Flora Johnston
@florajowriter.bsky.social
Scottish fiction writer.
The Endeavour of Elsie Mackay and The Paris Peacemakers available now.
Represented by Jenny Brown Associates.
The Endeavour of Elsie Mackay and The Paris Peacemakers available now.
Represented by Jenny Brown Associates.
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Set 1918-1920 this focuses on two sisters and the parts they play in what comes after the War. Stella goes to Paris as a typist at the peace conference; Corran joins the YMCA School of Education to teach soldiers about to be demobbed. Loved it @florajowriter.bsky.social @allisonandbusby.bsky.social
October 22, 2025 at 6:50 PM
Set 1918-1920 this focuses on two sisters and the parts they play in what comes after the War. Stella goes to Paris as a typist at the peace conference; Corran joins the YMCA School of Education to teach soldiers about to be demobbed. Loved it @florajowriter.bsky.social @allisonandbusby.bsky.social
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Farage wanting to kick people out of the country because they migrated here made me angry and made me think about which best of British people and things wouldn't have happened were it not for the brilliance of immigration to the UK.
September 24, 2025 at 4:39 PM
Farage wanting to kick people out of the country because they migrated here made me angry and made me think about which best of British people and things wouldn't have happened were it not for the brilliance of immigration to the UK.
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The programme for this year's Bookmark Blairgowrie book festival. A really excellent, high quality book festival in the heart of Perthshire. This year feat. @seanluskauthor.bsky.social @linanderson.bsky.social @billykayscot.bsky.social @florajowriter.bsky.social and many others. Well worth a visit.
September 16, 2025 at 7:53 AM
The programme for this year's Bookmark Blairgowrie book festival. A really excellent, high quality book festival in the heart of Perthshire. This year feat. @seanluskauthor.bsky.social @linanderson.bsky.social @billykayscot.bsky.social @florajowriter.bsky.social and many others. Well worth a visit.
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The 2025 Portobello Book Festival Programme is now available!
Portobello Book Festival: 3rd – 5th October 2025Tickets for all events are free and available from Portobello Library The programme for this year’s festival was officially launched at the library last night. Copies are now available to…
Portobello Book Festival: 3rd – 5th October 2025Tickets for all events are free and available from Portobello Library The programme for this year’s festival was officially launched at the library last night. Copies are now available to…
The 2025 Portobello Book Festival Programme is now available!
Portobello Book Festival: 3rd – 5th October 2025Tickets for all events are free and available from Portobello Library The programme for this year’s festival was officially launched at the library last night. Copies are now available to pick up from the library and you’ll find them in various places around Portobello too. Tickets will be available to collect in person from the library from 10am on Saturday morning, 13th September.
portobellobookfestival.com
September 5, 2025 at 7:12 AM
The 2025 Portobello Book Festival Programme is now available!
Portobello Book Festival: 3rd – 5th October 2025Tickets for all events are free and available from Portobello Library The programme for this year’s festival was officially launched at the library last night. Copies are now available to…
Portobello Book Festival: 3rd – 5th October 2025Tickets for all events are free and available from Portobello Library The programme for this year’s festival was officially launched at the library last night. Copies are now available to…
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Congratulations to Flora Johnston on the paperback launch of 'The Endeavour of Elsie Mackay' The compelling historical novel inspired by the pioneering Scottish aviator www.amazon.co.uk/Endeavour-El... @florajowriter.bsky.social
#HistoricalFiction #Booklaunch #Booksky 💙📚
#HistoricalFiction #Booklaunch #Booksky 💙📚
The Endeavour of Elsie Mackay: The compelling historical novel inspired by the pioneering Scottish aviator
Buy The Endeavour of Elsie Mackay: The compelling historical novel inspired by the pioneering Scottish aviator by Johnston, Flora (ISBN: 9780749031473) from Amazon's Book Store. Everyday low prices and free delivery on eligible orders.
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August 21, 2025 at 9:08 AM
Congratulations to Flora Johnston on the paperback launch of 'The Endeavour of Elsie Mackay' The compelling historical novel inspired by the pioneering Scottish aviator www.amazon.co.uk/Endeavour-El... @florajowriter.bsky.social
#HistoricalFiction #Booklaunch #Booksky 💙📚
#HistoricalFiction #Booklaunch #Booksky 💙📚
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Coming up in the second hour of the #TREBookshow, with Hannah Murray from 21.00CET - Ed Needham, editor of Strong Words Magazine , @ragriggsauthor.bsky.social , and @florajowriter.bsky.social #TuneIn on https://tre.radio or TRE Radio App
August 16, 2025 at 6:50 PM
Coming up in the second hour of the #TREBookshow, with Hannah Murray from 21.00CET - Ed Needham, editor of Strong Words Magazine , @ragriggsauthor.bsky.social , and @florajowriter.bsky.social #TuneIn on https://tre.radio or TRE Radio App
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Coming soon: the third Edinburgh Women’s Fiction Festival. Tickets for all events available now! @EdWomensFicFest
The third Edinburgh Women's Fiction Festival will be taking place on Friday 26th and Saturday 27th September and I'm delighted to be part of the blogging team once again. Over the next…
The third Edinburgh Women's Fiction Festival will be taking place on Friday 26th and Saturday 27th September and I'm delighted to be part of the blogging team once again. Over the next…
Coming soon: the third Edinburgh Women’s Fiction Festival. Tickets for all events available now! @EdWomensFicFest
The third Edinburgh Women's Fiction Festival will be taking place on Friday 26th and Saturday 27th September and I'm delighted to be part of the blogging team once again. Over the next few weeks in the lead up to the festival, all of us on the blogging team will be featuring the authors who are taking part. As the website says, this festival is celebration of writing for, by, and about women.
portobellobookblog.com
August 5, 2025 at 8:00 AM
Coming soon: the third Edinburgh Women’s Fiction Festival. Tickets for all events available now! @EdWomensFicFest
The third Edinburgh Women's Fiction Festival will be taking place on Friday 26th and Saturday 27th September and I'm delighted to be part of the blogging team once again. Over the next…
The third Edinburgh Women's Fiction Festival will be taking place on Friday 26th and Saturday 27th September and I'm delighted to be part of the blogging team once again. Over the next…
Look who's arrived in paperback! Well hello there, Elsie!
#TheEndeavourofElsieMackay
#TheEndeavourofElsieMackay
July 25, 2025 at 2:40 PM
Look who's arrived in paperback! Well hello there, Elsie!
#TheEndeavourofElsieMackay
#TheEndeavourofElsieMackay
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This is so niche I can't believe I am asking, but does anyone know anyone who might be an expert in Protestantism in Italy during the Reformation? (Stranger things have happened). RTs welcome.
July 22, 2025 at 5:10 PM
This is so niche I can't believe I am asking, but does anyone know anyone who might be an expert in Protestantism in Italy during the Reformation? (Stranger things have happened). RTs welcome.
Thrilled to read this review of #TheEndeavourofElsieMackay in @writing.ie
'... a beautifully written historical fiction novel set against the bustling shipyards of the Clyde in Glasgow between 1927 and 1928 amid the burgeoning beginning of the golden age of aviation.'
www.writing.ie/readers/the-...
'... a beautifully written historical fiction novel set against the bustling shipyards of the Clyde in Glasgow between 1927 and 1928 amid the burgeoning beginning of the golden age of aviation.'
www.writing.ie/readers/the-...
June 30, 2025 at 7:45 PM
Thrilled to read this review of #TheEndeavourofElsieMackay in @writing.ie
'... a beautifully written historical fiction novel set against the bustling shipyards of the Clyde in Glasgow between 1927 and 1928 amid the burgeoning beginning of the golden age of aviation.'
www.writing.ie/readers/the-...
'... a beautifully written historical fiction novel set against the bustling shipyards of the Clyde in Glasgow between 1927 and 1928 amid the burgeoning beginning of the golden age of aviation.'
www.writing.ie/readers/the-...
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My seventy-seven-year-old father
put his reading glasses on
to help my mother do the buttons
on the back of her dress…
—“George Square”, by Jackie Kay
LIFE MASK, @bloodaxebooks.bsky.social 2005
Hear Jackie Kay read this poem on the @thepoetryarchive.bsky.social:
poetryarchive.org/poem/george-...
put his reading glasses on
to help my mother do the buttons
on the back of her dress…
—“George Square”, by Jackie Kay
LIFE MASK, @bloodaxebooks.bsky.social 2005
Hear Jackie Kay read this poem on the @thepoetryarchive.bsky.social:
poetryarchive.org/poem/george-...
June 22, 2025 at 11:05 AM
My seventy-seven-year-old father
put his reading glasses on
to help my mother do the buttons
on the back of her dress…
—“George Square”, by Jackie Kay
LIFE MASK, @bloodaxebooks.bsky.social 2005
Hear Jackie Kay read this poem on the @thepoetryarchive.bsky.social:
poetryarchive.org/poem/george-...
put his reading glasses on
to help my mother do the buttons
on the back of her dress…
—“George Square”, by Jackie Kay
LIFE MASK, @bloodaxebooks.bsky.social 2005
Hear Jackie Kay read this poem on the @thepoetryarchive.bsky.social:
poetryarchive.org/poem/george-...
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It's rainy but what a view. Hi Dundee Book Festival 👋 If you're in Dundee come in out of the wet at 4.30 to hear @florajowriter.bsky.social and I with all the histfic chat. tix: dundeebookfestival.com/product/sara-s…
June 14, 2025 at 7:28 AM
It's rainy but what a view. Hi Dundee Book Festival 👋 If you're in Dundee come in out of the wet at 4.30 to hear @florajowriter.bsky.social and I with all the histfic chat. tix: dundeebookfestival.com/product/sara-s…
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A sonnet for St. Columba's day
You called me and I came to Colmcille
To learn at last the meaning of my name
Though you yourself were called, and not the caller,
He called through you and when He called I came
malcolmguite.wordpress.com/2025/06/09/c....
You called me and I came to Colmcille
To learn at last the meaning of my name
Though you yourself were called, and not the caller,
He called through you and when He called I came
malcolmguite.wordpress.com/2025/06/09/c....
Columba and my calling.
June the 9th is Saint Columba’s day, a saint who has a special place for me, as somehow, he feels bound up in my own journey to Faith. When I was 19, and moving from atheism, towards a great…
malcolmguite.wordpress.com
June 9, 2025 at 6:26 PM
A sonnet for St. Columba's day
You called me and I came to Colmcille
To learn at last the meaning of my name
Though you yourself were called, and not the caller,
He called through you and when He called I came
malcolmguite.wordpress.com/2025/06/09/c....
You called me and I came to Colmcille
To learn at last the meaning of my name
Though you yourself were called, and not the caller,
He called through you and when He called I came
malcolmguite.wordpress.com/2025/06/09/c....
Lovely evening celebrating the publication of #WhispersintheGlen by Sue Lawrence at Edinburgh Blackwell's. A trip to Glen Clova is now a must do for this summer!
@jennybrownagency.bsky.social @saraband-books.bsky.social
@jennybrownagency.bsky.social @saraband-books.bsky.social
June 6, 2025 at 7:40 AM
Lovely evening celebrating the publication of #WhispersintheGlen by Sue Lawrence at Edinburgh Blackwell's. A trip to Glen Clova is now a must do for this summer!
@jennybrownagency.bsky.social @saraband-books.bsky.social
@jennybrownagency.bsky.social @saraband-books.bsky.social
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We're thrilled to welcome back Susan Elsley with her #shortstory Sheepskin, out tomorrow @susanelsley.bsky.social
May 17, 2025 at 9:43 AM
We're thrilled to welcome back Susan Elsley with her #shortstory Sheepskin, out tomorrow @susanelsley.bsky.social
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Top Ten Tuesday 6th May 2025: Authors Who Live In My Country #Scotland | #TopTenTuesday #amreading #bookrecommendations #TuesdayBookBlog
This week's topic: Authors Who Live In My Country Today's topic was submitted by Jennifer @ Funk-N-Fiction and we've to come up with ten authors who live in our…
This week's topic: Authors Who Live In My Country Today's topic was submitted by Jennifer @ Funk-N-Fiction and we've to come up with ten authors who live in our…
Top Ten Tuesday 6th May 2025: Authors Who Live In My Country #Scotland | #TopTenTuesday #amreading #bookrecommendations #TuesdayBookBlog
This week's topic: Authors Who Live In My Country Today's topic was submitted by Jennifer @ Funk-N-Fiction and we've to come up with ten authors who live in our country (or state). I've chosen ten authors who live in Scotland and chosen a book from each which I especially enjoyed. These are authors I rate highly and whose books I highly recommend.
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May 6, 2025 at 7:30 AM
Top Ten Tuesday 6th May 2025: Authors Who Live In My Country #Scotland | #TopTenTuesday #amreading #bookrecommendations #TuesdayBookBlog
This week's topic: Authors Who Live In My Country Today's topic was submitted by Jennifer @ Funk-N-Fiction and we've to come up with ten authors who live in our…
This week's topic: Authors Who Live In My Country Today's topic was submitted by Jennifer @ Funk-N-Fiction and we've to come up with ten authors who live in our…
So pleased to see Elsie included in Scottish Field's feature on 50 Greatest Scotswomen, accompanied by this haunting sketch of her by Sandy Morrison @sandysdrawingsroom.
#gettingtheexposureshedeserves
#TheEndeavourofElsieMackay
#gettingtheexposureshedeserves
#TheEndeavourofElsieMackay
April 26, 2025 at 6:07 PM
So pleased to see Elsie included in Scottish Field's feature on 50 Greatest Scotswomen, accompanied by this haunting sketch of her by Sandy Morrison @sandysdrawingsroom.
#gettingtheexposureshedeserves
#TheEndeavourofElsieMackay
#gettingtheexposureshedeserves
#TheEndeavourofElsieMackay
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See, as they strip the robe from off his back
And spread his arms and nail them to the cross,
The dark nails pierce him and the sky turns black,
And love is firmly fastened onto loss.
malcolmguite.wordpress.com/2025/04/18/g...
And spread his arms and nail them to the cross,
The dark nails pierce him and the sky turns black,
And love is firmly fastened onto loss.
malcolmguite.wordpress.com/2025/04/18/g...
Good Friday: the first 12 Stations of the Cross
image courtesy of my Anthology of poems for Leant and Holy Week The Word in the Wilderness, I set just one of my Stations of the cross sonnets for Good Friday, Station XII, but as this blog is not …
malcolmguite.wordpress.com
April 18, 2025 at 9:35 AM
See, as they strip the robe from off his back
And spread his arms and nail them to the cross,
The dark nails pierce him and the sky turns black,
And love is firmly fastened onto loss.
malcolmguite.wordpress.com/2025/04/18/g...
And spread his arms and nail them to the cross,
The dark nails pierce him and the sky turns black,
And love is firmly fastened onto loss.
malcolmguite.wordpress.com/2025/04/18/g...
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Shelly-Ann racing in her kid's Parents Day race at the school is the funniest thing I've seen all week LMAO
April 17, 2025 at 12:05 PM
Shelly-Ann racing in her kid's Parents Day race at the school is the funniest thing I've seen all week LMAO
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Let's hear from all you writers today, tell us all a little bit about yourself, what projects you have on the go, what you have written, any events in the near future, or just drop your bio and links and follow and support each other
#WritersLiftWednesday #Writers #Authors #WritersLift #BookSky 💙📚
#WritersLiftWednesday #Writers #Authors #WritersLift #BookSky 💙📚
April 16, 2025 at 5:12 AM
Let's hear from all you writers today, tell us all a little bit about yourself, what projects you have on the go, what you have written, any events in the near future, or just drop your bio and links and follow and support each other
#WritersLiftWednesday #Writers #Authors #WritersLift #BookSky 💙📚
#WritersLiftWednesday #Writers #Authors #WritersLift #BookSky 💙📚
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And people say Church History isn’t important
Pope Leo X and Charles V discover environmentalism
April 11, 2025 at 9:50 AM
And people say Church History isn’t important
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So Trump controls the stock market because he's in charge of tariffs, so to speak. So he buys low, i.e. yesterday, and announces some "good news" about tariffs today. Stock market bounces up. After some time, again "bad news" and the stock market dips again.
He will do that over and over.
He will do that over and over.
April 9, 2025 at 6:29 PM
So Trump controls the stock market because he's in charge of tariffs, so to speak. So he buys low, i.e. yesterday, and announces some "good news" about tariffs today. Stock market bounces up. After some time, again "bad news" and the stock market dips again.
He will do that over and over.
He will do that over and over.
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Here’s a poem about going for a walk to clear my head of all the news.
April 7, 2025 at 8:18 AM
Here’s a poem about going for a walk to clear my head of all the news.
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A quick 🧵of the incredible sights in cities across the USA right now.
Millions are on the street speaking out against Trump & Musk trampling the Constitution.
Let’s start here with Salt Lake City 😳👏
#HandsOff #HandsOff2025 #FiftyFiftyOne
(📸Nate Blouin)
Millions are on the street speaking out against Trump & Musk trampling the Constitution.
Let’s start here with Salt Lake City 😳👏
#HandsOff #HandsOff2025 #FiftyFiftyOne
(📸Nate Blouin)
April 5, 2025 at 8:18 PM
A quick 🧵of the incredible sights in cities across the USA right now.
Millions are on the street speaking out against Trump & Musk trampling the Constitution.
Let’s start here with Salt Lake City 😳👏
#HandsOff #HandsOff2025 #FiftyFiftyOne
(📸Nate Blouin)
Millions are on the street speaking out against Trump & Musk trampling the Constitution.
Let’s start here with Salt Lake City 😳👏
#HandsOff #HandsOff2025 #FiftyFiftyOne
(📸Nate Blouin)
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April 5, 2025 at 7:21 PM