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Eva Dolan

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Sunday Times bestselling author of the Zigic & Ferreira series. Grand Prix des Lectrices winner. Cambridge. Agent - Nicola Barr at Rye Literary

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Lev Parikian @levparikian.bsky.social · 02/05/2026
It’s the time of year to be sharing this.
An infographic flow chart describing what to do if you find a baby bird. Some key points:
– if the baby bird is injured, remove it from danger and contact local wildlife rescue
– if it is featherless, you can find the nest, and the nest is undamaged, replace it in the nest and observe from a distance
– if it is featherless and you can’t find the nest or the nest is damaged, contact local wildlife rescue
– if it has lots of feathers, it’s normal for it to be on the ground, so look to see if the parents are around. If they are, and if they’re feeding the fledgling, then all good. If not, you can gently shoo the fledgling under cover and observe to see if the parents return.
– whether the baby bird is featherless or feathered, if the parents don’t return to feed it (or if a predator turns up and starts attacking it), contact local wildlife rescue
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Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
The fluid topsoil world. A world where the noise of the soundbite drowns out the work itself. A world where everyone knows the quote but almost nobody's read the book it's from. A world where going viral is somehow seen as more of an achievement than working for years to create a piece of art.
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Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
This might well become a thread. I am calling it 'Bloody Hell, Aren't Doors On Old Walls Fucking Brilliant?'
An intriguing door in a very posh but non-smug non-judgemental old wall.A door in an old wall leading to a garden where you can bet there is a fucking crazy party happening An old door in an old wall which is so arrogantly great, it’s almost disgusting.Some dickhead had better not try to paint this great messed up old door in an even older wall or I am going over there with some people I know, and I am not kidding.
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Eva Dolan @evadolan.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
Delightful stuff
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Eva Dolan @evadolan.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
This looks amazing!
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Brian Groom @groomb.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
Molly in the Blackburne Arms, Liverpool, 1972, photo by Tricia Porter.
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Eva Dolan @evadolan.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
For any bookish gardening folks who like getting their hands dirty…
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The Beer Nut @thebeernut.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
Pitching hard to the brutalist demographic.
Sign at a Brussels Airport restaurant advertising "a great tarmac view".
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CrimeReads @crimereads.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
Manosphere thrillers, cultish killers, fierce rivals, and skewed classics: Molly Odintz @mollsotov.bsky.social rounds up the best psychological thrillers of January 2026! crimereads.com/the-best-psy...
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The Best Psychological Thrillers of January 2026
New year, new you! Or at least, that’s what we want to think…but these psychological thrillers are here to remind us that no matter where we go, there we are. These stories take us on f…
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JacquiWine @jacquiwine.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
I ran out of time earlier this week, but these recordings might be of interest to #JaneAusten fans with access to BBC Sounds. #BookSky 💙📚 First up, an unabridged reading of PRIDE AND PREJUDICE, which has been keeping me company for the past few days: www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
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Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen - Chapter 1 - BBC Sounds
Jane Austen’s universally acknowledged romance about Elizabeth Bennett’s search for love.
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Adrian Hon @adrianhon.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
I have a lot of thoughts on this, but first: why on Earth are you quoting a novelist’s opinion on non-fiction’s supposed travails? You wouldn’t do the inverse.
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Are we falling out of love with nonfiction?
In the early 2020s, readers flocked to books to explain political turbulence. But is the world now too grim to read about – and are podcasters taking the place of authors?
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Benjamin Myers @benjaminmyers76.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
Budding writers: we'll soon be announcing details of how to enter the Finchale Prize for Short Fiction 2026. It's for anyone living or working in the North of England, and we've got a couple of smashing judges lined up. £1000 and a rosey glow to the winner. newwritingnorth.com/northern-wri...
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Enter - New Writing North
The Northern Writers’ Awards discover and support writers in the North of England, with a focus on supporting new work-in-progress.
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Ann Foster @vulgarhistory.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
Today's Regency Era episode is a crossover with October's Mary Shelley series because of topic is Mary Shelley's stepsister, Claire Clairmont! With special guest @lesleymcdowell.bsky.social podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/v...
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Mary Shelley's Scandalous Sister, Claire Clairmont (Revisited)
Podcast Episode · Vulgar History: Regency Era · 2025-12-10 · 1h 27m
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Dr Claire Millington ✍🏻🏺 @clairemillington.bsky.social · 07/12/2025
This is such brilliant archaeology. There's a bit of a persistent story that Britain was somehow culturally separate from europe in the Roman empire when it was so intertwined and connected by people and goods travelling. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Rare mosaic in Rutland reveals forgotten Trojan War tale - BBC News
A paper by experts at the University of Leicester has been described as a "fascinating development".
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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 30/11/2025
"Your pattern of reluctance cannot hold; the dam will break at some point. Every year, you read 'backgammon set' as one of my lovely gift suggestions, and every year you scroll right past it as if you know better than me. Let’s be clear: you don’t."
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I’m a Holiday Gift Guide Writer, and I Really Need You Pricks to Start Playing Backgammon
On the whole, I love my job writing holiday gift guides. I get to curate beautiful lists designed to help you, the consumer, bring joy to your love...
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Michael Spicer @michaelspicer.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
There should be book clubs for babies. "I enjoyed the crinkliness of this one but I have to say the little mirror at the end was a bit predictable."
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Jo Wolff @jowolff.bsky.social · 23/11/2025
Twitter accounts are based in Russia. BlueSky accounts are based in homes with, frankly, too many books, plants, obsolete cables, and pieces of rustic pottery, that could do with a bit of a tidying up, to be honest.
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Doug Johnstone @dougjohnstone.bsky.social · 09/11/2025
It was an absolute honour to chat with Elif Shafak for the @royalliteraryfund.bsky.social podcast. Full of insight and fun, I hope! @annmorgan.bsky.social @orendabooks.bsky.social open.spotify.com/episode/3a98...
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CrimeReads @crimereads.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
Sheila Roberts explores shapeshifting secret-keepers in Daphne du Maurier, Oscar Wilde, Margaret Mitchell, and more! crimereads.com/the-power-of...
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The Power of Creating Fictional Characters Who Aren’t What They Seem
Have you ever met a fictional character who turned out to be very different from what that character first appeared to be? We often refer to them as shapeshifters because of how they can change. Or…
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Marie Ruiz-Vidal @ruizvidal7.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
©Vivian Maier New York, 1953
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Eva Dolan @evadolan.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
A great guide to the second worst job after writing a synopsis!
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Ruth Ware @ruthwarewriter.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
A few months ago I was asked to give the after-dinner speech at the CWA Daggers. I chose to talk about AI, and the bravery and humanity involved in reading and writing. Afterwards a lot of people asked me to post the speech online, so here it is. I hope you like it ruthware.com/daggers-spee...
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Daggers Speech
The following is a lightly edited version of a speech I was asked to give at the 2025 Daggers – the prestigious crime fiction awards administered by the Crime Writer’s Association of the UK.
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Eva Dolan @evadolan.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
‘This habit of hearing only flawless synchronization conditions us to experience other humans as sources of disagreement and delay. The aesthetic normalization of perfect time translates directly into diminished tolerance for the temporal and affective plurality on which democracy depends.’
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Lesley McDowell @lesleymcdowell.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
It's Halloween and the last day for Love and Other Poisons (no ghosts but it does have a murder!) on the Amazon Kindle deal - grab it now!
Green and black book cover advert
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hookland.bsky.social @hookland.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
Children have an innate sense of which trees are possessed by Wood Sprites. It's a faculty not ever adult loses. Some of us still hear trees whisper with withered bark voices in our minds. Still see their wooden bones as alphabet. We know they watch. – Joanna Vickers #VOH
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Eva Dolan @evadolan.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
Lovely surprise in the post today, a gorgeous proof of @dauntbookspub.bsky.social reissue of THE BOTTLE FACTORY OUTING. So great to see Beryl Bainbridge prepped to find a new audience. Big thanks @marigoldatkey.bsky.social this is right up my alley!
Front cover of The Bottle Factory outing by Beryl Bainbridge in white and dirty hot pink design. With plaudits from Hilary Mantel, John Banville, Guardian and Telegraph
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June Lewins @joonloons.bsky.social · 26/10/2025
Isabelline Shrike is the new fashion editor at The Telegraph.
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Surgeons' Hall Museum @surgeonshall.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
These little tools are apple scoops. They date from the 1800s and are made of sheep bone. They were common in apple-growing districts. The marrow has been hollowed out to allow the user to scrape off pieces of apple if they had few teeth and couldn’t afford dentures.
Four sheep metatarsals that have been hollowed out to make a spoon
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Simon Spanton @simonguy.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
Mycenaean bull's head. I mean, just look at it...
A photo of a sculpture of a bull's head. The head and ears are black. Its lips, a sun shape on its forehead and its long, curved upright horns are gold.
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Eva Dolan @evadolan.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
Loved this book and it’s FREE right now!
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Eva Dolan @evadolan.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
‘I have read of other cat burglars who work in the dead of night, and all I can tell you is they are not French. Miss a night of passionate lovemaking to steal some jewels that will still be there the next morning at a reasonable hour? C’est impossible!’
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Daunt Books Publishing @dauntbookspub.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
Enormously proud to be the new UK home of Beryl Bainbridge. In March 2026, we kick things off in earnest by publishing AN AWFULLY BIG ADVENTURE, with an intro by Yiyun Li, and THE BOTTLE FACTORY OUTING, with an intro by A. K. Blakemore. Ruthlessly smart, darkly comic, her novels are sharp-edged gems
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Eva Dolan @evadolan.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
A warm-hearted and incredibly sensible piece of writing
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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
'Avatar Reef' teapot by UK based ceramicist Delfina Emmanuel, who creates work often inspired by marine life #WomensArt
Photo featuring a ceramic teapot covered in three dimensional coral like and marine plant like features
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Eva Dolan @evadolan.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
If ever a book was made to be read in a single, hypnotic sitting it’s this one. Groundhog Day for lovers of chilly precision, slow disintegration and the uncanniness of repeated domestic detail. In awe of Solvej Balle.
Front cover of On The Calculation of Volume by Solvej Balle
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Eva Dolan @evadolan.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
This is always a really fun festival - had the most severe hangover of my life at NN! - so if you haven’t been yet make this the year
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Boze Herrington, Library Owl @sketchesbyboze.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
Chatbots and AI slop are going to ruin countless brains. Yours doesn't have to be one of them. Study history. Read poetry. Get acquainted with Bach, Shakespeare, George Eliot. In a time when people are rapidly getting dumber, we need communities devoted to the life of the mind.
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Wild Hunt Books @wildhuntbooks.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
*SUBMISSION WINDOW NOW OPEN 5 DAYS ONLY* We're open to unagented subs from 6-12 Oct. For this submission period we are looking for novellas only (35K-50K). We're specifically looking for novellas that play w horror, mystery, weird & the unusual. More info 🐐 www.wildhuntbooks.co.uk/blog/pop-up-...
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Eva Dolan @evadolan.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
‘You want to use words like “mouthfeel.” And you want your mouth to feel bad.’ The memory of that 100% Lindt I tried still haunts me. Can almost taste it now just typing this.
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Eva Dolan @evadolan.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
Very excited for this one as a lover of all things fighty! (And if you haven’t seen A Thousand Blows yet do it now and be reminded just how brilliant period dramas about working class people can be. And why more working class people should be lifted up in the arts.)
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Raven Books @bloomsburyraven.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
From the world of The Silent Companions comes Laura Purcell’s most chilling tale yet. Pre-order your signed Waterstones exclusive edition today: bit.ly/4jroIpE @spookypurcell.bsky.social
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David Hewson @davidhewson.com · 16/09/2025
Bet there's never been a crime book festival in a place like this. The Ateneo Veneto. Home to Venice Noir in November. All events free. #Venice
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Curtis Brown Creative @cbcreative.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
We’re so excited that bestselling crime writer @mstamarcohen.bsky.social & Curtis Brown associate agent Flo Sandelson are guest speakers on our Writing Crime & Thrillers – Advanced course with @sarahhilary.bsky.social! Applications close this weekend: www.curtisbrowncreative.co.uk/course/writi...
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Eva Dolan @evadolan.bsky.social · 31/08/2025
This is a lovely piece of writing. Really looking forward to reading The Two Roberts. Total catnip for anyone who spends way too much time thinking about how many great working class talents have faded from or been written out of history.
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VictorianLondon @victorianlondon.bsky.social · 30/08/2025
subtle clues that you might not be in the most respectable public house
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Eva Dolan @evadolan.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
Can’t wait for this one!
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Rachel Charlton-Dailey @rachelcdailey.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
This week I wrote about how millions of vulnerable and disabled people are no longer eligible for a covid booster. Here's a petition you can sign to stop that happening petition.parliament.uk/petitions/73... (and the article www.thecanary.co/uk/analysis/...)
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Petition: Fund NHS COVID boosters for Clinically Vulnerable people – keep covid boosters
'Protect the NHS' and 'Save Lives' by continuing to fund NHS COVID boosters for Clinically Vulnerable people, including most previously shielded as CEV, rather than limiting them to over-75s, care home residents and those with severely weakened immune systems.
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Rob Tyers @thexclaim6.bsky.social · 26/08/2025
“Deserted Medieval Village” is about the only sign that can compete with “Ancient Monument”. Either way, you’re parking up in a layby before you know it Although the reality might be disappointing - by definiton, an abandoned village is unlikely to have much there, right? So why visit? A short 🧵
Sign for Wharram Percy - Deserted Medieval Village
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Eva Dolan @evadolan.bsky.social · 25/08/2025
Late to the party but bloody hell ANDOR is cracking telly! Looks gorgeous & so expensive on screen. And amazing on the banality of authoritarianism. If you’re not a Star Wars fan (I’m so not) still give it a go.
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Joanne Harris @joannechocolat.bsky.social · 14/08/2025
Unsolicited writing advice, no: 216: RESEARCH. If you're writing about a time, place, culture, historical figure, profession, etc., it pays to research it properly. That might mean: reading; travelling; going to libraries and museums; consulting archives; talking to people with lived experience.
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