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Jane Casey @janecasey.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Oh I also felt like that! Gruelling after a while.

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Jane Casey @janecasey.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Oh definitely. The vulnerability of all those bereft people.

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Jane Casey @janecasey.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Let’s not forget people like Conan Doyle were convinced spiritualism was real.

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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

I really want to laugh at this but I also don’t want you to die in a fireball. Or boule de feu.

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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 · 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 · 21/09/2026

I feel I got more enjoyment from the article than I would from the books. The distillations are very clever. 👏👏👏

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Jane Casey @janecasey.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

That’s why it’s there! Also context. But lols too.

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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 · 14/09/2026

Not at all! She’s a great person to be confused with.

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Jane Casey @janecasey.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

I loved both! Such a great writer.

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Jane Casey @janecasey.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

No, but I love her and she spends a lot of time recommending my books to confused people. 😄

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Jane Casey @janecasey.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Not deliberately!! I forgot! It’s an ARC but well worth the preorder.

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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.

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Jane Casey @janecasey.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

My aunt (whose mother was Scottish) describes weak tea as peely-wally.

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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 💙📚

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Jane Casey @janecasey.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Oh yes. Really a wonderful book.

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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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Jane Casey @janecasey.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

😍😍😍 which bookshop was it?

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Jane Casey @janecasey.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Oh no wonder the braai is sounding subdued. 😟

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Jane Casey @janecasey.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

That is exciting! There’s also a cricket match nearby with many appeals so basically the afternoon is full of men screaming.

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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 · 20/08/2026

Yes! Just let them be. The soap opera treatment of the royals is frankly weird anyway.

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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

He hasn’t changed one bit.

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Jane Casey @janecasey.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

I have so much stuff you would love.

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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

I’ve just moved house; I’ve had enough of objects.

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Jane Casey @janecasey.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

The advance is surely made up too. It’s an insane amount for non fiction by a non celebrity.

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Jane Casey @janecasey.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

There’s a great podcast about their friendship at college and writing careers. Very gossipy, much to enjoy. Once Upon a Time at Bennington College.

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Jane Casey @janecasey.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Thank you so much! He should be back in 2028. Xx

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Jane Casey @janecasey.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

No! Not unless he gets muddy.

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