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Jane Casey

@janecasey.bsky.social
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Author from Ireland. Responsible for the Maeve Kerrigan series and Everything She Didn't Say (out 16 July). Also owner of the world’s least cooperative spaniel.

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Jane Casey @janecasey.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I’m listening to a podcast about AI psychosis and it reminds me so much of spiritualism in the early twentieth century: also a con, also preyed on people who were convinced it promised some eternal truths wrapped up in great personal significance.
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Jane Casey @janecasey.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Yearning: an occasional series.
A tabby cat sits in a shaft of pale light on a herringbone floor in a kitchen that is 50% dog bowls. A dog stares at him intently from the arm of a sofa as if he might actually send him on a side quest. We are moments from chaos.
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Jane Casey @janecasey.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Farrow and Ball have started emailing me in French which makes me feel very sophisticated if embrouillé.
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Marsh's Library @marshslibrary.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Today is Michaelmas, a quarter day in the Irish calendar, and traditionally when rents were paid & contracts signed. It's also the last day to eat blackberries - after today, they belong to the Devil and will make you sick!
Detail of a page showing text in Spanish and a woodcut of blackberries. From Dioscorides' Materia Medica, 1555
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Jane Casey @janecasey.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
A story in alt text.
Inciting incident: A large confused orange spaniel discovers the love of his life, a tabby cat, asleep on a pile of blankets, on a bed. Dramatic tension: The spaniel looms affectionately over the cat, who has just opened bright green eyesCrisis/resolution: the spaniel immediately remembers the cat is the scariest creature he knows and il fiche le camp tout suite. All the cat has done is raise his head and Disapprove.Fin: The cat, with ears set to reverse disapproval, relishes his solitude.
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Jane Casey @janecasey.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
I can sum up today with this story: I treated myself to a g&t on the plane and they gave me ginger ale instead of tonic and I drank it anyway.
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Paul Roth (he/him) @paulidin.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
In the latest Taskmaster NZ, Rose Matafeo says she'll fight for a thing "...unless I'm slightly tired, a little bit shy, or I don't feel like it" and that might be the most relatable thing I've heard this year.
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JacquiWine @jacquiwine.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
New on the blog today, my thoughts on THE BLANK WALL by Elisabeth Sanxay Holding. An utterly gripping novel in which an ordinary woman finds herself in an extraordinary situation. Filmed by Max Ophüls as THE RECKLESS MOMENT, it's a 5-star knockout read! 💙📚 jacquiwine.wordpress.com/2026/09/22/t...
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The Blank Wall by Elisabeth Sanxay Holding
Praised by Raymond Chandler as one of the best suspense writers of her era, the American writer Elisabeth Sanxay Holding produced eighteen crime novels and many short stories over the course of her…
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The Kimono Gallery @roger1952.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Japanese writer Jirō Osaragi (大佛次郎) and his cat, Japan,1930s.
Seated upon a woven cushion beside a sliding wooden frame, acclaimed writer Jirō Osaragi cradles a pristine white cat against his lap, his hands holding the animal with gentle, practiced ease. Draped in the soft, cascading folds of a dark traditional kimono, Osaragi turns his face toward the lens with a quiet, engaging gaze. The stark white fur of the feline creates a vivid focal point at the center of the frame, catching soft directional light that illuminates its watchful eyes and slender ears. Behind them, the subtle grid of a shōji screen and the deep gloom of a tatami room frame the pair, establishing an intimate domestic stillness captured in warm monochrome tones.
Photographed in the 1930s, this portrait captures Jirō Osaragi (1897–1973), one of early Shōwa-period Japan's most prominent literary figures, famous for his historical adventure novels such as Kurama Tengu as well as modern postwar reflections like Homecoming (Kikyō). Osaragi was celebrated not only for his prolific pen but also for his lifelong passion for felines, often sharing his home in historic Kamakura with dozens of rescue cats at a time, famously remarking that his feline companions provided an essential emotional anchor throughout his writing career. In 1930s Japanese literary culture, informal portraits of writers (bunjin) in their home studies served as a beloved subgenre of documentary photography, combining modern media craftsmanship with the timeless monozukuri (artisanal mastery) of portrait arts to reveal the human interiority behind celebrated literature.
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Jane Casey @janecasey.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Outstanding.
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Jane Casey @janecasey.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
I’ve bought the cat (who shuns me and everything to do with me) a cushion from Etsy and he adores it.
A large cat is disappointed to realise no one minds him sitting on a nice new blue cushion on a dining chair at a table. Everything else is very brown apart from his eyes, which are green, and his heart, which is black.
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Jane Casey @janecasey.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
I was on the last chapters of this and everyone in my family decided to chat to me separately and together. Find somewhere you won’t be disturbed before you start it. Excellent crime novel.
Cover of Road Kill by Sabine Durrant
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Lin(da) Morris @morris65.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Wow! Just finished Everything she didn’t say by the incomparable @janecasey.bsky.social I lost count of the number of times I gasped out loud at yet another plot twist. One of the best books I’ve read this year. Characters, setting and what a plot. Just perfection 💙📚
Book cover for novel
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Jane Casey @janecasey.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
I like to imagine he thinks he’s posing for a seasonal calendar when he stops on the dog walk like this. August, in the bag.
A spaniel sits in dry dead grass against a backdrop of exhausted ferns and leafy trees just starting to sense a coolness in the air and a shortening of the days.
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Edward Hopper @edwardhopper.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Square Rock, Ogunquit - 1914 botfrens.com/collections/173/conten…
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Bloody Scotland @bloodyscotland.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
We've had Jane Harper on our wish list for the festival for years and we're beyond excited that's she's finally appearing this year with perhaps her best book yet - the atmospheric and emotional 'Last One Out' she'll be on with @janecasey.bsky.social: bloodyscotland.com/event/denise...
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Jane Casey @janecasey.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
What are South Africa currently doing in sport? The next door neighbours are beside themselves.
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Jane Casey @janecasey.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
A very old accidental Renaissance painting. They’re both taller than me now.
A woman simpering like a Madonna flanked by two small children on a leather bench in the National Gallery in London
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Jane Casey @janecasey.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
The 14 year old has started to make requests that end with ‘who do I need to speak to about this?’ and I just don’t think I’ve ever been as effective at managing people as he is at any point in my life.
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Jane Casey @janecasey.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Give me my lizard
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Jane Casey @janecasey.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
Psst want to buy a cheap ebook? Today only… www.amazon.co.uk/Everything-S...
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Everything She Didn’t Say: 'Insanely gripping, full of hairpin twists and turns, I could NOT put it down' Marian Keyes eBook : Casey, Jane: Amazon.co.uk: Kindle Store
Everything She Didn’t Say: 'Insanely gripping, full of hairpin twists and turns, I could NOT put it down' Marian Keyes eBook : Casey, Jane: Amazon.co.uk: Kindle Store
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Jane Casey @janecasey.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Rolled in some grass. Returned looking like a compost heap.
A grinning spaniel covered in leaf fragments from nose to tail. Caption reads: 'Please find attached 100,000 dead leaves'
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Jane Casey @janecasey.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Before/after
A dog frolicking in dry yellow grass, blue skies overhead, a line of green trees in the distanceThe same dog spark out under his owner’s desk, on a herringbone wooden floor, with a green wall behind. All of these things bring life to his owner.
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Jane Casey @janecasey.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
This is some end of days stuff.
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Jenny Colgan @jennycolgan.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
New substack out open.substack.com/pub/thatwrit...
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Jane Casey @janecasey.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
At the dump. My husband has so much dump-regular aura other men are approaching him to ask advice on where their items should go.
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Jane Casey @janecasey.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
Big night with the foxes.
A spaniel on a grey sofa, ever vigilant, after a night of constant barking. 

His thoughts: you want me on that wall -- you need me on that wall. We use words like "honor," "code," "loyalty." We use these words as the backbone of a life spent defending something. You use them as a punch line.

I have neither the time nor the inclination to explain myself to a man who rises and sleeps under the blanket of the very freedom that I provide and then questions the manner in which I provide it.

I would rather that you just said "thank you" and went on your way.
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Dr Anna Clark @drannaclark.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
A courtyard in Delft, c. 1658, by Pieter de Hooch, Dutch Golden Age painter, whose domestic scenes with perspective views reveal subtleties of light & mood; a contemporary of Vermeer, he lived 1629-c 1679, worked in Delft and Amsterdam. National Gallery London
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Jane Casey @janecasey.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Such a good joke.
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Jane Casey @janecasey.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
This is so sad.
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Louise @selkies.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Is this a good time to mention that in college my History of Translation lecturer (Michael Cronin) told us that one of the first vernacular translations of The Illiad was into Irish, and the translator had to give the main characters dogs because in Gaelic society a free man had a dog
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Jane Casey @janecasey.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
Ah Mayo, you deserved it!
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San Merg @sandromergvaz.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
😘❤️‍🔥😍
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Jane Casey @janecasey.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
There it is now.
The bestseller list from the Irish Times today.
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Jane Casey @janecasey.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
Cannot quite express how much I hate this. Do you know who write a Christmas Carol prequel? DICKENS. It's A CHRISTMAS CAROL.
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Jane Casey @janecasey.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
My new ambition is to dine in D&C with John B.
Me and John Banville sharing a moment on a panel in Dublin. We are sitting behind a coffee table holding copies of our books. It is not today or yesterday, but my memory of it is sharp.
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The Fence @thefence.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
This one's for you, Irish Bsky.
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Jane Casey @janecasey.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
Big news (for me) - I squeaked past Maggie O’Farrell at the top of the Irish charts.
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Boze Herrington, Library Owl @sketchesbyboze.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
By far the funniest moment in Homer’s Odyssey is when Circe says, “Shall we have sex?” and Odysseus says, “You just turned all my men into pigs. You have the GALL to think I would sleep with you? Of course I will. Absolutely. But don’t do any weird spells”
photograph of the relevant passage in Fitzgerald's translation of the Odyssey ("I make no bed of love with you upon it. Or swear me first a great oath, if I do, you'll work no more enchantment to my harm.")
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Patrick Freyne @patrickfreyne.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
Right, I'm looking for Westlife fans. (That sounds like I'm hunting them, change tack). I'm looking for longtime Westlife fans to interview them.
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Jane Casey @janecasey.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
I only made it halfway through this literally unwatchable nonsense. Uneasy, uncanny stuff.
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Jane Casey @janecasey.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
My husband pointed out my ‘claw hand’ in this picture and now it’s all I can see.
A writer signs a book while talking and is contorting her left hand in a way that looks weird but is normal for me.
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The Conversation with Nadine Matheson @theconversation.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
My full conversation with bestselling author @janecasey.bsky.social is available now wherever you find your podcasts! 🎧 We talk about her publishing journey, her new standalone, Everything She Didn’t Say and Jane shares her non-writing tip for writers. Links in Bio
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Jane Casey @janecasey.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
A very small child outside the window, tragically: ‘stop, Molly. You’ll make me cwy again.’
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The Conversation with Nadine Matheson @theconversation.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
Tomorrow: I’m in conversation with @janecasey.bsky.social talking her new book, Everything She Didn’t Say, and her writing journey. Also, we go off on a tangent almost immediately, naturally. Watch on YouTube or listen wherever you get your podcasts 📚
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Jane Casey @janecasey.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
Odysseus is the James Bond of classical literature and if he isn’t killing or out thinking his opponents he’s shagging his way out of trouble so if he’s neutered in this film as the reviews suggest… I won’t be happy.
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Jane Casey @janecasey.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
I think this thread is very wise, as a former children’s books editor. (No disrespect to a fine initiative or a very brilliant writer.)
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Jane Casey @janecasey.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
Delighted by this review in the Guardian!
Everything She Didn't Say

Bestseller Casey's latest standalone is her first book set in her native Ireland. In a remote cottage on the Mayo
Victim, witness or killer?
coast, a woman wakes to find her female companion has disappeared. Both the
house and her clothes are covered in blood, and she claims to have no idea what has happened - but the locals swear that they only ever saw one woman, not two. Detectives Ben Butler and Liam Farrell - an engaging pair who are worth a series of their own - are sent from Dublin to investigate. They discover that a lot of things don't add up, that the key to the mystery may lie in the past, and that there may be more than one person missing. Casey not only makes great use of the west of Ireland setting, but provides us with a mazy plot, wrongfooting and surprising us at every turn.
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Jane Casey @janecasey.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
Pretty innocent start to the day but things quickly deteriorate: full sex pest mode activated.
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