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Kathryn Harkup (she/her) @rotwangsrobot.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

#AmReading We Are Bellingcat: An Intelligence Agency for the People by Eliot Higgins #BookSky 📚

Cover of the book showing the title inside the curve of an upside down question mark

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Kathryn Harkup (she/her) @rotwangsrobot.bsky.social · 19/04/2025

#AmReading The World of Yesterday: Memoirs of a European by Stefan Zweig

Cover of the book with an illustration of a moustached man sitting at a desk with pen in hand. On the desk is a miniature street scene with a lamppost, an advertising column, a ballerina and three women walking along in typical turn of the century dress - hats, long skirts - two of them are holding umbrellas.

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Kathryn Harkup (she/her) @rotwangsrobot.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

#AmReasing The Complete Mapp & Lucia: Volume One by E. F. Benson #BookSky

Cover of the book showing a painting of a hut at Rye Harbour by Anna Teasdale. The red roofed hut is in the middle distance. Big grey clouds roll overhead and the foreground is filled with wild flowers and gentle rolling dunes leading up to the water. Benson's fictional world is based on the real town of Rye.

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Kathryn Harkup (she/her) @rotwangsrobot.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

Feeling a little overwhelmed with new followers. Hello and welcome and sorry if I missed you in the crowd.

After the ball, a painting by Ramon Casas of a woman in a long black dress collapsed on a green sofa and staring bemused into the middle distance.

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Kathryn Harkup (she/her) @rotwangsrobot.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

#AmReading #Books The Machine Stops, The Celestial Omnibus and Other Stories by E. M. Forster.

Cove of the book which is black with yellow lines running across it at right angles, like a road map.

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Kathryn Harkup (she/her) @rotwangsrobot.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

On December 3rd I'm going to Nottingham to talk about Death and Shakespeare. 💀🗡️💔You can come along and hear me if you'd like. It's free but you need to register here institutemh.org.uk/events/event...

Poster advertising the event Death by Shakespeare with a drawing of Shakespeare in one corner and event details in the other. The talk is at 2pm at the Institute of Mental Health on the University of Nottingham's Jubilee campus, room A08. The text reads 'a captivating guest lecture by Dr Kathryn Harkup, a former chemist who has embraced her calling as a vampirologist and science communicator.' It then goes on to say 'William Shakespeare found dozens of different ways to kill off his characters and audiences today still enjoy the same reactions - shock, sadness, fear - that they did more than 400 years ago when these plays were first performed. but how realistic are these deaths, and did Shakespeare have the knowledge to back them up?'

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Kathryn Harkup (she/her) @rotwangsrobot.bsky.social · 04/11/2024

I know I haven't posted anything here for a while, but I've been a bit busy writing a book about poisons and Agatha Christie. V is for Venom should be out next year.

Cover of the book showing a big black V and the words 'is for venom' in white art deco letters and the subtitle 'Agatha Christie's chemicals of death'. There is a yellow art deco snake curling around one arm of the big v and giving a warning hiss

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Kathryn Harkup (she/her) @rotwangsrobot.bsky.social · 11/03/2024

#AmReading Cecily: Wife, Mother, Politician, Traitor, Fighter, Survivor by Annie Garthwaite

Cover of the book showing the title over what looks like a stained glass window

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Kathryn Harkup (she/her) @rotwangsrobot.bsky.social · 15/02/2024

I forgot to say it's called Superspy Science: Science, Death and Tech in the world of James Bond. Sorry.

A big red advert that says 'out now in paperback' in big black shouty letters and a picture of the cover of the book Superspy Science: Science, Death and Tech in the World of James Bond

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Kathryn Harkup (she/her) @rotwangsrobot.bsky.social · 15/02/2024

I wrote a thing, and it's published in paperback today! It's about James Bond, well, a little bit, but mostly about how Bond villains plot to take over the world, or break into Fort Knox, or kill 007. Lots of top tips for wannabe supervillains.* *Please do not use this book to take over the world.

Photo of the book with a red hand gun on the cover (which I assume is a Walther PPK but I honestly don't know). There are also casino chips, a martini glass, a black bow tie (pre-tied, sigh) and some very sixties looking sunglasses with big thick square frames.

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Kathryn Harkup (she/her) @rotwangsrobot.bsky.social · 01/02/2024

#AmReading Love in a Cold Climate and Other Novels by Nancy Mitford

Cover of the book showing a red rose frozen in ice

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