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Lissa Evans @lissakevans.bsky.social · 21h

The music from 'The Best Years of Our Lives' is on Sound of Cinema. What a great, great film: 3 men returning home to their mid-west town at the end of WW2, the rough-edged sergeant, the smoothie lieutenant, the disabled sailor. And none of the viewer's initial assumptions proves correct...

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Derek Goodridge @derekgwt.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I’ve just finished reading this and really enjoyed it. It’s been a long time since I read a book that made me laugh so much.

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Lissa Evans @lissakevans.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Hilary Mantel’s exquisite description of Anita Brookner’s party technique (from the Brookner biog by Hermione Lee)

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Phil Sturgeon 🌳🚵⚓️ @philsturgeon.com · 26/09/2026

If you want to help us not go bankrupt this winter as we restock ~10,000 historic drought failures in Wales, I would absolutely love it because we genuinely could fold without getting ~£15,000 rapidly and this is not how we go out. protect.earth/act-now/gene...

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Donate | Protect Earth

Creating and restoring ecosystems in the UK

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Sue Wright @suewright.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Have just spent time in the delightful company of this young man courtesy of the creative genius of @lissakevans.bsky.social Like all of her protagonists, he is witty but, most enjoyably, kind. Thank you.

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Richard Morris @ahistoryinart.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

'Roofs, High Holborn.' (1937) Lily Joseph's view was painted from her studio in Bedford Row looking towards the Old Bailey. Her palette was almost exclusively of white, cobalt, rose madder and the rare orange madder. In her day, Lily was a noted Suffragette.

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Lissa Evans @lissakevans.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Anita Brookner, talking with typically beautiful clarity about writing (from the superb biography by Hermione Lee).

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Reader @reader246.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

A landmark full-cohort study from Finland 🇫🇮 finds youth with gender identity issues have much higher rates of serious psychiatric problems than peers, and these problems worsen in those undergoing gender-affirming surgery, highlighting major clinical implications.

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<em>Acta Paediatrica</em> | Paediatrics Journal | Wiley Online Library

Aim To examine the prevalence of severe psychiatric morbidity among gender-referred adolescents, focusing on gender differences and outcomes related to medical gender reassignment. Methods Finnish...

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Sarra Manning @sarramanning.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Having just read and loved Kate Atkinson's Our Noble Selves, it occurs to me that it shares similar DNA or a vibe with Lissa Evan's wonderful, post-war set A Small Bomb At Dimperley, which is currently 99p for Kindle. amzn.to/4yEGYmr (paid link)

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Small Bomb At Dimperley: The joyful new historical novel from the Sunday Times bestselling author of Old Baggage

Small Bomb At Dimperley: The joyful new historical novel from the Sunday Times bestselling author of Old Baggage eBook : Evans, Lissa: Amazon.co.uk: Kindle Store

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David Benedict @eggsbened.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Thrilled to have written the introduction, interview with conductor John Wilson and - for those who don’t (yet) know the terrific plot inside-out - the entire synopsis of Frank Loesser’s musical comedy masterpiece for the COMPLETE Guys and Dolls: on sale/streaming today! youtu.be/KGAo4NrmMrc?...

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Guys and Dolls | John Wilson | Sinfonia of London | Take Back Your Mink

YouTube video by Chandos Records

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theartsdesk @theartsdesk.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

★★★★★ Someone I had dismissed as a kitsch figure of fun actually had the most extraordinary life: @bernardhughes.bsky.social on Matthew Sweet's revelatory, hilarious, gripping, moving life of Barbara Cartland, The Great Dictator @hodderbooks.bsky.social theartsdesk.com/books/matthe...

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Lissa Evans @lissakevans.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

I’m reading ‘Black Bag’, Luke Kennard’s funny, strange, weirdly insightful novel - here the protagonist examines his lover’s ‘atavistic’ taste in toiletries.

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Lissa Evans @lissakevans.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Next Sunday (20th) at 2.30 pm I'm talking to Rob Newman at the Bedford Lit Fest about My Name is MacKenzie Bly, ("more good jokes than any novel I've read in years" The Times). I knew Rob way back in radio comedy, so there may be the odd squib of reminiscence… writebytheriver.org

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Lissa Evans @lissakevans.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Little bit of joy for the afternoon: '500 Hundred Miles', from the film 'Sunshine on Leith.' www.youtube.com/watch?v=jaVz...

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500 Miles - Sunshine on Leith

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Lissa Evans @lissakevans.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

'Lawks, Daisy, look - I've turned my old bloomers into a skirt like what them fine ladies wear. Do you think they'd buy it off me for a bob or two? I'd have to bleach it first, though...' 'Nah, just call it 'Nougat' and charge 'em £269'

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Lissa Evans @lissakevans.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Staff on stand-by (literally - the only other person standing is the one giving a speech) at the opening of a British Restaurant in war-time Liverpool. I had to look closely to make sure it wasn't actually Victoria Wood accompanied by Anne Reid and Thelma Barlow...

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Lissa Evans @lissakevans.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Read this (his autobiography) & kind of wish I hadn’t. There’s a bit of an air of ‘will this do?’ about it & although I understand that he’s examining what made him a writer, I’d have liked to know a bit more about his wife than that she was a Catholic. Her *name*, for a start.

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Lissa Evans @lissakevans.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Only known this author previously from the brilliant 'Fireweed' (written for older children) but I've just read this Booker shortlisted novel & been knocked sideways: set on a Mediterranean island in the late middle ages, it's a propulsive & complex story, exquisitely written.

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Lissa Evans @lissakevans.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

'My Name is MacKenzie Bly' is published today, written as a counter-balance to the usual dystopian, crime-encrusted, misery-laden gloom-fest that is the YA novel (though it's for all ages). Read two chapters free on India Knight's wonderful substack: indiaknight.substack.com/p/adrian-mol...

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Lissa Evans @lissakevans.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

My all-time favourite book blog (@ClothesinBooks.bsky.social) has just published one of my all-time favourite reviews...

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Nicola Smith @shortbookandscribes.uk · 25/08/2026

#BookReview - My Name is MacKenzie Bly by Lissa Evans I loved this series of accounts as told to the author, about the life of a hapless 14 year old. So funny! @lissakevans.bsky.social @doubledayuk.bsky.social #MyNameIsMacKenzieBly More here: shortbookandscribes.uk/reviews/shor...

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Lissa Evans @lissakevans.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Fabulous, as usual (and I’m not just saying that because one of my books gets a mention!) Truly, it’s the best, and the best-written, book blog I know of.

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Radio Lento @radiolento.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Stuck inside with itchy feet needing a change of scene? Explore different quiet places with our playlist of short videos. There are 25 videos to choose from - from train windows to gentle streams, from beaches to woodlands.

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Extras - YouTube

Videos sharing joyful moments of different places.

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Chris Addison @mrchrisaddison.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Hard agree, as we must say these days. It’s hilarious and brilliant and really touching.

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Lissa Evans @lissakevans.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Good Lord!! Have just caught up with this, and I couldn’t be more thrilled!

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John Self @john-self.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

“Page by page, it has more good jokes than any novel I’ve read in years.” Me - and my 14-year-old son! - on Lissa Evans’s new comic novel for adults and younger readers alike, My Name is MacKenzie Bly:

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Could this comic novel be Gen Z’s answer to Adrian Mole?

Lissa Evans’s entertaining novel for older children and adults, about the travails of a nerd aged ‘fourteen and a bit’, has an impressive laugh count

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Johnny Carrington @johnnywow5.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Well this is the best book I’ve read all year. I need more from this characters. Please tell me you’re working on a sequel @lissakevans.bsky.social

A paperback copy of Small Bomb at Dimperley by Lissa Evans

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Elizabeth Crawford @womanssphere.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Yes, suffragettes did hug the limelight in Edwardian films and lantern shows. Their antics were the stuff of a film maker’s dream. As discussed in Objects 75 -Suffrage Films - in my new book pub by @bloomsburyhist.bsky.social For details see link in bio. #womenshistory #suffragettes #votesforwomen

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Lissa Evans @lissakevans.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

The 14 year old protagonist of ‘My Name is Mackenzie Bly’ reflecting on Billson’s, his local pet-food warehouse. (Book is out on Aug 27th)

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Lissa Evans @lissakevans.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Blimey!!! Didn’t expect *that* ending. A jewelled stiletto of a book. Incidentally, the cover is hopelessly wrong; I imagine someone said ‘the author’s called Beryl, so why don’t we have a cover by someone called Beryl?’ and everyone nodded and it was a bad, bad idea…

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Lissa Evans @lissakevans.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

Saw an article on the ‘ten best Beryl Bainbridge novels’ and realised I hadn’t read the one that came in first, The Dressmaker. Enjoying it now; It’s a claustrophobic little number with some savagely funny descriptions:

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Lissa Evans @lissakevans.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

It's 19 days until the publication of 'My Name is MacKenzie Bly'. There's enough misery in the world, so I wanted to write something purely funny, for the 14 year old who lives in your grown-up heart (or in your actual house). The cover & end-papers are by the incomparable Jim Kay....

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Lissa Evans @lissakevans.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

I can never resist the fabulous and improbable names that always seem to crop up in a list of incumbents (these are from st Alban’s Cathedral) - but I think I may have hit the jackpot. Have a look at the fourth from the bottom..,

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Lissa Evans @lissakevans.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Fennel growing in a pot on the roof terrace:

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Mark Goodrich @markgoodrich.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

I find it difficult to read a sequel if the ending is perfect but but 3 where I think the sequel is even better than the first book! #KidsBookFriday Percy Jackson and the Sea of Monsters by Rick Riordan Big Change for Stuart by @lissakevans.bsky.social The Poisoned King by Katherine Rundell

Cover of Percy Jackson and the Sea of Monsters showing a boy with a sword against the background of a fierce sea.

Cover of Big Change for Stuart by Lissa Evans showing lots of tricks and magic elements in the background with an upside-down boy in one circle and a girl the right way up in another.

Cover of The Poisoned King by Katherine Rundell showing two large mythical creatures at the top above a small boy and girl.

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Radio Lento @radiolento.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

Did you know that there are 64 full episodes on our YouTube channel? And video extras. And curated playlists so you can explore rain, sea or sleep safe listens. Like and subscribe. 👍❤️ Share. 🔁 Comment. 🗨️

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297 Sonorous rural woodland before an approaching storm

YouTube video by Radio Lento

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Lissa Evans @lissakevans.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

I've just received the finished copy of this, which includes the acknowledgements - and I wish to share one of the most unlikely and truly fabulous coincidences of my life: @tomshakespeare.bsky.social

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Simon Jones @simonjones.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

I just saw this in a rather good museum.

Detail of embroidered comet from Bayeux Tapestry copy in Reading Museum.

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Tom Shakespeare @tomshakespeare.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

And now having read the book, it gives me great pride to say my friend Lissa Evans has created a character in Mackenzie Bly who will take his place as a classic, to rival Just William and Adrian Mole.

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Alskicav @alskicav.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Lovely anecdote, what a coincidence... I'm a little sad that Longpigs are now deemed obscure. That makes me feel old 😆. Reasonably big band in the 90s and Richard Hawley went on to have great critical success. I do love this Longpigs' song open.spotify.com/track/2AVRiq...

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On & On

Longpigs · The Sun Is Often Out · Song · 1996

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Lissa Evans @lissakevans.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

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Lissa Evans @lissakevans.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

It's 39 days until the publication of this. There's enough misery in the world, so I wanted to write something purely funny, for the 11/12/13 year old that lives in your house or in your grown-up heart....

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Dr Rachel Broady @drrachelbroady.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

Good to see them getting serious flak for this. "Amnesty International UK has referred itself to the charity regulator over a report it published that described a sexual violence support centre founded by JK Rowling as “anti-rights”." www.theguardian.com/society/2026...

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Amnesty UK self-reports to watchdog after calling JK Rowling women’s centre ‘anti-rights’

Beira’s Place in Edinburgh, founded by the author, says claim was ‘deeply offensive’ as it considers legal action

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