flicker of hope. www.independent.co.uk/voices/iran-... #Iran #IranProtests #WomanLifeFreedom

As the Napoleonic Wars drew to a close there were food riots. Opposition, meanwhile, was growing against the introduction of industrial technologies. It is in this world of extremes that Katherine Quarmby has set her novel. The Low Road is a captivating tale that is inspired by real history 👇

⭐ Every eve is special when you read them a #bedtimestory ⭐ YOKKI AND THE PARNO GRY by Richard O'Neill and @katharineq.bsky.social, magical book illustrated by Marieke Nelissen, a tale about hope and the joy of storytelling. 🎁 More: www.childs-play.com/products/978... #KidLitUK

It’s publication day for The Low Road with @eyebooks.bsky.social, a story about love, friendship and redemption. Based on a true story, it moves from East Anglia, to London to colonial Australia. Available in all good bookshops and libraries. #sapphicbooks #historicalfiction #empire #TheLowRoad

My agent is @tinyfairyhunter.bsky.social so if you are an editor of an imprint thinking “I wish romantasy was queerer / more m/m and also had incredible, immersive worldbuilding that brought a medieval era viscerally to life” HAVE I GOT GOOD NEWS FOR YOU, also I have plans for 2 more similar books

Americans have been dragged, tackled, beaten, tased and shot by immigration agents. They’ve had their necks kneeled on. They’ve been held outside in the rain while in their underwear. At least three citizens were pregnant when agents detained them. By @nicolefoy.bsky.social

Are you interested in advancing peace and disarmament through the UN? Are you based in Geneva or open to re-locating to work there? @quakerunoffice.bsky.social are hiring a Peace and Disarmament Representative. Find out more at quno.org/opportunities and apply before 13:00 CET Monday 3 November.

Just this week, MPs urged Labour to do more on flood risks. Is the government’s ‘build, baby, build’ fixation blinding it to the issue? @katharineq.bsky.social interviews experts across Europe for a portrait of a crisis in the making – and the policy solutions ⬇️

Flooding is the UK’s most frequent natural disaster, affecting people, properties and businesses. But could it be @teamlabouruk.bsky.social's blindspot as it 'build, baby, builds'? We interrogate these issues with author and journalist @katharineq.bsky.social. Listen now 🎧 podfollow.com/ends

As part of a European journalism team I reported @theferret.scot, funded by IJ4EU, on how eastern Scotland is grappling with flooding and coastal erosion, two years after #StormBabet in two articles: theferret.scot/communities-... 1/ #flooding #stormbabet #coastalerosion #environmentaljournalism

Very happy to have written this and another feature for The Ferret, looking at the impact of flooding - and how communities are at the heart of recovery. In this, I look at one village which was flooded - and decided that they would rally to protect themselves from flooding in the future. #flooding

This long-read in @prospectmagazine.co.uk asks how we are coping now with flooding and coastal erosion - and what we need to do as climate change upends forecasts. Thanks to @aloner.bsky.social for editing, to interviewees and to IJ4EU for funding: www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/world/enviro...

As part of a European journalism team I reported @theferret.scot, funded by IJ4EU, on how eastern Scotland is grappling with flooding and coastal erosion, two years after #StormBabet in two articles: theferret.scot/communities-... 1/ #flooding #stormbabet #coastalerosion #environmentaljournalism

In Brechin, Storm Babet brought the worst flooding residents could remember. Nearly two years on, many are still struggling to recover. Our latest: theferret.scot/commu...

The UK’s east coast is one of the fastest eroding in Europe. As more storms approach, those losing everything to flooding feel abandoned, writes Katharine Quarmby.

I'll be at #IpswichBookFestival talking about my prize-listed novel, #TheLowRoad @eyebooks.bsky.social, based on a true story from my East Anglian hometown. It tells the story of a Norfolk girl transported to Australia as a convict and is a tale of love, grief, betrayal - and solidarity. #Convicts

I'll be at #IpswichBookFestival talking about my prize-listed novel, #TheLowRoad @eyebooks.bsky.social, based on a true story from my East Anglian hometown. It tells the story of a Norfolk girl transported to Australia as a convict and is a tale of love, grief, betrayal - and solidarity. #Convicts

In southern Ukraine, Russian landmines look like butterflies, attractive to children. @jenstout.bsky.social reports on the race to make Ukraine safe.

There shouldn't be anything controversial in saying that nobody should be gunned down in cold blood for stating their political views - and debating them. Free speech is for everybody - within the legal limits of course. Gloating over the death of another human debases public discourse. #CharlieKirk

Our paperback edition of @katharineq.bsky.social’s gripping historical novel The Low Road is back from the printers. It’s out on 6 November and before that it’s a finalist for the New Angle Prize, whose winner is announced on 25 September. We’re so proud to have it on our list shorturl.at/NCTgM

Just finished this winter warmer by my dear friend @tomshakespeare.bsky.social - if you like Arctic weather, polar bears, great characters and chaos on a cruise, this one is for you! And don't forget to read the first in the series, The Haha, as well....#TheEnds #Comicfiction #Jeeves

Oh the irony. The four seats held by Reform MPs suffer from high exposure to heatwaves, according to Friends of the Earth data. Just look at the map of Clacton 👇🏻 Farage denies basic climate science and has claimed it’s “absolutely nuts” for CO2 to be considered a pollutant.

Inquiry raises questions about MoD failure to stop soldiers exploiting women after it told openDemocracy it issued no sanctions, @sianushka.bsky.social reports. Find out more here ⤵️ www.opendemocracy.net/en/british-a...

Announcing: broadcaster Matthew Sweet, journalist Sian Norris, & magician Paul Zenon We are delighted to announce three additions to the line-up for the final QED: writer and broadcaster Matthew Sweet, author and far-right researcher Sian Norris, and magician Paul Zenon qedcon.org/news/2025/ma...

More on the Unbound/Boundless mess. This was a community of authors and readers who believed in a different way of doing things. My heart goes out to my fellow authors who are left with so much uncertainty and the loss of what we worked so hard to build. observer.co.uk/news/busines...

Oh also of course my book and its follow-up (a similar medieval queer romance/thriller) are also looking for a new home. This book’s sales INCREASED every year purely on word of mouth. Imagine what could be done with marketing. Captive Prince x Song of Achilles:

I’m going to pound the table one more time for The Lights of Shantinagar, a book I really think could be massive as South Asian magical realism is gaining popularity with UK/North American audiences. Read the blurb, you want to read the book now, don’t you?

Are you an agent or a publisher looking to add to your list? There are FANTASTIC authors left in the lurch by Unbound who need homes for their existing bools and for sequels / new books. A thread, grouped by genre. Please reskeet! Here’s YA spec fic & fantasy:

Interesting to see how senior figures in Unbound and Boundless blame each other for the collapse of both publishers in #PublishersWeekly. Little empathy for the authors, readers and other creditors who are owed hundreds of thousands of pounds. #Unbound www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/... 1/

Some lovely official news about No One Talks About This Stuff – now a Robinson/Little Brown acquisition www.thebookseller.com/rights/robin...

Interesting to see how senior figures in Unbound and Boundless blame each other for the collapse of both publishers in #PublishersWeekly. Little empathy for the authors, readers and other creditors who are owed hundreds of thousands of pounds. #Unbound www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/... 1/

My book is out in paperback in a fortnight. It's set in a dilapidated country house just after the war, a house first built in the 16th century, but to which a new bit was added whenever the family happened to have any money. While researching, I found a cache of old... 1/4