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Sunday Times Bestselling author of the Jonah Sheens series. "Unputdownable" according to person I glued myself to. Also gamer, single nerd-mother, rowing coach.
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It's UK pub day for A Killer in the Family!!! 🥳🥰😁 And I cannot WAIT for you to read it! You upload your DNA to an ancestry site... only to be told that someone in your close family is a serial killer...
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WOKE PUBLISHING: A THREAD. This morning I listened to novelist Graham Taylor explaining, on the Jeremy Vine show, about how he and other white middle-class men are being discriminated against. His main evidence was his difficulty in getting his twenty-fifth book published. (1/12)
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This is your weekly reminder that it's legal to murder people in books. Crime fiction: the smarter choice for stone cold revenge. ™️
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@MichaelH4039
@jane__bradley
@C4Dispatches
@thetimes
It IS in the hands of the police now. Investigations like this are often the thing that tips police into action and victims into feeling supported enough to come forward.
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@LibertarianLars
@AOC
This is about understanding the difference between "we need to stop using fossil fuels in the next five years to stop humanity ultimately being wiped out" and "humanity will be wiped out in five years." It's the former, and it's intensely scary and real.
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@Telegraph
If this calculator says anything but "almost none of it" then it's a massive misrepresentation. In 2016, the ONS reported only £2.2bn went to the unemployed - out of a total £253bn spent on welfare. Only 804,000 were unemployed that year so is it "millions"?
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**GIVEAWAY!!** With only ONE week to go until Little Sister is out, I'm giving away one beautiful signed hardback copy along with a gorgeous gift box of Whittards tea and set of Green and Blacks chocolates. RT and follow to enter - by end of day on Sunday 24th April.
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*GIVEAWAY TIME!!* To celebrate the fabulous Wrong Place, Wrong Time being a Reese's Book Club pick, I'm giving one lucky reader a hardback copy along with a super deluxe box of Charbonnel et Walker chocs and a lovely tea selection.
RT and follow me +
@GillianMAuthor
to enter!❤️
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(12/12) Likewise, pretty much every book chart is still dominated by white, middle-class authors. We are everywhere. A shift is long overdue. And if publishers are making that happen, it's cause for celebration. It isn't hurting us: it's helping people who have long been hurt.
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I'm obsessed with giveaways right now😆
To celebrate the US launch of Little Sister 🥰
RT, like and follow to win a complete set of the Jonah Sheen books (and some lovely chocolates too!)
Winner will be picked after midnight on Sunday 10th July!🥳
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Someone just suggested a pub crawl to bakeries and OMG, can we do one to bookshops?!
The way I see it, we turn up, each race to choose a book, buy it and read a chapter, then move on.
If we plot it with bookshops that have cafes we can have tea and cake at the same time 😁😁
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@CarolCa44326722
@theiaincameron
Wow, that's nothing like how I feel. I'd say the pain of losing this is akin to the pain of losing lives senselessly to bullying, racist attacks, homophobia, and misogyny. But there you go!
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My boyfriend has been taking the pee out of my messy gingerbread house. Drop me a like of you’d scoff it anyway so I can score points 🤣
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GIVEAWAY!! I was sent two gorgeous proofs of Into The Dark, Fiona Cummins's totally addictive, dark and twisty thriller. I'm giving one away, in combination with a set of fabulous Whittard of Chelsea coffees! RT to enter - and follow me and
@FionaAnnCummins
for extra entries. ❤️
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I'm so pleased debate has opened up around ghostwriters getting their names on covers/celebrities not getting to put their name on a book and pretend. BUT- I'm wary of only doing it now, over a young woman's novel, when there are MANY older male celebs who have done/are doing it.
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Really excited for another gorgeous giveaway!!
This time: The Clockwork Girl by the fabulous Anna Mazzola - a wonderful, evocative mystery set in C18th Paris. Plus deluxe Charbonnel & Walker chocolates and a Whittards tea gift set.
RT and follow me plus
@Anna_Mazz
to enter!
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@fuzzymittens
Second job: The (young) parcelforce guy was mean to a colleague so when a company across the courtyard had a load of huge boxes waiting to be recycled we put one over the victim with a fake Parcelforce label on, and told him it was big but not heavy. He tried to lift it and she
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@Telegraph
Of the £253bn welfare bill examined in 2016 by the ONS, alongside only £2.2bn going on the unemployed, only £44bn went on the disabled or ill, and that isn't just benefits. That's care. Pensions are a HUGE £111bn. That cost keeps going up. Covid and Brexit emptied coffers since.
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Can we stop saying "everyone has a book in them"?
Everyone has a STORY in them, sure, but a book is the result of not only hours of dedication, work and drafting, but also years of honing the craft in other ways (on discarded books. In short form pieces. Creative writing courses
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@lizzienugent
Am I alone in HATING witnessing this kind of thing? If they've grown apart - separate. THEN look at the nice other woman who is clearly vulnerable but not above going after a married man. Doing it this way just hurts everyone. (And I know there's no "should" but it always does.)
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@leewhowrites
Oh Lee, I'm SO sorry!! There is something so incredibly wrong with a) the current way some people think and b) the way Twitter is actually enabling it. They were wonderful photos and I loved them!
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Just in case anyone needs to hear it right now: You should definitely buy that book. Safer to have too many. You're welcome. 😁
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OK, so, "Suffer the little children to come unto me" did NOT mean "Make the little children who try to come to me suffer."
@realDonaldTrump
I'm happy to help you with understanding anything else you read in places.
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@ask_aubry
Tell me you haven't talked to a lot of your female colleagues without telling me you haven't talked to any of your female colleagues...
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In an overcrowded coffee shop frantically trying to rewrite 6k of lost words. Very chatty guy asked if he could sit at my table 😭. So I took my headphones off and said "OMG I would love that! I've had such a shit week, I'd love to vent about it." He suddenly saw a free table😁🥳
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@LeoKearse
@DecLawn
Ahhh, the empathy bypass. It must make life so easy. Right up until the point where you need help and it isn't there for you. Fiercely proud to pay tax towards helping others, personally, and always will be.
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I am in the middle of a customer services conversation that began by being frustrating and is now bringing me the most intense joy. Largely because I got a bit carried away... It all began with a Christmas present for my 11yo that arrived with the wrong charging cable...
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Quite excited about this!
I’ll be airing book thoughts both silly and serious tomorrow at 4:30pm with the fabulous and insightful
@HarriettSG
and the lovely, super smart
@TobiasMenzies
. Cannot wait!
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@ask_aubry
"Why won't any women date me? I should be able to get hot women to date me!! It's not asking for much!"
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Ok Twitter! Help needed! I’ve dug out all the books I have signed for the wrong person over the last while (depressing number ;)) I want to send them out for free so they aren’t wasted. So can you find me a: Tiffany, Sarah, Lisa, Nick, Anna, Simona, Beth, Jen, Donna please?! 😘
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@MarinaHyde
Such a hugely important take. I look back at the way a young me used to go along with a lot of really uncomfortable things out of a desperate desire for acceptance and cringe. I'm really glad a lot of us see it differently now. Xx
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I keep seeing people (often writers) posting about how teaching grammar is "killing writing" for kids and I want to state that I believe exactly the opposite, for lots of reasons.
1) The idea that kids can all just "learn by reading lots and love it" falls down drastically when
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**Thursday Giveaway!!**
I'm super lucky to have a lush copy of a book I LOVED to give away- The Misper - a rip-roaring county drug lines thriller. I've packaged it up with some Monty Bojangles truffled and Pukka tea selection. RT me plus
@K8London
to enter by midnight 14/08.
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I am FORTY today!! And have done the only sensible thing and celebrated by putting on an oodie, drinking cava and eating roulade. About to hit the Fortnite lobby too if anyone's keen for a game... ❤️❤️
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Just went looking in my bag in hopes I'd find a snack and discovered A WHOLE CHOCOLATE ORANGE. Not only is past me forgiven everything, I think I might also have to rename it the Bag of Wonder.
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Me when I'm supposed to be editing a few characters out of my book.
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@sarahshaffi
So frustrating!! Just shouting out to my amazing team at
@MichaelJBooks
who I only briefly mentioned to that I was trying to cut down on alcohol and sent me gorgeous alcohol free drinks and nibbles on pub day 😍 They are so careful to check. Love them!
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Inspirational quote of the day: Life is too short to not buy that book. And another couple that caught your eye while you were paying for it.
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After a gruelling 14 hour trip with every delay imaginable, 11yo and I arrived at French station to a total absence of taxis both present and bookable - and a young woman from our train got her lovely mum to DRIVE us to our Gite with all our things and oh my goodness people ❤️❤️
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It's UK publication day for Little Sister!! 🎉🥂🤩
I am RIDICULOUSLY excited for this beautiful book to be out in the world (I know, I'm biased 😉 and for all of you to get to meet Keely, in all her enjoyable darkness...
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Coming here to say I am FIERCELY proud of every penny of tax I pay that goes towards helping those who need it. And I'd rather see fifty people "shirk" on benefits than ONE person suffer without who needs it. It costs us almost nothing, and is what makes us civilised humans.
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@ChamChooey
@MichaelH4039
@jane__bradley
@C4Dispatches
@thetimes
Calling a painstaking investigation over numerous years the "media and mob of public opinion" is simply extraordinary to me. Investigative journalism has an incredibly important place at speaking out against corruption, including the corruption of institutional silence.
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Another instance where grammar is everything.
And if anyone wants me, I'll be over here, writing a book about an escaped, rampaging killer crab for no reason.
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Why does my iPhone regularly let me type "fpund" and "tje" to people in messages, but still tries to change ill to "I'll" and my name to "Gurkha" every sodding time?!
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**GIVEAWAY!** I'm lucky enough to have a copy of Her Dying Day by the wonderful Mindy Carlson to give away! I hoovered up this brilliant, pacy thriller about a true crime journalist's hunt for author after her mysterious disappearance. RT and follow me +
@MindyRCarlson
to enter.
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Reading a little man-writing-a-woman fiction. Whilst I'm sure I don't get male thoughts right all the time either, I just wish I could somehow get across to all men for future works HOW little time I (and women I know) spend thinking about, looking at and talking to my breasts.
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I'm lat flow tested and on the train to Whitley Bay!! Absolutely cannot wait for my first book festival in two years ❤️
@baytales
@ellamwatkins
@amymcculloch
@TimWeaverBooks
@HowardLinskey
@JenLovesReading
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@believe_rebuild
@SaraSchon
I think you're missing the humour in her post... She's said in other replies that he clearly meant well. Point is, sometimes the apparently cold text is actually way better when you think it through. And I'm sure in seriousness a phone call would have been the winner for her.
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(11/12) I could have quoted sections of every Oxbridge College's website saying they were looking for more diversity and state school access the year I applied, and that October, I still walked into a place that was overall 95% white and public school.
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And in a glorious moment for feminism, The Booker Prize shortlist features more men named Paul than it does women.
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I JUST WANT TO SELL MILLIONS OF BOOKS WHILE MARRIED TO KEANU AND LIVING IN A HOUSE MADE OF CAKE, IS IT REALLY TOO MUCH TO ASK, WORLD?!
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(10/12) I think it can be very easy to point at reasons for failing. For Graham Taylor, suddenly finding himself without a publisher when he wanted to return to the industry must have been painful. But seizing on a shift to redress balance as the cause is unreasonable.
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Having your agent say she likes your book is genuinely as exciting as finding out someone you have a crush on fancies you. 😍
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(9/12) And yet I still knew people who said they hadn't got into Oxbridge because they'd been discriminated against for their whiteness and private education. That somehow those very few places chiselled out for others were too many.
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(8/12) And when it came to representation of minorities, there were five students in my year who were identifiably from a minority background. That's out of 90. A veritable tidal-wave of positive discrimination, was it not?
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(7/12) Rest assured, I wasn't. I spent a while covertly trying to find out who was actually from a state school in my year group at college. And out of roughly 90 students, it was around ten. Just over ten percent, representing the 94% of the population who were state educated.
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So pleased to announce this!! 😊
.
@MichaelJBooks
gets another two titles from
@thegyth
! The bestselling author of She Lies in Wait will delve further into the world of Jonah Sheens and his detectives in her next two books. Find out more here:
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Great seeing A Killer in the Family on the Waterstones The Year's Finest table!! And yes I put it there myself, what's your point...?
#CrimeFiction
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Little Sister is out today in paperback, and isn't she a beauty?! 🥳🥰 Huge thanks to the amazing team at
@MichaelJBooks
and to
@CBGBooks
for everything. Could not be more proud! Snap it up at Waterstones, Asda, independents, Amazon xx
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I've started a James Bond Films/Fuel Shortage pun thread on Facebook and it's glorious so I'm spreading the love. Opening with: A Queue to a Fill.
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This is last night's champagne, to celebrate my very first royalties having earned out my whole advance on my first three books! 😍🥳 Over the moon, and profoundly grateful to
@MichaelJBooks
@felicityblunt
,
@randomhouse
my publishers in translation, and all you lovely readers xx
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Does everyone always click to see the hidden replies that may be offensive anyway...?
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**** RT to win a set of four ebooks, audiobooks or hardbacks for the person of your choice!!****
In an ABSOLUTE, AMAZING BARGAIN DEAL, A Killer in the Family (my most recent book) is 99p for ONE DAY only in ebook format as a Kindle Daily Deal on Amazon.
That's one for you and
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Flipping yes!!! 26 years after singing That Song incessantly for months, I couldn't be prouder that it is the women's team bringing football home ❤️⭐️🥳
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Went into regular coffee shop and got greeted by three people I know and then the barista asked if I wanted my usual and then someone asked where I got my dress and I THINK I MAY BE THE MAIN CHARACTER NOW?!
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There is a girl on my bus wearing a white faux-fur trimmed jacket and matching headdress with a red ribbon dotted with pearls while reading Anna Karenina and I think she may just have won at life. 🥰
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Wow, I’m only 8,040 followers off 10,000!! Thanks so much for following, all. 🤣🤣
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Hot tip: When getting your phone out quickly to silence your alarm, it's great if you can avoid flinging it across the coffee shop into someone's cappuccino... Anyone wants me I'll be over here in a new country, under a new name.
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I absolutely love bloggers taking time to read and review. I know how many hours it takes and it means a ton that folks do it, even if they turn out not to love the book. It’s ALWAYS great... But feel free not to tag me in the 1* and 2* reviews, guys. 😘😂
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Can someone please tell me, politely but firmly, that I do NOT NEED TO EAT SOMETHING EVERY 20 MINUTES.
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Wow!! I only need 94,569 more followers until I hit 100,000!! 😁 Think I can do it by the end of the day?!
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It's Lie Beside Me paperback pub day!! I'm about to head off to some lovely bookshops. Which is obviously what everyone else should be doing too 😁 Big love xxx
🔥'Brilliantly done'
@harriet_tyce
🔥'Easily her best yet'
@WhittyAuthor
🔥'Gripped me' Erin Kelly
🔥'Twists to keep you hooked'
@JaneCaseyAuthor
@thegyth
's unputdownable
#LieBesideMe
is OUT NOW in paperback:
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@chrischapmanart
@Jo_Caulfield
The number of men - individual men rather than vague stories of a stranger - falsely accused of rape is VANISHINGLY small. Brand is accused by FIVE women who have been persuaded to come forward and it is incredibly clear from the article that there are many other victims.
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I am so excited to finally tell you about Little Sister!! Out April in the UK and May in the US 🥳❤️🌟
TWO SISTERS WENT INTO THE WOODS.
ONLY ONE CAME OUT.
AND SHE'S NOT TALKING.
@thegyth
is back with a stunning new thriller, Little Sister is coming April 2022.
Pre-order
#LittleSisterBook
now:
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I'm thinking of writing a book where a writer only solves a dark and terrible crime because she was procrastinating on the internet instead of writing her book... Only I haven't started it yet.
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This week I keep seeing folks asking others to share hyped or popular books that they hated. Though I love people being free to share their reviews, it makes me wince for the authors. 😫 So can I ask for everyone to list books that had no hype but they loved?! 😊
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When you're on an extra little adventure in London because you managed to send your Spanx order to your editor with his name on it at his office because you failed to update the address from last time you bought something from Selfridge's 😬😬😱
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@thetimes
I usually agree with her on most things but this irritates me. ADHDers have different brain scans and function differently. The label is incredibly useful because it means forgiving yourself and having others stop attacking. Her "wouldn't it be nice if..." world where you could
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Two different guys recently on LinkedIn: “Congratulations on the books. I haven’t read them, but please allow me to send you the much better piece of writing I have written which you should show to your publishers at once as they will clearly want to take it. Also your agent.” 🤣
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Today I got to mess around in a field wearing a floaty dress while making a film for Little Sister. All in glorious sunshine. I have some stills which I'm sharing here because they make me feel summery and yay 🥰 Full video to come next week!!
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Pretty sure my TBR pile has just become one of the few human-made structures visible from space.
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Can I be an angry, bitter, maladapted, shrieking sociopath AND a mum, though? I don't want my dreams to be crushed through parenthood... 🤣
It’s so important for women to start families. With very few exceptions— women that don’t start families transform into angry, bitter, maladapted, shrieking sociopaths with their therapists on speed dial.
Fighting biology never ends well.
Women are meant to nurture.
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Just seen 13yo off to non-uniform day wearing his rainbow sequin jacket and fedora hat and he is genuinely killing it 👌
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I'm DELIGHTED to announce that my books sold over SIX MILLION English language copies! * *In the dream that I just had while having a nap on the sofa.
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Don't forget that
#BlackFriday
is coming, a great day to pay no-holds-barred full price for wonderful books at your favourite independent store in an act of glorious rebellion against the capitalist machine 🤣
@Bookishcrick
@bertsbooks
@BookaBookshop
@ForumBooks
@Waterstones
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I am beyond chuffed to share that She Lies in Wait is a
#richardandjudybookclub
pick - along with some of my favourite novels this year! The best possible way to celebrate a paperback launch. Possibly also the best Christmas present ever...
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(3/12) This reminded me, strongly, of twenty years ago, when I was applying for university. The media at the time was full of how universities were aiming to positively discriminate in order to increase the proportion of state school and ethnic minority students.
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***It's COVER REVEAL TIME!!!***
Looook at the gorgeous UK paperback cover for Little Sister 😍😍
What do you think?! I think this may be my favourite cover yet! I love the chilling/childlike vibes to it. Just perfect!
@michaeljbooks
have knocked it out of the park IMHO!/1
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It’s the UK and ANZ eBook pub day for Lie Beside Me! 🥳 I could not be more excited for you all to read this one. My absolute favourite so far! And only a month until UK hardback day!
#liebesideme
#CrimeFiction
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(5/12) All this, while I was being told I was bright and should definitely go, being taught terrifically, and also being given constant interview practice in the form of small class sizes where we got to debate topics instead of listening to a lesson. All without disruption.
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(4/12)I was told, by countless people, that I would now have a hard time getting into Oxbridge, as a white person from a public school. I was told that I would be "discriminated against" and (to my shame) I ended up feeling a little worried about it.
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I got to see myself in print as a Sunday Times Top Ten Bestseller today. No words can describe. With huge thanks to
@MichaelJBooks
@felicityblunt
@BooksJoel
💕 (continued below...)
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