Anna Mazzola
@annamazz.bsky.social
Writer. Very small. Books normal size. THE CLOCKWORK GIRL, BOOK OF SECRETS etc. Writes thrillers as Anna Sharpe.
Also a criminal justice lawyer and a dark history geek.
Also a criminal justice lawyer and a dark history geek.
The finale of the Night Manager certainly gave us the cheery boost we all needed right now.
February 1, 2026 at 10:09 PM
The finale of the Night Manager certainly gave us the cheery boost we all needed right now.
My first Anna Sharpe thriller is out in paperback today so here’s the obligatory photograph of me looking awkward while holding a copy of my own book. Please for godssakes buy it. It got great reviews. People like it. And if you hate it, you can always use it to swat flies.
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January 29, 2026 at 9:24 AM
My first Anna Sharpe thriller is out in paperback today so here’s the obligatory photograph of me looking awkward while holding a copy of my own book. Please for godssakes buy it. It got great reviews. People like it. And if you hate it, you can always use it to swat flies.
geni.us/NotesOnADrow...
geni.us/NotesOnADrow...
We’ve nearly made it through January - well done everyone. February’s gonna be wild.
January 29, 2026 at 8:41 AM
We’ve nearly made it through January - well done everyone. February’s gonna be wild.
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If you're having bad day, know that you at least didn't do what my son's schoolfriend did and write the answer to a chemistry question as SCROTUM rather than Strontium.
January 27, 2026 at 12:51 PM
If you're having bad day, know that you at least didn't do what my son's schoolfriend did and write the answer to a chemistry question as SCROTUM rather than Strontium.
Booksellers! I’m sending out signed book plates and popping into London and South-East stores to sign copies of the paperback of NOTES ON A DROWNING (Orion, 29 Jan). Let me know if you’d like book plates, signings, biscuits or a reading copy. Many thanks.
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January 27, 2026 at 9:46 AM
Booksellers! I’m sending out signed book plates and popping into London and South-East stores to sign copies of the paperback of NOTES ON A DROWNING (Orion, 29 Jan). Let me know if you’d like book plates, signings, biscuits or a reading copy. Many thanks.
annamazzola.com/notes-on-a-d...
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Victorian advice on the menopause (‘ The Climactic’). No alcohol, no sex, only weak coffee and ‘beware of cold feet’. Thanks, Victorian doctor dudes.
(from A Textbook of the Diseases of Women, 1894)
(from A Textbook of the Diseases of Women, 1894)
January 21, 2026 at 7:33 PM
Victorian advice on the menopause (‘ The Climactic’). No alcohol, no sex, only weak coffee and ‘beware of cold feet’. Thanks, Victorian doctor dudes.
(from A Textbook of the Diseases of Women, 1894)
(from A Textbook of the Diseases of Women, 1894)
Book clubs! My legal/political Anna Sharpe thriller NOTES ON A DROWNING is out in paperback next week and I’ve made you a Reading Group Guide including suggested London/Tokyo snacks🍷 🇯🇵
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January 20, 2026 at 9:49 AM
Book clubs! My legal/political Anna Sharpe thriller NOTES ON A DROWNING is out in paperback next week and I’ve made you a Reading Group Guide including suggested London/Tokyo snacks🍷 🇯🇵
Sign up to my newsletter or click on my website to get the full thing.
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The Book of Secrets is now out in Slovakia! Tell your Slovakian friends, aunts, enemies, etc.
Sorcery, sisterhood and survival in 17th century Rome. Winner of the CWA Gold Dagger for best crime novel of 2025.
www.martinus.sk/3624441-knih...
Sorcery, sisterhood and survival in 17th century Rome. Winner of the CWA Gold Dagger for best crime novel of 2025.
www.martinus.sk/3624441-knih...
January 19, 2026 at 2:40 PM
The Book of Secrets is now out in Slovakia! Tell your Slovakian friends, aunts, enemies, etc.
Sorcery, sisterhood and survival in 17th century Rome. Winner of the CWA Gold Dagger for best crime novel of 2025.
www.martinus.sk/3624441-knih...
Sorcery, sisterhood and survival in 17th century Rome. Winner of the CWA Gold Dagger for best crime novel of 2025.
www.martinus.sk/3624441-knih...
Did you know that when you borrow a book (print/audio/ebook) from a UK library, the author gets a few pence plus a warm feeling in their heart?
Just found out people borrowed my books 1000s of times in 2025 and it's cheered me up. Please ask your library to order my books, and keep using libraries!
Just found out people borrowed my books 1000s of times in 2025 and it's cheered me up. Please ask your library to order my books, and keep using libraries!
January 19, 2026 at 9:59 AM
Did you know that when you borrow a book (print/audio/ebook) from a UK library, the author gets a few pence plus a warm feeling in their heart?
Just found out people borrowed my books 1000s of times in 2025 and it's cheered me up. Please ask your library to order my books, and keep using libraries!
Just found out people borrowed my books 1000s of times in 2025 and it's cheered me up. Please ask your library to order my books, and keep using libraries!
Lovely to see Notes on a Drowning chosen as one of the best paperbacks of the month. ‘Tense and fast-moving, this is an absorbing conspiracy-tinged thriller with clear small-screen potential.’
Out in paperback 29 Jan. Audio and ebook available now. Order now!
www.waterstones.com/book/notes-o...
Out in paperback 29 Jan. Audio and ebook available now. Order now!
www.waterstones.com/book/notes-o...
January 16, 2026 at 9:16 AM
Lovely to see Notes on a Drowning chosen as one of the best paperbacks of the month. ‘Tense and fast-moving, this is an absorbing conspiracy-tinged thriller with clear small-screen potential.’
Out in paperback 29 Jan. Audio and ebook available now. Order now!
www.waterstones.com/book/notes-o...
Out in paperback 29 Jan. Audio and ebook available now. Order now!
www.waterstones.com/book/notes-o...
Bibliomania, or Book-Madness was a satirical book by Thomas Frognall Dibdin published in 1809 which popularised the term ‘bibliomania’ and described the craze for book collecting, detailing serious ‘symptoms’ like obsession with first editions, and prescribing ‘cures’ such as human contact.
January 14, 2026 at 9:52 AM
Bibliomania, or Book-Madness was a satirical book by Thomas Frognall Dibdin published in 1809 which popularised the term ‘bibliomania’ and described the craze for book collecting, detailing serious ‘symptoms’ like obsession with first editions, and prescribing ‘cures’ such as human contact.
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Pure truth from @annamazz.bsky.social
January 12, 2026 at 7:17 PM
Pure truth from @annamazz.bsky.social
January 3, 2026 at 1:09 PM
Happy New Year! I’m starting as I mean to continue. X
January 1, 2026 at 12:13 PM
Happy New Year! I’m starting as I mean to continue. X
In case anyone else is feeling chaotic at this time of year, I just had to rummage through my own bins with a torch looking for the Christmas present I bought for my sister and which I think I must have trashed
December 23, 2025 at 5:55 PM
In case anyone else is feeling chaotic at this time of year, I just had to rummage through my own bins with a torch looking for the Christmas present I bought for my sister and which I think I must have trashed
It’s a fairytale town, isn’t it? How’s a fairytale town not somebody’s fucking thing?
December 20, 2025 at 5:23 PM
It’s a fairytale town, isn’t it? How’s a fairytale town not somebody’s fucking thing?
Merry Christmas.
🔴 BREAKING: David Walliams has been dropped by his publisher following an investigation by The Telegraph into inappropriate behaviour towards young women.
Read more here ⬇
www.telegraph.co.uk/bluesky-tmg/david-walliams-harper-collins/
Read more here ⬇
www.telegraph.co.uk/bluesky-tmg/david-walliams-harper-collins/
December 19, 2025 at 4:42 PM
Merry Christmas.
Announcing my favourite books of 2025!
It’s been a hard year for most writers and seeing all the ‘books of the year’ lists can be a bit depressing if you’re not on them. But you are all my books of the year, regardless of whether you’ve got an agent or got published. It’s a random business.
It’s been a hard year for most writers and seeing all the ‘books of the year’ lists can be a bit depressing if you’re not on them. But you are all my books of the year, regardless of whether you’ve got an agent or got published. It’s a random business.
December 14, 2025 at 11:13 AM
Announcing my favourite books of 2025!
It’s been a hard year for most writers and seeing all the ‘books of the year’ lists can be a bit depressing if you’re not on them. But you are all my books of the year, regardless of whether you’ve got an agent or got published. It’s a random business.
It’s been a hard year for most writers and seeing all the ‘books of the year’ lists can be a bit depressing if you’re not on them. But you are all my books of the year, regardless of whether you’ve got an agent or got published. It’s a random business.
If you were wondering how small I am, this is me with a normal sized bottle of wine.
December 13, 2025 at 2:14 PM
If you were wondering how small I am, this is me with a normal sized bottle of wine.
Is this not how you do it?
December 12, 2025 at 10:45 AM
Is this not how you do it?
If they did end of year wrap-ups for writers:
You wrote 100,000 words in 2025!
You deleted 75,000 of them!
You cried 49 times!
Your #1 phrase was: ‘She raised her eyebrows’
Your Year was defined by average sales, alcohol and mild desperation!
You wrote 100,000 words in 2025!
You deleted 75,000 of them!
You cried 49 times!
Your #1 phrase was: ‘She raised her eyebrows’
Your Year was defined by average sales, alcohol and mild desperation!
December 8, 2025 at 2:30 PM
If they did end of year wrap-ups for writers:
You wrote 100,000 words in 2025!
You deleted 75,000 of them!
You cried 49 times!
Your #1 phrase was: ‘She raised her eyebrows’
Your Year was defined by average sales, alcohol and mild desperation!
You wrote 100,000 words in 2025!
You deleted 75,000 of them!
You cried 49 times!
Your #1 phrase was: ‘She raised her eyebrows’
Your Year was defined by average sales, alcohol and mild desperation!
New cover! My first Anna Sharpe thriller, NOTES ON A DROWNING, is out in paperback in Jan. Two determined women, a deadly-up. ‘A brilliantly-pacy page-turner with a deeply compassionate centre.’ - The Express.
Pre-order here and secure my endless devotion plus a book: geni.us/NotesOnADrow...
Pre-order here and secure my endless devotion plus a book: geni.us/NotesOnADrow...
November 28, 2025 at 11:53 AM
New cover! My first Anna Sharpe thriller, NOTES ON A DROWNING, is out in paperback in Jan. Two determined women, a deadly-up. ‘A brilliantly-pacy page-turner with a deeply compassionate centre.’ - The Express.
Pre-order here and secure my endless devotion plus a book: geni.us/NotesOnADrow...
Pre-order here and secure my endless devotion plus a book: geni.us/NotesOnADrow...
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Inspired by @annamazz.bsky.social at WhitbyLitfest I have just finished this and it is*so* good.
November 20, 2025 at 2:52 PM
Inspired by @annamazz.bsky.social at WhitbyLitfest I have just finished this and it is*so* good.
PLEASE DO NOT ASK STAFF WHERE DRACULA’S GRAVE IS THERE ISN’T ONE.
Iconic sign from St Mary’s Church next to Whitby Abbey. I love that people think Bram Stoker’s Dracula was a real person/vampire who lived and died in Whitby.
Iconic sign from St Mary’s Church next to Whitby Abbey. I love that people think Bram Stoker’s Dracula was a real person/vampire who lived and died in Whitby.
November 8, 2025 at 10:15 AM
PLEASE DO NOT ASK STAFF WHERE DRACULA’S GRAVE IS THERE ISN’T ONE.
Iconic sign from St Mary’s Church next to Whitby Abbey. I love that people think Bram Stoker’s Dracula was a real person/vampire who lived and died in Whitby.
Iconic sign from St Mary’s Church next to Whitby Abbey. I love that people think Bram Stoker’s Dracula was a real person/vampire who lived and died in Whitby.