Bye bye Glasgow. London here I come.

Would any successful Bodleian visiting fellow recipients be willing to share their application materials with me? Especially if medieval/early modern. Ta!

In the local auction house this week... The Poebrick!

Launched a sneaky wee book of essays this week .... it's all on FB today: facebook.com/sheridanwrit...

Happy Aye Write opening night. I had front row seats to E S Thompson and Mairi Kidd discussing their latest books at the Mitchell Library. I love hearing other writers talk about their work. These two had a cracking chat! ❤️📚

Never getting over the autumn leaves.p

The brilliant Scottish Book Trust's Xmas campaign. Donate here: www.scottishbooktrust.com

Hello Glasgow ! AyeWrite is back! I'll be appearing on Sat 15th Nov with @lesleymcdowell.bsky.social & chaired by Zoe Venditozzi. I heard tickets are selling well & we'd love you to join us to chat all things Glasgow women's history. Details below 👇 www.glasgowlife.org.uk/event/1/love...

Passionate about the Patriarchy this evening at @edinburghup.bsky.social for the launch of Women Who Dared today: edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-women-w... I wrote the foreword.

Looking forward to chairing this with irrepressible duo Claire Mitchell & Zoe Venditozzi, whose company I love, & Steven Veerapen, whom I'm excited to meet. Their books are terrific and I'm sure it will be a lively event. Please come if you can: Sunday (Nov 9), 6pm, Glasgow Royal Concert Hall.

We @womenslibrary.bsky.social are so sad to hear of the death of Elspeth King, writer, activist, curator of the People's Palace who fought so hard to collect & preserve Glasgow's social and working class histories. Her book 'The Hidden History Of Glasgow's Women: The THENEW Factor' is so important.

MISS PYM’s DAY OUT, on the iPlayer for the next 26 days, is delightful! A drama doc about Barbara Pym’s trip to London for the Booker Prize ceremony - featuring Patricia Routledge as Pym, various Excellent Women and cameos from Jilly Cooper & Penelope Lively! #BookSky www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...

A year this week since Mum died and I've long-posted on FB about missing her and how difficult it was to get writing again after a shock bereavement: www.facebook.com/sheridanwrit...

Treasures spotted today at Glasgow's newest bookshop - Chest Heart and Stroke on the Trongate. ❤️📚

Short story competition alert: www.writersandartists.co.uk/competitions...

Friday night, theatre night, ❤️

Often you’ll be walking on Dartmoor & some ponies will be like “Follow us, we will lead you to the castle where the wizard lives & life is perfect!” My advice, from experience, is to ignore them. Ponies are known liars who will make up any old shit to briefly relieve the vast boredom of their lives.

3 things Starmer could do instead of camps in old barracks that would actually WORK👇 1. Create safe, regulated routes to apply for asylum in the UK 2. Let asylum seekers WORK & support themselves 3. Fast track status for people from obviously unsafe countries metro.co.uk/2025/10/29/k...

I was out walking Dotty last night when four teenage boys ran down the street dressed as nuns. Dotty barked cos WTF. 'You look great,' I shouted. 'Thanks missus,' one of them got out as he whizzed down the hill. Glasgow at hallowe'en, never change. 🖤🤣

This image is from an 18thc text, 'Man-midwifery dissected'. Its author, John Blunt, wrote that women who employed male midwives were 'female brutes' who 'have stoically forgotten to blush, unless it be by the assistance of rouge'

Time to repost this…

Date night last night was a proper 1982 New York old fashioned Chinese restaurant dinner with this sculpture of a dragon coming out the ceiling. Honest to God wild. Glasgow continues to surprise me.

Oh, the grand old Duke of York, He had 12 million quid. He gave it to someone he’d never met, For something he never did.

Teaching the histories of slavery and keen to inform your students with insights from the most recent research? Just a month to go before @uclpress.bsky.social publishes this open access (free to download) expert volume. uclpress.co.uk/book/teachin...

Writing at length today on FB about a tough week on the new novel. I'm at the coalface right now - 70% of the way through and it's all got to come together. 👇https://www.facebook.com/sheridanwritesherstory/

Let's have a thread of Scotland's queer medical pioneers. 1st Sophia Jex Blake trained at Edin Uni but wasn't allowed to graduate. She helped set up London School of Medicine for Women in 1874 & donated her house as a women & children's hospital in Edinburgh. What A Legend. #histmed #WomenInSTEM /1

I'm dreaming of my TBR and the great books I'll get round to once I've finished the draft I'm working on. This one by @victoriandetective.bsky.social is on top right now ...

The face of an author who was up half the night. Think I've caught a bug. Bed and as much writing as I can manage today, I guess.

My long post this week on FB: talking about the Frankfurt Book Fair this week. 👇https://www.facebook.com/sheridanwritesherstory/

Politics is getting hairy so ... A thread of amazing Scottish foremothers who knew being divisive is the path to change. 1st, Rose Klasko Kerrigan, sacked at 14 for speaking against WWI. She scandalized Glasgow’s only birth control clinic by seeking contraception before she had kids. /1

Hailing all brave agents off to the Frankfurt Book Fair (esp mine!) May the rights be legion.

For your delectation: a piece about Jean Armour's rights within marriage to divorce Robert Burns if they lived in the present day. I laughed a lot. brodies.com/insights/fam...

If you care about the future of books and publishing, I highly recommend you get behind this initiative with your whole hearts - (for what it's worth I think the whole of publishing should do this) www.thebookseller.com/news/uk-star...

Editing today. Pray for me.

"The latent genius of the great engineers and thinkers of the Scottish Enlightenment still exists in our community today. To be found and to flourish, all it really needs is belief." An upbeat, encouraging article from Professor Mark Logan OBE FRSE. www.heraldscotland.com/business_hq/...

New addition to my TBR.... it's getting teetery, tottery huge. No reading fiction till I've finished my next book tho.

This week on FB: quite a week on the road: 5 events in 5 days and not enough writing. GAWD. www.facebook.com/sheridanwrit...

Great new graffiti spotted on the corner of Hope and Bath Street #Glasgow

Heading for Aberfoyle bookfest fest and OMG the trees!

Despite it being a windy day we ended up with this as my new author photo courtesy of my talented pal Mym aka @druidic.org. You can commission him on [email protected] tho he usually photographs architecture (I'm an edifice, me)

Timeline cleanse from my day yesterday. This is Hornel's Garden in Kirkcudbright with a lovely surprise at the end of the path. I had a fabliss afternoon here,

Hello from Miss Marple. Im off to Kirkcudbright. ❤️

Gave a wee talk today, ICYMI. Discussing The Two Roberts with @sarasheridan.bsky.social @nationalgalleries.bsky.social

Get thee down to @nationalgalleries.bsky.social for the signed copies - definitely one to collect. xx

Doorway to winter #Glasgow

I'm using FB to give me more space once a week to talk about my writing life. Kind of like a newsletter that you don't have to subscribe to. This week: The Secret Mandarin has a new title and cover upcoming. Roll up, roll up and read all about it here: facebook.com/sheridanwrit...

Awesome authors at Aberfoyle Book Festival 10-12 Oct We have talks, ,panel discussion writing workshops, Books Bikes&Bairns, storytelling @louisewelsh00.bsky.social @sarasheridan.bsky.social Malacky Tallack Tom Bowser Jim Crumley Anna Levin, Polly Pullar Kevin MacNeil Emily Dodd Linda Cracknell

All about Elsie Inglis today at the BBC.

#histnursing WW2 nurse Mary Helen Young helped prisoners escape Nazi occupied France

Today a THREAD👇 of Scottish WWII sheroes who shone in adversity. 1st resistance fighter & nurse Mary Helen Young helped prisoners escape Nazi-occuped France. Killed in Ravensbruck, novelist, Simone St Clair, incarcerated with her said 'she kept her chin up' Mary we salute you./1