✨USA TODAY BESTSELLER✨
I’m absolutely over the moon to share that The Secret Book Society hit the USA Today Bestseller list!! 💙
Thank you for all the love during release week - I am so deeply grateful. ❤️❤️❤️❤️
#BookSky
03.09.2025 14:41 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
September. Where have you been all year? 💙
01.09.2025 18:49 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
YouTube video by Irish Independent
‘My identity has been stolen to produce fake AI-generated books in my name’
Truly shocking...
'Imagine discovering that your identity has been hijacked and someone is trying to trade off your name.'
My identity has been stolen to produce fake AI-generated books in my name -
@samblakebooks.bsky.social via
@independent.ie
youtu.be/pZxfNYucJrc?...
22.08.2025 12:24 — 👍 32 🔁 13 💬 7 📌 4
Woman wearing glasses standing by a mic at a podium
I stepped far beyond my comfort zone last night, and it was mighty 😊
I had a piece selected for the inaugural Kenmare Short Story Anthology via a competition (My first!)
The support and warmth was so very welcoming & encouraging 🙏
Thank you to all involved ❤️
07.08.2025 16:30 — 👍 16 🔁 1 💬 9 📌 0
Can’t wait for the denouement 😆
03.08.2025 11:17 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
We are delighted to reveal the #BookerPrize2025 longlist – 13 books ‘all alive with great characters and narrative surprises’.
Huge congratulations to the authors who make up this year's Booker Dozen.
➡️ Discover the full list: thebookerprizes.com/bp2025
29.07.2025 13:01 — 👍 181 🔁 79 💬 5 📌 24
Thank you xx
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Headline Review snaps up new Norway-based historical fiction novel from Amanda Geard
ICYMI: Headline Review has acquired The Glass Key, the “spellbinding” new novel by Amanda Geard, author of the Richard and Judy Book Club selection The Midnight House. Headline Review will publish The Glass Key in spring 2026 👇 #BookSky
24.07.2025 09:37 — 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Thank you so much, Anne xx
24.07.2025 13:42 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
That’s so kind, Eibhlís, thank you! I hope your own Midnight House is doing well 😊💙
24.07.2025 13:41 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Thank you, Pádhraic!
24.07.2025 13:40 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
This is so kind of you, Stephen, thank you. I really appreciate it 😊
24.07.2025 13:40 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
I've followed Amanda's progress as a writer since reading this a few years ago. It's great to see talented people doing well.
www.irishtimes.com/culture/book...
24.07.2025 10:45 — 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 2 📌 0
Thank you so much, Stephen - I still remember your kind words when that first short story came out and how much they meant to me 😊
24.07.2025 13:38 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
100%
20.06.2025 06:52 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
A trolly of secondhand books ready to hit the floor yesterday evening.
20.06.2025 06:43 — 👍 57 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 1
New German night train provider plans to connect '100 European cities'
A new startup has announced plans to set-up overnight rail connections between numerous central European cities, with passengers riding in private cabins and for a price comparable to a plane ticket.
New German night train provider plans to connect '100 European cities'
A new startup has announced plans to set-up overnight rail connections between numerous central European cities, with passengers riding in private cabins and for a price comparable to a plane ticket.
16.06.2025 19:31 — 👍 19 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 2
Woweee! Gorgeous
10.06.2025 21:36 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Well I don’t like to brag but … 😁 Enjoy, Sue! And a huge congratulations again Zoe xx
06.06.2025 17:42 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0
Thank you @headlinebooks.bsky.social for this beautiful finished copy of #TheMoonlitMaze by @zdmarriott.bsky.social which I have been yearning to read since @amandageard.bsky.social told me I'd love it! 😁
Out now!
I cannot wait to enter the maze... 🥰
🖋💙📚
06.06.2025 16:45 — 👍 5 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 0
Man working at the till in WHSmith: Would you like some vouchers, or are you ok?
Elderly lady: Gosh. Do I have to choose between the two?
22.05.2025 19:42 — 👍 122 🔁 8 💬 4 📌 2
Authors’ hip flask (empty now)
23.05.2025 15:48 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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@lizfenwick.bsky.social
06.05.2025 14:21 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
If you happen to be in Cornwall or the Netherlands this month … please join me 💙
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06.05.2025 14:21 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
The third edition of The Honest Editor is all about how publishers create book jackets and why they’re so important. Read it here for free: honesteditor.substack.com/p/the-covers-p… 📚🎨✍️ #publishing #books
19.04.2025 09:05 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Magnificent days here in County Kerry 🇮🇪
17.04.2025 13:03 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Louise!! Finally jumped back onto bluesky and now I’m happy 😆💙
28.03.2025 03:52 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Bestselling author of the Jox McNabb WW2 aviation thrillers and a few standalone novels. Dorset Highlander; Ex-Adman; Generally a decent chap. www.patricklarsimont.com
https://www.youtube.com/@Patricklarsimont
NY Times bestselling author of historical fiction and historical romance, mother of teen daughters and cats, and losing myself in research, history, and books every day
Writer - The Irish Independent, Reflex Press, Vallesos | 2025/26 London Library Emerging Writer | Editor and Publisher at Tall Grass Press
www.tallgrasspress.com
Digital first publisher of Historical Fiction, Crime Fiction, Mysteries, Sagas and History. https://saperebooks.com/
Words that connect 🍃 Ireland's journal of ecological embeddedness, funded by the Arts Council.
Writes
Some work here 👉 https://linktr.ee/steveo7653
Living in Craughwell Co. Galway
Executive Publisher for Fiction @simonschusteruk. Author of 5 thrillers with @HQStories. Shortlisted for Editor of the Year 2022.
Substack: honesteditor.substack.com/subscribe
My narrative nonfiction ALL THAT WE ARE came out in hardback in 2022 and in paperback in 2023. Little, Brown UK. Represented by Imogen Pelham, Marjacq Scripts
Author DEVIL’S BREATH-BBC Between The Covers book club pick, HELL’S BELLS and BELLA DONNA Pub’d by @bwpublishing.
Ngaio Marsh Award double category finalist.
Rep'd by Pontas Agency
Insta: jilljohnsonwrites
Info: http://jilljohnsonwrites.com
1st gen Irish (Donegal/Sligo) settler and academic in Canada. Author of obscure academic books and slightly less obscure OERs on Roman culture. Translator of, and far too fond of Cicero. She/her nó sí/í
siobhanmcelduff.com
Brighton's best festival.
Making the marginalised mainstream since 2022.
https://linktr.ee/brightonbookfestival
Conversation for the Global Irish Nation on all major podcast platforms and at irishstewpodcast.com.
#IrishPodcast #IrishDiaspora #DiasporaMatters #GlobalIrishNation
British and Irish consultant paediatrician. Author of HEART OF CRUELTY, THE PIANO PLAYER, and DAUGHTER OF STRANGERS, all published by Poolbeg: a suspenseful trilogy set in the mid 19th century and inspired by the history of medicine. Histwriter.com ©2025
Novelist, poet, Night Bazaar series creator. Historical Novel Society grand prize winner; Shirley Jackson Award & Exeter Novel Prize finalist. IWU/AG member. Ossabaw Island Writers Retreat faculty. Serving 3 cat overlords. https://www.lenorehartbooks.com/
Irish historical novelist living in Italy, published by Fairlight (Oxford), Histria (LV) and (to come) Stairwell (York). Writes too as Katie Hutton (Zaffre Books) and Kate Zarrelli (Romaunce). Rep'd by Annette Green Authors' Agency. katherinemezzacappa.com
Books, talks and good vibes 📖
Every October in County Kildare
#KildareReadersFestival #KRF2025
Writer, reader, sailor, hiker, based South Wales. Am querying BORN OF COURAGE, turning maritime histfic on its head. www.ladyturtlepress.cymru for Welsh fantasy collection Children of the Land. Also write essays & reviews.
Author, critic, journalist. The Start of Something and What Time is Love? published by Orion. Editor of Exeunt @exeuntmagazine.bsky.social.
