Marie-Anne McQuay

birds on tree branches, grey sky

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Always good to vary the causes of anxiety 🏍️

Good to know at 48 (with A-level nightmares and for some reason geography homework) that it will never end

🤝 xx

Orange and pink cover for Like a Cat Loves a Bird, a forthcoming biography of Muriel Spark, with a black and white photo of Spark holding a black cat on the cover

Here’s the cover for LIKE A CAT LOVES A BIRD: THE NINE LIVES OF MURIEL SPARK, out 16 April with @sceptrebooks.bsky.social

Preorder here: lnk.to/LikeaCatLove...

Please share! The book doing well means I can write another (and fulfil my dream of owning a pizza oven), so it’s pretty serious

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Our whole family unit can now compare our exam nightmares 🔮

It didn’t happen during Y6 SATS but after the first half term of assessments in secondary 💥

M(12 since November) just had her first ever ‘I haven’t revised yet I’m sitting a test’ dream. Welcome to the rest of your life 🫂

Your yearly reminder that it’s almost time to prepare the prune Krampus

This is a BRILLIANT offering for non fic writers! #Creatives4Sudan

10/10

Helpful, patient, didn’t sigh at when I said ‘Yes I am using a Mac’.

Bless LJMU IT for getting me into my new email. I had failed to set up the Two Factor Authentication Riddle.

Our family unit is going to gather round the radio 📻 to listen!

Or whatever CGI / AI decides next

Good morning, while everyone is waiting for the budget to be announced it’s a good time to say that immigration is a source of prosperity for the UK and painting Britain as a hostile state is sabotaging the country. Thanks!

What’s….coming next?

join us for this water-themed poetry reading in London this evening !

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Still from ‘Seven Starling’, 2025. A short video by Anthony Shapland which colleges footage of starlings mimicking artificial sounds. Image is of a starling turned away from us with the background colour of pale green / yellow also washed over the bird.

Birds may also be involved

A white man in pink cap and blue shirt and denim shorts stands in the doorway of a pink edged brown wooden hut. Through the window and doorway pale blue sky and sea is visible. The sun is brilliant and the man turns towards us in the shadow of the door.

Guest curating solo exhibition by Welsh artist, founder of g39 and award winning debut novelist (#Granta ‘A Room Above a Shop’) @anthonyshapland.bsky.social for Tŷ Pawb summer 2026 is such a treat www.typawb.wales/ty-pawb-anno...

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Such an amazing concise review, thanks Dua Lipa 💚💚 -
great to be alongside #yaelvanderwouden
#alicewinn #chinelookparanta & @angelotijssens.bsky.social tijssens.bsky.social (and thanks Angelo for the heads up!)

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Me in November 2024: I really think 2025 will be my year.
Me in November 2025:

Lanyard not required ☺️

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‘Potential for redevelopment’ or just live in the bushes

Or if @wildtwin.bsky.social then all of the above 📖 🛒

Art, curating, literature, teaching or Aigburth Road Small Tesco

It’ll be for niche reasons that we know each other.

If I ever say “Oh hi! So how’s everything going?” what I’m actually saying is, “Please for the love of god tell me who you are and why I know you”.