Maggie Brookes @maggiebrookesbutt.bsky.social · 28/01/2025Amazing book launch at Keats House! Huge thanks to everyone who came, and to my publisher Greenwich Exchange. 061
Maggie Brookes @maggiebrookesbutt.bsky.social · 23/01/2025Looking forward to a bit of a tour with my new book!! 172
Reposted by Maggie BrookesPenny Haw @pennyhaw.bsky.social · 23/01/2025"From tender romances to sweeping historical & intergenerational sagas, these stories highlight the touching & complicated lives of those with extra years under their belts." Thanks for including Follow Me to Africa here, @booktrib.bsky.social & @womenwriters.bsky.social shorturl.at/8kYAcshorturl.at18 Novels Celebrating the Stories of Older Main Characters | BookTrib.This month, the Women’s Fiction Writers Association puts a spotlight on stories with older narrators. So many stories are written for young people that we often forget to turn our eyes toward the enri... 042
Reposted by Maggie BrookesZero Hour: the campaign for climate and nature @zero-hour.bsky.social · 22/01/2025👏 A HUGE thank you to all the MPs who have pledged to vote to progress the Climate and Nature Bill at its pivotal Second Reading this Friday, 24 January. 🐝 zerohour.uk 🧵 414043
Maggie Brookes @maggiebrookesbutt.bsky.social · 22/01/2025Superb performance by Tracy-Ann Oberman as Shylock in this Merchant of Venice set in 1936. Timely and very moving. . #shakespeare #merchantofvenice @tracyannoberman @trafalgartheatre 031
Maggie Brookes @maggiebrookesbutt.bsky.social · 19/01/2025This amazing book is everything it says on the cover: ‘stunning’ ‘beautiful’ ‘extraordinary’. A well deserved Booker winner. #orbital 000
Maggie Brookes @maggiebrookesbutt.bsky.social · 17/01/2025The indomitable and irrepressible Katherine Gallagher launched her new collection last night to a packed house. ‘Can the Dandelions Be Trusted’ (Arc Publications) is her 7th full collection, in addition to a chapbook and book of translations. The love in the room was palpable. #poetry 020
Maggie Brookes @maggiebrookesbutt.bsky.social · 10/01/2025So many issues in the world, but passing the Climate and Nature Bill into law would really make a difference to the climate crisis. Please ask your MP to vote on 24th Jan. @zero-hour.bsky.social 030
Maggie Brookes @maggiebrookesbutt.bsky.social · 09/01/2025Acumen Literary Journal has always been very special to me. It was the first highly regarded magazine to publish a poem of mine. A few years later, Patrica Oxley published my first pamphlet, ‘Quintana Roo’. Thank you Acumen. 000
Maggie Brookes @maggiebrookesbutt.bsky.social · 08/01/2025It’s so amazing when a writer you really admire says something nice about your book! Thank you @tracyreesbooks.bsky.social 020
Maggie Brookes @maggiebrookesbutt.bsky.social · 06/01/2025Wise, witty and consummately clever. Harriet Walter tells us what Shakespeare’s female characters might have said, if they’d been given a chance! Not just for Shakespeare fans and feminists, as you can see from these two sonnets. @viragopress #harrietwalter #shespeaks #shakespeare 010
Maggie Brookes @maggiebrookesbutt.bsky.social · 04/01/2025Has anyone got a better cure for the new year blues? 020
Maggie Brookes @maggiebrookesbutt.bsky.social · 01/01/2025Happy new year! May it bring you happiness, hope, peace and love. (This clock has chimed 248 new years!) 010
Maggie Brookes @maggiebrookesbutt.bsky.social · 29/12/2024Some of my favourite reads from this year which sent me whizzing through space and time. Any of your top 10 here? @lizfremantle.bsky.social @gillpaulauthor.bsky.social 170
Maggie Brookes @maggiebrookesbutt.bsky.social · 28/12/2024Fantastic line-up at Faversham this year! Book early because the Faversham audience is keen and events sell out!! I will be interviewing Tasmeem Abdur Rashid on Sat 22nd Feb and reading from Wish, my New and Selected poems later in the day. @favlit.org #wishpoems www.favershamliteraryfestival.orgfavershamliteraryfestival.orgFaversham Literary Festival 2025 073
Maggie Brookes @maggiebrookesbutt.bsky.social · 28/12/2024Beautiful writing in this vivid portrayal of Calcutta. And wonderful characters. And so wise. But is it a novel if nothing really happens? Discuss. #amitchaudhuri #whatisanovel 010
Reposted by Maggie BrookesPaul Dunphy Esquire 🏳️🌈 @pauldunphyesquire.bsky.social · 17/12/2024Very useful list of numbers and support agencies available for anyone struggling this Christmas. This is for Ireland. ❤️ #Bluesky #Christmas #Speirgorm #Ireland 02616
Maggie Brookes @maggiebrookesbutt.bsky.social · 24/12/2024Look closely at my favourite Christmas card: Mary is sitting up in bed, reading, while an exhausted-looking Joseph sits on the floor, holding the baby. No, it’s not a modern meme, but a genuine 15th century image. Happy Christmas to all who celebrate it. #fitzwilliammuseum 061
Maggie Brookes @maggiebrookesbutt.bsky.social · 23/12/2024The wonderful Renard Press produces one of these gorgeous little books each year in aid of Three Peas, a charity which helps refugees and asylum seekers in Europe. Happy Christmas @renardpress.bsky.social 071
Maggie Brookes @maggiebrookesbutt.bsky.social · 09/12/2024The suspense at the end of this powerful, atmospheric novel was so great that I couldn’t bear to read it at bed-time, in case the ending kept me awake all night. So I had to get up early this morning to finish it! Wrung out! @larsmytting #thebellinthelake #readers 030
Maggie Brookes @maggiebrookesbutt.bsky.social · 08/12/2024Very happy that my poem Yoga has been shortlisted for Ink, Sweat and Tears poem of the month. If you like it, do feel free to vote for it! inksweatandtears.co.uk/november-202...inksweatandtears.co.ukWhat Will You Choose as Your Pick of the Month for November 2024? | Ink Sweat and Tears 000
Maggie Brookes @maggiebrookesbutt.bsky.social · 05/12/2024 Wonderful Christmas histfic writers lunch at the Ivy. @tracyreesbooks.bsky.social @gillpaulauthor.bsky.social @hazelgaynor.bsky.social @evepollychase.bsky.social @jennyashcroft.bsky.social @rachelhore.bsky.social @louisefein.bsky.social @juliakellywrites.bsky.social 060
Maggie Brookes @maggiebrookesbutt.bsky.social · 05/12/2024Paperback out today! And you’ll see it in WHSmith as a Richard and Judy pick!! Congratulations @evepollychase.bsky.social 020
Maggie Brookes @maggiebrookesbutt.bsky.social · 05/12/2024I am so, so thrilled that @evepollychase.bsky.social ‘s amazing novel The Midnight Hour has been selected as a Richard and Judy bookclub pick! #themidnighhour 120
Reposted by Maggie BrookesGill Paul @gillpaulauthor.bsky.social · 05/12/2024This was such a hoot! Christmas has officially begun… 031
Maggie Brookes @maggiebrookesbutt.bsky.social · 03/12/2024Didn’t manage to see the northern lights, but thanks to the magic of sophisticated AI, we can imagine that we did! 🤣 #tromsø 020
Maggie Brookes @maggiebrookesbutt.bsky.social · 03/12/2024Book lover hell: In 1895 Fridtjof Nansen spent 8 months overwintering in a hut on the ice - with nothing to read but his almanac and navigation tables by the light of their blubber lamp! #readers #readershell 110
Maggie Brookes @maggiebrookesbutt.bsky.social · 02/12/2024Snowing hard at 11am in Tromsø. Thank goodness - found a bookshop! #tromsø #bokhuset 010
Maggie Brookes @maggiebrookesbutt.bsky.social · 02/12/2024Tip for a struggling writer: When Norwegian novelist Cora Sandel fell on hard times she wrote “I didn’t make a living by writing… I survived by pawning my typewriter. For each short story payment I redeemed it again. One can get a lot out of a typewriter if one just doesn’t use it’ 000
Maggie Brookes @maggiebrookesbutt.bsky.social · 01/12/2024Forgive me if I tartle while introducing you! 000
Maggie Brookes @maggiebrookesbutt.bsky.social · 01/12/2024Sliced reindeer stew or a whale steak anyone?? #arcticfood #tromsø 010
Maggie Brookes @maggiebrookesbutt.bsky.social · 01/12/2024I want to be this feisty Sami woman when I grow up. And to carry a bag made of silver birch bark. #tromsø 030
Maggie Brookes @maggiebrookesbutt.bsky.social · 30/11/2024Hard to think of a better book I could have brought to snowy Tromsø. A snow child might materialise at any moment! @eowyn.ivey #thesnowchild 000
Maggie Brookes @maggiebrookesbutt.bsky.social · 30/11/2024Still snowing, and this is a real cathedral, not a library! Pretty spectacular. #tromsø #arcticcathedral #arcticcathedraltromsø 030
Maggie Brookes @maggiebrookesbutt.bsky.social · 29/11/2024A city with a library which thinks it’s a cathedral. That’s my sort of place! #tromsø 050
Maggie Brookes @maggiebrookesbutt.bsky.social · 28/11/2024Lovely view over Tromsø, but thick cloud and an arctic storm on the way. #tromsø 230
Maggie Brookes @maggiebrookesbutt.bsky.social · 28/11/2024Another sky-related post! Off to Tromsø. Hoping for northern lights. Def going to see snow! Very excited to go to a place with an ø. #tromsø 020
Reposted by Maggie BrookesJanet Emson @janetemson.bsky.social · 26/11/2024Authors receive a payment every time you borrow a book, audiobook or ebook from libraries in 35 countries. Those countries include the UK, Canada, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, Denmark, Sweden, Norway and Germany to name but a few. Borrowing a book helps the author’s pocket as well as yours. 19777301371
Maggie Brookes @maggiebrookesbutt.bsky.social · 26/11/2024Last rose of summer? But what a beauty. Can anyone identify it? It’s a very vigorous climber. #roses 230
Maggie Brookes @maggiebrookesbutt.bsky.social · 25/11/2024Blue skies are not always the best! #bluesky #rainbow 000
Maggie Brookes @maggiebrookesbutt.bsky.social · 24/11/2024Feeling chilly? Let Barbara Kingsolver whisk you away to summer in the appalachians. Possibly the best opening chapter ever written. #prodigalsummer #barbarakingsolver 1100
Maggie Brookes @maggiebrookesbutt.bsky.social · 23/11/2024Fishing boats huddled in Whitstable harbour. Cold and blustery. Such respect for fisherfolk. #whitstable #whitstableharbour #fishers 064
Maggie Brookes @maggiebrookesbutt.bsky.social · 22/11/2024Ever since I first heard about this book, I’ve been longing to read it! It imagines the story of Aunt Em before Dorothy, before the tornado, before Oz. What a brilliant idea! And today this enticing cover has been revealed. @hazelgaynor.bsky.social #beforedorothy #wizardofoz #historicalfiction 160
Reposted by Maggie BrookesAnna Mazzola @annamazz.bsky.social · 21/11/2024November, 1879. By John Atkinson Grimshaw who upset his family by leaving his job on the railways at the age of 24 to pursue a career as an artist. He was entirely self-taught. 3058186
Maggie Brookes @maggiebrookesbutt.bsky.social · 21/11/2024So thrilled that this marvellous book about Artemisia Gentilleschi won the HWA gold award last night! A phenomenal book about an extraordinary woman. @lizfremantle.bsky.social @historia-hwa.bsky.social #historicalfiction #artemisiagentilleschi #disobedient 252
Reposted by Maggie BrookesElizabeth Fremantle @lizfremantle.bsky.social · 21/11/2024This actually happened! In my befuddled astonishment on the night I forgot to thank the incredible @imogenrobertson.bsky.social & @francesowen.bsky.social who power the HWA & the judges chaired by Louise Hare. Still completely overwhelmed! 4319425
Maggie Brookes @maggiebrookesbutt.bsky.social · 20/11/2024Nine of my all time favourite historical fiction books on booklisti. What would yours be? #readers #reading #historicalfiction @gillpaulauthor.bsky.social #louisatreger #louisefein #tonimorrison @melissaharrison.bsky.social #clairekeegan #geraldinebrooks booklisti.com/booklist/bes...booklisti.comBest Women's Historical FictionI am addicted to historical fiction and find it wholly captivating. It's like having a time machine, opening up the great vistas of the past in ways that are always new and thrilling. The main ch... 281
Maggie Brookes @maggiebrookesbutt.bsky.social · 20/11/2024Chilly start in London! #frost #chilly #weather #London 150
Maggie Brookes @maggiebrookesbutt.bsky.social · 19/11/2024My first post on Bluesky is about an unseasonal snow-sky over London. ‘ ‘The seasons alter: hoary-headed frosts Fall in the fresh lap of the crimson rose’ (A Midsummer Night’s Dream) #snow #london #november #seasons 1230