Elspeth Wilson

“Illuminated and spirited. Such a necessary book” - Marina Hyde.

Happy International Day of People with Disabilities to all who celebrate by buying a book by a disabled author for everyone on their Christmas list.

Three texts read from Nick Ferrari’s show on LBC. Hope all is well https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-15339433/cricket-one-legged-father-pay-36000-benefits-filmed.html Would you be available at 08:35 this morning to speak to Nick about whether the DWP should be taking away this man’s benefits reply from me: No im not free for that. I would never be free for that. It’s just another example of how the press are demonising disabled peopleI’m

headline from the daily mail reads Just not cricket! One-legged father is ordered to pay £36,000 of benefits back after being filmed playing the sport

Need you all to understand how utterly exhausting it is for disabled people (especially those of us with any public profile) to exist online rn.

I'm looking to speak to anyone who has worked in hospitality in Oxford or Cambridge, particularly studenty bars/clubs/restaurants for a potential piece for a national magazine! #journorequest

Disability and the Publishing Industry | The Common Press

London #BookSky people I'm doing an event with two other great authors for Disability History Month and it would be amazing to see some of you there! It's at the Common Press and tickets are from free - I think this is such an important conversation.

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My debut novel has gone to number 1 in the rather cryptic 'other practices' category thanks to being part of Kindle's daily deal 😂. And no 7 in coming of age! Last few hours to buy something I poured my heart and soul into for 99p xx #BookSky

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If you're looking for an autumn read with crackling fires, mossy woods, soaring spires and a creeping gothic atmosphere then my debut novel These Mortal Bodies is a Kindle daily deal for today only 💚🎓🖤!! 99p for many hours of (and many more of my life 😂😅)

Thanks so much for sharing and really hope you enjoy!

Interview with Elspeth Wilson about These Mortal Bodies This eerie and intoxicating dark academia campus novel is a Kindle Daily Deal TODAY!

The ebook version of @elspethwrites.bsky.social's These Mortal Bodies is only £1 today!

Been wanting to read it since meeting her at the Someone Like Me launch a few weeks ago.

Here's an interview with her about it:

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Reading this now and really enjoying!

Waterstones: 25% off 2026 new titles. Pre-order code: OCTOBER25. An image of Who Wants Normal? Life Lessons from Disabled Women sits in the centre.

LAST CHANCE!

Waterstones is running a pre-order offer on select titles - and the Who Wants Normal? paperback is included! 

Be quick - it ends today - and you’ll get 25% off and be one of the first to receive the book next year: www.waterstones.com/book/who-wan...

There's just one more day to get 25% off a preorder of the paperback of my debut novel, These Mortal Bodies from Waterstones! If nature as character, explorations of gender and femininity, obsession and friendship are your kind of thing 💚🎓

Scotland at Frankfurt in full swing!

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So glad you think so!

AutCasts Recommends: Neurodivergent Fiction A round-up of some of my favourite neurodivergent fiction from the last couple of years!

A round-up of my favourite neurodivergent fiction from the last couple of years, featuring @lucyrosecreates.bsky.social @elspethwrites.bsky.social @nualaoconnor.bsky.social @riverssolomon.bsky.social & @naoisedolan.bsky.social !

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Thank you so much for including These Mortal Bodies!

A girl in a white dress stands in a pond surrounded by reeds. She is against a backdrop of trees and gothic architecture. The book is These Mortal Bodies by Elspeth Wilson and the font is bright green.

She's getting a new look! Absolutely delighted to reveal the paperback cover of my debut novel, These Mortal Bodies, which I am absolutely *obsessed* with 💚🖤! It captures the murkiness of sisterhood, the watery vibes and gothic atmosphere absolutely perfectly. Term commences 26/2/26 🎓 #booksky

Yayyyy!!! I’m beyond excited to win #Hashtag2025! Im looking forward to introducing a whole new type of genie into the world.🧞‍♂️😍🥰🎉🎉🎉🎉. Thanks to Helen and Abiola @hashtag_press for this fantastic opportunity.

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Great to chat to @talking-books.bsky.social about These Mortal Bodies, its audiobook and some of the audiobooks that have shaped me as a reader and writer! #BookSky

Elspeth Wilson - These Mortal Bodies Today we chat to poet and author Elspeth Wilson about her debut novel, These Mortal Bodies, a gripping and atmospheric dark academia novel about toxic female friendships and obsession. Plus we find so...

Here's the latest Read On with @elspethwright.bsky.social on her atmospheric and dark debut 'These Mortal Bodies'

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Flotilla crew member lifts lid on 'horrific' conditions in Israeli 'internment camp' AN activist who was detained by Israel after the Global Sumud Flotilla was intercepted has described the “horrific” conditions he faced inside…

If this is how Israel treat international activists, imagine the conditions for Palestinians, held illegally, intimidated, tortured - psychological terrorism and war crime after war crime. Most mainstream media barely touching it, shameful and providing impunity www.thenational.scot/news/2552542...

Hey authors! If your first novel came out in the onslaught that was 2020, please share it here.

Tell us the title and at least one cool thing about it, plus give us a link to learn more and buy it.

Check out this piece on #darkacademia for @thenerdaily by #TheseDreamingSpires contributor @elspethwrites.bsky.social - link below:

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“I think often the cultivation of resilience lies with connecting with others”

Thanks to Elspeth Wilson coming to talk about collective resilience, body doubling, journalling, and writing a book as a way to escape.

Her new book ‘These Mortal Bodies’ out now

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Glitz, Glamour and Villainy: What Makes A Work Dark Academia and Why is the Genre Booming? | The Nerd Daily Elspeth Wilson, author of These Mortal Bodies, discusses what attracts us to dark academia and what actually goes into making a work part of the genre with fellow contributors from the upcoming anthol...

Got to chat to some of the most exciting names in the genre and write my thoughts about what makes dark academia dark academia for The Nerd Daily! Read on for discussions of institution as villain & glamour with a rotten underside w Olivie Blake and more #BookSky 🖤📚

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Complicity everywhere, maybe this is why they wanted to make protestors "terrorists"

One of my fave bits of reader feedback so far for my debut, These Mortal Bodies, about coming of age, infatuation and the underside of girlhood - "an absolute delight, so incredibly immersive and so many characters I wanted to punch in the face" 📖🖤 #BookSky

joe and polly on stage looking at each other - polly is talking and waving her hands around., joe is wearing a t-shirt with mushrooms on it. Polly is wearing an ffp3 msk and a green dress.

Joe and Polly at black cloth covered signing table holding up a copy of their book each.

Four writers on stage at Edinburgh Book Fest schools event. At left, Matilda, a black woman in a powerchair wearing a purple beret, next, Polly, a white woman with a white ffp3 mask on sitting with one leg stucked in on chair, next Elle, A white woman with long wavy hair , next James, a whaite man wearing a waistcoat and shirt with 1 leg. Over their heads a screen with captions and the illustrations of each of them from Owning It.

The four owning it writers signing books in a row at a long table

Home again at last but here is proof of the 2 events I did @edbookfest.bsky.social this last week - 1stly with @joeharkness.bsky.social chaired by @elspethwrites.bsky.social, 2ndly with @ellemcnicoll.bsky.social @astrominx.bsky.social and James Catchpole.

Women with Warrior Hearts: Female-Led Fantasy Panel with V.L. Bovalino, Annabel Campbell, and Genoveva Dimova at Topping & Company Booksellers of Edinburgh

So excited to be participating in this panel on female-led fantasy with the brilliant @annabelcwrites.bsky.social and @toribovalino.bsky.social in Toppings, Edinburgh on the 26th of September! Come see us chat about women with warrior hearts 💜

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This month, Mary and Beth dive into The Mercy Step - the debut novel by Marcia Hutchinson. 🌟

Set in 1960s Bradford, the novel follows Mercy, a young girl growing up in a household marked by struggle.

Tune in now to join the conversation 👉 https://writ.me/MercyStep

Our instant USA Today bestseller, RED magazine recommended anthology, #TheSecretRomanticsBookofMagic spotted in the wild today at our local bookstore 😀❤️