Kate Blackadder

Apple sauce? Can be frozen.

Footsteps In Ashbridge Episode 01 Lou was becoming increasingly concerned about her husband’s reluctance to find a job...

My last (as in last-published, new one coming soon!) People's Friend serial is available to read on their website. That's teacher Sarah with the gorgeous red hair just as I'd pictured her. www.thepeoplesfriend.co.uk/series/foots...

British Railways poster by Alasdair MacFarlane. (c.1950)

In case you've forgotten, this is what pure #goodness looks like. Soccer star Diogo Jota and his brother, Andre, were killed in a car wreck July 3. Liverpool FC announced it will pay the two remaining years of Diogo Jota’s contract in the amount of £14.5 million to his wife and their three children.

Soon to be renamed.
Up the Garden Path☹️

Short Story Smorgasbord All reads less than an hour!

Free short stories

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Matt and Flora's story coming soon... (19th June UK; 1st July North America) mybook.to/AKisstoStopa... #Regency #Historicalfiction #Romance

Would you like to win a bundle of really awesome books including my award-winning collection, TURDUCKEN?

Spaceboy Books are doing multiple giveaways to celebrate their 8th anniversary, so check it out here: mailchi.mp/84482b74a45f...

Ben Lomond Kathleen Jamie Thae laddies in the Celtic shirts, a baker’s dozen lumbering all the way to the summit cairn the hot last Saturday of May as larks trilled and the loch-side braes released their midgies … Well, up at the raven-haunted trig-point (as the sun shone bright o’er the whole lower Clyde) they unfurled a banner, and triumphant-sombre, ranked themselves behind it for the photies, ‘R.I.P.’ it read, then the name of a wee boy they’ll never meet again. Ach, would the wean were playing fit-ba on some bonny banks somewhere … There’s no accounting for it, is there? I mean the low road, and the high.

Thae laddies in the Celtic shirts,
a baker’s dozen
lumbering all the way to the summit cairn
the hot last Saturday of May
as larks trilled
and the loch-side braes released their midgies…

—Kathleen Jamie, “Ben Lomond”
published in THE BONNIEST COMPANIE (Picador 2015)

I think it's about time Mark knew where and when and how long.

Thank you for the shortbread. I haven't tried it yet but was pleased to see the use by date of February '95.

Labour blocks proposal for ‘swift bricks’ in all new homes MPs had previously backed Conservative amendment to ask developers to provide hollow bricks for endangered birds

It would be SO easy for @teamlabouruk.bsky.social to help nature in the UK in this small way, but they choose not to.

Each morning I watch the sky fill with swifts, and wonder how much longer I have to get a glimpse into their world. Infuriating and wrong.

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THIS IS THE FIRST TIME I HAVE BEEN SOBER ENOUGH TO WRITE.

Japanese snow fairy bird 🇯🇵 😃

The 3rd in my short Regency series is available from Amazon as a free ebook this weekend - light reading in all kinds of weather! Here's the link: www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0F7GDRZRV

Wish you were here to share my misery.

Marked decline in semicolons in English books, study suggests Usage of punctuation down almost half in two decades as further research finds 67% of British students rarely use it

I would struggle to write without semi-colons; they look so lovely on the page. www.theguardian.com/science/2025...

I haven't moved into my new house yet. And my wedding anniversary is not till October. Are you confusing me with Dorothy?

A Childhood Robin Robertson The last bottle of lemonade is nodding in the rock pool, keeping cold. A childhood, put away for later. I’m too busy to notice the sun is going, that they’re packing up, that it’s almost time for home. The low waves warm round my knees as I dig in, panning for light, happy to be here, dreaming of the evening I’ll wake on the lilo singing my head off, somewhere in the sea-lanes to Stavanger, or Oslo.

The last bottle of lemonade is nodding
in the rock pool, keeping cold. A childhood,
put away for later. I’m too busy to notice
the sun is going, that they’re packing up,
that it’s almost time for home…

—Robin Robertson, “A Childhood”
in SAILING THE FOREST
#poem
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I have a beastly cold.

On your supermarket and newsagent shelves today 😊

I love my shoes and wear them a lot.

The Unlikely Pursuit of Mary Bennet: A Sapphic Regency … "After procuring several fervent assurances that his wi…

Feeling so excited and overwhelmed and grateful on launch day for 💐 THE UNLIKELY PURSUIT OF MARY BENNET! 💐

Have been listening to the wonderful audiobook all morning in between writing the next in the Austentatious series (The Miseducation of Caroline Bingley)! 👗🥂

A penguin made of Penguin books

You know it must be #WorldPenguinDay if we're posting our Book Penguin made of Penguin Books. 🐧

Please, if your are able, please support Independent publishers.

Here are a few who live and die by books sales.

They do an enormous amount of heavy lifting in finding great new stories.

@littletollerbooks.bsky.social
@galleybeggars.bsky.social
@saraband-books.bsky.social

Thank you.

Brilliant review! The comparison with the Ealing Comedies is apt - congratulations @olgawojtas.bsky.social !

CYMERA

Our friends at #Edinburgh 's SF lit festival, @cymerafestival.co.uk , have just posted this year's programme, lots of fabulous authors and events to look forward to! www.cymerafestival.co.uk

#books #livres #Edimbourg #ScienceFiction #Fantasy #Horror

It would really mean the world to me if people would share details of my event for THE UNLIKELY PURSUIT OF MARY BENNET, Tuesday 29th April in Glasgow! If you have queer friends, tell them! Or if you think you'd enjoy a book which kills Mr Collins off, come along!

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Shona McMonagle’s Desert Island Discs - Saraband To celebrate the publication of the latest book in the Miss Blaine’s Prefect series, author Olga Wojtas has written a guest blog post. In Shona McMonagle’s latest adventure, she finds herself on a des...

To celebrate the publication of the latest book in the Miss Blaine’s Prefect series, author Olga Wojtas has written a guest blog post - Shona McMonagle’s Desert Island Discs

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