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PATRICIA SCANLAN Author @patriciascanlan.bsky.social · 27/08/2025

A new format at www.irelandsbigissue.com has my Book Club Picks for August. 🙂📚📚📚📚📚 #SineadMoriarity #IsobelMahon @vickinotaro.com #MelissaHill @stephenking.bsky.social #MichaelConnolly @gavreilly.com

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PATRICIA SCANLAN Author @patriciascanlan.bsky.social · 01/08/2025

Delighted #CityGirlsForever is in the best of company #SinéadMoriarity @vickinotaro.com #MelissaHill #FaithHogan and on the next shelf the fabulous, unmissable #CiaraGeraghty’s #LateLearner 🙏 @easons.bsky.social Arklow.

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Vicki Notaro Carlyle @vickinotaro.com · 08/07/2025

Dared to mention my b**ks, p*dc*st AND my S*bst*ck on Insta today, so am now languishing in jail with nobody seeing anything I post. Sigh.

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Vicki Notaro Carlyle @vickinotaro.com · 11/06/2025

I love seeing pics of readers with my books on their holidays, it’s an honour and a privilege to be your sun lounger read! 🩷🩷🩷

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Vicki Notaro Carlyle @vickinotaro.com · 03/06/2025

A lovely day of signing books around dublin, radio and tv interviews. Exhausted but happy (and praying for a bestseller lol)

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Richy Craven @richycraven.bsky.social · 03/06/2025

While I'm recommending books I enjoyed, I was lucky to receive an early copy of @vickinotaro.com 's Long Story which is a glamorous, hilarious and deep exploration of friendship between two women. Pictured: My fiancee and I drinking too much rosé at the launch.

My fiancee and I, drinking too much rosé at the launch.

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Vicki Notaro Carlyle @vickinotaro.com · 31/05/2025

I’ve had the most beautiful few days celebrating LONG STORY, and next week will be spent promoting it - it’s fair to say, it’s well and truly launched and available in all formats NOW!

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Bronagh McAteer @handwrittengirl.bsky.social · 30/05/2025

A very belated happy publication day to @vickinotaro.com on the release of her second novel, ‘Long Story’, addictive and fun packed with strong characters, entertaining scenarios and an insight into the world of Hollywood. #LongStory #BookReview #BookBlogger handwrittengirl.com/book-reviews...

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Long Story By Vicki Notaro | Handwritten Girl

‘Long Story’ is the latest story by Vicki Notaro.

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Keith @melcsgoldtooth.bsky.social · 29/05/2025

Eeeeep! @vickinotaro.com

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Vicki Notaro Carlyle @vickinotaro.com · 30/04/2025

Finished copies of Long Story arrived today! Out everywhere on May 29th.

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Vicki Notaro Carlyle @vickinotaro.com · 22/04/2025

Is there ANY craic to be had on this app? Any at all????

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Vicki Notaro Carlyle @vickinotaro.com · 17/04/2025

The paperback of my debut novel Reality Check is out today in Ireland, the U.K., Australia, New Zealand and many more fab countries around the world. Plus it’s only €7 in @dublinairport.bsky.social this week, on offer in @whsmithofficial.bsky.social 🩷✈️

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Limerick Literary Festival @limericklitfest.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

Read Irish Women Challenge 2025 Day 11: A book that deals with fashion or beauty - Reality Check by Vicki Notaro #readirishwomen #books #irish #womenwriters #authors #readmorebooks @vickinotaro.com @bookaneer808.bsky.social

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Vicki Notaro Carlyle @vickinotaro.com · 10/04/2025

Dirty Dancing for the season finale of You Had Me At Hello! Out now wherever you get your pods 🩷

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Bronagh McAteer @handwrittengirl.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

‘Long Story’ by @vickinotaro.com, I absolutely adored this witty and emotional rollercoaster of a story. Escapism reading at its finest. #BookReview handwrittengirl.com/book-reviews...

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Jared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

Man it sure is weird that there’s a manufactured economic crisis that will require historic reindustrialization on the cheap sans worker protections while unions are being marginalized and children prepared for labor and the oligarchs who own the president need support for automation technology.

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Vicki Notaro Carlyle @vickinotaro.com · 26/03/2025

The paperback version of my debut novel arrived today, and it’s absolutely beautiful 🥹

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Vicki Notaro Carlyle @vickinotaro.com · 25/03/2025

I gotta say, sometimes I really miss the lighthearted vibes of Twitter. I know the world is going to hell in a handbag but BlueSky is very serious all the time, where is my comical housewives gang, where are the sassy legends

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Vicki Notaro Carlyle @vickinotaro.com · 24/03/2025

This looks like my literal office lol 🧙🏼‍♀️

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Vicki Notaro Carlyle @vickinotaro.com · 20/03/2025

Happy publication to one of the best to ever do it! City Girls Forever js a gorgeous read, and Devlin Delaney will always be an icon 💜💜💜

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Siobhán Dowling @siobhandowling.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

Reminder: Kennys Bookshop delivers for free in Ireland. Easons have free delivery over 10 euros (and also sell toys and games and stationary). Lots of lovely booksellers in the actual stores too, like Books Upstairs, Gutter Bookshop, Hodges Figgis.

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Vicki Notaro Carlyle @vickinotaro.com · 16/03/2025

Joe has got really in to Apple Music country, send help

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Vicki Notaro Carlyle @vickinotaro.com · 10/03/2025

A gorgeous weekend in London Town celebrating eight years of marriage in style! Yes, that is a cocktail served in a head.

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Vicki Notaro Carlyle @vickinotaro.com · 09/03/2025

Spending Sunday afternoon bawling my way through A Whole New World of Alan Menken at the London Palladium.

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Vicki Notaro Carlyle @vickinotaro.com · 06/03/2025

Absolutely loved rewatching The Notebook and chatting about it with Doireann Garrihy! Available wherever you get your pods now!

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Vicki Notaro Carlyle @vickinotaro.com · 04/03/2025

Pals v familiar with London - anyone been to Ambassadors Clubhouse or Carlotta?

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Richy Craven @richycraven.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

Last year I released a weird, little novel about ghosts and drinking and male friendships and anxiety. The Kindle version is on sale for 1 Pound for the rest of the month. Not sure if it's your cup of tea? Check out the first three pages:

Chapter 1
Danny woke to the sound of moaning. A deep, sorrow-ful howl echoed through the flat, the lack of any real
furniture and terrible build quality working together to create acoustics that Dolby could only dream of.
He stared at the ceiling, figuring out what he could do
next. He could hide in his room, trying to make shapes
out of the water stains on the ceiling, hoping it would go away, or he could confront whatever was making the noise.
Option A was obviously the most appealing.
Unfortunately, he had been trialling this on a pro-tem basis for the past fifteen minutes and the noise showed no signs of going away. If anything, it was getting louder, as
if the first quarter of an hour had just been an overture.
As quietly as he could, he dug a pair of tracksuit bottoms and a hoodie out from the piles of clothes that
formed drifts between the floor and his desk. Whatever he
was going to be confronting, he’d prefer not to do so in his
boxers. Once dressed, he pawed in the dark for his phone
on the nightstand, ‘nightstand’ being something of a grandiose term for a stool he’d taken from the sitting room.
The time on the screen read just after five o’clock. The
phone’s light illuminated the rest of his room and he briefly wondered if he’d been the victim of poltergeist activity before remembering that this was just how he lived.

The sound was even louder in the hallway and allowed Danny to triangulate its source: the living area straight ahead. Cautiously, he made his way towards the far end of the hall and paused at the threshold of the living room. The kitchenette was in view now and he was able to rule
it out as the source of the noise. He’d half-wondered this
whole time whether it might have just been the contents
of the salad-drawer finally gaining sentience, but whatever was there remained in the primordial stages of life.
The sound was coming from the sitting room, off to the right and out of view of the hall. If anything, it sounded
even less human this close up.
He was about to take a step inside but his breath
caught in his throat as he saw the hand print. It was on the frame of the door that led into the sitting room, dark, sticky and glistening a sickly red in the light from Danny’s phone torch. He took a breath and stood up to his full height in an attempt to look as intimidating as
possible. At five foot nine, this was not terribly effective.
Steeling himself, he stepped into the sitting room to confront whatever horrors awaited.
And the sight was horrific. A red-haired man was passed out across his couch.
The fact that it was a small, leather two-seater and
the man was well over six feet tall meant that only his head, shoulders and chest were actually horizon-
tal. The opposite arm of the sofa had forced his legs into a right angle from the rest of his body, the soles
of his grubby Converse almost pointing at the ceiling.
This awkward position was,
was causing his drunken snores to emerge as drawn-
out groans

In front of the intruder, the remnants of a Chinese
takeaway were leaking onto the cheap laminate coffee
table. Danny looked back at the handprint and, after a
moment’s hesitation, dipped his finger into the dark stain
and sniffed at it. Sweet and sour sauce.
He sighed as he wandered over to the sleeping house-
breaker and prodded him with one foot. ‘Did you at
least bring me something this time?’ he asked.
The red haired man didn’t even open his eyes. ‘Chicken
balls are in the bag,’ Nudge said and then attempted to
curl up in the foetal position to fit as much of himself on
the sofa as possible.
Danny dug through the remnants of the takeaway
and found the small paper bag, already see-through with
grease, as promised. Rent for the night secured, he pad-
ded back to his bedroom and left his best friend snoring
on the couch.
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‘You told me you

The front cover of Spirit Level by Richy Craven

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Vicki Notaro Carlyle @vickinotaro.com · 02/03/2025

The pod has been featured on Apple this week in Ireland, I keep getting frights when I open the app - but good ones! 🩷🩷🩷

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Vicki Notaro Carlyle @vickinotaro.com · 23/02/2025

Me to Joe: If I was on Gladiators, my name would be Vixen. What would yours be? Joe: mine would be Silence. 🤭 @wedoazure.ie

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Vicki Notaro Carlyle @vickinotaro.com · 22/02/2025

A sneak peek at the paperback cover of Reality Check. Isn’t she chic?! Out in April! #irishbooks #author #irelandreads

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Vicki Notaro Carlyle @vickinotaro.com · 22/02/2025

Happy #IrelandReads day! Thrilled that I have a novel out in the world and another coming, you can buy or borrow or listen or download and as Rupaul would say… reading is fundamental!!! Thank you Irish libraries for all you do.

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PATRICIA SCANLAN Author @patriciascanlan.bsky.social · 22/02/2025

For the FIRST TIME EVER, @waterstones.bsky.social are running a #WPreorder 25% off RRP promotion on a great range of hand selected forthcoming books to help us sort our TBR piles! Excited to share that the hardback edition of @patriciascanlan.bsky.social #CityGirlsForever is included! #PREORDER25

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Vicki Notaro Carlyle @vickinotaro.com · 20/02/2025

This week on You Had Me At Hello, we are talking all things Nora Ephron and You’ve Got Mail! Listen wherever you get your pods.

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Vicki Notaro Carlyle @vickinotaro.com · 16/02/2025

My forthcoming second novel Long Story is available for pre order now! You can pre order it from major bookstores in Ireland, the U.K. and Australia now :)

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Vicki Notaro Carlyle @vickinotaro.com · 12/02/2025

Today I Deliverooed tissues, ginger shots, fruit and soup from M&S because I have a shitty cold. That’s both amazing technologically and embarrassingly notions-y.

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Vicki Notaro Carlyle @vickinotaro.com · 12/02/2025

On tomorrow’s You Had Me At Hello… it was only fair that I dragged my own Valentine in to it! 🥰🩷 @wedoazure.ie

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Vicki Notaro Carlyle @vickinotaro.com · 08/02/2025

I adore Ireland’s Fittest Family, and I’m the least athletic person you’ll meet. I have no idea why this format hasn’t been sold all around the world?

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Vicki Notaro Carlyle @vickinotaro.com · 04/02/2025

Tried to deactivate my X account and instead of doing that, it kicked me out of it entirely. Made me change my password and now won’t let me back in because of 2FA. Anyone else experience similar?

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Vicki Notaro Carlyle @vickinotaro.com · 30/01/2025

Running a little competition over on insta to celebrate season two of You Had Me At Hello… Same username as here!

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sarah maria griff @griffski.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

my friends, here is a very special limited edition of Eat The Ones You Love from the good people at Kenny’s. you should go get one before they’re gone 👁️🌱

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Vicki Notaro Carlyle @vickinotaro.com · 27/01/2025

Been locked out of my Twitter (will never call it the other thing) for a week now, what if my dms are lit over there guys

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niamh @niamheile.bsky.social · 26/01/2025

13. been waiting in the queue for this for AGES and it couldn’t have come at a better time, massive bualadh bos for @vickinotaro.com 👏🏻 such an enjoyable listen, the character development is so organic and really well done so ofc i’m obsessed with the whole family now

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Vicki Notaro Carlyle @vickinotaro.com · 21/01/2025

My second novel has a face! Revealing the cover of LONG STORY, which is available to pre order now 🩷✨

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