Photograph of me, standing next to a sign which reads ‘Muriel Spark Walk’. I’m wearing dark corduroys, a red jumper, brown jacket and a brown beanie hat.

My book, LIKE A CAT LOVES A BIRD: THE NINE LIVES OF MURIEL SPARK, comes out in just over a month!

In the run-up, I went to Spark’s birthplace to drop off proofs in lots of brilliant bookshops. Here are some photos of me gallivanting about like a big smiley tea cosy.

And this morning the Shed is a safe haven for anybody requiring one…

March Hares! ‘I shall go into a hare’…. Painted, engraved stained glass, private collection.

And this morning the Shed is a tinderbox, itching for conflagration…

And this morning the Shed is a snow globe, inside which a tiny shed stands in perpetual blizzard…

Alice Augusta Ball (1892 – 1916) was an African-American chemist whose groundbreaking work produced the first effective treatment for leprosy. She died at age 24 before she could publish her findings, and others took credit for her work, but her legacy has now been acknowledged. #CelebratingWomen

A revolving door to the absurd and brilliant portal into the housings of monsters, hobbits, ... and twats.

Welsh Legends by D Parry Jones (1953 first edition), illustrated by Ivor Owen.

I was interviewed by a newspaper and asked what the most beautiful book I own is. Tough choice but I went for this.

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07:10 · 1 Mar 2026

Good morning , and thank you to @dianadwilder.bsky.social for your #FoxOfTheDay !

I am so tired of fragile little men starting wars. I am so tired of fragile little men making policy decisions that harm us all. I am so tired of fragile little men doing horrendous harm to children and expecting us all to forget about it. I am so tired of fragile little men with their tantrums.

And this morning the Shed is a park bench in memory of sheds past…

And this morning the Shed is a shedscape, with nothing but sheds from the edge of the sky to the furthest horizon…

And this morning the Shed is a skerry, so small it might be nameless, standing off the rocky coast of a land of myths and monsters...

BREAKING: “This bluntly is going to be a story that will really scare Labour MPs because what you’re seeing is a massive drop in the Labour vote .. Labour voters have quite clearly gone to the greens in this by-election”

BREAKING: A wonderful speech from Green Party's Hannah Spencer after winning the Gorton and Denton by-election.

Congratulations!

And this morning the Shed is a mechanical beast, steel bones moving silenty under its slightly moth-eaten fur...

And this morning the Shed is a small ceramic object, crammed onto a shelf of bric-a-brac, in a shop far off the beaten track...

Margaret Murray (1863 – 1963) was an Anglo-Indian Egyptologist, archaeologist, anthropologist, historian, and folklorist. The first woman to be appointed as a lecturer in archaeology in the United Kingdom, she worked at University College London (UCL) from 1898 to 1935. #CelebratingWomen

And this morning the Shed is a silent machine of smoke and angled mirrors...

Dorothy Levitt (1882 – 1922) was a British racing driver, author and journalist. She was the first British woman racing driver, the holder of the world's first water speed record, the women's world land speed record holder, and the inventor of the rear view mirror. #CelebratingWomen

The paperback of VIANNE comes out on March 6th. And doesn't it look terrific?

Want to feel old? This is what Dean from The Gilmore Girls looks like now.

And this morning the Shed is a tesseract; a thing , of many angles, inhabiting two dimensions simultaneously…

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And this morning the Shed is an empty stage, where spiders dance the tarantelle…

The Good Boy Joanne Harris and the Storytime Band published a post on Ko-fi

Missed this morning's #Storytime? Here it is: a little tale about how we see ourselves, and the distorting mirrors we use to keep our sense of self in shape... ko-fi.com/post/The-Goo...

And this morning the Shed is a blue balloon, far away, far away...

And this morning the Shed is a new constellation, somewhere north of Orion…