Claire Lomas

And in the continuing saga of "Charles Darwin speaks directly to my soul on his bad days" I present to you these excerpts from actual letters he actually wrote to actual people, please enjoy:)

Hard agree 👌🏼

This mural has gone up in Kingston, ostensibly for Christmas but AI has ensured it's actually to celebrate the return of our dark lord Cthulhu

Thank you! ☺️

Thank you so much Maggie 🥰

I genuinely can’t quite believe this! 😮🏆 Thank you to @write-mentor.bsky.social for this brilliant opportunity, and to David Higham Associates for judging.
I really am in the best company on both the Long and Shortlist, and I salute my fellow writers! 🤩🙌😍
#WritingCommunity #kidlit #believe ✨

This was such a great day! Lovely to work with Sara and spend time with a roomful of talented and generous writers 🥰🤩

I knew you had a book deal but I didn’t know it was as incredible and exciting as THIS!!! How totally amazing!
Thanks for being so lovely yesterday, and for the lunch! Let me return the favour at YALC in November? 🤩😍

Pure joy 💗

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Thank you so much Catherine! 🥰

So surprised and pleased to make this shortlist 🥰 It means a lot 🥹 Thanks to all @write-mentor.bsky.social

The Gilded Age thing I was not fully expecting about our century’s was Spiritualism coming back???

Just spotted the swifts returning here in Warwickshire this morning! Too high and tiny in the sky to photograph. But they are BACK!! 💙💙

So excited to collect @annalieseavery.bsky.social’s new book The Wycherleys from Waterstones this morning!! How gorgeous?!💜💜

me: writing is my place of peace

me writing:

Really enjoyed this unsettling little gem by @orlaowenwriting.bsky.social It’s one of those books that lingers in the back of your mind, long after you lay it down. Not surprised to hear it has been longlisted for the Dublin Literary Award 2025.

Really enjoyed your piece! I did a reread in honour of the centenary. It’s fascinating how the book is different every time, because you, the reader, are…

being an indie bookseller in the helltimes has felt both very stable and very stabilizing, and part of me wishes everyone could be on my side of the counter for a little while, because I think it would help some of you be a little less cynical and doomy right now. so here is my VERY anecdotal data:

An interesting and important read.

Freddie Mercury didn't go into the studio and nail the vocals for "The Show Must Go On" in one take while dying of AIDS for you to despair and give up now. Take the time you need, but then get up and get back out there.

The show must go on.

After playing a fictional member of the Resistance a long time ago, I never could have imagined it ever happening in real life, but here we are.

OBSERVER; Starmer set to join Europe crisis summit on Trump Ukraine plan #TomorrowsPapersToday

Never felt so seen 🤣

Not surprised, Ian! It’s brilliant! 🤩 HUGE Congratulations 🥳🤩😍

Exciting news! 🥳

‘Fyn Carter and the Agents of Eromlos’ has been shortlisted in the Selfies Book Awards 2025 Children’s category! I am so happy, stunned, and excited!

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@bookbrunch.bsky.social

#selfiesbookawards #kidlit #middlegradebooks #fyncarter

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I know right?! 🤣

This gives me hope! Adrift in the open seas of the middle of a first draft right now! ⛵️ 🌊

The deep cultural cost of British university job cuts | Letters Letters: Arts and humanities are being hit hardest by cuts in higher education, write Prof Thea Pitman and Prof Emma Cayley, and Dr Ronan McLaverty-Head and another letter writer comment on cuts at Ca...

The deep cultural cost of British university job cuts

Arts and humanities are being hit hardest by cuts in higher education, write Prof Thea Pitman and Prof Emma Cayley

www.theguardian.com/education/20...