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Lucy Waverley

@lucywaverleybooks.bsky.social
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Book reviews (historical fiction, history, art), writing, studying. Happiest in the hills. Then in the bath with a book. And a whisky.

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Charlotte Lydia Riley @lottelydia.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
I don’t know. I love this Joseph Fasano poem and have it pinned on my office door but I don’t know what to actually do about any of this.
FOR A STUDENT WHO USED AI TO WRITE A PAPER
Now I let it fall back in the grasses.
I hear you. I know this life is hard now.
I know your days are precious on this earth.
But what are you trying to be free of?
The living? The miraculous task of it?
Love is for the ones who love the work.
-Joseph Fasano
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Kit de Waal @kitdewaal.com · 21/04/2025
From Faber the FAB Prize highlights new talent from underrepresented backgrounds with a publishing deal for the winner. Please share :)
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Faber Launches 2025 FAB Prize with a Publishing Deal for the Winner
Faber announces the opening of the 2025 FAB Prize for undiscovered writers and illustrators of colour, with a publishing deal for the winner.
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Lucy Waverley @lucywaverleybooks.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
London traffic yesterday 🐴
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Lucy Waverley @lucywaverleybooks.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
Just hanging out in the library with Hozier and some unicorns. (Serious study, albeit a bit of a side quest)
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Lucy Waverley @lucywaverleybooks.bsky.social · 15/12/2024
When you accidentally attend an eighteenth-century dancing lesson and accidentally buy a biography of the Duke of Wellington #history #amreading
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Lucy Waverley @lucywaverleybooks.bsky.social · 15/12/2024
Early bird catches the moon, the owls, and some time to read about whisky and taxes. Fun times.
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Lucy Waverley @lucywaverleybooks.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
Nothing says Thursday like coffee cake and an article on illicit whisky in the long eighteenth century. Let the dissertation commence 🥃 #history #amstudying #student #cake #eighteenthcenturylife
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Lucy Waverley @lucywaverleybooks.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
Hairdresser time equals a perfect opportunity to catch up on some ARC reading. This eARC of @lorajones.com’s ‘The Woman in the Wallpaper’ is glorious so far and the illustrations are 👌🏻 (gifted / PR product) #amreading
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Lucy Waverley @lucywaverleybooks.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
POV: you’re thinking about POVs and persons. I always thought third was my favourite, but I’m learning to love others. A new character materialised earlier this week and she wants this novel to be first person. She also wants to address the reader directly, and kiss the antihero #amwriting
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Lucy Waverley @lucywaverleybooks.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
Coffee of the day. More coffee plotting. Thinking about carriages and coachmen. And library books.
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Lucy Waverley @lucywaverleybooks.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
Yesterday was coffee cake and plotting; today is copyright quibbles and stale stollen. Apprehensive about what tomorrow might bring.
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Lucy Waverley @lucywaverleybooks.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
Cake and plotting 👀 At the wonderful stage of a novel where all the potential is visible and none of the plot holes 😝
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Lucy Waverley @lucywaverleybooks.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
Giveaway alert (but please don’t enter too much as I would like to win, please and thank you).
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Lucy Waverley @lucywaverleybooks.bsky.social · 01/12/2024
Daughter’s history homework. Genius. #historyjokes #gameofthrones
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Lucy Waverley @lucywaverleybooks.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
Flashes of colour in the frost this morning. Helping my thoughts on Frankenstein, Walter Scott, and piracy.
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Lucy Waverley @lucywaverleybooks.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
Incentives to finish this essay: some fabulous historical fiction ARCs. Halfway through Sycorax, which is a sensory wonder so far, debating whether to go for revolutionary wallpaper or Victorian art mystery next?
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Lucy Waverley @lucywaverleybooks.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
Obligatory snow picture. Very helpful for Frankenstein reading.
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Rach 🍂📚☕️ @rachelmayquin.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
Celebrating my first 1k followers on 🦋 by giving away a hardback copy of my fave book of 2024, #Costanza by Rachel Blackmore! 🍊💛 All you have to do is follow & repost. Happy to ship internationally, so tell your friends. Will pick a winner next Friday. #BookSky 📚
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Kate Griffin @kateagriffin.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
If you’re looking for romantic cheer in the gloom this is essential viewing and it’s on iplayer now. Seems I’m not alone in my love for this 1944 magical, mystical, whimsical masterpiece from #PowellandPressburger Lovely piece in today’s guardian: amp.theguardian.com/film/2024/no...
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‘Makes my heart beat faster’: why I Know Where I’m Going! is my feelgood movie
In the first of a new series in which writers explain their favourite mood-lifting watch, an ode to a charming 40s romance
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Lucy Waverley @lucywaverleybooks.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
How I spent my Saturday: looking at the Duke of Wellington’s false teeth. Nice.
Image shows a set of silver backed false teeth from the mid nineteenth century in a display cabinet.
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Lucy Waverley @lucywaverleybooks.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
Hello Bluesky. Here for history, art, books, and writing.
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