Jaishree Misra
@jaishreemisra.bsky.social
Author of 8 novels published by PenguinRH & Harper Collins. A long time ago, admittedly. Might try to set that right someday. Mostly in London, sometimes in Delhi, always reading 📚
https://jaishreemisra.com/
https://jaishreemisra.com/
It's a feeding frenzy here in Delhi (not just the critters, mind) ...
January 22, 2025 at 6:17 AM
It's a feeding frenzy here in Delhi (not just the critters, mind) ...
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I wrote this feature in the Guardian a few weeks ago:
'Hilary Mantel was my mentor. Here are seven things she taught me about writing – and life'
by Katie Ward
www.theguardian.com/books/2024/s...
'Hilary Mantel was my mentor. Here are seven things she taught me about writing – and life'
by Katie Ward
www.theguardian.com/books/2024/s...
Hilary Mantel was my mentor. Here are seven things she taught me about writing – and life
In 2007, after my manuscript had been rejected for the 44th time, a colleague offered to introduce me to a published novelist. It turned out to be Mantel – and I was fortunate enough to soak up her wi...
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November 9, 2024 at 1:29 PM
I wrote this feature in the Guardian a few weeks ago:
'Hilary Mantel was my mentor. Here are seven things she taught me about writing – and life'
by Katie Ward
www.theguardian.com/books/2024/s...
'Hilary Mantel was my mentor. Here are seven things she taught me about writing – and life'
by Katie Ward
www.theguardian.com/books/2024/s...
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Applications for 2025 Illustrator in Residence now open at The RSL for twelve months to explore the relationship between literature and illustration. This is a paid residency of £5,000 from springtime 2025 until springtime 2026.
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Work with us - Royal Society of Literature
Literature for Everyone The RSL team is led by an ethos of respect and compassion for each other and the communities we work with, and these values are reflected in everything we do. We believe litera...
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January 7, 2025 at 11:34 PM
Applications for 2025 Illustrator in Residence now open at The RSL for twelve months to explore the relationship between literature and illustration. This is a paid residency of £5,000 from springtime 2025 until springtime 2026.
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Hey #2025, I rather like the way you've started!
Goa 🌴☀️🌊 in the company of family & 165 of our Vahani scholarship students is about as fabulous as it gets. If you can keep this wonderfulness up, I'd be ever so grateful. Peace & joy for the whole 🌎 would be pretty good too.
Goa 🌴☀️🌊 in the company of family & 165 of our Vahani scholarship students is about as fabulous as it gets. If you can keep this wonderfulness up, I'd be ever so grateful. Peace & joy for the whole 🌎 would be pretty good too.
January 6, 2025 at 10:27 AM
Hey #2025, I rather like the way you've started!
Goa 🌴☀️🌊 in the company of family & 165 of our Vahani scholarship students is about as fabulous as it gets. If you can keep this wonderfulness up, I'd be ever so grateful. Peace & joy for the whole 🌎 would be pretty good too.
Goa 🌴☀️🌊 in the company of family & 165 of our Vahani scholarship students is about as fabulous as it gets. If you can keep this wonderfulness up, I'd be ever so grateful. Peace & joy for the whole 🌎 would be pretty good too.
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1/7 This is the key development in the culture war over the history of Empire that I’d anticipate in 2025:
December 30, 2024 at 10:28 AM
1/7 This is the key development in the culture war over the history of Empire that I’d anticipate in 2025:
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We can all resist fascism.
December 15, 2024 at 6:10 PM
We can all resist fascism.
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Finishing your #novel? Some thoughts:
- take out your beloved 1st chapter and see what happens?
- read dialogue out loud. Would you want to act that part?
- cut it until it bleeds
- less is always more- fiction works as much by what is not said
-no such thing as a minor character
#writingcommunity
- take out your beloved 1st chapter and see what happens?
- read dialogue out loud. Would you want to act that part?
- cut it until it bleeds
- less is always more- fiction works as much by what is not said
-no such thing as a minor character
#writingcommunity
December 14, 2024 at 12:58 PM
Finishing your #novel? Some thoughts:
- take out your beloved 1st chapter and see what happens?
- read dialogue out loud. Would you want to act that part?
- cut it until it bleeds
- less is always more- fiction works as much by what is not said
-no such thing as a minor character
#writingcommunity
- take out your beloved 1st chapter and see what happens?
- read dialogue out loud. Would you want to act that part?
- cut it until it bleeds
- less is always more- fiction works as much by what is not said
-no such thing as a minor character
#writingcommunity
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When Librarians have a great sense of humour 😂
November 30, 2024 at 10:09 AM
When Librarians have a great sense of humour 😂
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For anyone that doesn't know us, we are Orkney Library & Archive and we've been supplying books to the people of #Orkney since 1683 which makes us one of the oldest libraries in Scotland. We also have a Mobile Library called #BookyMcBookface and we have some REALLY big balls.
Nice to meet you. 👋
Nice to meet you. 👋
November 29, 2024 at 11:39 AM
For anyone that doesn't know us, we are Orkney Library & Archive and we've been supplying books to the people of #Orkney since 1683 which makes us one of the oldest libraries in Scotland. We also have a Mobile Library called #BookyMcBookface and we have some REALLY big balls.
Nice to meet you. 👋
Nice to meet you. 👋
I just watched this stunning film at Cine Lumiere's film festival in London. Would've loved to ask Payal Kapadia how she understood the Malayali psyche so well while creating Prabha's character. I'm Mallu myself and know a hundred Prabhas.
November 28, 2024 at 10:18 PM
I just watched this stunning film at Cine Lumiere's film festival in London. Would've loved to ask Payal Kapadia how she understood the Malayali psyche so well while creating Prabha's character. I'm Mallu myself and know a hundred Prabhas.
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The Staircase of Knowledge at the University of Balamand in Lebanon, with the Epic of Gilgamesh as the first step.
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November 27, 2024 at 3:08 PM
The Staircase of Knowledge at the University of Balamand in Lebanon, with the Epic of Gilgamesh as the first step.
Image from www.futilitycloset.com/2018/05/20/s...
Image from www.futilitycloset.com/2018/05/20/s...
November 25, 2024 at 5:23 PM
Strange, beautiful new book by Sebastian Faulks ... Something of a departure from his usual territory of historical fiction, this time set in the near future. Creepy but utterly credible and very sad, given all it (rightly) says about our species.
November 25, 2024 at 5:12 PM
Strange, beautiful new book by Sebastian Faulks ... Something of a departure from his usual territory of historical fiction, this time set in the near future. Creepy but utterly credible and very sad, given all it (rightly) says about our species.
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"I stopped using Twitter when Musk bought it, tried Mastodon (and was unimpressed) and only recently joined Bluesky."
I’ve joined Bluesky and it feels like a breath of fresh air – in some ways… | John Naughton
The flourishing new platform may be like Twitter once was. The problem is the limited algorithmic scope of all social media
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November 23, 2024 at 7:16 PM
"I stopped using Twitter when Musk bought it, tried Mastodon (and was unimpressed) and only recently joined Bluesky."
Agree!
Empireworld by @sathnam.bsky.social and The Golden Road by @willdalrymple.bsky.social are probably the best books I’ve read in the past month or so.
November 23, 2024 at 7:03 PM
Agree!
I was led to your handle by somebody re-posting this 👇
Looking for advice on what flowering seeds to take from England to Delhi for my 92yo ma-in-law who loves her garden. Tried tulip bulbs last year but they got sodden in the monsoon rains.
Looking for advice on what flowering seeds to take from England to Delhi for my 92yo ma-in-law who loves her garden. Tried tulip bulbs last year but they got sodden in the monsoon rains.
November 23, 2024 at 7:02 PM
I was led to your handle by somebody re-posting this 👇
Looking for advice on what flowering seeds to take from England to Delhi for my 92yo ma-in-law who loves her garden. Tried tulip bulbs last year but they got sodden in the monsoon rains.
Looking for advice on what flowering seeds to take from England to Delhi for my 92yo ma-in-law who loves her garden. Tried tulip bulbs last year but they got sodden in the monsoon rains.
This is so beautiful, the picture, the accompanying words, the sentiment .. thank you.
Did Arundhati write this about her mother? Because mine immediately sprang to mind when I read these words.
Did Arundhati write this about her mother? Because mine immediately sprang to mind when I read these words.
“Another world is not only possible, she is on her way. On a quiet day, I can hear her breathing.”
― Arundhati Roy
― Arundhati Roy
November 23, 2024 at 5:52 PM
This is so beautiful, the picture, the accompanying words, the sentiment .. thank you.
Did Arundhati write this about her mother? Because mine immediately sprang to mind when I read these words.
Did Arundhati write this about her mother? Because mine immediately sprang to mind when I read these words.
One of my books was banned by an Indian state government! Hope that counts?
For anyone rushing to buy it for Christmas - it's a fictionalised biography of Rani Lakshmibai who died at 30 on the battlefield, fighting the British in the 1857 uprising. Spell-binding, I promise!
For anyone rushing to buy it for Christmas - it's a fictionalised biography of Rani Lakshmibai who died at 30 on the battlefield, fighting the British in the 1857 uprising. Spell-binding, I promise!
Buy all banned books as presents
November 23, 2024 at 3:27 PM
One of my books was banned by an Indian state government! Hope that counts?
For anyone rushing to buy it for Christmas - it's a fictionalised biography of Rani Lakshmibai who died at 30 on the battlefield, fighting the British in the 1857 uprising. Spell-binding, I promise!
For anyone rushing to buy it for Christmas - it's a fictionalised biography of Rani Lakshmibai who died at 30 on the battlefield, fighting the British in the 1857 uprising. Spell-binding, I promise!
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Edinburgh Young adult Fiction Prize — Scottish Arts Trust
For writers and illustrators of novels and graphic novels created for readers aged 12 years and older. All genres including humour, romance, drama, horror, queer, contemporary, realist, speculative f...
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November 23, 2024 at 1:39 AM
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The Discoveries writing development programme and prize for unpublished women writers in the UK accepts novels in any genre of adult fiction, with entrants invited to submit the first 10,000 words of their novel and a synopsis
Discoveries 2025
Calling all unpublished women writers! The Women’s Prize Trust, Audible, the Curtis Brown literary agency and Curtis Brown Creative have partnered to run the Discoveries novel-writing development prog...
www.curtisbrowncreative.co.uk
November 23, 2024 at 8:53 AM
The Discoveries writing development programme and prize for unpublished women writers in the UK accepts novels in any genre of adult fiction, with entrants invited to submit the first 10,000 words of their novel and a synopsis
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This Thursday online 7-8 pm GMT
Working-class Writing: Why your voice needs to be heard - Women's Prize
Join 2025 Women’s Prize for Fiction chair of judges and writer Kit de Waal and 2025 Discoveries judge and novelist Dreda Say Mitchell for this online event exploring the challenges […]
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November 23, 2024 at 8:11 AM
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Saturday listening? Countryfile "Plodcast" with Fergus Collins. Much deeper conversation than usual.
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273. Discover how Empire shaped the British countryside with historian Corinne Fowler
The Plodcast · Episode
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November 23, 2024 at 10:38 AM
Saturday listening? Countryfile "Plodcast" with Fergus Collins. Much deeper conversation than usual.
open.spotify.com/episode/351q...
open.spotify.com/episode/351q...
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I don't know who needs to hear this, but if all you accomplish this weekend is reading a riveting novel cover-to-cover whilst drinking multiple kettles of tea and consuming a scandalous amount of croissants, then you will have accomplished more than enough.
November 22, 2024 at 10:10 AM
I don't know who needs to hear this, but if all you accomplish this weekend is reading a riveting novel cover-to-cover whilst drinking multiple kettles of tea and consuming a scandalous amount of croissants, then you will have accomplished more than enough.
This should be good!
On Monday, Book at Bedtime features five short stories by me, separate but interconnected, one each night over the week. Hope you enjoy :)
BBC Sounds - The Green & The Black by Kit de Waal - Available Episodes
Listen to the latest episodes of The Green & The Black by Kit de Waal on BBC Sounds.
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November 22, 2024 at 3:22 PM
This should be good!