Juliet West 📚💙🌱

This is how you blurb

A productive day. With added cream tea bonus ☺️

I hope you make it!

Reading room at Gladstone’s Library

Bedroom at Gladstone’s library with bookish wallpaper

Desk in the History Room at Gladstone’s Library

This is my writing space for the day. So happy to have finally made it to Gladstone’s Library. What an extraordinary place. And my room is amazing - look at the wallpaper ✨📚❤️

#amwriting #writingcommunity #libraries

What a great piece - good advice for anyone, whether you write novels or just the occasional email ☺️

Young bird of prey - a hobby - on a fence posts

Hobby flying off

Wow, I saw this young hobby at Rye Harbour Nature Reserve and it was so bold. It flew around onto different fence posts so I could get pics at various angles ✨

#nature #birds #wildlife @sussexwildlife.bsky.social

Coastal tensions and violence explored in new book The dangers of extremism and the challenges of many of our coastal communities are at the heart of On the Edge (Old Barn Books), the latest novel from Nicola Garrard who lives near Petworth.

Thanks to Phil Hewitt, Arts Editor at @sussex_express @Sussex_World for the interview - and a shout-out for my Chichester Literary Society event in January 2026! ❤️🔥

www.sussexexpress.co.uk/news/coastal...

Two conkers in one case

Three conkers in a spiky case

Conkers scattered on the verge

Country lane in East Sussex lined with horse chestnut trees

Lovely conkers on an #EastSussex lane, including doubles and triples! When I was growing up in a seaside town, the local park had a couple of horse chestnut trees and the scary big boys always got to the best conkers first. These would have been unimaginable riches 🌱

#ukgardening #nature #autumn

Ginger and white cat yawning

Large ginger and white cat looking sleepy on a pillow

Eddie aka Prince Chunk doesn’t really want to get up this morning

#caturday
#catsofbluesky

Evening sunflowers in a West Sussex field 🌱

Could be! The plant is in the ground so shouldn’t need watering every day. But in this drought it has probably suffered…

Two curly cucumbers hanging from a vine

Great crop of cucumbers this year even if they are a bit curly 🌱

#ukgardening

Message from the RSPCA ☀️

Happy publication day to Nicola Garrard for her stunning YA novel On the Edge! It's a heart-in-mouth read for young adults, old adults, or anyone in the middle 😊Congratulations @nmgarrard.bsky.social @oldbarnbooks.bsky.social 📚

#booksky #writingcommunity

This looks like an interesting #WritingCompetition 💜❤️😎 ... I wonder if I have a story without a home which fits this criteria 🤔😏

Anyone interested, take a look here: www.bournemouthwritingfestival.co.uk/2026-writing...

Good luck everyone else taking part 🍀🤞😎

#WritingCommunity #CreativeWriting

Book jacket of the novel As the Women Lay Dreaming. Large ginger tomcat sleeping in the background

What a remarkable novel - As the Women Lay Dreaming by Donald S Murray (seen here with sleeping cat). I had never heard of the 1919 Iolaire shipwreck. This book tells the story in beautiful, humane prose. Murray is a magnificent writer - now to seek out more of his novels📚 #writingcommunity #booksky

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*** PLR alert ***
Don't forget to register your books for Public Lending Right before 30 June folks! #kidlitUK

You must see it if you can!

Still laughing after seeing Midsummer Night’s Dream at The Bridge theatre today. It’s a riot! 🧚‍♀️✨💕

I went to this exhibition today. Wow. Breathtaking (huge) paintings! Definitely worth a visit if you’re in London.

#modernart

Oh no! You’re so lucky to have them though. Hope the rest of the eggs stay safe…

This evening I walked a disused railway line near Fakenham, Norfolk, and heard a cuckoo calling

#Springwatch #birds

A three-year-old brought me a bit of black paper. "Look", she said, "I found a piece of night!"

We're all born poets, but slowly we forget.

Thank you! If only I could paint…

Chunky ginger cat watching two foxes on a TV screen

Eddie was happily relaxed on my lap until these foxes came on #Springwatch

#cats #catswatchingspringwatch

Bea surveying the parsley 🌱

#gardening #cats

Circular pond with fountain and wisteria growing above

Pink and white rhododendron

16th century thatched cottage

Lawn with view to the South Downs, two empty chairs

Open gardens weekend in the village of Fittleworth, West Sussex. It was absolutely beautiful, even on a blustery Bank Holiday Monday 🌱

#gardening #ukgardening

UK-wide initiative launched to tackle marginalisation of working-class writers New Writing North’s literary venture The Bee includes magazine and podcast, and is supported by Michael Sheen Writing and publishing in the UK is in crisis, with a growing marginalisation of working-class people whose stories and experiences are not being heard, the backers of a new literary magazine and platform have argued. The Early May bank holiday has been chosen for the launch of The Bee, a UK-wide initiative that will include a website, literary magazine, podcast and outreach programme. Continue reading...

UK-wide initiative launched to tackle marginalisation of working-class writers

Text of the poem ‘The Peace of Wild Things’ by Wendell Berry

Front cover of the poetry anthology ‘A poem to read aloud every day of the year’ edited by Liz Ison

What a beautiful poem for May 4th.

From the anthology ‘A Poem to Read Aloud Every Day of the Year’ ed Liz Ison.

#poems #poetrycommunity #poetry #writingcommunity