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Eva @evaduffy.bsky.social · 01/01/2026

The 41 books I read in 2025 …

Eva @evaduffy.bsky.social · 05/05/2025

What I’ve been reading in 2025: 1. The Bees by Laline Paull 2. Big Swiss by Jen Beagin 3. The Fishermen by Chigozie Obioma 4. Goodlord by Ella Frears 5. Nightingale Point by Luan Goldie 6. Taste: My Life Through Food by Stanley Tucci 7. The Visitor by Maeve Brennan

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Eva @evaduffy.bsky.social · 27/04/2025

Fantastic afternoon hearing from two of my favourite contemporary writers, Eimear McBride and Kevin Barry, at the Cambridge Literary Festival, lead expertly in conversation by @newstatesman.com’s Tom Gatti 📚

Eimear is sitting in a chair wearing a black and gold trouser suit, black shirt and emerald green tie with a thick knot. She is speaking and appears animated.

Kevin is sitting in a chair. He is dressed casually in a light green shirt. In front of him is a low table with a water jug and glasses and a copy of his book The Heart in Winter. He is talking and gesticulating.

Tom and Eimear sit on either side of a low table with a red tablecloth in which sits a jug of water and glasses. Tom and Eimear are laughing.

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Eva @evaduffy.bsky.social · 09/03/2025

@ronanhession.bsky.social well done - New York Public Library’s book of the day!

Email screenshot: “Today’s Book of the Day is quiet yet thought provoking” Ghost Mountain by Rónán Hession

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Royal Free Charity @royalfreecharity.org · 03/03/2025

Which animals have you spotted on our pondcam? Our pondcam live stream focuses on one of the Hampstead Heath ponds. It is played for patients to ease the stresses of waiting to be seen in the oncology clinic at the Royal Free Hospital. 📺Watch live at the link in our bio! #NHS #nature #Hampstead

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Eva @evaduffy.bsky.social · 06/01/2025

Virginia Woolf, Vanessa’s sister, did the same artistic magpie act: her novel Mrs Dalloway - stream of consciousness covering one day in one woman’s life - “inspired by” James Joyce’s Ulysses despite Woolf declaring it ”an illiterate, underbred book … the book of a self-taught working man…”

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Eva @evaduffy.bsky.social · 05/01/2025

First exhibition of 2025 - Vanessa Bell: A World of Form and Colour. Superbly-curated but Bell’s work felt hugely derivative - her style veering erratically between Rembrandt, Cézanne, Matisse, even a nod to Kandinsky - without mastering any. Textbook class privilege. 📸 @davidbevan.bsky.social

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Eva @evaduffy.bsky.social · 02/01/2025

Loving the 25% increase on the cost of a bus trip into town. Happy Back To Work Day to all who are participating - and a shout out to all the bus drivers explaining government price caps to disgruntled passengers.

Bus ticket showing £2.50 fare to Northampton town centre

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Eva @evaduffy.bsky.social · 01/01/2025

Really love the NHS text message updates telling me where my donated blood has gone. Genius idea. #GiveBlood

Text message advising that donates blood has been issued to Birmingham Children’s Hospital.

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National Library of Ireland @nlireland.bsky.social · 23/12/2024

✨ "With Sincere Good Wishes" ✨ We love this beautiful #Christmas #card from the #HarryClarke and #MargaretClarke Papers, 1860-1991; catalogue.nli.ie/Record/vtls0....

Black and white illustrated Christmas card by Harry Clarke featuring the Virgin Mary holding baby Jesus

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Eva @evaduffy.bsky.social · 23/12/2024

A pint of plain is yer only man #GiveBlood 🩸

A needle is inserted into a bare arm. A tube of blood leading from the needle is visible in the background

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Eva @evaduffy.bsky.social · 14/12/2024

A work colleague, who drew my name in our team Secret Santa, heard me raving about the @britishlibrary.bsky.social Irish Writers Weekend so he researched which writers took part to help his book buying for my present 📚 What wonderful choices!

Three books side by side: I Don’t Want to Talk About Home by Suad Aldarra, Trespass by Louise Kennedy and Without Warning by @kitdewaal.bsky.social

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Eva @evaduffy.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

Ah, you’d miss the subeditors all the same …

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Eva @evaduffy.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

Oooooooooooh look what was in today’s post 💕 @stingingfly.bsky.social

A copy of the latest edition of the Stinging Fly literary magazine

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Eva @evaduffy.bsky.social · 08/12/2024

A poignant coincidence to have been reading Caoilinn Hughes’ The Wild Laughter as UK politicians voted in favour of assisted dying. Gorgeously written, as you’d expect from a poet-turned-writer, with deliciously dislikeable characters and laugh-out-loud dark humour.

Screenshot of the audiobook cover of The Wild Laughter by Caoilinn Hughes

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Eva @evaduffy.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

Oh. Foe-cal Not Fuh-cal. Disappointing. 🇮🇪

Screen shot of a BlueSky account which on first glance looks like the Irish word “focal” which means word followed by the word data.

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Eva @evaduffy.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

What I’ve read in 2024 (so far): 1. Cuddy by Benjamin Myers 2. Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes 3. Land of Milk and Honey by C Pam Zhang 4. The Three-Body Problem by Cixin Liu (trns by Ken Liu) 5. Prophet by Helen MacDonald and Sin Blaché A thread …

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Eva @evaduffy.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

A wonderful day at @britishlibrary.bsky.social for its Irish Writers Weekend in the company of some of my favourite living writers, including Donal Ryan, Eimear McBride and Lisa McInerney. Discovered exciting new writers and poets to check out too.

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Eva @evaduffy.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

Looks like Robyn is having so much fun of late, following up a superb summer collaboration with Jamie xx with this brat hilarity: “I started so young I didn’t even have email” open.spotify.com/track/0VYJse...

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360 featuring robyn & yung lean

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