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SCENES FROM A TRAGEDY out March '25 - Pre-order now THE SILENCE PROJECT BBCRadio2 Book Club | Waterstones Welsh BotM | Booksellers Association BotM
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First proofs are landing (eeek!) so, without further ado, here is the ( fantastic!) cover for Scenes From A Tragedy 💛♥️😎❤️💛
Out in March and available to pre-order now!
#coverreveal
#booktwt
@AtlanticBooks
@CorvusBooks
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To any writer in need of encouragement, it took 10 years, 2 unpublished novels and leaving an agent before my debut novel was published. This month it’s
@Waterstones
Welsh Book of the Month and
@BAbooksellers
Indie Book of the Month. Keep going. You will get there ♥️
#amwriting
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Here's some news that I've been dying to share! I am absolutely thrilled - and a little overwhelmed - that my debut novel
#TheSilenceProject
has been chosen as an
@BBCRadio2
Book Club book😊
The
@BBCRadio2
Book Club is now on the
@ZoeTheBall
Breakfast Show! Find out more at .
Here are the titles that will feature in the first season, congratulations to
@jojomoyes
,
@CaroleAHailey
,
@flint_writes
and
@PariniShroff
#R2BookClub
📚️📚️📚️
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💚BOOK GIVEAWAY💚
I have a spare proof copy of
#TheSilenceProject
and will happily send it (plus a bar of v delicious Costa Rican chocolate) anywhere in the UK. Please like and retweet and I’ll choose a winner on 15th December at 6pm.
@CorvusBooks
#BookTwitter
#debut2023
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Ten years of trying to be published made hanging this on my wall today all the more special.
Thank you Waterstones. This is everything ♥️
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Behold the window at Cardiff Waterstones 😍
I am so, so grateful for their support ♥️🏴💚
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@john_boyne
My novel is currently being read by a sensitivity reader because (for genuine narrative purposes) it’s partly set in a country I have never been to. Although I’ve done my very best to avoid racial or cultural stereotypes, I want to know if there are any. Why is that wrong?
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Eight years ago I left my job as a lawyer to try and write.
This weekend I’ve seen photos of my novel in shops 12,000 miles apart.
I shall be forever grateful to everyone who helped make this happen ❤️
@AtlanticBooks
@CorvusBooks
@TheSohoAgencyUK
#TheSilenceProject
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Popped into Waterstones in Newbury to sign some books this morning… Booksellers really are the best of us all ♥️
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Today I drove across England and now I’m here for a week long residency in the cottage at The National Centre for Writing. Feeling very humbled to be sitting at the desk where so many other writers and translators have sat before me 💙
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The best, most surreal start to publication day…
Chatting to
@ZoeTheBall
about
#TheSilenceProject
was an absolute joy 💚
@AtlanticBooks
@CorvusBooks
@TheSohoAgencyUK
@2023Debuts
#booktwt
#booktwitter
@BBCRadio2
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Today I visited The Silence Project window at Waterstones in Cardiff for the final time. I am SO grateful that it’s been the Welsh Book of the Month. It’s a privilege to have visited the Welsh stores and meet the fabulous booksellers. Thank you all so very much for your support x
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@ChezSpecter
Among my female friends who've married men I am just about the only one who didn't take their husband's name. One of my husband's (male) friends told him that by keeping my own name, I was disrespecting my husband. They are friends no longer.
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@ChezSpecter
Even more absurdly, the same 'friend' thought it was very strange that my husband wasn't annoyed that the dog's tag had my surname on it, and not my husband's. If my husband had been bothered to sort out the dog's tag himself, he could have put his own surname on it😁
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What a treat! I’ve been a fan of the
@SelectedShorts
podcast for ages, and now, all the way from Algonquin NY to Pembrokeshire in Wales, 35 new short stories by some of my favourite writers ❤️
#smallodesseys
#selectedshorts
@neilhimself
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My author copies have arrived and I know I’m biased but she looks so good with the
@BBCRadio2
Book Club roundel 🔥
@AtlanticBooks
@CorvusBooks
#booktwt
#BookTwitter
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I popped in to
@WaterstonesCDF
buy
#ScaryMonsters
by Michelle De Kretser and found my novel on the shelves six weeks early! Reader, I signed them 😁
@AtlanticBooks
@CorvusBooks
@SarahHeditor
@marinadepass
@theotherkirsty
@aimediocre
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As a very proud older debut writer (I signed my book deal at 50 and was published in Feb at 52) it’s great to see older authors being encouraged.
We have so much to say. Thank you
@JennyBrownBooks
for recognising this.
@davidmbarnett
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My brother lives in New Zealand and we haven’t seen each other in nearly a year but today he had the very surreal experience of seeing my name in Christchurch Domestic Terminal Airport ❤️🇳🇿❤️
(Also tagging fellow 2023 debut author
@_franlittlewood
)
@CorvusBooks
@AtlanticBooks
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Authors! Get yourself invited to do an event at an indie bookshop where they give you a mug with your book on it 😍
From the wonderful Barnett’s Bookshop in Wadhurst ♥️
#BookTwitter
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Very happy to be to be one half of the ‘double dose of female protagonists and deceitful entities’ in the Scotland on Sunday paper today 🔥
@TheScotsman
@AtlanticBooks
@CorvusBooks
@TheSohoAgencyUK
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Just finished this extraordinary day-in-a-life / life-in-a-day novel and I’m feeling so lucky that as an English-speaking monoglot I have access to such wonderous fiction. Thank you
@MairalPedro
for writing this book and
@jenniferlcroft
for an exquisite translation.
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Thank you
@WaterstonesAber
for such a lovely welcome when I turned up today and signed a stack of
#TheSilenceProject
😁🏴😁
It’s amazing to see my book hanging out with books by authors I absolutely adore ❤️
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101,910 words and the first draft of the next novel is done!
It’s a very drafty draft: I love the first half and the last tenth but the rest needs a LOT of work, however the first draft is FINISHED 🥳
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…and that’s a wrap on my signing tour of the Waterstones of Wales. Final stop in lovely Aberystwyth.
Thrilled and honoured to be the
@Waterstones
Welsh Book of the Month. ♥️🏴💚
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I just passed my PhD Viva, I can’t quite believe it but I’m a Doctor of Creative Writing! Hooray!
@WritingUni
@ABiltonAuthor
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I had the LOVELIEST welcome from the wonderful booksellers
@WstonesCarm
this morning. I didn’t want to leave 😍
@CorvusBooks
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This afternoon, I’m suffering through the tail-end of Covid, while my parents are flying to NZ to visit my brother. My mum has just found The Silence Project in WHSmiths at Heathrow and I don’t know who’s happier - Mum or me 😍
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@tiredpsych
The ‘face-offs’ in the lanes, because the local driver knows the nearest passing place is only a few dozen feet behind the other car, but the visitor driver refuses to reverse, either because they’re not used to reversing in narrow lanes, or they’re too belligerent!
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Yesterday was the final day of the
#TheSilenceProject
Blog Tour and I want to thank each and every person who took the time to read the novel and write the most wonderful, thoughtful reviews. It has been a brilliant experience. Thank you all so very much ❤️
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I have always wanted to make it onto a ‘Books of the Year’ list and what an amazing list to be on. Thank you so much
@LoveReadinguk
for being so supportive of my debut novel ♥️
“The Silence Project… is a sizzling, thought-provoking tour de force”
@AtlanticBooks
@CorvusBooks
Out of all of the many books we've read this year, these are the books that have really stood out from the crowd for us, our Books of the Year 2023.
Click to see which books have made the list, how many have you read?
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@theguyliner
Wow! I have had a tattoo for twenty-five years. My parents hate tattoos. I’m a solicitor. My parents still love me and I was senior partner of a law firm. The world did not end.
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‘Things are definitely opening up’: the rise of older female writers
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I came over all teary when I woke up to this picture…
#TheSilenceProject
in Paper Plus in Lake Wanaka on the South Island of New Zealand, which is where my brother lives. We miss each other SO much, but now he gets to hang out with my book 😭🇳🇿❤️
@CorvusBooks
@lakewanaka_nz
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This photo just in from
@Gaynorfunnell
reporting live from the fabulous
@swanseastones
who have made all my dreams come true by giving
#TheSilenceProject
its own table ❤️
@AtlanticBooks
@CorvusBooks
@marinadepass
@TheSohoAgencyUK
@2023Debuts
#BookTwitter
#booktwt
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Some news! I'm absolutely thrilled!
Thank you so much to
@WritersCentre
- I can't wait to be there!
@AtlanticBooks
@TheSohoAgencyUK
@CorvusBooks
We are delighted to announce the winners of the Desmond Elliott Residencies 🎉
Congratulations to
@CaroleAHailey
author of 'The Silence Project',
@CsillaToldy
author of 'Bed Table Door' &
@santanu_bx
author of 'One Small Voice'!
Find out more:
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The Silence Project paperback is out in January and there will be merch!
This is VERY exciting 😁
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Finding it difficult to stay inside and write this morning 💚🏴♥️
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If anyone fancies listening to me talking about The Silence Project to the absolutely fabulous
@ZoeTheBall
on the Radio 2 Book Club podcast, its now available on BBC Sounds 💚
@AtlanticBooks
@CorvusBooks
@TheSohoAgencyUK
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The Silence Project was published a year ago today - it began with the
@BBCRadio2
Book Club and ended with the Waterstones Wales and
@booksaremybag
Book of the Month. Thank you so much to everyone who has supported me, come to events, and read my book. I am so, so grateful ♥️
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🥳 Hooray - The Silence Project has a Best Seller flag 🥳
🥳 And it’s currently
#10
in the Kindle Store 🥳
(And, for today only, it’s just 99p!)
@CorvusBooks
@AtlanticBooks
#TheSilenceProject
#dystopian
#politicalthriller
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This is a really lovely article about two enormously talented writers and translators:
@jenniferlcroft
(newly longlisted for the
@WomensPrize
) and her husband
@BorisDralyuk
… well worth a read!
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The Empire Podcast is what podcasting was invented for! I love it all, but the two episodes mentioned below are particularly timely and important.
Thank you for such elucidating and entertaining conversation
@EmpirePodUK
@tweeter_anita
@DalrympleWill
We did two episodes earlier this year on the roots of the current conflict in the Middle-East. Thank you to all who have messaged to say how useful they found them for understanding what is happening today.
If you haven't heard them, the links are below 👇
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When my previous agent told me my novel - The Book of Jem - was unpublishable and refused to submit it to publishers, I decided to self-publish it.
@KirkusReviews
called it ‘sublime’ and just named it one of the Best Indie Books of 2021!
#nevergiveup
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Watching Thomas Morris and Tessa Hadley in conversation on a cold November evening was the best kind of nourishment for the soul.
So very grateful to
@GriffinBooksUK
for making events like this happen 💚🏴💚
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It was an absolute privilege to interview Bonnie Garmus this evening at Waterstones in Cardiff 💚🏴🇺🇸💙
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I’ve just finished reading this incredible book by
@clotimms
and I am emotionally WRECKED. What a wonderful, evocative, moving triumph of a book. I absolutely loved it 💙
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It’s publication day and I am thrilled that
@BAbooksellers
has chosen
#TheSilenceProject
as their Indie Book of the Month 🥳All bookshops are wonderful, but indie bookshops have a particularly special place in my heart❤️
#booksaremybag
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I’m thrilled (and somewhat stunned!) that
#TheSilenceProject
is
@Waterstones
January
#WelshBookOfTheMonth
💚🏴♥️
Doors closed 2.3 hours ago.
We are hugely excited to announce our first
#WelshBookOfTheMonth
for 2024, a feminist dystopia presented as memoir;
#TheSilenceProject
, by
@CaroleAHailey
!
'Engrossing and original. The Silence Project will get people talking' -
@BernardineEvari
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🔥 THE FLAMES ARE WORKING 🔥
🔥 Absolutely thrilled to see that
#TheSilenceProject
is
#1
in Dystopian Fiction AND
#3
in Political Fiction ‘Hot New Releases’ 🔥
AND it’s currently only 99p on Kindle 🔥🔥🔥
@CorvusBooks
@AtlanticBooks
#booktwitter
#booktwt
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Apologies for the entirely shameless plug BUT The Silence Project is due out exactly one month today and available to pre-order from wherever you buy books 🔥🔥🔥
Plug over 😁
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A proof copy of my novel
#TheSilenceProject
and I are off on a very, VERY long journey. First stop Heathrow Airport.
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Questions at the ready and I’m suited and booted and very excited to interview
@BonnieGarmus
tonight on the final stop of her
#LessonsinChemistry
UK Bookshop tour
@WaterstonesCDF
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WHSmith travel branches are selling
#TheSilenceProject
paperback a couple of weeks early. First sighting in the wild at London Bridge station by
@SarahHeditor
😍
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What a way to begin 2024. I’m absolutely thrilled!
I ♥️ indie books, bookshops and all the amazing booksellers.
We're delighted to reveal our Indie Books of the Month for January.
🌟 The Silence Project by
@CaroleAHailey
(
@CorvusBooks
)
🌟 Waiting for Froggo by
@alice_courtley
(
@HachetteKids
)
#IndieBookoftheMonth
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2023 is off to an incredible start - the amazing
@BernardineEvari
thinks my novel is ENGROSSING ❤️🔥🎉🥳💚
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For many years I bought my grandmother a subscription to Woman and Home. I like to think she’d be proud seeing
#TheSilenceProject
in it 😍
@BBCRadio2
@ZoeTheBall
#BBCRadio2BookClub
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Ooooh,
#TheSilenceProject
spotted by a friend in the iconic
@ToppingsBath
I LOVE this shop ❤️
@AtlanticBooks
@CorvusBooks
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I began writing The Silence Project while I was studying
@SwanseaUni
and I’m SO looking forward to going back there this evening to talk about it 🔥🏴🔥
@CorvusBooks
@Culture_SwanUni
This evening!
@CaroleAHailey
on her brilliant debut
#TheSilenceProject
with the inimitable
@ABiltonAuthor
Can’t wait! 📚📚 Such an enjoyable (can I say fun, Carole?) page turner 😍📚📚 Tix info in the thread ⬇️
@CorvusBooks
@AtlanticBooks
@Swansea_Alumni
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@fliceverett
Salad from the ‘Freddie Mercury Bar’ in Zanzibar which gave me amoebic dysentery.
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They won!
@GriffinBooksUK
won! A fantastic accolade for Mel and her brilliant team🍾🏆🍾🏆🍾🏆
Winner of the Independent Bookshop of the Year Award
@GriffinBooksUK
Mel Griffin goes up to collect the Nibbie live on stage!
#BritishBookAwards
#Nibbies
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I’ve just started reading
#vulcana
- the fictionalised story of the life of a Welsh strongwoman - by
@Rebecca_Writer
and I know I’m going to love it! Perfect, immersive holiday reading 💚🏴💚
@honno
#booktwitter
#booktwt
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This was a wonderful and completely unexpected end to the week 🥳
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I’ve been saving this one, but the waiting is finally over… I may be some time!
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It’s finally starting to feel real 😁
Monster or martyr?
Corvus' lead debut for 2023
#TheSilenceProject
@CaroleAHailey
🔥
Proofs incoming...!
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One of the joys and totally (to me, anyway) unforeseen benefits of having a book published is the privilege of receiving other writer’s books to read as proof copies. These look fab
@KateAGriffin
@juliabartz
@sarahgbooks
@ViperBooks
@OneworldNews
@PushkinPress
@Indies_Alliance
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Still can’t really believe I’m in this picture, let alone the anthology… being a
@TheLondonLib
Emerging Writer has been such a brilliant experience.
.
@TheLondonLib
is releasing its second anthology featuring work from its Emerging Writers programme, with From the Silence of the Stacks, New Voices Rise Volume II, edited by
@BooknikBerliner
. Find out more here:
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I’ve just finished Tom Lake by Ann Patchett and I am bereft. Exquisite writing 💚
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Lovely time this evening
@swanseastones
hearing
@elaine_canning
interview
@Rebecca_Writer
about her fabulous new novel
#Vulcana
about Kate Williams, an inspirational Welsh strong woman. I was lucky enough to read a proof and it is SO good 💪 Huge congratulations Rebecca 🍾
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I’m VERY excited to be interviewing Bonnie at the final event of her tour…
Come and see
@BonnieGarmus
in Cardiff
@WaterstonesCDF
on Thursday 16th March 💚🏴❤️🏴💚
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What better way to spend a rainy October Saturday morning than in the company of a 12th century poet and nun? Absolutely loving
@legroff
’s Matrix.
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I had the absolute honour of teaching
@ChimodoChinyere
at Swansea University… this is a lovely piece about her wonderful writing and her creative journey from Nigeria to Wales 🇳🇪🏴♥️💚
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Reading proof pages (v. exciting) and completely unable to remember writing some of these words (v. weird)…
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It's obvious from my HUGE grin how happy I was to see some of my fabulous MA students from
@WritingUni
at last night's
@GriffinBooksUK
event 😊
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I’m in Istanbul and yes, the mosques are stunning, but so are the streets ♥️🇹🇷♥️
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I just finished reading this ahead of appearing at the
@TheLondonLib
Lit Fest with
@Ayisha_Malik
and it was fascinating to see the similarities and differences in how our novels
#TheMovement
and
#TheSilenceProject
use silence as protest 🤫
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On my final day in virgin primary rainforest in Costa Rica, it feels fitting to have read the final words of Connective Tissue, a superb short story collection about experiences we share, and those we don’t, by the masterful
@jfraserwriter
💚
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Still hanging on in there at
#1
in Dystopian fiction, but with The Power at
#2
and
#3
, I’m not expecting to stay there much longer.
Thank you, thank you, thank you to everyone who has bought
#TheSilenceProject
💚
@AmazonKindle
@CorvusBooks
@AtlanticBooks
#dystopian
#fiction
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I only finished
#wahala
by
@NikkiOMay
last night but I’m already missing Ronke, Boo and Simi so much. Love, love, loved this book 💚
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It’s such a privilege to be invited to do events at indie bookshops. Tomorrow - the wonderful Barnett’s Books in Wadhurst ♥️
#BookTwitter
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Incredibly excited that The Silence Project is now out on audiobook ❤️
@BBCRadio2
’s Book Club pick, The Silence Project, came out TODAY on audiobook! Happy audio publication day Carole Hailey! Listen to it here, narrated by Juanita McMahon & Charlotte Worthing.
@AtlanticBooks
@chazma85
@CaroleAHailey
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Outstanding badge action at Waterstones in Newport today 💚🏴♥️
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Just finished this and absolutely loved it. Can’t believe I’ve never read anything by
@amabanckou
before. I’ve ordered more!
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One of the characters in
#TheSilenceProject
is named after my cousin and here she is, holding a copy in
@Waterstones_Edi
in Princes Street, Edinburgh ❤️ 🏴❤️
@AtlanticBooks
@CorvusBooks
@2023Debuts
#BookTwitter
#booktwt
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If you were a seven-year-old Manchester Terrier called Otto, where would YOU hide my slipper?
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I had the best time
@LitCaerleon
yesterday. Talking with
@RGlasbrook
and listening to
@Rebecca_Writer
,
@hooliganpoet
@JonGower1
@mikeparkerwales
was wonderful! Plus I got to see lovely
@SarahPerssonYes
and
@LauraSheldon76
.
Roll on next year 😁
First time at
@CaerleonEvents
Literature on the Lawn, with
@LauraSheldon76
and it was absolutely lovely. Such great events all day. Here’s the wonderful
@CaroleAHailey
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Completely thrilled to have been shortlisted/Highly Commended for the
@BridportPrize
First Novel Award. Big congrats to all the other shortlisted/winning writers.
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Chuffed to bits to see how many times
#TheSilenceProject
was borrowed from a library. Thank you libraries and readers - you are wonderful 😍
#PLR
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Say hello to
@Watermark_Press
- a brand new indie publisher set up by
@ABiltonAuthor
and me. Two books due out this autumn. All follows and likes will be very gratefully received.
#indiepublisher
#fictionunconstrained
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Lovely
@WaterstonesNewp
have given
#TheSilenceProject
a whole table AND it's in the window😊
@CorvusBooks
@AtlanticBooks
We've just had a visit from Welsh writer Carole Hailey to sign copies of her wonderful debut novel 'The Silence Project'
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I’m on the radio this week 😁
Tune in to the
@ScalaRadio
Book Club this Thursday after 11.30am to hear
@CaroleAHailey
discussing The Silence Project, the
@booksaremybag
#IndieBookoftheMonth
, with
@WhichPennySmith
You can listen on your DAB radio, smart speaker, online or on the Scala Radio app
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Leaving rainy Cardiff station to head up to London and the wonderful
@TheLondonLib
to chat about all things
#TheSilenceProject
this afternoon 🤫📚🏴
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