Novelist, poet, features writer, creative writing teacher. https://xitter.cf/t.co/mXyL1cPiIS @Cambridge_uni @bruneluni MA distinction, outstanding dissertation prize.
London, England
Joined October 2007
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#audiobook #reviewers, Sail Upon the Land is now on @audibleuk @audible_com and promo codes are available. DM me for information. 4* 752 reviews and counting... amzn.to/3AXijB8 'Love a good family saga - and this is a REALLY good one!'
Went for my breast exam last week - I had very early breast cancer in 2017, and regularly request further check ups. The consultant was a man my age, and we discussed our children of similar ages. He examined me before sending me for a mammogram and scan. This was not a problem.
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Calling all UK creators, please go to the government consultation about AI theft of our work, and fill it in. @MaggieA spent a day going through this document - which privileges AI developers, and wrote a brilliant guide. I used her guide and added more. maggiealderson.substack.com/…
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I love the sound of this book @PollyVernon
I’ve written a new book, I’m incredibly proud of it. It’s out later in the year, late June, but @Waterstones has a 25% off preorder deal on it til midnight tonight. Link here
waterstones.com/book/how-the…
Code ‘preorder25’
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I was thrilled to find my poem Shit Villanelle was shortlisted in @Culturesmatter in the Bread and Roses Poetry Award Anthology 2024.
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One Apple Tasted, narrated by the extremely handsome and caramel-voiced @rich_trinder, is 99p at the moment with @audibleuk membership today. 'A bit of a One Day vibe - 80s nostalgia and long delayed love...' amzn.to/4b4Dm1l
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Dylan Thomas' villanelle about dying is masculine, dark and achingly moving. I wrote a lighter, feminine version - be sure, it is also about death, part of every life.
"Wise women shun the rules, take flight."
A poem for #InternationalWomensDay by @JosaKeyes
the-emigre.com/column/poem-d…
I'm very interested to hear what people think who have no interest in real French cooking. Trigger warning: braised lettuce. I loved it, but then I was cooking sweetbreads while still at university.
A sumptuous gastro-film that will also force you to reappraise vol-au-vents
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#OneDayNetflix fans? For more long-term love and nostalgia, there's my first novel One Apple Tasted, now on @audibleuk narrated beautifully by @rich_trinder audible.co.uk/pd/One-Apple-T… Reviewers DM me for promo codes.
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Having been coughing and feeling ill for nearly two weeks, and the sky is grey, and I cannot run for wheezing, I sank a bit and thought this poetry is really not good enough and maybe I should end it but then this amazon.co.uk/gp/customer-rev…
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It doesn't matter if you did have a measles jab (no MMR until the late 80s) - you can have #MMR now. This also goes for people who may have had measles and forgotten. The #measles outbreak is growing and I don't want anyone of any age going through what I did.
What a pity it is that there's no way of testing to see if someone has been vaccinated. Is some researcher somewhere working on this? Meanwhile fingers tightly crossed that you escape, or are protected from, Measles.
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#ADHD all over my family. These are brilliant people, and diagnosis, understanding and the right medication either has made a huge difference to their lives, or they were born too early for this to be a thing. As a single mum, it was a struggle to get this help even 10 years ago.
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Interesting expert opinion on @BBCRadio4 this morning about crime stats. Participation by women in nightlife is a major factor in falling violent crime, while sexual offenses increase. ie, we go out, we calm and civilise, and are groped, molested and assaulted for our pains.
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Get #MMR if you have the slightest doubt about your immunity to measles. That might be Wakefield cohort, over 60, anti-vaxx parents, anything. Doesn't even matter if you are immune, just ask GP. Friends have already done this after my ghastly experience last summer.
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#Measles I don't know what would have happened if I hadn't had the courage to insist my GP sent me to hospital last summer. I knew I was very ill, but he dismissed it as 'just a virus'. The world's most contagious virus. dailymail.co.uk/health/artic…
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Get yourself #MMR if you have the slightest doubt at any age that you were not vaccinated. That goes for 60 up (my younger brother was vaccinated for measles but not me in 1970 - I'm still cross with my late mother!), the Wakefield cohort (early 20s) and anyone else.
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