Jane Casey
@janecasey.bsky.social
Author from Ireland. Responsible for the Maeve Kerrigan series and The Killing Kind (now on TV!). Also owner of the world’s least cooperative spaniel.
Zero odd encounters and a sunny walk. You just never know!
I had three (3) odd encounters with men while walking the dog yesterday and it’s putting me off walking him today. One was distinctly off, one was awkward and slightly odd, one was funny. If my husband walks the dog he has zero odd experiences, as a rule.
November 13, 2025 at 1:06 PM
Zero odd encounters and a sunny walk. You just never know!
Oh no
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November 13, 2025 at 10:49 AM
Oh no
Still gold.
November 13, 2025 at 9:02 AM
Still gold.
I had three (3) odd encounters with men while walking the dog yesterday and it’s putting me off walking him today. One was distinctly off, one was awkward and slightly odd, one was funny. If my husband walks the dog he has zero odd experiences, as a rule.
November 13, 2025 at 8:46 AM
I had three (3) odd encounters with men while walking the dog yesterday and it’s putting me off walking him today. One was distinctly off, one was awkward and slightly odd, one was funny. If my husband walks the dog he has zero odd experiences, as a rule.
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⭐Well, she's arrived—the 2026 Irish Writers Handbook⭐
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November 12, 2025 at 12:59 PM
⭐Well, she's arrived—the 2026 Irish Writers Handbook⭐
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Oof. She’s not wrong. There’s a big gulf between how culture is seen and experienced in the UK and Ireland, I’ve noticed.
November 12, 2025 at 11:16 AM
Oof. She’s not wrong. There’s a big gulf between how culture is seen and experienced in the UK and Ireland, I’ve noticed.
There was a bincident on the dog walk. I didn’t want to touch the rotting carrot so I was reduced to begging him to drop it. Even the foxes turned this one down.
November 11, 2025 at 12:29 PM
There was a bincident on the dog walk. I didn’t want to touch the rotting carrot so I was reduced to begging him to drop it. Even the foxes turned this one down.
Off to read a book so Joyce Carol Oates doesn’t judge me.
November 11, 2025 at 8:21 AM
Off to read a book so Joyce Carol Oates doesn’t judge me.
I had a revelation on the dog walk last night that means I need to revise 20,000 words to change something fundamental about it and writing is truly for people who hate themselves, isn’t it.
November 11, 2025 at 7:45 AM
I had a revelation on the dog walk last night that means I need to revise 20,000 words to change something fundamental about it and writing is truly for people who hate themselves, isn’t it.
Beloved husband: you look nice.
Me, wary: thanks
BH: you look like one of the Manson family.
Me, wary: thanks
BH: you look like one of the Manson family.
November 10, 2025 at 10:52 AM
Beloved husband: you look nice.
Me, wary: thanks
BH: you look like one of the Manson family.
Me, wary: thanks
BH: you look like one of the Manson family.
Anyone there for an oul vote… anyone at all… (seriously a great line-up of Irish writing talent here so you could do worse than use it as a guide for your Christmas gifts. Kenny’s in Galway ships worldwide.)
www.irishbookawards.ie/vote/
www.irishbookawards.ie/vote/
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November 8, 2025 at 6:45 PM
Anyone there for an oul vote… anyone at all… (seriously a great line-up of Irish writing talent here so you could do worse than use it as a guide for your Christmas gifts. Kenny’s in Galway ships worldwide.)
www.irishbookawards.ie/vote/
www.irishbookawards.ie/vote/
New author photograph
November 7, 2025 at 9:41 PM
New author photograph
The dog woke me up in the middle of the night, the cat woke me up an hour before the alarm this morning and this week was excessively high in nope-amine. Also I saw who won the Traitors before I'd watched the last two episodes.
a little girl is hanging upside down on a swing in a park
ALT: a little girl is hanging upside down on a swing in a park
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November 7, 2025 at 5:09 PM
The dog woke me up in the middle of the night, the cat woke me up an hour before the alarm this morning and this week was excessively high in nope-amine. Also I saw who won the Traitors before I'd watched the last two episodes.
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My god…it worked…every ride is coming back to me now…in a flood of memories…overwhelming my senses…some going up, some going down…some smelling like piss, some smelling less like piss…
November 7, 2025 at 2:46 PM
My god…it worked…every ride is coming back to me now…in a flood of memories…overwhelming my senses…some going up, some going down…some smelling like piss, some smelling less like piss…
A very beautiful lamp is stalking me across the internet and it is SO expensive I can't justify it, but I'm glad the algorithm believes in me and my books.
November 7, 2025 at 1:26 PM
A very beautiful lamp is stalking me across the internet and it is SO expensive I can't justify it, but I'm glad the algorithm believes in me and my books.
What in the Nicolae Ceaușescu is this?
November 7, 2025 at 12:20 AM
What in the Nicolae Ceaușescu is this?
Donna Tartt would be very underwhelmed by me.
I asked this before over at The Old Place and the answers delighted me. So again:
Who is an artist you admire who you suspect would not like you if they met you personally?
I think Peter Dinklage is fantastic. I would absolutely get on his last nerve. He'd be looking for the door while we spoke.
Who is an artist you admire who you suspect would not like you if they met you personally?
I think Peter Dinklage is fantastic. I would absolutely get on his last nerve. He'd be looking for the door while we spoke.
November 6, 2025 at 7:06 PM
Donna Tartt would be very underwhelmed by me.
Accessorising with autumn leaves is cool, actually.
November 6, 2025 at 2:28 PM
Accessorising with autumn leaves is cool, actually.
I think it’s important to talk about how being a mother can affect your writing time, though. In my case I can say I had a very supportive and self employed husband who did a lot, but I still wrote most of my early books between 11pm and 1am when no one would interrupt me.
November 5, 2025 at 10:44 AM
I think it’s important to talk about how being a mother can affect your writing time, though. In my case I can say I had a very supportive and self employed husband who did a lot, but I still wrote most of my early books between 11pm and 1am when no one would interrupt me.
Two new Helen Garner books! (Even if one of them isn’t really a HG book but it’s about the mushroom trial). www.thetimes.com/culture/book...
Baillie Gifford prize winner Helen Garner: I wrote to survive my marriage
The Australian author on loves, lies and the brutal separation that fed her scabrously funny diaries, How To End a Story
www.thetimes.com
November 5, 2025 at 7:32 AM
Two new Helen Garner books! (Even if one of them isn’t really a HG book but it’s about the mushroom trial). www.thetimes.com/culture/book...
I haven't checked in for a while: has anyone written a think-piece about how Lily Allen's album has more impact than Taylor Swift's because we prefer the artistic expression of misery/anger to happy contentment? (Don't come for me, Swifties, I like both.)
November 3, 2025 at 3:44 PM
I haven't checked in for a while: has anyone written a think-piece about how Lily Allen's album has more impact than Taylor Swift's because we prefer the artistic expression of misery/anger to happy contentment? (Don't come for me, Swifties, I like both.)
We played shop on the dog walk. I had asked for a flat white but all he had was a ball. Disappointing.
November 3, 2025 at 3:29 PM
We played shop on the dog walk. I had asked for a flat white but all he had was a ball. Disappointing.
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Did you happen to leave your @londonreviewbookshop.co.uk purchases on the Metropolitan line yesterday?
Did one of your friends do this and send an anguished message to the group chat?
If so, Darren has just done you a very good turn. 👇
Did one of your friends do this and send an anguished message to the group chat?
If so, Darren has just done you a very good turn. 👇
If anyone lost a bag of books from LRB Bookshop on the Metropolitan Line between Baker St- Watford, I handed it to a cleaner when the train terminated at Watford tube station. And if you have far more followers than me, please share this status. LRB bookshop is not cheap!
November 2, 2025 at 7:45 PM
Did you happen to leave your @londonreviewbookshop.co.uk purchases on the Metropolitan line yesterday?
Did one of your friends do this and send an anguished message to the group chat?
If so, Darren has just done you a very good turn. 👇
Did one of your friends do this and send an anguished message to the group chat?
If so, Darren has just done you a very good turn. 👇
Absolutely perfect.
The most spectacular costume of 2025? That honor belongs to…
November 2, 2025 at 3:25 PM
Absolutely perfect.
That Andrew thing… there’s got to be more to come, surely.
October 30, 2025 at 8:25 PM
That Andrew thing… there’s got to be more to come, surely.