Harriet Lane
@harrietlane.bsky.social
Author of ALYS, ALWAYS; HER; and OTHER PEOPLE’S FUN (W&N/Little, Brown, 2025)
Francis Wheen picks OPF as one of his Books of the Year in the Spectator
November 7, 2025 at 5:32 PM
Francis Wheen picks OPF as one of his Books of the Year in the Spectator
A Tale of Toxic Friendship, With a Midlife Mean-Girl Twist www.nytimes.com/2025/11/04/b...
A Tale of Toxic Friendship, With a Midlife Mean-Girl Twist
www.nytimes.com
November 4, 2025 at 5:23 PM
A Tale of Toxic Friendship, With a Midlife Mean-Girl Twist www.nytimes.com/2025/11/04/b...
I adore it when couples message each other about trips to the tip and picking up courgettes not realising they’re actually on the street WhatsApp
October 23, 2025 at 11:04 AM
I adore it when couples message each other about trips to the tip and picking up courgettes not realising they’re actually on the street WhatsApp
Very early reviews for Other People’s Fun (the i paper, Grazia, Red)
October 6, 2025 at 8:40 PM
Very early reviews for Other People’s Fun (the i paper, Grazia, Red)
V happy to see Other People’s Fun in the NYT’s fiction preview: 27 Novels Coming This Fall
27 Novels Coming This Fall
www.nytimes.com
September 5, 2025 at 3:37 PM
V happy to see Other People’s Fun in the NYT’s fiction preview: 27 Novels Coming This Fall
Happy paperback release day to the wholly delightful Small Bomb at Dimperley. Such a funny, sunny book
August 14, 2025 at 5:57 PM
Happy paperback release day to the wholly delightful Small Bomb at Dimperley. Such a funny, sunny book
Pre-order bargain
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July 29, 2025 at 12:01 PM
Pre-order bargain
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@rnib.bsky.social Huge thanks to the RNIB Library: I’ve only recently embraced audiobooks—and oh my, your stock is FANTASTIC. Many new books (Maurice and Maralyn ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️) but also ALL THE ELIZABETH TAYLORS. And no queue. Such riches!
July 28, 2025 at 11:58 AM
@rnib.bsky.social Huge thanks to the RNIB Library: I’ve only recently embraced audiobooks—and oh my, your stock is FANTASTIC. Many new books (Maurice and Maralyn ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️) but also ALL THE ELIZABETH TAYLORS. And no queue. Such riches!
Suddenly many London buses have ‘wooden floors’, as if we are in a country kitchen or an Alpine hut. Was TfL offered a job lot?
July 22, 2025 at 3:33 PM
Suddenly many London buses have ‘wooden floors’, as if we are in a country kitchen or an Alpine hut. Was TfL offered a job lot?
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‘Unputdownable’ @thebookseller.com on Other People’s Fun by @harrietlane.bsky.social @wnbooks.bsky.social (out in October)
July 18, 2025 at 10:15 AM
‘Unputdownable’ @thebookseller.com on Other People’s Fun by @harrietlane.bsky.social @wnbooks.bsky.social (out in October)
Wonderful book: sailing, catastrophe, the mysteries of a marriage. So well done
Maurice and Maralyn: A Whale, a Shipwreck, a Love Story by Sophie Elmhirst review – how to keep a marriage afloat
This extraordinary true story of a couple lost at sea for 117 days in the 1970s is beautifully retold as an account of the rituals that sustain relationships
www.theguardian.com
July 13, 2025 at 2:25 PM
Wonderful book: sailing, catastrophe, the mysteries of a marriage. So well done
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‘If someone wants to be seen… then someone has to watch’ - a new book from the author of Alys, Always & Her - OTHER PEOPLE’s FUN by @harrietlane.bsky.social @wnbooks.bsky.social
June 17, 2025 at 5:35 PM
‘If someone wants to be seen… then someone has to watch’ - a new book from the author of Alys, Always & Her - OTHER PEOPLE’s FUN by @harrietlane.bsky.social @wnbooks.bsky.social
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Your regular reminder that this is a great record, and Sing Street is one of the great movies. youtu.be/fuWTcmjnEGY?...
Sing Street - Drive It Like You Stole It (Official Video)
YouTube video by SingStreetVEVO
youtu.be
June 13, 2025 at 4:46 PM
Your regular reminder that this is a great record, and Sing Street is one of the great movies. youtu.be/fuWTcmjnEGY?...
Loved this show at Kenwood, two rooms filled with story and character. Plus: eyes, hands and, oh my, the FABRICS
Heiress: Sargent’s American Portraits
www.english-heritage.org.uk/visit/whats-...
Heiress: Sargent’s American Portraits
www.english-heritage.org.uk/visit/whats-...
Heiress: Sargent’s American Portraits
Experience the power and glamour of John Singer Sargent’s portraits in Kenwood's new exhibition; Heiress: Sargent’s American Portrait.
www.english-heritage.org.uk
June 13, 2025 at 6:33 PM
Loved this show at Kenwood, two rooms filled with story and character. Plus: eyes, hands and, oh my, the FABRICS
Heiress: Sargent’s American Portraits
www.english-heritage.org.uk/visit/whats-...
Heiress: Sargent’s American Portraits
www.english-heritage.org.uk/visit/whats-...
Thoughts and prayers with the Industry writing team
April 4, 2025 at 6:53 PM
Thoughts and prayers with the Industry writing team
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Today, we'll be joining the @societyofauthors.bsky.social outside Meta's offices to protest the use of pirated works to train their AI models.
Join us if you can! More info: societyofauthors.org/2025/04/03/u...
Join us if you can! More info: societyofauthors.org/2025/04/03/u...
April 3, 2025 at 8:45 AM
Today, we'll be joining the @societyofauthors.bsky.social outside Meta's offices to protest the use of pirated works to train their AI models.
Join us if you can! More info: societyofauthors.org/2025/04/03/u...
Join us if you can! More info: societyofauthors.org/2025/04/03/u...
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Hands up if you remember buying Sunday papers from vendors at London stations late on a Saturday night.
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March 29, 2025 at 10:39 PM
Hands up if you remember buying Sunday papers from vendors at London stations late on a Saturday night.
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We had two faint stoppages tonight. I gather it’s now a Thing? Is it true it’s men who are doing all the fainting? I found it fairly maddening; god knows how Romola Garai must feel.
Terrific performances tho #TheYears
Terrific performances tho #TheYears
March 3, 2025 at 11:52 PM
We had two faint stoppages tonight. I gather it’s now a Thing? Is it true it’s men who are doing all the fainting? I found it fairly maddening; god knows how Romola Garai must feel.
Terrific performances tho #TheYears
Terrific performances tho #TheYears
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Really important and moving account of state failure in this weekend's @financialtimes.com that is free to read for all here:
My brother, the NHS and the inquest into a needless death
My brother spent the last hours of his life trying in vain to get basic help from the NHS. Why?
www.ft.com
February 22, 2025 at 11:27 AM
Really important and moving account of state failure in this weekend's @financialtimes.com that is free to read for all here:
Nothing I like better than catching a revival of Alys, Always but annoyingly I can't get to this.
Don't miss if you are near Nottingham! This week only!
Don't miss if you are near Nottingham! This week only!
Alys, Always - The Lace Market Theatre
lacemarkettheatre.co.uk
February 17, 2025 at 11:11 PM
Nothing I like better than catching a revival of Alys, Always but annoyingly I can't get to this.
Don't miss if you are near Nottingham! This week only!
Don't miss if you are near Nottingham! This week only!
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Sylvanian @backlisted.bsky.social : Imogen by Jilly Cooper
February 15, 2025 at 12:18 PM
Sylvanian @backlisted.bsky.social : Imogen by Jilly Cooper
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I note with interest the valedictory posts on Meta platforms by people bidding their dear, dear friends a tearful farewell but which garner no comments or likes because the algorithm deems it more important to show those friends an archive picture of Rod Stewart or an interesting fact about linseed
January 20, 2025 at 7:49 AM
I note with interest the valedictory posts on Meta platforms by people bidding their dear, dear friends a tearful farewell but which garner no comments or likes because the algorithm deems it more important to show those friends an archive picture of Rod Stewart or an interesting fact about linseed
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Baby Franz Kafka
January 18, 2025 at 2:29 PM
Baby Franz Kafka