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Miranda Jubb

@mirandamiranda.bsky.social
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Reader and writer living in Bristol. Currently writing about gothic pipe organs and sentient plants.

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NickPheas @nickpheas.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
What? The first of a new month? Must be time for a #UKSFFBookBargains trawl. Let's start with the Wool Trilogy by @hughhowey.com. 99p for three books. www.amazon.co.uk/Wool-Trilogy... I think this collected edition is Amazon exclusive.
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Nicola Kelly @nicolakellywrites.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
I have spent weeks shadowing the RNLI and I can tell you, they do it out of nothing more than compassion. Wrote about the heroes I've met over the years in this free-to-read post. nicolakelly.substack.com/p/the-rnli-a...
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The RNLI aren't traitors; they're heroes
I have spent weeks shadowing lifeboat crews. Here's what they do and what it's like.
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Solaris Books @solarisbooks.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
🚨DEAL ALERT!🚨 Snap up 2 Solaris books in @kobobooks.bsky.social UK's "99 for 99p" eBook sale👇️ 🚀👨‍🚀THE CALCULATING STARS @maryrobinettekowal.com - the 1st book in her multi award-winning LADY ASTRONAUT series! 🐑🪓HOME SICK @rhiannonagrist.bsky.social - the horror debut taking readers by storm!
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Brian Groom @groomb.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
A UK-wide wave of strikes by schoolchildren started on this day 1911. It began when pupils in Llanelli, Wales walked out in sympathy with a boy disciplined by a deputy headmaster. Walkouts spread to at least 62 towns and cities. Came at time of widespread industrial unrest.
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Vajra Chandrasekera @vajra.me · 02/09/2026
This is not yet Officially Announced (the artist is hard at work on the cover!) but looks like it's already up for ebook/hardcover preorder in the US, so—this is a secret not-announcement that you totally did not hear from me! Out next July, my third novel. I was never here
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Stacey Burns @wentrogue.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Jennifer Nelson’s entry to this year’s Minnesota State Fair crop art
A localized version of Guernica with a loon at the center and a person holding an ICE OUT sign 

“My piece was inspired by Picasso's Guernica, a work that was his response to the Nazi's bombing of the Basque town. I thought there was a fitting parallel between these incidents about the high price paid by ordinary people when aggressive regimes try out new tactics of war, as well as a fitting juxtaposition of the darkness of living such an experience and the light we shone through it in our own resistance and care for one another. The patterns near Renee Good and Alex Pretti’s mouths are actually their last words in Morse code: ‘I’m not mad at you,’ and ‘Are you okay?’” 

Jennifer Nelson
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Dr Joanna Turner @coppertapestry.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
What a wonderful feeling – it’s publication day for my book on Marie Corelli! Thanks to my amazing editors @helenaifill.bsky.social and Janine Hatter for all their support. I’m so proud to be a contributor to their series on Key Popular Women Writers. @vpfa.bsky.social @lboroenglish.bsky.social
The cover for Marie Corelli by Joanna Turner. It depicts an image of a woman in Victorian dress, standing on a rock and pointing out to sea. Her hair is blowing in the breeze.
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NickPheas @nickpheas.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Also reduced for today only We are all ghosts on the forest by Lorraine Wilson. The sequel, the Salt Oracle has been getting some buzz. £1.29 www.amazon.co.uk/We-Are-All-G... Not reduced on Kobo either.
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We Are All Ghosts in the Forest
We Are All Ghosts in the Forest eBook : Wilson, Lorraine: Amazon.co.uk: Kindle Store
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Miranda Jubb @mirandamiranda.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
A favourite of mine…
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Uncanny Magazine @uncannymagazine.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
PLEASE SHARE! Writers! Uncanny Magazine will be open for short story submissions from August 24 to September 7! WE CAN'T WAIT TO SEE YOUR AMAZING, HUMAN-WRITTEN STORIES! www.uncannymagazine.com/submissions/
Uncanny Magazine will be open for short story submissions from  August 24 to September 7!
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Jess O'Thomson @jessothomson.co.uk · 15/08/2026
We are writing to the Prime Minister, and the Culture Secretary Lisa Nandy, calling for an immediate public inquiry into the British press, following the tragic death of Jason Arday. Sign here 👇
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Jason Arday Letter | Good Law Project
Commission an immediate public inquiry into how to ensure a responsible press given its contribution to Dr Arday’s tragic death.
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👻madeline bOoOoOoOodent👻 @oldenoughtosay.com · 14/08/2026
Shame on Cambridge, shame on the racists, shame on every person who tokenised him and put him in this situation to begin with. Gods.
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Miranda Jubb @mirandamiranda.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
This is exactly what I missed in the film, that ambiguity that’s in the text already and only complicated further by a modern lens: clever, charismatic Odysseus who also does terrible things by Greek and our standards. Not your standard hero by any means but a fascinating one.
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Trung Le Nguyen @trungles.com · 18/07/2026
I’m coming to San Diego Comic con!!! Hope to see you there!
A drawing of me, a feral-looking Asian guy in round glasses, astride a Bear Prince mascot struggling to carry us forward. The text reads:

I’m coming to San Diego Comic Con International!!!

Sunday

Panel
10AM, room 29AB
Graphic Storytelling: From Idea to Page

Signing
11:30AM, AA04
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R.S.A. Garcia (BUY THE NIGHTWARD) @rsagarcia.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Latest health update: I'm slowly getting better - too slow for my deadlines :sigh: - but my latest health issues have been expensive. I especially need to buy my cancer meds next week. I'd appreciate any donations. Please boost & share to spread the word. Thanks! www.gofundme.com/f/help-r-s-a...
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Donate to Help R. S. A. Garcia Pay for Cancer Expenses, organized by Arula Ratnakar
Hi everyone, I'm Rhonda, also known as R. S. A. Garcia, a speculative … Arula Ratnakar needs your support for Help R. S. A. Garcia Pay for Cancer Expenses
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Trung Le Nguyen @trungles.com · 16/07/2026
For your convenience, the Pride and Prejudice live-posting super-thread 📚
A drawing of Elizabeth Bennet, a lovely young woman with her long hair tied up nearly under a ribbon and wearing what is most likely a neo-classically inspired dress, looking pensive, two letters in her hand. Meanwhile Darcy, a handsome but stern-looking fellow, looks longingly at her. Also there is me, a little gremlin in big round glasses, skulking about in the background and hoping that they kiss. 

The accompanying text reads “Trung reads Pride and Prejudice for the first time, somehow.”
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hookland.bsky.social @hookland.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Goodnight from Peggy Cudford, leaving an offering of eggs at St. Swithin’s feet in hopes of happy harvest weather. Goodnight from Brooke Harper, working late on her PhD on mediaeval bestiaries, Hairy Pikes and Antlered Dormice floating before her eyes. Goodnight from Hookland.
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R.S.A. Garcia (BUY THE NIGHTWARD) @rsagarcia.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
IT'S HERE IT'S HERE! My new story is up!! I'm proud to be in Clarkesworld again after a few years absence. I'm proud to be in the anniversary issue of the magazine's conception. I'm proud of taking ellipses back from AI 😉. Read it here: clarkesworldmagazine.com/garcia_07_26/
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This Is an Emergency Broadcast by R.S.A. Garcia
Clarkesworld Science Fiction and Fantasy Magazine and Podcast.
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Miranda Jubb @mirandamiranda.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
As a fellow Bristolian I second this, what an absolute arsehole Matt Goodwin is. And congratulations to Yassin Mohamud! Having a former refugee as a Lord Mayor is something a city can be proud of.
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Miranda Jubb @mirandamiranda.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
Absolutely loved this book, beautiful writing and deftly explored themes, well worth your 99p
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NickPheas @nickpheas.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
#UKSFFBookBargains, a first of the month 🧵 What can we know by Ian McEwan who probably doesn't want it called science fiction. Don't set your books in 2119 and have they address the long term impacts of modern day worries then. £1.99. www.amazon.co.uk/What-We-Can-...
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What We Can Know: The new Sunday Times bestseller from the author of Atonement eBook : McEwan, Ian: Amazon.co.uk: Kindle Store
What We Can Know: The new Sunday Times bestseller from the author of Atonement eBook : McEwan, Ian: Amazon.co.uk: Kindle Store
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Ursula K. Le Guin @ursulakleguin.com · 29/06/2026
We're thrilled to present the shortlist for the 2026 Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction:
A bouquet of flowers next to a stack of books that includes:

Audition by Pip Adam (Coffee House Press)
Sunward by William Alexander (Saga Press)
Call and Response by Christopher Caldwell (Neon Hemlock)
Midnight Timetable by Bora Chung, translated by Anton Hur (Algonquin)
The Works of Vermin by Hiron Ennes (Tor Books)
Notes from a Regicide by Isaac Fellman (Tor Books)
Mad Sisters of Esi by Tashan Mehta (DAW Books)
One Message Remains by Premee Mohamed (Psychopomp)
Slow Gods by Claire North (Orbit)
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Toby Buckle @polphilpod.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
the write ups of the pm's fall never mention his biggest reforms—those that made the uk far, far worse for minorities my latest for @liberalcurrents.com www.liberalcurrents.com/starmer-out/
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Starmer Out
Starmer did not "do nothing": he made the country radically more regressive. No wonder he fell.
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Miranda Jubb @mirandamiranda.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
I used to listen to Radio 4 every morning, since childhood really. But quit around Brexit because I could not bear how partisan their coverage became. Today I thought I’d try again and almost the first thing I hear is ‘We talk to Nigel Farage at 8.30.’ WHY
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Verity Holloway @verityholloway.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
We were all in love with Giles. What a horrible loss. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Anthony Head: Buffy and Ted Lasso actor dies at 72
The British actor, who also appeared in Merlin and Little Britain, died of complications from pneumonia.
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Johnny Mains @johnnymains.co.uk · 23/05/2026
'Oh, Whistle, and I'll Tailor for You, My Lad'
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Africa Is a Country @africasacountry.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
The Granta controversy surrounding a Commonwealth Prize-winning story tells us less about AI than about the enduring metropolitan expectation that writing from the South should sound opaque, excessive, and primitive. africasacountry.com/2026/05/how-...
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How to read postcolonial writing
The Granta controversy surrounding a Commonwealth Prize-winning story tells us less about AI than about the enduring metropolitan expectation that writing from the South should sound opaque, excessive...
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R.S.A. Garcia (BUY THE NIGHTWARD) @rsagarcia.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
Health update. My oncologist is a happy woman! My eyesight is improving. I just need some help paying for a CT Scan, next month's meds and new glasses. Some not so great family news included too, but I'm really hoping it all turns out for the best. www.gofundme.com/f/help-r-s-a...
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Donate to Help R. S. A. Garcia Pay for Cancer Expenses, organized by Arula Ratnakar
Hi everyone, I'm Rhonda, also known as R. S. A. Garcia, a speculative … Arula Ratnakar needs your support for Help R. S. A. Garcia Pay for Cancer Expenses
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R.S.A. Garcia (BUY THE NIGHTWARD) @rsagarcia.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
A thank you to everyone, plus an update on my birthday this week, what's next on my healthcare schedule, and some fun news. (I have a new short story out!) Feel free to boost and share. And thank you for your donations! Every little bit helps. www.gofundme.com/f/help-r-s-a...
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Donate to Help R. S. A. Garcia Pay for Cancer Expenses, organized by Arula Ratnakar
Hi everyone, I'm Rhonda, also known as R. S. A. Garcia, a speculative … Arula Ratnakar needs your support for Help R. S. A. Garcia Pay for Cancer Expenses
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Miranda Jubb @mirandamiranda.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
Inspired to finally get around to reading this properly and despite my relatively fleeting knowledge of British (or indeed any) comics it is as brilliant and fascinating as advertised. Next on the list: Paradise Lost
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Miranda Jubb @mirandamiranda.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
If you have not read The Wolves of Willoughby Chase you are Missing Out. Also TIL there is a book called The Fog Comes On Little Pig Feet! And it is by Rosemary Wells! Looking forward to investigating further.
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Solaris Books @solarisbooks.bsky.social · 19/04/2026
🎉30K giveaway book bundle! #💙📚 Inc @rhiannonagrist.bsky.social @aptshadow.bsky.social @kerstinhall.bsky.social @pennyvixen.bsky.social @neuvel.net @csecooney.bsky.social @authortrmoore.bsky.social @samkhorton.bsky.social & more! UK/IE only. Like, repost, follow & drop a🌟in the comments! Ends 24/4
30K UK book bundle giveaway from Solaris.

Books include:
HOME SICK by Rhiannon Grist
TERRIBLE WORLDS: DESTINATIONS by Adrian Tchaikovsky
AN UNBREAKABLE WORLD by Ren Hutchings
ASUNDER by Kerstin Hall
THE MANY by Sylvain Neuvel
THE POMEGRANATE GATE, THE REPUBLIC OF SALT and THE KINGDOM OF ALMONDS by Ariel Kaplan
THE ORB OF CAIRADO by Katherine Addison (special edition)
THE DOOR ON THE SEA by Caskey Russell
THE GODS MUST BURN by T. R. Moore
THE MISHEARD WORLD by Aliya Whiteley
RAGWORT by Sam K. Horton
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NickPheas @nickpheas.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
Unusually for Humble's prose fiction, this is available outside the US, so #UKSFFBookBargains applies. Emphasis on horror, but there's good stuff in here. (Also, HT @alasdairstuart.com relevant to your interests)
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Helen Grant @helengrantsays.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
Grim. www.theguardian.com/education/ng...
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‘I see it as trafficking’: the brutal reality of life as a foreign student in the UK
The long read: Universities in Britain rely on overseas applicants paying full fees, which has given rise to some unscrupulous recruiters and left many hopefuls and their families deep in debt
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Miranda Jubb @mirandamiranda.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
Finally reading my last Diana Wynne Jones novel, as part of my grand DWJ readaloud with my youngest child. It's Archer's Goon, and I feel kind of sad about it. It's probably not going to be among my favourites, but I am enjoying how localised it is - so many of the road names are proper Bristol sts!
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Aubrey Gordon @yrfatfriend.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
Hey, you should read this @parkermolloy.com piece on the collapsing of what is largely an intersex/DSD story into an anti-trans culture war frame. open.substack.com/pub/readtpa/...
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The IOC's New Policy Isn't Really a Trans Story
Every headline says the IOC banned trans women from the Olympics. The athletes who’ll actually be barred are cis women who’ve never heard of the SRY gene.
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hookland.bsky.social @hookland.bsky.social · 22/03/2026
Goodnight from Sandy Dalton, entrancing every patron of The Sunken Bell pub with unconventional rendition of The Queen of Tears Came Calling. Goodnight from Jody Darrow, cheeks gently rouged with blood as she walks the moonless dark of Mercury Wood. Goodnight from Hookland.
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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
Dear Shabana, Let's clear some things up around migration and remember we're talking about people's lives.
Dear Shabana,
I notice today that you referred to me in your speech on immigration at the IPPR think tank.
You said: “A party leader should not be on the beaches of France encouraging people to
make a perilous crossing on small boats.”
I suppose I shouldn’t be surprised especially after the hateful Labour campaign in Gorton
and Denton, but this is just the latest in a string of lies peddled by a discredited Government
who intentionally fan the flames of racism and division.
When I went to Calais, I was not there to encourage people to travel to the UK. I was there
to see at first hand the suffering your Government and successive Governments have done
in demonising migrants in a pathetic bid to pander to the base instincts of Reform and the
flawed strategy of Morgan McSweeney.
As you will know, if you even bothered to research my visit instead of taking Reform talking
points, I was there to witness the brutality of families living in tents in freezing temperatures. I
filled water tanks and picked up litter.
What that visit did do is confirm my belief that if we are to smash the boat gangs and stop
the boats, we need to offer safer and managed routes for migrants to come to this country.
Showing compassion as a politician is not a crime. In fact, we need to see much more of it.
It reminded me of a young MP who in October 2015 spent three days in Lesbos helping
migrants fleeing war-torn Syria. She posted videos on X, talked about handing out water and
croissants to refugees and food parcels.
When she returned to the UK, she wrote a very moving piece in the New Statesman. She
said “we have to work with our European partners and create new, safe, and legal routes for
refugees to get to Europe. We cannot abandon them to their fate, left as prey for smugglers
whilst risking death on the seas.”
She said “maybe we can make ourselves feel better by saying no-one is making them get on
the boats. And again, the Home Secretary is not entirely wrong when …
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Athena Kugblenu @athenakugblenu.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
'It takes more then a piece of paper to make someone British' well yes it does. It takes years and years, lengthty piss taking application forms, a test, qualifications, employment and £££££££. What did Goodwin do other than be born here?
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Willerby @welcometowillerby.bsky.social · 01/03/2026
Wow. This is so good. We believe every word of it.
Screenshot of text from the linked story.
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Miranda Jubb @mirandamiranda.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
Pushmi-pullyu
A strange creature that could be two black and white cats lying end to end or could be one long feline with a head at each end. It is on a door mat on a somewhat tatty wooden floor.
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Mallory Moore @sexabolition.blog · 24/02/2026
The European commissioner for human rights urges countries planning to exercise authoritarian restrictions on children's access to online connection to instead focus on creating safer online platforms that protect children's rights.
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Colin Gorrie @colingorrie.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
If you liked this experiment, I published a full piece today in the same vein: a text that gets 100 years older with every section, from a modern blog post to a medieval chronicle. It's a single story spanning 1000 years of English. See how far you get. www.deadlanguagesociety.com/p/how-far-ba...
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How far back in time can you understand English?
An experiment in language change
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Mallory Moore @sexabolition.blog · 19/02/2026
I have friends being threatened by their workplaces over the use of toilets they've been using for years without problem.
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Miranda Jubb @mirandamiranda.bsky.social · 08/02/2026
Moomincat
Photo of a black and white kitten curled up tightly against a backdrop of light blue fabric with moomin characters printed on it
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Angry Robot Books @angryrobotbooks.bsky.social · 08/02/2026
Wake up! Today, for one day only, the ebook of Awakened by @tinywriterlaura.bsky.social for less than a pound, less than a dollar. A total bargain for all your gothic dream horrors and chilly science dystopia needs.
A promotional panel for Awakened by Laura Elliott.
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Miranda Jubb @mirandamiranda.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
Had to buy another copy of Hexwood in order to listen to this as mine has been awol for TOO LONG. Fortunately I read it about 50 times in my youth so the foundation is there. Fully agree with Rebecca re how exactly is a skirt supposed to be warmer than jeans? Spent many hours puzzling over that one.
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Miranda Jubb @mirandamiranda.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
Some Desperate Glory by @emilytesh.net is on sale today on kindle for only 99p! I really enjoyed the twists and turns of this book and its politics are only too relevant. I believe it was quite influenced by Hexwood, the discussion of which on @eightdaysofdiana.bsky.social I am currently savouring.
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Jennie Kermode @jenniekermode.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
What we can't afford to do is to have everyone voting to the right of what they really want because that seems like the only way to make a pragmatic move to the left. That delays the change we all need and it makes nobody (except the far right) happy.
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