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Chloe @cdelull.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

rich because a little animal always wants to spend time with me

a long haired tabby cat on his back on some blue, green and yellow bedding

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Chloe @cdelull.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

there are GOATS at the CHARITY SHOP

A brown pygmy goat peeking through a wire fence, framed by a car tyre

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Chloe @cdelull.bsky.social · 04/01/2026

sure would be a bad day for the boiler to pack up, huh

A Muscovy duck gazes out over a frozen pond in a park

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Chloe @cdelull.bsky.social · 01/01/2026

starting the year being side-eyed in my sick bed because Doyle doesn't like the hacking great coughs of phlegm of many colours. guess what, buddy, neither do I 🤢

a particularly judgemental looking tabby cat stares at the camera from the other end of the bed

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Chloe @cdelull.bsky.social · 30/12/2025

how's your festive perineum going? I had to take the cats for their annual jabs today, which always stresses them out, and since coming home Bodie's been trying to mount Doyle 💀 which as a sentence is fine for the fanfiction writers but less fine when they are a) cats b) neutered and c) brothers

Doyle, a tabby cat, and Bodie, a black cat, sit cosily on a large blue beanbag. Crucially, neither of them is trying to mount the other.

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Chloe @cdelull.bsky.social · 27/12/2025

and then to walk past a bookshop on a crisp Christmas Day afternoon and see my novel front and centre in the window display 🥹🥹 it's been a dreamy festive season so far to be sure

a beaming white woman with brown glasses and a light brown coat crouches in front of a bookshop window display, pointing at her book Cacoethes at the front of the display

A festive bookshop window display with snowflake and snow decals. Cacoethes by Chloe de Lullington is front and centre of the display.

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Chloe @cdelull.bsky.social · 14/12/2025

listen I'm all for dietary inclusion and my favourite festive drink is the vegan alcohol free Baileys made by a local cafe here but oatnog just sounds like a city slicker slur for people who live on farms 🤷‍♀️

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Chloe @cdelull.bsky.social · 12/12/2025

warmest Christmas wishes from the cosiest little guy in the north west

A black cat is sat curled up in a large blue beanbag and yawning. There's a small Christmas tree and candles on top of a well-filled bookcase in the background, against a deep green wall.

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Chloe @cdelull.bsky.social · 26/11/2025

me 🤝 Bodie a haunted gaze at the world around us

a zoomed in photo of a black cat with enormous and slightly perturbed looking green eyes

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Chloe @cdelull.bsky.social · 24/11/2025

paused Endeavour and inadvertently created the perfect retro gay romcom

a paused tv showing a scene from Endeavour where Thursday and Morse are sharing an umbrella in a rainy Oxford street and gazing at each other with what can only be described as a sort of queer whimsy

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Chloe @cdelull.bsky.social · 21/11/2025

Imagine if I'd written someone's favourite book of the year 🥹🫶 (The book is Cacoethes, a bisexual sugar baby coming-of-age novel. It's all about bad decisions, it's my debut, and it took ten years to bring into the world. Would you like to read it? www.northodox.co.uk/product-page... )

A five star review of Cacoethes by Chloe de Lullington, which reads: Absolutely loved this book, by far my favorite read this year! I felt a bit like a big sister reading this book, I wanted to give Erin a hug and shake some common sense into her in equal parts!

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Chloe @cdelull.bsky.social · 13/11/2025

roses are red, twins look alike...

a headline reading 'binman mistook naked cyclist for pervert and punched him off bike'

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Chloe @cdelull.bsky.social · 31/10/2025

happy fifth 'gotcha day' Bodie & Doyle. what a joy it is to have creatures in the house who come with a built-in noise of happiness

two cats sit wide-eyed and rapt on a table in a kitchen. on the left, a short haired black cat. on the right, a long haired tabby cat.

two kittens sit on the third shelf of a tall and cluttered bookcase. on the left, a tiny short haired black kitten. on the right, a perky long haired tabby kitten.

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Chloe @cdelull.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

After a prolonged absence in a Messy Room I found the glasses I bought solely because they reminded me of Arnold from Yes Minister and the instant Dan walked through the door this evening he said "you look like Arnold from Yes Minister". Never known love like it.

A young white woman with large thick-rimmed glasses and a blue and white stripy jumper

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Chloe @cdelull.bsky.social · 19/10/2025

this middle witch is giving Blakey from On The Buses

three animatronic witches in a pub foyer

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Chloe @cdelull.bsky.social · 19/10/2025

heron watch brought me a good'un

A large heron standing in a shallow pebble lined brook, green leaves framing the image

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Chloe @cdelull.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

didn't her lot just misspell "Britain" all over their merch? (They did) www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

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Chloe @cdelull.bsky.social · 27/09/2025

the Barbenheimer of northern fiction, aka the wonderful @pauldcoombs.bsky.social and I hung out at the Northern Publishers' Fair today and it was lush. (also, Manchester you cleared us out of Cacoethes within a couple of hours. love you) thank you @flyonthewallpress.bsky.social for organising!!

A white woman with large glasses holds up a copy of The Great Orme by Paul D Coombs. A white man in black holds up a copy of Cacoethes by Chloe de Lullington.

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Chloe @cdelull.bsky.social · 11/09/2025

had the loveliest event at @darkpeakbooks.bsky.social last night - thank you everyone who came along, bought books, nibbled, sipped, and facilitated some brilliant and insightful and thoughtful conversations. I'm so grateful! @northodoxpress.bsky.social #Booksky

a spread of snacks on a bookshop table with bookshelves in the background and stacks of Cacoethes paperbacks between

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Chloe @cdelull.bsky.social · 03/09/2025

happy 30th birthday to the man who yesterday casually came up with a drag queen called 'Lawrence of A Labia' and then when I referenced it back to him two hours later had absolutely no recollection of mentioning it. love u doc.

a slightly blurry picture of a white woman and a white man, both wearing large glasses and smiling inside a darkened cinema

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Chloe @cdelull.bsky.social · 27/08/2025

Plz tear yourself away from your annual Gilmore Girls rewatch and come chat bisexual sugar babies, age gap relationships, messy girls, and more with me at one of these autumnal events. I'm so grateful! everyone is being so welcoming!

A poster advertising book events for Cacoethes on 31 August in London, 10 September in Glossop, 11 September in Manchester, and 9 October in Leeds

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Chloe @cdelull.bsky.social · 24/08/2025

Hi London, I'm bringing myself, my novel, and my Cacoethes merch to this next weekend as part of a beautiful line up - it's free, it's at a Colours Hoxton, all the info can be found here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/bi-communi... hope to see you there! @northodoxpress.bsky.social @thisisbiscuit.org.uk

A promotional flyer for author signings by Chloe de Lullington and Dee Whitnell at the Bi+ Community Fair on 31st August, Hoxton

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Chloe @cdelull.bsky.social · 10/08/2025

just realised what Dan's and my books standing together on our bookshelf remind me of...

A black and grey hardback book, Middlebrow Satire in the Works of P.G Wodehouse, G.K Chesterton and Nancy Mitford, alongside a pink, blue and purple copy of Cacoethes standing next to each other on a bookshelf

A black house and a pink and purple house beside one another

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Chloe @cdelull.bsky.social · 09/08/2025

baby's first print interview (printerview??) - so grateful to Bi Community News for shining a light on Cacoethes, it was so great to chat about the book and all the things that went into it 🩷💜🩵 #Booksky @northodoxpress.bsky.social

a copy of Bi Community News magazine laid out on a duvet cover

a white woman with glasses and a denim jacket holding up a copy of the Bi Community News magazine

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Chloe @cdelull.bsky.social · 03/08/2025

Finished Poor Ghost! today - I really REALLY enjoyed this book. I loved the dry humour, the chippiness, the Manchester-ness, the way places and memories all tangled up in Luca's life story. It's so real!! Bravo @gabrielflynn.bsky.social 🫡

A photo of Poor Ghost! by Gabriel Flynn against a green duvet cover

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Chloe @cdelull.bsky.social · 01/08/2025

graphic design is my passion www.northodox.co.uk/product-page...

A black labrador reaching eagerly through a gate post for someone's hand. The hand has Cacoethes superimposed over it, and the dog's face has a review recommending Cacoethes for "lovers of contemporary LGBT fiction, coming-of-age novels, messy girl lit fic, and stories where women get to be funny and unfiltered".

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Chloe @cdelull.bsky.social · 30/07/2025

We've had to postpone this as the print run completely sold out - victim of my own success etc etc 🥳 Anyway, Bodie is of course delighted to have his mother home all evening. Look at that little FACE.

A small black cat loafing on the floor of an unfinished kitchen

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Chloe @cdelull.bsky.social · 26/07/2025

I so wanted them to let Ralph Ineson do Northern Galactus

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Chloe @cdelull.bsky.social · 20/07/2025

I love my long little draught excluder son

a glossy black cat stretches out on his back against some green woodland print bedding

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Chloe @cdelull.bsky.social · 17/07/2025

🥹"exceptional dialogue" 🥹"breathtaking" 🥹"Cacoethes demands the reader's undivided and uninterrupted attention" Can't tell you how grateful I am for thoughtful, generous reviews like these get yours direct from @northodoxpress.bsky.social : www.northodox.co.uk/product-page... #Booksky

A five star review from Goodreads:
This is an exceptionally engrossing read: the novel slips down easily, and it's possible to devour it in a day.

This is partially attributable to its style, which marries sharp turns of phrase with exceptional dialogue: by turns witty, authentic, and a cross-section of clashing group and power dynamics as much as a celebration of the badinage that comes hand in hand with close friendship.

But perhaps even more impressively, Cacoethes demands the reader's undivided and uninterrupted attention through its deft manipulation of time.

Shifting seamlessly from past to present - from climactic, involving encounter to the breezy summations of a woman for whom hindsight is 20/20 even if it doesn't inform future actions - is a phenomenal sleight of hand.

The result is a roiling collection of cliffhangers, an invitation for reader inference to fill in alluring gaps, and a breathtaking evocation of the blur in which most university students exist.

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Chloe @cdelull.bsky.social · 15/07/2025

teetotal but I ❤️ when a wall gets plastered

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Chloe @cdelull.bsky.social · 12/07/2025

going all 🥹🥹 over these incredibly kind words from the wonderful Emma Morgan. www.northodox.co.uk/product-page... @northodoxpress.bsky.social

From @emmamorganwriter on Instagram: because @lifeinthechlolane is an amazing new writer and writes about young women and their desires like nobody else I have ever read. Thank you @northodoxpressofficial for having faith in us both and putting LGBTQ stories front and centre.

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Chloe @cdelull.bsky.social · 11/07/2025

starting the next decade off right 🎂✨

A chocolate cake iced with the words "Published Novelist By 30!"

Copies of Cacoethes on the shelf at Queer Lit bookshop

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Chloe @cdelull.bsky.social · 07/07/2025

travelled 315 miles from home and somehow ended up next to someone related to our family GP??? anyway, more importantly, HUGE congratulations to my incredible not-so-little little brother on his FIRST CLASS DEGREE FROM DURHAM!!!! a true working class success story tbh - watch this space!!

Two smiling siblings in a marquee, the brother is wearing graduation robes

A young man in Durham University graduation robes sitting on a wall and smiling

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Chloe @cdelull.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

starting my week off right with this beautifully thoughtful ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ Goodreads review of Cacoethes - if you've read and enjoyed, please do tell your friends/the internet! if you haven't got your copy yet, why not end Pride month by backing queer indie fiction: www.northodox.co.uk/product-page...

A five star goodreads review of Cacoethes

a hand holds up a copy of Cacoethes against a display of several other copies

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Chloe @cdelull.bsky.social · 28/06/2025

dear reader, there were BRANDED CUPCAKES enormous heartfelt thank you to malcolm, and to everyone else who showed up to celebrate this queer little book. love you all thank you so much 💜 #Booksky

a selection of chocolate cupcakes with Cacoethes book cover in rice paper on the top

A board listing the events at the Common Press bookshop

a smiling white woman with glasses holds up a bouquet and a cupcake in a bookshop

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Chloe @cdelull.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

first there was the porn VHS recessed in the staircase and now there's a very matter-of-fact piece of graffiti behind the kitchen wallpaper. this house, man. pervert after pervert made their mark here.

an old plaster wall with the words "Lisa Big Bottom!!" scribbled on it

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Chloe @cdelull.bsky.social · 20/06/2025

a week ago I sent Cacoethes out into the world at Queer Lit and the sneak peek of the photos from the event are just magical - thank you so much everyone who made it such a dreamy, joyful night order your copy here: www.northodox.co.uk/product-page...

a display of the novel Cacoethes by Chloe de Lullington

A monochrome candid of a white woman smiling and talking on stage at a book launch

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Chloe @cdelull.bsky.social · 14/06/2025

getting my flowers, feeling so loved, successfully not throwing up at the book launch 💐

a white woman stands on a stage with armfuls of bouquets

two copies of a paperback book called Cacoethes beside a book with the Cacoethes cover design iced on top

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Chloe @cdelull.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

this napkin is giving Sir Humphrey Appleby

a white restaurant napkin featuring the image of a grey haired white man who looks a lot like Sir Humphrey from Yes, Minister

Sir Humphrey, a suit-clad white man with grey hair, raises his eyebrows at someone off screen

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Chloe @cdelull.bsky.social · 07/06/2025

girlies I won BIG at the secondhand bookshop today

a hand holds up a copy of a Danger Man novelisation against a grey stone-built background

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Chloe @cdelull.bsky.social · 04/06/2025

want a me-sized version of this for my next birthday but it would say "thirty" and the "i" would be a sunflower

A screenshot from Vinted showing a white romper suit for age 12-18 months with the word 'one' and a strawberry embroidered on the front

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Chloe @cdelull.bsky.social · 19/05/2025

the latest from the basement renovation is the builders found a vintage porn video stashed inside the staircase

against a background of a kitchen mid-renovation with tools everywhere, a hand holds up a VHS of a vintage porn film entitled Emmanuelle in Denmark

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Chloe @cdelull.bsky.social · 17/05/2025

genuinely trying to be less hoard-y and sentimental as part of the big basement clear out but *how* can I get rid of Bodie & Doyle's first Christmas card from the neighbour's cat 😭😭😭

a small Christmas card with a fox saying 'ho ho ho'

the inside of a Christmas card reading "to Bodie and Doyle, have a brilliant Christmas, lots of meows from Ken"

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Chloe @cdelull.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

been so poorly these past couple weeks I've barely walked to the shop let alone my beloved greenery, dare I gently quietly whisper "we're so back" ??

a young white woman with sunglasses and a pair of Winnie the Pooh dungarees takes a selfie in a forest

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Chloe @cdelull.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

Tix for the London launch of my @northodoxpress.bsky.social debut novel at @thecommonpress.bsky.social are now LIVE & KICKING ✨ 🌈 join me for an evening of yapping about class, creativity & contemporary girlhood with the iconic @casualwednesday.bsky.social 🪩 🔗 www.outsavvy.com/event/27321/...

an event poster in the colours of the bisexual flag advertising the London launch of Cacoethes at the Common Press, June 27th

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Chloe @cdelull.bsky.social · 27/04/2025

cute day at the Northern Publishers Fair yesterday chatting with some fellow @northodoxpress.bsky.social authors (some for the first time!) and scooping up some goodies from the brilliant @saraband-books.bsky.social. thank you @flyonthewallpress.bsky.social for organising such a super event! ✨ 📚

a hand holding up It Came From The Closet: Queer Reflections on Horror and Kingfisher, both paperbacks from Saraband Press

a spread of colourful paperbacks on a table at a book fair with people standing around chatting in the background

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Chloe @cdelull.bsky.social · 13/04/2025

just off to the 30th anniversary screening of Babe, my favourite film about politeness and vegetarianism 🐷 🐑 (and that, dear friends, is the official Babe merchandise Ma backpack, one of my proudest ever Vinted finds)

a white woman with large glasses and a backpack in the shape of Ma, the sheep from the film Babe, sits grinning on a train

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