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Anne Charnock @annecharnock.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

The invariably solitary rock pipit, a regular on the shoreline of Bute. 💚🪶🙂

Brown bird, stripes on breast, white stripe above eye, seen atop seaweed and then pebbles.

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Anne Charnock @annecharnock.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I’ll be talking about ALSTON MOOR at the historic @housmansbookshop.bsky.social. What’s more, I will be in conversation with the amazing @sannewman.bsky.social RSVP for this free event: housmans.com/event/book-l... @unamccormack.bsky.social @goldsf.bsky.social @sarahsuch.bsky.social

Poster gives details: Monday 16 November 7pm. Housmans
5 Caledonian Road
London N1 9DX
housmans.com/events

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Anne Charnock @annecharnock.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

For Monday: one turnstone with one periwinkle on the shore at Ardbeg Point, Isle of Bute. 💚

Turnstone stepping down rocky shoreline, with yellow seaweed. Tortoiseshell plumage and white breasted with orange legs. Teeny periwinkle in beak.

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Anne Charnock @annecharnock.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Morning mist, Dumfries and Galloway.

Mature tree in silhouette, in green pasture (with cow) against cloud with pink tinges. Low mist across the fields.

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Anne Charnock @annecharnock.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Brilliant talk on translating Shakespeare - Daniel Hahn interviewed by @charlenebusalli.bsky.social at @wigtownbooktown.bsky.social Can’t wait to dive into If This Be Magic.

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Anne Charnock @annecharnock.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

The old pier at Port Bannatyne, Isle of Bute. Atmospheric despite gloomy weather.

Black and white: Weathered pier supports topped by cormorants against still, silvery sea, low cloud on distant hills.

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Anne Charnock @annecharnock.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

For Monday: 2 teeny periwinkles on the intertidal at Glecknabae. So gorgeous 💚

Two small periwinkles side by side nestled among rocks tinged blue and green.

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Anne Charnock @annecharnock.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Out in the world! Many, many thanks to the whole team at Goldsmiths Press/Gold SF. I’m so grateful to early endorsers. The starting point for this eco-fiction: see link in comments. @goldsmithspress.bsky.social @goldsf.bsky.social @unamccormack.bsky.social @sarahsuch.bsky.social

Cover and spine of Alston Moor with moorland ruin and curlew in yellow/grey against photo of moorland landscape. Endorsement below by Sandra Newman, "kept me spellbound, and the writing is just gorgeous".

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Anne Charnock @annecharnock.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

A song thrush in my garden. Ventures out from the tall grass under the apple tree.

Song thrush, speckled breast, eyes right, against green grass.

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Anne Charnock @annecharnock.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Getting close to publication day, 1 September! And pre-orders in the UK are shipping early 📚📚📚 @goldsmithspress.bsky.social @goldsf.bsky.social @sarahsuch.bsky.social

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Anne Charnock @annecharnock.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Scalpsie Bay. My happy place, one of several on the Isle of Bute, Scotland! 🙂

Schooner at anchor with Arran in the distance. Beach in foreground.

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Anne Charnock @annecharnock.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Author copies! Such beauties 🥰. I’m so thrilled ALSTON MOOR is alive! And I’m immensely thankful to everyone involved @goldsf.bsky.social @goldsmithspress.bsky.social @unamccormack.bsky.social Pre-orders are open at all excellent bookshops. 📚🥰📚 Coming 1 September 2026. @sarahsuch.bsky.social

3 copies of Alston Moor shot against a stone wall, echoing the ruin on the front cover.

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Anne Charnock @annecharnock.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

All excellent booksellers are taking pre-orders for my latest, a work of eco-fiction, set in the peatlands of North Pennines today and 500 years ago! ALSTON MOOR coming: 1 Sept 2026 @goldsf.bsky.social @goldsmithspress.bsky.social @unamccormack.bsky.social @sarahsuch.bsky.social

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Anne Charnock @annecharnock.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

For Monday: two curlews inflight over Ettrick Bay, Isle of Bute. 💚🙂💚

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Anne Charnock @annecharnock.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

I am so grateful to Lancaster University for awarding me an honorary doctorate DLitt for my fiction ‘including near-future environmental collapse and ectogenesis.’ Many thanks to Dr Oliver Langmead for his oration, and Prof Rebecca Lingwood. A joy to share the day with all the graduating students!

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Anne Charnock @annecharnock.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

Cormorant drying out and preening at the old pier, Port Bannatyne 💚🔆🙂

Cormorant standing on weathered wooden pillars and reaching back to preen the feathers on its back.

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Anne Charnock @annecharnock.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

Good morning. And here’s a juvenile eider. In the Kyles of Bute.

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Anne Charnock @annecharnock.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

For Monday: a robin redbreast on its usual perch in my garden. 🔆💚😎

Robin perched on the back of a garden bench against greenery of a cherry tree.

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Anne Charnock @annecharnock.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

Completed: a final, FINAL proofread, and now ALSTON MOOR goes off to the printer. Major milestone! 📚👀📚 Coming 1st September 2026 @goldsmithspress.bsky.social @goldsf.bsky.social @unamccormack.bsky.social @sarahsuch.bsky.social Reviewers pls contact K.Reynders@gold.ac.uk More: annecharnock.com

Manuscript proof on my desk with sharp pencil and my favourite coffee cup, keyboard, screens.

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Anne Charnock @annecharnock.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

The Fife Regatta under power along the Kyles of Bute. Too calm to sail! My friends are in the little boat being towed yesterday by the two-masted boat - both vessels are a hundred years old at least.

Two boats in the distance with complex cloudscape with a little blue in the sky. Mainland Scotland in the backdrop.

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Anne Charnock @annecharnock.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

#WorldPeatlandsDay If you're into peatbogs, as I am, look out for ALSTON MOOR, a novel, coming in September 2026 with Elizabeth, an intrepid peatlands scientist as a main character! @goldsmithspress.bsky.social @goldsf.bsky.social @unamccormack.bsky.social More: annecharnock.com

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Anne Charnock @annecharnock.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

Buzzard overhead at Ettrick Bay, Isle of Bute 🙂💚🔆

Full wing span and tail feathers against a blue sky

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Anne Charnock @annecharnock.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

Sun’s out! View of Isle of Arran from Isle of Bute’s Ettrick Bay 🔆😎🚲

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Anne Charnock @annecharnock.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

A brilliant discussion on J G Ballard and experimental biography, launching The Illuminated Man co-written by the late Christopher Priest and Nina Allan. Nina chats with Camilla Grudova. Niall Harrison @briardenebooks.bsky.social on Priest’s essays The Recollections. @waterstonesargyle.bsky.social

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Anne Charnock @annecharnock.bsky.social · 19/04/2026

An inspiring book launch on Bute for Love Is A Toad by Lucy Lapwing. Lucy asks how we can balance nature-love with nature-grief. A beautifully written memoir/polemic by one of our most enthusiastic and engaging conservationists. @blinkbooks.bsky.social

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Anne Charnock @annecharnock.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

For Monday: a female blackbird, so well camouflaged, close to the footpath leading from Totnes to Ashprington, Devon. 💚

Brownish speckled blackbird amid brownish leaf litter on embankment. A few bright green ivy leaves. Distinctive yellow ring around the bird’s eye.

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Anne Charnock @annecharnock.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

For Monday: the Somerset Levels on a weekend cycle ride 🙂 🚲 ☀️

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Anne Charnock @annecharnock.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

For Monday: A stonechat 🙂 Isle of Bute

Small bird with orange chest and white collar perched on bramble.

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Anne Charnock @annecharnock.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

I’m a big fan of Sandra Newman’s novel The Heavens with its time slip from noughties New York to Elizabethan England. So, I’m pretty overwhelmed to read this early response. Coming: September 2026 @goldsf.bsky.social @goldsmithspress.bsky.social @unamccormack.bsky.social @sarahsuch.bsky.social

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Anne Charnock @annecharnock.bsky.social · 15/01/2026

I’m thrilled to reveal the stunning cover art for my novel, ALSTON MOOR. Coming 29 September! I’m so grateful to cover designer Heather Ryerson and the team at @goldsmithspress.bsky.social @goldsf.bsky.social. 📚@unamccormack.bsky.social @sarahsuch.bsky.social More: annecharnock.com/alston-moor/...