Alison Layland 💚🌳🏞️💙📚

It's a pleasure and a privilege to be featured in the second edition of the ever-fascinating Bending the Arc magazine today.

More Than a Mohawk: Why Thrutopian Punks Don’t Just Burn It Down Feature by Rachel Pryor

Day 3 of the new issue of BENDING THE ARC, a thrutopian magazine, & we're talking punks with Rachel Pryor:

'Rage wasn’t wrong. It just wasn’t enough.'

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Beautiful. 💚

A graphic that reads 'we've been to the future, oct 29 - nov 15, a thrutopia magazine'.

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Edition 2 of thrutopian magazine BENDING THE ARC, co-edited by yours truly, launches on 29th October! BTA publishes stories, poems and features that bend the arc of the possible towards a thriving future on Earth.

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Happy publication day! x

A very happy publication day to @amylilwall.bsky.social and the emotive novel 'The Water That May Come'!

In a future where we all may become refugees, it asks: how far would you go to stay afloat?

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Really lovely to discuss The Water That May Come with the excellent @samszanto.bsky.social 💙📚

Wow, that's going to look fab!

Out today!
Looking for a chilling, gripping read for the bank holiday weekend?

Having seen a broadcast, I'm really looking forward to seeing this live. 🎶🐄

Plot Girl Summer – July’s Best New Fiction With July comes the realisation that we’re already over half way through the year, and I for one am woefully behind on my TBR target! But the release schedule waits for nobody, and we’v…

It's officially Plot Girl Summer! ☀️😎🏖️ If you're looking for a hot new read, click the link below to see our round-up of July's best new fiction!

Great to see After the Clearances featured in this @turnarounduk.bsky.social round-up of climate fiction to watch out for.

A real pleasure!

I love the Writers Review blog, so it's been an honour to share some of the ideas behind my new novel with @lindanewbery.bsky.social on the site this week.

YouTube video by Alison Layland After the Clearances

My daughter Trina and I spent a couple of lovely days roaming Ynys Enlli/Bardsey, filming the video for After the Clearances. And now, a week before publication, here it is! Enjoy!

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I'm so glad to have had the opportunity to read it, thank you - a wonderful novel!

Sepia background of the sea with cover of book on right reading: The Water That May Come - a girl bottom centre watches the waves rise. Quote reads: Warmhearted yet dark. Amy Lilwall creates a world that is instantly relatable, populated by eccentric but engaging characters pushed to their limits by an extreme existential threat. It held me rapt from start to finish.

Delighted to have our first endorsement through for upcoming speculative novel 'The Water That May Come' by the talented @amylilwall.bsky.social ! Alison Layland, Author of 'Riverflow', 'After the Clearances' and 'Someone Else’s Conflict' immerses herself in this near-future Britain...

A first! 🎉😎

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Screenshot of Writing Magazine online's article written by John Ironmonger. On the left is his latest novel's book cover, The Wager and the Bear, which features curly handwritten title fonts and a standing polar bear on an ice berg in the centre

'We can choose to write contemporary fiction with no acknowledgement of the crisis going on outside our windows; but it will look as strange to readers in a hundred years’ time as a novel set in 1930s Germany would look if it made no mention of the war.'

Happy publication day! 🎉📚🎊

📖 HAPPY PUBLICATION DAY to Martine Bailey @MartineBailey with ‘Isolation Ward’! #mystery #crime writer #booksky

Talking Location With Martine Bailey - YORKSHIRE - TripFiction #TalkingLocationWith… Martine Bailey, author of Isolation Ward, set in YORKSHIRE I knew right from the beginning that the setting for my latest book,

Tripfiction is a site that matches books to locations - I've often used it to find inspiration for holiday reading. Today I'm delighted to see my article on Yorkshire, location of Isolation Ward, taking in Hebden Bridge, Menston Asylum, the empty moors, and more.

Help Save Leadbrook Wood and Meadows – Again!..

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Llongyfarchiadau! ❤️

I'm thrilled to be part of The Writing on the Wall, an exhibition with my friends Jood Gough and Bob Knowles, in Oswestry Library. Do come and have a look!

Welcome to Gwyl Crime Cymru Festival 2025!

Only ten weeks then we'll be back in Aberystwyth with lots of lovely book loving readers and writers.

Tickets go on sale on March 1, 2025, because it's St David's Day and we are proud of being Welsh.

Do drop in if you can.

Brilliant! Conveysvthe creepy suspense perfectly! x

I was fortunate to read an early copy of @martinebailey.bsky.social 's sinister and gripping Isolation Ward - love the cover, which conveys the atmosphere brilliantly!

I really hope so - it's a gorgeous read but also a message that all need to hear and understand. 🤞💚

I've just finished the wonderful The Wager and the Bear. Congratulations and thanks - I hope it reaches the wide audience it deserves and finds a rising tide of appreciation. 📚🌊