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Susannah Stapleton

@susannahstapleton.bsky.social

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Reader, writer, collector, maker. Author of That Dark Spring (2025) and The Adventures of Maud West, Lady Detective (2019).

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Susannah Stapleton @susannahstapleton.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

So, this happened last night — a huge surprise and a wonderful evening! Congratulations to my fellow Dagger winners and many, many thanks to @thecwa.bsky.social and @alcs.co.uk.

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Susannah Stapleton @susannahstapleton.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

There are two exhibitions in London/Essex that I was really excited about seeing over the next couple of months. I may yet get to go. And maybe you can, too? They would make a fantastic weekend. Here’s a clue.

Paperback copy of Leonora Carrington's novella 'The Hearing Trumpet' propped up against pots containing paintbrushes,

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Susannah Stapleton @susannahstapleton.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

Shropshire weather report: cold and fluffy.

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Susannah Stapleton @susannahstapleton.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

At the Royal Navy's new top-secret testing facility?

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Susannah Stapleton @susannahstapleton.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

4/4 My shed is also where I write books. My first book, The Adventures of Maud West, Lady Detective came out in 2019. After a little break(down) while I dealt with a pesky brain disease, That Dark Spring is coming out in April 2025. I will no doubt bang on about this in due course.

Book cover for The Adventures of Maud West, Lady Detective

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Susannah Stapleton @susannahstapleton.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

3/4 I love tinkering in my shed. Most of it comes to nothing, but occasionally something works. This is a simple automata I made a few years back using beach-combing finds and inspired by Dylan Thomas’s Under Milk Wood. I also knit, sew, paint and hammer stuff in an equally hit-and-miss fashion.

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Susannah Stapleton @susannahstapleton.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

2/4 I’m a collector. In an attempt to tame some of my hoarding tendencies, I’m creating a museum in my downstairs loo called the British Looseum. There are still boxes of stuff to display and it also turns out to be very hard to photograph, but here goes. More to come as it fills up.

A wall of small museum exhibits, including a bird skull and old microscope slides.

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Susannah Stapleton @susannahstapleton.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

Isn’t it lovely here? By way of introduction, I thought I’d expand a bit on my bio. First up (1/4): I love reading. This is the current pile – a mixture of treasure hunting, dissolute Russian counts, space crones and practical exercises involving arsenic and chloroform. All excellent.

A shelf of books: Oblomov by Goncharov, Magical Treasure Hunting in Europe and North America by Dillinger, Space Crone by Ursula Le Guin, and How to Make a Home Nature Museum by Brown.

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Susannah Stapleton @susannahstapleton.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

I make the mistake of going fancy (aka sweary knitting) so it's doubly annoying when I lose one (although I think this one's friend has actually gone off for some me-time in the house somewhere).

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