Fiona Sampson

We are delighted to feature in the new edition of Bath Life Magazine - and can’t wait for next week’s Mary Shelley event at the @brlsi.bsky.social as part of @curiousminds.org.uk festival. Tix here - do join us! tinyurl.com/mr2h5en5

We are delighted to feature in the new edition of Bath Life Magazine - and can’t wait for next week’s Mary Shelley event at the @brlsi.bsky.social as part of @curiousminds.org.uk festival. Tix here - do join us! tinyurl.com/mr2h5en5

We are delighted to feature in the new edition of Bath Life Magazine - and can’t wait for next week’s Mary Shelley event at the @brlsi.bsky.social as part of @curiousminds.org.uk festival. Tix here - do join us! tinyurl.com/mr2h5en5

We are delighted to feature in the new edition of Bath Life Magazine - and can’t wait for next week’s Mary Shelley event at the @brlsi.bsky.social as part of @curiousminds.org.uk festival. Tix here - do join us! tinyurl.com/mr2h5en5

👀We always love to see what alum of the College do - Prof @fionasampson.bsky.social (BA PPE 1992) has had an extraordinary career, and is now a Senior Research Fellow of the College. This will be a wonderful event & opportunity to hear her talk about her work 'Limestone Country'.

Thank you, @bookanista! Actually I go into it a bit more in IN SEARCH OF MARY SHELLEY (2018), my full length biography too... am a Mary nerd.

"Suicide had now been added to the family quota of social shame. Yet Mary noted only ‘the worst account. A miserable day... Buy mourning'
Read Fiona Sampson's compelling introduction to #MaryShelleyinBath @fionasampson.bsky.social
@manderleypress.bsky.social bookanista.com/the-causes-o...

Please join us for a special event in Bath to celebrate the launch of our new book - Mary Shelley in Bath. I will be in conversation with @fionasampson.bsky.social - poet and biographer of Mary Shelley - at the @brlsi.bsky.social. Book your tix here! manderleypress.com/book-events/maryshelleyinbath

Please join us to celebrate the launch of our brand new book Mary Shelley in Bath - in Bath! @fionasampson.bsky.social and I will be in conversation at the BRSLI on 19 March to find out what, where - and who - inspired Mary Shelley’s #Frankenstein… manderleypress.com/book-events/maryshelleyinbath

It's so great getting to revisit Mary Shelley with you, @manderleypress.bsky.social!

Photo of a book: In search of Mary Shelley by Fiona Sampson

I can really recommend this biography of Mary Shelley - I loved it so much I commissioned the author (@fionasampson.bsky.social ) to write the introduction to our Mary Shelley book. In one word: unputdownable!

Lower Brinsop Writers’ House is open for applications! Stay at a C15th Hall House in Herefordshire country for up to 2 months. International fellowships by invitation. Published writers, artists & musicians contact us for residency opportunities. Or simply choose a Saturday & book your retreat:

Michael Longley: Acclaimed NI poet dies at 85 Belfast-born poet Michael Longley dies aged 85, his family says.

Really sad news: a great poet and a wonderful man.

Lovely to have these delicious copies of @manderleypress.bsky.social MARY SHELLEY IN BATH. It was a joy to write the Introduction: this was the fascinating time in Mary's life when she was actually writing FRANKENSTEIN.

The evolution of a book cover … here are some behind-the-scenes shots of a modern portrait of Mary Shelley, rendered in play-doh by master artist Eleanor Macnair and featured on the cover of our brand new book - ‘Mary Shelley in Bath’ (introduced by the stellar @fionasampson.bsky.social) #booksky 💙📚

Such cool artwork!

‘In 1816, when Mary started writing [Frankenstein], the study of natural phenomena wasn’t yet a proper profession; the term “scientist” had yet to be invented.’

Interesting insight by @fionasampson.bsky.social in an excellent piece on amazing #MaryShelley

www.theguardian.com/books/2018/j...

Frankenstein inspired by suicide of Mary Shelley’s half-sister, book reveals New collection of author’s diary entries provides tragic insight

Thank you @vanessathorpe.bsky.social for a great piece in The Observer amplifying this fun bit of research. Read all about it in the delicious new MARY SHELLEY IN BATH from Manderley Press @manderleypress.bsky.social & IN SEARCH OF MARY SHELLEY @profilebooks.bsky.social @guardianbooks.bsky.social

Oh how amazing. Heartland stuff! I never got to live and work there but - repeated visits and a longterm partner in the country. It's changed so much, and yet... (& thank you, also.)

Oh, George! On the home straight of BECOMING GEORGE, about George Sand, for @Transworld and @wwnorton.bsky.social Out in 2026, for her 150th.

super review from @fionasampson.bsky.social with a wonderful piece of news at the end ; @littletollerbooks.bsky.social are reissuing her Limestone Country!!!!! that's day-making news ....

Coffee, kelims and the call to prayer: an overland journey to North Macedonia Manageable in scale but crammed with history and nature, North Macedonia is a perfect introduction to the underexplored west Balkans

Obviously, I love the west #Balkans, and was delighted to be invited there back in September - also glad my travel piece is out now. Writing like a tourist traduces a place, but it's also a way to introduce more readers to a fab, highly visitable country. Please go see North Macedonia for yourself!

The best recent poetry – review roundup Invisible Dog by Fabio Morábito; Indeterminate Inflorescence by Lee Seong-bok; The Epic of Cader Idris by Samatar Elmi; A Kiss for the Absolute by Shūzō Takiguchi

There were some fine and interesting poetry books to round up this year for @theguardian.com! @carcanet.bsky.social @bloomsburybooks.bsky.social @princetonupress.bsky.social

Sarah Jessica Parker as a #BookerPrize judge, ffs?!?! Seems like fiction is being treated with almost as much contempt as poetry now.

Romanian court annuls result of presidential election first round The move comes after allegations of Russian influence via social media on the first round of voting.

An outbreak of sanity (and a tiny window of hope for Ukraine and eastern Europe).

Next week this beautiful book will be printed in Wales. It’s a collection of Mary Shelley’s journals, letters and fiction - all written in, or inspired by, the literary city of Bath. @fionasampson.bsky.social has introduced it to perfection! 💙📚 #booksky
manderleypress.com/shop/p/maryshelleyinbath

Gorgeous stuff!

Yes but it's Spanish company and I suspect they are in for a quick buck rather than any kind of viability, even economic. Yes, those fritillaries! Ros is coordinating, on coleshillpc@gmail.com 'Solar Focus Group' in title line.

Greeting from a long-time former #Coleshill resident, Lizzie! Have you seen the proposal for an 175 acre solar farm (site outlined in red below) in the low-lying meadows by the Cole between Inglesham and Coleshill?

YouTube video by Oxford University Alumni Frankenstein & AI – challenging concepts of what’s human and what's machine

Great to talk about #Frankenstein and #AI with Professor Nigel Crook @universityofoxford.bsky.social's recent Meeting Minds weekend.

Phew!