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Charlotte Mendelson

@charlottemendelson.bsky.social
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New novel WIFE out now, Meanwhile: The Exhibitionist, Almost English, When We Were Bad, gardener

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Charlotte Mendelson @charlottemendelson.bsky.social · 15/08/2025
So immensely loving writing my new gardening column @theobserveruk.bsky.social
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Curtis Brown Creative @cbcreative.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
Join us in London for expert tuition from award-winning author @charlottemendelson.bsky.social and insights from literary agents delivered in lively evening sessions. Apply for our Writing Your Novel – Three Months (London) course by 20 Jul: www.curtisbrowncreative.co.uk/course/writi...
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Curtis Brown Creative @cbcreative.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
Applications are open for our HW Fisher Novel-Writing Scholarship for Writers with Low Income! One talented writer will be awarded a place on our Writing Your Novel – Three Months course taught by critically acclaimed author @charlottemendelson.bsky.social in our London offices. 🗓️ Find out more:
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HW Fisher Novel-Writing Scholarship for Writers of Colour
This scholarship, sponsored by HW Fisher, will award one talented writer of colour a free place on our flagship Writing Your Novel course with three months of teaching in London.
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Charlotte Mendelson @charlottemendelson.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
So looking forward to this for my NEW PAPERBACK!!! Out TOMORROW!!! Sex marriage power rage queerness parenting chaos. Kate Davies is great and I fear it may become riotous. Please come and keep the peace
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Sooz Kempner @soozuk.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
Me checking the NASDAQ all the time: "ahhhhh yes I see well well well" Me before April: "NASDAQ is....some sort of....bank.....?"
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Charlotte Mendelson @charlottemendelson.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
Had forgotten THRILL of being picked as one of @waterstones.bsky.social top authors for the next 25 yrs w #maggieofarrell @naomialderman.bsky.social #SusannaClarke #helenoyemi @gautammalkani.bsky.social +19 others, hence my colossal grin, freshly rediscovered. www.thetimes.com/culture/tv-r...
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Bert’s Books @bertsbooks.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
"top 3 so far this year." Believe me when I say Julianne reads about a gazillion books a month, so this is real feat. We have signed copies still available of @charlottemendelson.bsky.social's Wife to order if you'd like one: Here's the link: bertsbooks.co.uk/wife
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Wife
Zoe Stamper, junior researcher in Ancient Greek Tragedy, meets fellow academic Dr Penny Cartwright at a faculty flute recital. Dr Cartwright seems impossibly glamorous to Zoe, who is, after all, se…
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Andrew Male @andrewmale.bsky.social · 23/03/2025
Did You Know They Keep Sooty In A Display Case On The North Pier In Blackpool Like A Glove Puppet Jeremy Bentham?
Lana Del Ray
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Charlotte Mendelson @charlottemendelson.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
Eighteen hrs from Perth to Heathr...oh. Now 7 hours into a 1975 style coach trip towards but not even AT Calais so help me god
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Sooz Kempner @soozuk.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
🧵Dressage horses with funny names. 1. Super Mario
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Sooz Kempner @soozuk.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
42. Son of a Lady
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Charlotte Mendelson @charlottemendelson.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
Hampstead Heath today was a frenzy of cross country runners all going in different directions and it was brilliant. Like being caught among muddy atoms
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Nigella Lawson @nigella.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
I’ve been hacked over in the other place, which in one way is rather a blessing. The process of trying to sort it out is, however, exasperating. This tweet (which a friend screenshot and sent) did make me laugh though, so that’s something!
Screenshot of post on X announcing (with the amusing words “Diva down) that my account there has been hacked
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Sarah Pyke @sarahpyke.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
What those who raid bookshops, ban books, censor and destroy archives forget is that we have a history of resistance and we will defend our freedom to read. Seized Books! records how @gaystheword.bsky.social and their supporters fought back against customs raids and won.
A grid of twenty LGBTQ+ book covers, just some of the books seized by HM Customs in the early 1980s raids on Gay's the Word bookshop. For more info see: london.ac.uk/seized-booksA grid of twenty LGBTQ+ book covers, just some of the books seized by HM Customs in the early 1980s raids on Gay's the Word bookshop. For more info see: london.ac.uk/seized-booksA grid of twenty LGBTQ+ book covers, just some of the books seized by HM Customs in the early 1980s raids on Gay's the Word bookshop. For more info see: london.ac.uk/seized-booksA grid of twenty LGBTQ+ book covers, just some of the books seized by HM Customs in the early 1980s raids on Gay's the Word bookshop. For more info see: london.ac.uk/seized-books
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
People sometimes ask me what English exceptionalism is. In the future I'm going to just hand out laminated copies of this.
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Sarah Steegar @paperandairplanes.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
Y’all, I really wanna know what happened with this couple. Anyone know THE Liam Smith?
bbc.co.uk
Woman trapped in window trying to retrieve poo after Tinder date - BBC News
She tried to dispose of the unflushable waste out of a window and got stuck trying to get it back.
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Charlotte Mendelson @charlottemendelson.bsky.social · 16/02/2025
I'm proud to be involved with an amazing group of LGBTQ+ Asylum Seekers and Refugees, who need your help. Rainbow Lunch Club offers meals supplies & safety for 30 guests a month, who face hardship and isolation. Please give, anything at all to keep it going www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/rainbow-lu...
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Sheila O’Flanagan @sheilawriter.bsky.social · 16/02/2025
Two Men on a Bike. Another bloody programme with a couple of middle aged blokes on a journey of discovery. Maybe there’s a podcast too 😖 ( quite happy to head of on a tv jolly with a girl friend but obvs too old 😂)
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Charlotte Mendelson @charlottemendelson.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
Just had my first Vinted Issue. End stage capitalism much less fun than Gibbons's Fall of the Roman Empire led me to believe
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West Cork Literary Festival @wcorklitfest.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
"The Women’s Prize for Non-Fiction celebrates excellence, originality and accessibility in Non-Fiction written by women. The 2025 longlist varies in subject matter, style and genre, and the 16 books make for an incisive and original reading list." womensprize.com/prizes/women...
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Women’s Prize For Non Fiction - Women's Prize
The Women’s Prize for Non-Fiction is a major new annual book prize that celebrates exceptional narrative non-fiction by women.
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Louise Milligan @milliganreports.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
Okay friends, you know what to do. Welcome the formidable @louiseadler1.bsky.social to Bluesky. An *awkward gesture* has brought has brought her from X to greener pastures. Louise is brave, big-hearted, funny and smart. Publisher of my first book on Pell, Cardinal, now runs Adelaide Writers’ Week.
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Martin Shaw @thebooksdesk.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
Nice to see some @shawliterary.bsky.social faces appearing at Adelaide: @eleytherius.bsky.social, @jennifermills.net.au and @emmashortis.bsky.social! www.adelaidefestival.com.au/writers-week...
adelaidefestival.com.au
Writers' Week - Adelaide Festival 2025
1 - 6 March 2025 | Australia's largest free literary festival returned to the Pioneer Women's Memorial Gardens in 2025 for a packed program full of inspiring and thought-provoking talks.
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Australian Arts Review @artsreviewau.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
Adelaide Writers' Week Director Louise Adler AM has announced the full program for her third event, taking place from Saturday 1 March to Thursday 6 March, 2025 at the Pioneer Women's Memorial Garden. bit.ly/3Ctjauo
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E.Saxey @esaxey.bsky.social · 02/09/2024
When We Were Bad, Charlotte Mendelson Spend some time with a deliciously dysfunctional family. My friend, who recommended it, said her others are also excellent. So nice to have a new back catalogue to raid.
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Becca Von Hattifnatt @vonhatti.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
5 authors I’ve read 5+ books by: 1) Enid Blyton 2) Terry Pratchett 3) Iain M Banks 4) Charlotte Mendelson 5) Emily St John Mandel 💙📚
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John Self @john-self.bsky.social · 04/01/2024
“If it was really a lucky condom, wouldn’t you have used it by now?” Magnus Mills, Nicola Barker, Mordecai Richler, Charlotte Mendelson, Molly Keane, Timothy Mo and more feature in this piece I wrote about some of the funniest Booker novels:
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Ten of the funniest novels from the Booker Library | The Booker Prizes
Looking to start the year with a book to put a smile on your face? We’ve trawled the Booker Prize archives in search of the wittiest works, from biting social satire to family farce
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Lee Ward @leewardmister.bsky.social · 31/12/2024
All told, I read three great books in 2024: The Wren, The Wren by Anne Enright; Wife by Charlotte Mendelson; and Karla’s Choice by Nick Harkaway.
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MichelleBYoung @michellebyoung.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
This is happening right now about 15 minutes from where I live in Cincinnati. These are the demons that have been unleashed
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Jessica Elgot @jessicaelgot.bsky.social · 13/11/2024
There’s been quite an influx here overnight! The great @severincarrell.bsky.social has made a starter pack of Guardian journalists and columnists here go.bsky.app/B6CxPTX
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Charlotte Mendelson @charlottemendelson.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
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Charlotte Mendelson @charlottemendelson.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
What shall I have for dinner? So far: 5 gherkins
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Jason, ex Inferis @benedictsred.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
I bet doom scroll meant something way cooler in the middle ages.
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Sooz Kempner @soozuk.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
I was shitposting about rubbish American politics this week and someone replied all cuntily “instead of just posting about it email your senator” so does anyone know the senator for Surrey?
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Charlotte Mendelson @charlottemendelson.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
All...my novels?
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 06/02/2025
And there it is: Doors are open for kleptocracy in America
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Charlotte Mendelson @charlottemendelson.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
We all need joy. We all, particularly now, need to snort with laughter in public places, yet feel wiser and somehow comforted. So this, narrated by NORA HERSELF, will, I promise, enhance your life. (Still furious we weren't friends though.) (And #LaurieColwin.) open.spotify.com/show/7abUR9E...
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Charlotte Mendelson @charlottemendelson.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
As I still can't quite get used to saying, I'll be in Adelaide and beyond for the Writers Week in a few short weeks. And obv. am already fretting about plane reading. So I need from you all please a) suggestions and/or b) great Australian literary fiction. Anyone?
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 02/02/2025
Jasmine Crockett: "The problem is that Americans thought it was okay to take a full fledged criminal and make him the President of the US and then they want to act aghast when he does criminal things. Let me tell you, we have a thug in charge of the US and if we don't wake up we may not have a US"
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Katherine Shingler @drkshingler.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
The thing is, the “quarter of unis” stat is pretty misleading. Many more have *already* cut back to the bone, especially in arts & humanities
theguardian.com
Quarter of leading UK universities cutting staff due to budget shortfalls
Up to 10,000 redundancies or job losses feared as institutes undergo restructuring
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Valarie Smith @valarie.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
Americans, every day:
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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
When something is a success, people like to associate themselves with it. So it's noticeable how quiet the Brexiters are. inews.co.uk/opinion/brex...
inews.co.uk
Brexit cheerleaders have gone awfully quiet – so let me remind you what they did to Britain
If we do talk about it, we start to recognise the gulf between their words and reality
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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
Also applies in the UK.
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Cslmn @rapsacnomlas.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
Name a film
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aslynn is just a ghoul 👻 @aslynnromano.com · 09/11/2024
Additional scripts for cis het white men who want to be better allies: “What a weird thing to say” “Do you hear yourself right now?” “You shouldn’t say shit like that to people” “I won’t let you talk to them that way” “That’s a disgusting opinion to have” “Shut the fuck up, dude”
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Maryn McKenna @marynmck.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
My local hardware store made these and is leaving them available for free at the register. “We’re trying to take care of our customers,” the cashier said. ✊
A wallet-sized card of black text on a white background makes available constitutional rights against search and seizure, to be read to any police or immigration enforcement. One side is in English, and the other side is in Spanish. It is covered in clear plastic.
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Sarah Tuttle @niais.cryptoanarchy.network · 01/02/2025
We're here to stay, friends, no matter what lies you tell.
The LGBTQIA+ flag overlayed with the NASA worm logo. Queer people are here to stay, everywhere. Including at NASA.
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kate @katewitko.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
J at work (1 of 2 antivaxxers) has informed me that she won't eat (among other things) girl scout cookies due to a chemical additive she refers to only as "the gas"
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