@amandalees.bsky.social
Author, screenwriter, formerly in Allo Allo. I know.
Here’s my lot for Children In Read this year…if you win, I’ll not only sign it, I’ll also name a character in one of my forthcoming books for you…
www.jumblebee.co.uk/auction/deta...
Here’s my lot for Children In Read this year…if you win, I’ll not only sign it, I’ll also name a character in one of my forthcoming books for you…
www.jumblebee.co.uk/auction/deta...
Over the past week I’ve had emails from Prospect, Marks and Spencer, Mango and LNER saying how sorry they are that someone hacked their systems and stole my information…and yet my graduate engineer daughter with excellent cybersecurity skills and experience can’t get a job.
16.10.2025 13:59 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
My most shared pic ever popped up as a memory. What I want to know is, did it work for you?
04.10.2025 15:21 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
I’m on @bookouture.bsky.social Books-On-Tour today for The Key To The Island House by @amandalees.bsky.social
Here is my ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ review.
My shiny, updated @historia-hwa.bsky.social profile complete with my new book, The Key To The Island House…
historicalwriters.org/writer/amand...
Thank you 🙏
29.09.2025 12:53 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0❤️❤️❤️
29.09.2025 12:53 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Can’t wait!
28.09.2025 20:39 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Now for the scary bit...I'd cross my fingers but that's a bit difficult right now...(broken hand)
If you'd like to request, here’s the link: ow.ly/25RZ50WF7Ku
One of my favourite acknowledgements ever…
08.08.2025 08:01 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
One of my favourite acknowledgements ever…
It's called
A few pics from Friday at #TheakstonsCrime! Always so brilliant to be back and lovely to see @rogeraprice.bsky.social @amandalees.bsky.social #LyndaCheckley #michaelwood #RuthKelly @sarahclarke.bsky.social amongst others 📚 @harrogatefestivals.bsky.social
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I've spent so many happy hours here as have millions of others. This cause is close to my heart - please sign: you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/sa...
27.07.2025 08:02 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0British household rules:
you have a cupboard with upward of thirty mugs in it, only three of those can hold exactly the right amount of tea. When those are not available you will drink from the Lesser Mugs, but it will not be as good.
My brand novel set in Cairo…
“Inheriting a forgotten villa will change everything.
We’re thrilled to reveal the cover for Secrets of Villa Eden: An absolutely gripping and emotional historical fiction page-turner by Amanda Lees! Out September 25th.”
Pre-order here: geni.us/B0FG3K7XBNco...
A brilliant debut…❤️
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Think my editor will buy it?
01.07.2025 13:07 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Dear God…
17.06.2025 14:36 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Still frightening and exhausting for all concerned
22.05.2025 18:12 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Where in the country are you? Can we help by highlighting this to the right people?
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Happy reading!
There are all kinds of definitions of luxury…
13.05.2025 11:28 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0“But luxury has never appealed to me, I like simple things, books, being alone, or with somebody who understands.”
Daphne du Maurier, whose birthday it is today and with whom I entirely agree.
Projects - a dual timeline set in Cairo and Tunis involving murder, passion, stolen treasure, curses and spies and a contemporary psychological thriller involving at least two of those too.
11.05.2025 09:48 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0
Nerdtastic moment…the brilliant author, linguist and lexicographer Tony Thorne, one of the world’s leading experts on slang, just told me he used my book in court as the published source to back up his expert witness statement. And they won. I feel like a proper grown-up at last.
08.05.2025 13:16 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Lovely event last night for Essie Fox and her gorgeous new book Dangerous…Byron at his baddest and best. Who could resist?
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