Dr Fiona Tolan
@fionatolan.bsky.social
Reader in Contemporary Women’s Writing, LJMU, UK. Contemporary British fiction, feminist theory, politics of cleaning. Posting in a personal capacity.
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One of our reviews editors @heyitsdenisew.bsky.social has a book out! Congratulations Denise!
Very happy to have received a physical copy of @heyitsdenisew.bsky.social fantastic new book. @edinburghup.bsky.social @bacls.bsky.social
November 7, 2025 at 9:49 AM
One of our reviews editors @heyitsdenisew.bsky.social has a book out! Congratulations Denise!
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Here’s the cover for LIKE A CAT LOVES A BIRD: THE NINE LIVES OF MURIEL SPARK, out 16 April with @sceptrebooks.bsky.social
Preorder here: lnk.to/LikeaCatLove...
Please share! The book doing well means I can write another (and fulfil my dream of owning a pizza oven), so it’s pretty serious
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Preorder here: lnk.to/LikeaCatLove...
Please share! The book doing well means I can write another (and fulfil my dream of owning a pizza oven), so it’s pretty serious
🐈⬛ 🐈⬛ 🐈⬛
November 2, 2025 at 5:23 PM
Here’s the cover for LIKE A CAT LOVES A BIRD: THE NINE LIVES OF MURIEL SPARK, out 16 April with @sceptrebooks.bsky.social
Preorder here: lnk.to/LikeaCatLove...
Please share! The book doing well means I can write another (and fulfil my dream of owning a pizza oven), so it’s pretty serious
🐈⬛ 🐈⬛ 🐈⬛
Preorder here: lnk.to/LikeaCatLove...
Please share! The book doing well means I can write another (and fulfil my dream of owning a pizza oven), so it’s pretty serious
🐈⬛ 🐈⬛ 🐈⬛
This is the route I swam this morning (though under rainier skies) - a beautiful spot
October 19, 2025 at 4:03 PM
This is the route I swam this morning (though under rainier skies) - a beautiful spot
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None shall pass.
October 8, 2025 at 2:30 PM
None shall pass.
You shall not pass!
October 8, 2025 at 2:10 PM
You shall not pass!
Always funny driving along the A303 and getting a great view of Stonehenge and the tourists
August 30, 2025 at 12:53 PM
Always funny driving along the A303 and getting a great view of Stonehenge and the tourists
Back home but thinking about 7pm at the beach when the sun goes down (sound up for waves) ⛱️
August 16, 2025 at 1:18 PM
Back home but thinking about 7pm at the beach when the sun goes down (sound up for waves) ⛱️
My current view over the trulli in Alberobello 🇮🇹
August 9, 2025 at 5:47 PM
My current view over the trulli in Alberobello 🇮🇹
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Please help me share the CFP for this Literature Compass Special Issue dedicated to the work of Simon J James and covering key Victorian and Edwardian writers like H. G. Wells, George Gissing, Dickens, Wilde, George Du Maurier, and Conan-Doyle on behalf of Hadas Elber-Aviram.
August 6, 2025 at 8:50 AM
Please help me share the CFP for this Literature Compass Special Issue dedicated to the work of Simon J James and covering key Victorian and Edwardian writers like H. G. Wells, George Gissing, Dickens, Wilde, George Du Maurier, and Conan-Doyle on behalf of Hadas Elber-Aviram.
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It’s always “Ladies, if you are alienated by overwork, drop out of the public sphere and become a tradwife” and never “Ladies, if you are alienated by overwork, form a union.”
July 11, 2025 at 3:45 PM
It’s always “Ladies, if you are alienated by overwork, drop out of the public sphere and become a tradwife” and never “Ladies, if you are alienated by overwork, form a union.”
Waiting on the library to open & trying to figure out which wing will be shadiest over the course of the day 🥵
July 11, 2025 at 8:02 AM
Waiting on the library to open & trying to figure out which wing will be shadiest over the course of the day 🥵
My cat outraged at the cheeky fox in our garden in broad daylight 🐈⬛ 🦊
July 6, 2025 at 8:10 AM
My cat outraged at the cheeky fox in our garden in broad daylight 🐈⬛ 🦊
Excuse me, is that breakfast pancakes I can smell?
July 6, 2025 at 8:07 AM
Excuse me, is that breakfast pancakes I can smell?
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‘I get up at 4 a.m. when I wake, & it is black, & write till the babes wake. It is like writing in a train tunnel, or God’s intestine.’
Sylvia Plath on writing Ariel, in a letter to Richard Murphy in October 1962. At this time, Plath was sometimes writing two poems a morning.
Sylvia Plath on writing Ariel, in a letter to Richard Murphy in October 1962. At this time, Plath was sometimes writing two poems a morning.
July 5, 2025 at 2:01 PM
‘I get up at 4 a.m. when I wake, & it is black, & write till the babes wake. It is like writing in a train tunnel, or God’s intestine.’
Sylvia Plath on writing Ariel, in a letter to Richard Murphy in October 1962. At this time, Plath was sometimes writing two poems a morning.
Sylvia Plath on writing Ariel, in a letter to Richard Murphy in October 1962. At this time, Plath was sometimes writing two poems a morning.
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This essay by @judedoyle.bsky.social on sex, porn, and the sex wars is just fantastic. I endorse every word of it.
This Is How You Lose the Sex Wars
Trying to pick a pathway through forty years of the ugliest conflict in feminism.
jude-doyle.ghost.io
June 30, 2025 at 7:01 PM
This essay by @judedoyle.bsky.social on sex, porn, and the sex wars is just fantastic. I endorse every word of it.
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Predictions of £40bn hit to public finances from Brexit ‘correct’
Office for Budget Responsibility’s forecast of a 4 per cent productivity loss from leaving the EU has been largely borne out, says top economist
www.thetimes.com/business-mon...
Office for Budget Responsibility’s forecast of a 4 per cent productivity loss from leaving the EU has been largely borne out, says top economist
www.thetimes.com/business-mon...
Predictions of £40bn hit to public finances from Brexit ‘correct’
Office for Budget Responsibility’s forecast of a 4 per cent productivity loss from leaving the EU has been largely borne out, says top economist
www.thetimes.com
June 23, 2025 at 7:12 AM
Predictions of £40bn hit to public finances from Brexit ‘correct’
Office for Budget Responsibility’s forecast of a 4 per cent productivity loss from leaving the EU has been largely borne out, says top economist
www.thetimes.com/business-mon...
Office for Budget Responsibility’s forecast of a 4 per cent productivity loss from leaving the EU has been largely borne out, says top economist
www.thetimes.com/business-mon...
So geekily excited to finally have my hands on the first issue of Good Housekeeping from 1922
June 20, 2025 at 8:24 AM
So geekily excited to finally have my hands on the first issue of Good Housekeeping from 1922
I can’t stop thinking about what it must be like to be Pitbull in the O2 arena, looking out at 1000s of people all dressed up as *you* 🔥
June 19, 2025 at 7:20 PM
I can’t stop thinking about what it must be like to be Pitbull in the O2 arena, looking out at 1000s of people all dressed up as *you* 🔥
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PhD Studentship at Legacies of British Slavery Centre: www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...
UCL – University College London
UCL is consistently ranked as one of the top ten universities in the world (QS World University Rankings 2010-2022) and is No.2 in the UK for research power (Research Excellence Framework 2021).
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June 15, 2025 at 9:34 AM
PhD Studentship at Legacies of British Slavery Centre: www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...
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Highly commended for the 2024 Wasafiri Essay Prize, Simar Bhasin discusses her paper, 'A Qissa of Resistance: Desire & Dissent in Selma Dabbagh’s Short Fiction'.
This essay will be published in our forthcoming issue, Wasafiri 123.
The 2025 Wasafiri Essay Prize is open until 30 June 2025.
This essay will be published in our forthcoming issue, Wasafiri 123.
The 2025 Wasafiri Essay Prize is open until 30 June 2025.
June 15, 2025 at 9:41 AM
Highly commended for the 2024 Wasafiri Essay Prize, Simar Bhasin discusses her paper, 'A Qissa of Resistance: Desire & Dissent in Selma Dabbagh’s Short Fiction'.
This essay will be published in our forthcoming issue, Wasafiri 123.
The 2025 Wasafiri Essay Prize is open until 30 June 2025.
This essay will be published in our forthcoming issue, Wasafiri 123.
The 2025 Wasafiri Essay Prize is open until 30 June 2025.
Finishing up an article on The Handmaid’s Tale & am struck by this line from the epilogue: ‘racist fears provided some of the emotional fear that allowed the Gilead takeover to succeed as well as it did’ #MargaretAtwood 🔺🔺🔺
June 9, 2025 at 10:05 AM
Finishing up an article on The Handmaid’s Tale & am struck by this line from the epilogue: ‘racist fears provided some of the emotional fear that allowed the Gilead takeover to succeed as well as it did’ #MargaretAtwood 🔺🔺🔺
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'The author of Girl, Woman, Other and Mr Loverman has been rewarded for her entire body of work, as well as her “transformative impact on literature and her unwavering dedication to uplifting under-represented voices across the cultural landscape”.' Kudos richly merited.
Bernardine Evaristo scoops Women’s prize outstanding contribution award
One-off £100,000 prize awarded to Girl, Women, Other writer for entire body of work and ‘dedication to uplifting under-represented voices’
www.theguardian.com
June 4, 2025 at 6:56 AM
'The author of Girl, Woman, Other and Mr Loverman has been rewarded for her entire body of work, as well as her “transformative impact on literature and her unwavering dedication to uplifting under-represented voices across the cultural landscape”.' Kudos richly merited.
Swimming in the river this morning to the insistent sound of a very chipper cuckoo - May is the most gorgeous month 🏊♀️
May 25, 2025 at 11:31 AM
Swimming in the river this morning to the insistent sound of a very chipper cuckoo - May is the most gorgeous month 🏊♀️