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Jane Johnson @janejohnsonbakrim.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Last day of holiday and the allotment has put on a lovely show after the welcome rain. I can relax and enjoy this because for the first time ever I have managed to send my accountant my tax return before he’s chased me for it 😁 #flowers

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Jane Johnson @janejohnsonbakrim.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Gorgeous evening for a plot walk. THE ARTIST’S HOUSE is already scratching at the inside of my skull desperate to get out. But it will have to wait until my Cornish gothic tale of saffron growing and supernatural goings on in the Lizard Peninsula is honed and ready to go to my editor. #books 💙📚

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Jane Johnson @janejohnsonbakrim.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

To make up the pain of a shingles vaccine, I struck out from the surgery across a network of footpaths and down to the sea. Beautiful views, swifts and swallows, stonechats and wrens; a pair of inquisitive llamas - and a far smaller chance of shingles, dementia, stroke and heart attack! #Cornwall

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Jane Johnson @janejohnsonbakrim.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

Delighted to be invited by George RR Martin to the opening night of The Mad King at the Royal Shakespeare Theatre in Stratford. What a sublime spectacle of a play - a gorgeous mix of ASOIAF with the history plays and tragedies, with fabulous puppetry and staging, a great cast and a fine script.

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Jane Johnson @janejohnsonbakrim.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

Consumed by immense edits and with my own redraft to be delivered in a terrifyingly short time - but this morning I managed to get my arse in gear for breakfast on the allotment before chaining myself to the screen once more. Bliss. #books 💙📚

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Jane Johnson @janejohnsonbakrim.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

Very proud to learn that SECRETS OF THE BEES has been shortlisted for best novel in the Holyer An Gof awards - the Cornish Gorsedh. This is my state of the nation novel, with a proper old cantankerous Cornishman - my beloved Ezra - at the heart of it all. #books 💙📚

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Jane Johnson @janejohnsonbakrim.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

We had a fabulous visit to Rabat to attend the King’s birthday party at the British Embassy where I discovered that the ambassador and his wife are fans of the books, especially THE BLACK CRESCENT. It’s our 21st wedding anniversary this year, so we stayed in the stunning Villa Mandarine. 💙📚 #books

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Jane Johnson @janejohnsonbakrim.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

A keen reader, our visiting rock dove, the imaginatively named Mr Pigeon, having wandered in from the balcony, finds it hard to choose between Wilfred Thesiger’s A LIFE IN PICTURES, Jackie Morris‘s THE SNOW LEOPARD, or AL-ANDALUS: THE ART OF ISLAMIC SPAIN… 💙📚 #books

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Jane Johnson @janejohnsonbakrim.bsky.social · 10/05/2026

I have, at last, completed HEART OF SAFFRON, my latest venture into Cornish gothic - oh, the relief! Now comes the hard work of applying my arm-length list of go-back points, ruthless honing, checking consistency and (screams silently) timelines. But hooray: the first draft is done! #books 💙📚

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Cat Alyst 🏳️‍⚧️🇨🇦 (they/them) @catalystmeow.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

“There are over 40 different intersex variations, and more are discovered all the time with advancements in genetics. [...] Intersex people may have variations in their chromosomes, hormones, or reproductive anatomy (or all of the above!).” #USDemocracy #MomSky #Intersex www.hrc.org/news/lgbtq-e...

• Left: beneath an orange umbrella, Kassie smiles and gestures ✌️ while wearing a red top with a she/they pronoun sticker • Right: “Intersex is more common than you think Nearly 2% of all people are intersex. If you've met 50 people, chances are you've met an intersex person. Kassie”

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MrMirth @mrmirth.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

You can follow up afterwards to complain to Ofcom. Details:-

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Russ Jones @russincheshire.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

I have just submitted a complaint about this. It's easy. You should do it.

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Jane Johnson @janejohnsonbakrim.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

We all need to lodge an official complaint. It takes no time at all, and I've dropped a link to BBC Complaints in the comments. This is shocking.

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Jane Johnson @janejohnsonbakrim.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

We take our most common, resident birds for granted, but look at the colours in this newly minted chaffinch! He's so beautiful, showing off there in the blackthorn. #birds

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Jane Johnson @janejohnsonbakrim.bsky.social · 05/04/2026

It’s gorgeous up at my writing spot on the allotment today after the storm has passed over. A riot of colours, with huge queen bees zeppelining around. #cornwall

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Jane Johnson @janejohnsonbakrim.bsky.social · 21/03/2026

I never love being stuck in London, but there are some compensations. In my bit of Cornwall, the blackthorn is only now coming into bloom, whereas on Putney Common - BOOM! #wildflowers

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Jane Johnson @janejohnsonbakrim.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

So proud to see Voyager shortlisted for Imprint of the Year. I’m still working for the list I launched in 1995, at arm’s length these days, and it’s wonderful to see it go from strength to strength under the brilliant leadership of Natasha Bardon, who is also nominated as Editor of the Year. #books

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Jane Johnson @janejohnsonbakrim.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

World Book Day coincides with St Piran's Day! Love and war, gothic and humour, batty old ladies and grumpy old men, desert heroes and harems and gorgeous food. The odd bestseller, many languages. Books are magic: your images fly into other people's heads, where they transform and bloom. 💙📚 #books

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Dmitry Grozoubinski @explaintrade.com · 03/03/2026

So, in launching a huge bombing campaign on Iran they apparently didn't plan for: - Who takes over; - Interceptor shortages from sustained drone retaliation; - How to defend US bases in the region; - Threats to ships in the Strait of Hormuz; and - How to evacuate Americans with airspace closed.

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Jane Johnson @janejohnsonbakrim.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

Made a dash into Truro to sign a huge pile of the pb of SECRETS OF THE BEES. It felt apt on such an historic day for the Green Party, the novel being a heartfelt cry to protect our natural environment, the true and ancient Cornwall, from less scrupulous forces. Great to know it’s selling so well! 💙📚

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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

BREAKING: It seems we have arrived at the We Told You So part of the program

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Jane Johnson @janejohnsonbakrim.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

The RSC are launching 'The Mad King', a prequel to A GAME OF THRONES at Stratford this summer. "George's storytelling is Shakespearean in its scale and its themes, so the RSC feels like a natural home." A West End run will follow. Whoop! #books 💙📚 www.rsc.org.uk/game-of-thro...

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About the play | Royal Shakespeare Company

Game of Thrones: The Mad King, a new play based on the A Song of Ice and Fire series by George R.R. Martin, adapted by Duncan Macmillan and directed by Dominic Cooke.

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Jane Johnson @janejohnsonbakrim.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

Touring around Cornwall on a book signing tour really opens your eyes to what a beautiful county this is - Mousehole, Penzance, St Ives, Hayle, Newquay and Fowey have signed books: next up, Helston, Falmouth and Truro. Happy Publication Day, SECRETS OF THE BEES! #books 💙📚 #Cornwall

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Jane Johnson @janejohnsonbakrim.bsky.social · 08/02/2026

I stomped up to the allotment in the rain and picked some of the few flowers that had dared to bloom. And then crowned Our Lady of the Hellebores.

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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

The next stage is Insurrection Act, canceling elections and Martial Law. That's the Trump plan. If u think I'm crazy well you have refused to pay attention to the evidence of your eyes & ears for the past decade. We have to use all our powers to stop them. Go on offense. Legally & peacefully.

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Esther @elhopkins.bsky.social · 11/12/2025

This is from a symposium of the Worlds leading long covid experts (August 2025) . H/t Charlos on X. This should tell everyone what you need to know. Not one long covid expert without a respirator, no non maskers or gappy surgicals in sight. Experts know it’s airborne and know the health risks.

Photo shows a room full of scientists all wearing ffp2/3 respirators of different colours and types.

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Jane Johnson @janejohnsonbakrim.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

Curious to see THE WHITE HARE become 'The Storm House' in German. Weirdly, the cover would fit the current work-in-progress better. The fictional Penhallow House in HEART OF SAFFRON is originally Tudor, but one side has a Palladian frontage tacked on - it's a novel about deceptions and facades. 💙📚

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Jane Johnson @janejohnsonbakrim.bsky.social · 19/01/2026

Unbelievably exciting and magical to be able to see the aurora from our own door! We RAN down to the end of the South Quay to get away from the streetlights and just stood there gasping at the majesty of it all. What a privilege. Thank you, universe! #NorthernLights

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Jane Johnson @janejohnsonbakrim.bsky.social · 19/01/2026

It's a Blue Monday today - to cheer yourself up I highly recommend AKOTSK (on HBO Max): the first episode of the tale of Dunk and Egg is just gorgeous: funny, tender, beautifully cast and shot. Gritty, grubby heaven. And when the GoT music briefly wafted past, I welled up. #AKnightOfTheSevenKingdoms

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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 18/01/2026

All of these people - Mogg, Farage, Carswell, Jenrick, Hannan and the rest need to be forever reminded of what they backed and supported

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Jane Johnson @janejohnsonbakrim.bsky.social · 18/01/2026

Starting tonight (3am UK, HBO Max) George RR Martin's A KNIGHT OF THE SEVEN KINGDOMS - glorious tales of hedge knight Dunk and his squire Egg adventuring through Westeros. Heart, soul, humour, thrills, beautifully bite-size. Proud to have published the stories back in 2017. #books 💙📚

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Jane Johnson @janejohnsonbakrim.bsky.social · 16/01/2026

For the 25th anniversary, some cinemas are showing the entire Lord of the Rings trilogy in its extended versions. 25 years! I was Tolkien publisher and as Jude Fisher wrote the Visual Companions, and was the only person allowed to take photos apart from the official stills photographer... 1/ #books

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Robin Hobb @robinhobb.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

Just because we are in mourning for the victims of ICE do not think we mourn any less for the victims of EPSTEIN. We do not forget.

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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 11/01/2026

Two-thirds of UK voters wrongly think immigration is rising, poll finds. Net migration to the UK fell by more than two-thirds to a post-pandemic low in the year ending June 2025, but 67% of the people polled thought it had increased www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

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Two-thirds of UK voters wrongly think immigration is rising, poll finds

Exclusive: Voters say they have little confidence that government can control borders despite sharp falls in net migration

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Dom Ervolina @dominicervolina.com · 10/01/2026

A woman recording an ICE agent tells him "Shame on you." The agent responds, "Have you all not learned from the past couple of days?" "Learned what?" she asks Then he knocks her phone out of her hand

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Jane Johnson @janejohnsonbakrim.bsky.social · 10/01/2026

The calm after the storm. Good to see life thriving after our hurricane-force winds. There's been so much damage in Cornwall, 1000s trees down, roofs lost, and one poor man crushed by a fallen tree. But the birds and even butterflies are out, as is the sun, the butterbur and the gorse. #cornwall

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 05/01/2026

TAPPER: Can you rule out the US is going to take Greenland by force? MILLER: Greenland should be part of the US. By what right does Denmark assert control over Greenland? The US is the power of NATO T: So force is on the table? M: Nobody is gonna fight the US militarily over future of Greenland

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Jane Johnson @janejohnsonbakrim.bsky.social · 04/01/2026

Very very late to the party, (happens a lot when you're both a publisher and an author, so little time to read for fun), but Ruth Ozeki is an amazing writer. What a wonderfully playful, thought-provoking, entertaining book this is: 💙📚 #books

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Alastair Millar @skriptorium.info · 28/12/2025

So not only is generative AI environmentally unfriendly, grounded on massive intellectual property theft, hugely over-hyped, and probably a bubble about to burst, but it's ALSO also driving up costs for everyone else's devices. Great.

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Bolts @boltsmag.org · 28/12/2025

“Billionaires have taken control of this country in ways we’ve never seen before, and it is hurting all of us. Progressives in Seattle who won spoke pretty unapologetically about that reality,” says a newly elected Seattle city council member.

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Progressives Win in Seattle, Changing Directions on Public Safety

Voters ousted a mayor who oversaw a surge in encampment sweeps, and a Republican prosecutor who pursued punitive policies toward homeless people and drug users.

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Jane Johnson @janejohnsonbakrim.bsky.social · 28/12/2025

Just hit 80,000 words on HEART OF SAFFRON. Working in publishing leaves you very little time to empty your head of other people's (wonderful) words and ideas to concentrate on your own. But maybe it helps me build a quiet head of steam in the compartment of my brain labelled 'STORIES'... #books 💙📚

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Jane Johnson @janejohnsonbakrim.bsky.social · 24/12/2025

Hope you all have an excellent Christmas! I'm 20+ chapters into writing HEART OF SAFFRON, a novel that centres on the growing of saffron in 18th c Cornwall, so it feels rather apt that Abdel's turban and the embroidery of his traditional desert gandoura is the colour of that magical spice. 💙📚

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Jane Johnson @janejohnsonbakrim.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

On my lunchtime walk through the Fulham Palace grounds, a gift from the wild: first one, then two healthy-looking foxes, who ran and gambolled together, then settled down in the winter sun for some mutual grooming. They passed me at an uninterested trot - "I see the humans are out again, dear...".

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Caroline Orr Bueno @rvawonk.bsky.social · 08/12/2025

Elon Musk has weaponized and monetized a global disinformation network on X, which he is using to help him fight his new war against the EU. My latest for @bylinetimes.bsky.social: bylinetimes.com/2025/12/08/e...

A screenshot of a Byline Times article by Caroline Orr Bueno about how Elon Musk is weaponizing and monetizing a global disinformation network on X.

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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 30/11/2025

This is an excellent, level-headed, informative piece. I'd kill for a government which could discuss the issue with the same sense of objectivity and calm.

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Jane Johnson @janejohnsonbakrim.bsky.social · 30/11/2025

I did not expect to be able to write outside at the Allotment by the Sea in the sunshine on the last day of November – what a gift! 💙📚

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Jane Johnson @janejohnsonbakrim.bsky.social · 25/11/2025

A timeline cleanser for you - the beautiful beach at Perranuthnoe in Cornwall, sunlight silver on the sea and wet sand ... and the coastguard helicopter.

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