Jo James Ashworth
@jojames100.bsky.social
Reader, gardener, cook, walker, runner and ‘mum’ to two small but feisty dogs.
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Join Kathy Lette, queen of wit-lit, in conversation w/comedian Ronni Ancona, discussing her wickedly subversive new novel, The Revenge Club
Arts Ed, Chiswick Fri 12 Sep
Expect razor-sharp one-liners & outrageous anecdotes & the kind literary feminism that bites back! 👄📚
Tickets bit.ly/4kBhajU
Arts Ed, Chiswick Fri 12 Sep
Expect razor-sharp one-liners & outrageous anecdotes & the kind literary feminism that bites back! 👄📚
Tickets bit.ly/4kBhajU
July 10, 2025 at 4:27 PM
Join Kathy Lette, queen of wit-lit, in conversation w/comedian Ronni Ancona, discussing her wickedly subversive new novel, The Revenge Club
Arts Ed, Chiswick Fri 12 Sep
Expect razor-sharp one-liners & outrageous anecdotes & the kind literary feminism that bites back! 👄📚
Tickets bit.ly/4kBhajU
Arts Ed, Chiswick Fri 12 Sep
Expect razor-sharp one-liners & outrageous anecdotes & the kind literary feminism that bites back! 👄📚
Tickets bit.ly/4kBhajU
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Janey Lee Grace
From Wham to Woo: A Life on the Mic
Sat 13 Sept @chiswickbookfest.bsky.social
@janeyleegrace.bsky.social will be joined by #JanetEllis and will share her colourful behind-the-scenes tales in this fun blast through the 80’s & 90’s music & radio world.
Tickets & Info bit.ly/4eLOSln
From Wham to Woo: A Life on the Mic
Sat 13 Sept @chiswickbookfest.bsky.social
@janeyleegrace.bsky.social will be joined by #JanetEllis and will share her colourful behind-the-scenes tales in this fun blast through the 80’s & 90’s music & radio world.
Tickets & Info bit.ly/4eLOSln
July 13, 2025 at 12:06 PM
Janey Lee Grace
From Wham to Woo: A Life on the Mic
Sat 13 Sept @chiswickbookfest.bsky.social
@janeyleegrace.bsky.social will be joined by #JanetEllis and will share her colourful behind-the-scenes tales in this fun blast through the 80’s & 90’s music & radio world.
Tickets & Info bit.ly/4eLOSln
From Wham to Woo: A Life on the Mic
Sat 13 Sept @chiswickbookfest.bsky.social
@janeyleegrace.bsky.social will be joined by #JanetEllis and will share her colourful behind-the-scenes tales in this fun blast through the 80’s & 90’s music & radio world.
Tickets & Info bit.ly/4eLOSln
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📚 Tickets are on sale for the 17th Chiswick Book Festival Sep 10–15! Brochures available at throughout Chiswick incl @waterstones Chiswick
Events are selling fast - book now: chiswickbookfestival.net/tickets.
Join us for a week of stories, talks & community! #ChiswickBookFestival #BookFest2025
Events are selling fast - book now: chiswickbookfestival.net/tickets.
Join us for a week of stories, talks & community! #ChiswickBookFestival #BookFest2025
July 17, 2025 at 8:32 PM
📚 Tickets are on sale for the 17th Chiswick Book Festival Sep 10–15! Brochures available at throughout Chiswick incl @waterstones Chiswick
Events are selling fast - book now: chiswickbookfestival.net/tickets.
Join us for a week of stories, talks & community! #ChiswickBookFestival #BookFest2025
Events are selling fast - book now: chiswickbookfestival.net/tickets.
Join us for a week of stories, talks & community! #ChiswickBookFestival #BookFest2025
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A very Happy Birthday @antondubeke.tv!
We are so excited Anton will be joining us at our Festival Sat 13 Sept discussing the latest instalment of the Forsyth Family series and his book📘, Monte Carlo, with former BBC Correspondent Rebecca Jones.
Buy your tickets now here bit.ly/4f1ALsb
We are so excited Anton will be joining us at our Festival Sat 13 Sept discussing the latest instalment of the Forsyth Family series and his book📘, Monte Carlo, with former BBC Correspondent Rebecca Jones.
Buy your tickets now here bit.ly/4f1ALsb
July 20, 2025 at 9:48 PM
A very Happy Birthday @antondubeke.tv!
We are so excited Anton will be joining us at our Festival Sat 13 Sept discussing the latest instalment of the Forsyth Family series and his book📘, Monte Carlo, with former BBC Correspondent Rebecca Jones.
Buy your tickets now here bit.ly/4f1ALsb
We are so excited Anton will be joining us at our Festival Sat 13 Sept discussing the latest instalment of the Forsyth Family series and his book📘, Monte Carlo, with former BBC Correspondent Rebecca Jones.
Buy your tickets now here bit.ly/4f1ALsb
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Our latest newsletter incl:
📚 History highlights at the 2025 Chiswick Book Festival
📚This year’s speakers include: Memoirs/Biography
& so much more news!
Read full newsletter here: bit.ly/3GRwf34
Sign up to our newsletter now & be the first to know: www.chiswickbookfestival.net/join-our-mai...
📚 History highlights at the 2025 Chiswick Book Festival
📚This year’s speakers include: Memoirs/Biography
& so much more news!
Read full newsletter here: bit.ly/3GRwf34
Sign up to our newsletter now & be the first to know: www.chiswickbookfestival.net/join-our-mai...
July 30, 2025 at 3:22 PM
Our latest newsletter incl:
📚 History highlights at the 2025 Chiswick Book Festival
📚This year’s speakers include: Memoirs/Biography
& so much more news!
Read full newsletter here: bit.ly/3GRwf34
Sign up to our newsletter now & be the first to know: www.chiswickbookfestival.net/join-our-mai...
📚 History highlights at the 2025 Chiswick Book Festival
📚This year’s speakers include: Memoirs/Biography
& so much more news!
Read full newsletter here: bit.ly/3GRwf34
Sign up to our newsletter now & be the first to know: www.chiswickbookfestival.net/join-our-mai...
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*Workshop*
The Four Questions Every Writer Must Answer to Craft a Bestselling Novel: Rose Sandy
Join publisher & author Rose Sandy as she reveals the four questions every writer must answer to craft a bestselling novel.
Sat 13 Sept @artsed.bsky.social
Book: www.chiswickbookfestival.net/tickets.
The Four Questions Every Writer Must Answer to Craft a Bestselling Novel: Rose Sandy
Join publisher & author Rose Sandy as she reveals the four questions every writer must answer to craft a bestselling novel.
Sat 13 Sept @artsed.bsky.social
Book: www.chiswickbookfestival.net/tickets.
August 6, 2025 at 4:18 PM
*Workshop*
The Four Questions Every Writer Must Answer to Craft a Bestselling Novel: Rose Sandy
Join publisher & author Rose Sandy as she reveals the four questions every writer must answer to craft a bestselling novel.
Sat 13 Sept @artsed.bsky.social
Book: www.chiswickbookfestival.net/tickets.
The Four Questions Every Writer Must Answer to Craft a Bestselling Novel: Rose Sandy
Join publisher & author Rose Sandy as she reveals the four questions every writer must answer to craft a bestselling novel.
Sat 13 Sept @artsed.bsky.social
Book: www.chiswickbookfestival.net/tickets.
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Delighted journalist & author @jonathanfreedland.bsky.social whose latest book, The Traitors Circle (published Thurs 11 Sep), will be at our Festival Sat 13 Sep at the Chiswick Cinema.
He talks to Julian Worricker about the remarkable true story of betrayal and courage.
Tickets: bit.ly/45eqkyh
He talks to Julian Worricker about the remarkable true story of betrayal and courage.
Tickets: bit.ly/45eqkyh
August 12, 2025 at 5:08 PM
Delighted journalist & author @jonathanfreedland.bsky.social whose latest book, The Traitors Circle (published Thurs 11 Sep), will be at our Festival Sat 13 Sep at the Chiswick Cinema.
He talks to Julian Worricker about the remarkable true story of betrayal and courage.
Tickets: bit.ly/45eqkyh
He talks to Julian Worricker about the remarkable true story of betrayal and courage.
Tickets: bit.ly/45eqkyh
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Latest newsletter:
Celebrating 250th anniversary of Jane Austen’s birth
Speakers:
-Marking 80th anniversary of the end of WW II
-Politics & current affairs speakers: Jeremy Hunt, Alan Johnson, Gabriel Pogrund & Patrick Maguire
-Children's Festival tkts selling fast!
Full newsletter
bit.ly/4keXthJ
Celebrating 250th anniversary of Jane Austen’s birth
Speakers:
-Marking 80th anniversary of the end of WW II
-Politics & current affairs speakers: Jeremy Hunt, Alan Johnson, Gabriel Pogrund & Patrick Maguire
-Children's Festival tkts selling fast!
Full newsletter
bit.ly/4keXthJ
June 27, 2025 at 7:55 AM
Latest newsletter:
Celebrating 250th anniversary of Jane Austen’s birth
Speakers:
-Marking 80th anniversary of the end of WW II
-Politics & current affairs speakers: Jeremy Hunt, Alan Johnson, Gabriel Pogrund & Patrick Maguire
-Children's Festival tkts selling fast!
Full newsletter
bit.ly/4keXthJ
Celebrating 250th anniversary of Jane Austen’s birth
Speakers:
-Marking 80th anniversary of the end of WW II
-Politics & current affairs speakers: Jeremy Hunt, Alan Johnson, Gabriel Pogrund & Patrick Maguire
-Children's Festival tkts selling fast!
Full newsletter
bit.ly/4keXthJ
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Our tickets go on sale Friday. Our opening night event, ‘Jane Austen: Fact and Fiction’ is Thurs 11 Sep @ Chiswick House feat best-selling author Gill Hornby in conversation w/director & cast members of hit BBC dramatisation of her novel ‘Miss Austen’.
Tickets www.chiswickbookfestival.net/tickets/
Tickets www.chiswickbookfestival.net/tickets/
June 30, 2025 at 7:22 AM
Our tickets go on sale Friday. Our opening night event, ‘Jane Austen: Fact and Fiction’ is Thurs 11 Sep @ Chiswick House feat best-selling author Gill Hornby in conversation w/director & cast members of hit BBC dramatisation of her novel ‘Miss Austen’.
Tickets www.chiswickbookfestival.net/tickets/
Tickets www.chiswickbookfestival.net/tickets/
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You two are very special women. We loved having you with us on Saturday and hope it won’t be the last.
December 2, 2024 at 10:13 PM
You two are very special women. We loved having you with us on Saturday and hope it won’t be the last.
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Lovely welcome @standrewsbookfest.bsky.social yesterday. Thanks to the organisers, volunteers and specially to @theothersambaker.bsky.social for a brilliant interview.
December 1, 2024 at 8:04 AM
Lovely welcome @standrewsbookfest.bsky.social yesterday. Thanks to the organisers, volunteers and specially to @theothersambaker.bsky.social for a brilliant interview.
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Taking the sleeper north overnight from my event in London after the @standrewsbookfest.bsky.social felt enticing exotic. I’ve done it before, but not since Covid etc. I was almost expecting Poirot to knock at my cabin door! 😂
December 2, 2024 at 5:08 PM
Taking the sleeper north overnight from my event in London after the @standrewsbookfest.bsky.social felt enticing exotic. I’ve done it before, but not since Covid etc. I was almost expecting Poirot to knock at my cabin door! 😂
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I declare Christmas* open! Ditto also this bottle. Who wants a Snowball?
*this will help me with the exhaustingness of Christmas and my edits.
*this will help me with the exhaustingness of Christmas and my edits.
December 2, 2024 at 7:36 PM
I declare Christmas* open! Ditto also this bottle. Who wants a Snowball?
*this will help me with the exhaustingness of Christmas and my edits.
*this will help me with the exhaustingness of Christmas and my edits.
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December 2, 2024 at 6:56 PM
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Our #PackedLunchPostit flashback to 2019 continues. Today, it's Winnie the Pooh's turn...
December 2, 2024 at 7:27 AM
Our #PackedLunchPostit flashback to 2019 continues. Today, it's Winnie the Pooh's turn...
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Today's flashback to my advent #PackedLunchPostit notes from 2019 features Garfield...
December 3, 2024 at 7:21 AM
Today's flashback to my advent #PackedLunchPostit notes from 2019 features Garfield...
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As ever, Stella Duffy says it right. Her words. @stellduffy.bsky.social
December 3, 2024 at 8:02 AM
As ever, Stella Duffy says it right. Her words. @stellduffy.bsky.social
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Amazing to be part of the very first @standrewsbookfest.bsky.social talking about Homelands and my dear friend Henry Wuga with his daughter and my father in the room. Special.
Wonderful @chitgrrl.bsky.social talking about her relationship with Henry Wuga, whose story she tells in Homelands, with Chitra’s dad and one of Henry’s daughters in the audience. Thank you @standrewsbookfest.bsky.social for making this happen. Happy St Andrews Day.
November 30, 2024 at 5:54 PM
Amazing to be part of the very first @standrewsbookfest.bsky.social talking about Homelands and my dear friend Henry Wuga with his daughter and my father in the room. Special.
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What a great new festival this is - thank you @standrewsbookfest.bsky.social for a hugely interesting, engaging informative day
It’s Super Saturday at the St Andrew’s Book Festival in London! Come along!! @anncleeves.bsky.social @ianrankin1.bsky.social @jenstout.bsky.social @robbiddulph.bsky.social @gavinesler.bsky.social @mccallsmith.bsky.social @chitgrrl.bsky.social @hugorifkind.bsky.social
www.standrewsbookfestival.org
www.standrewsbookfestival.org
St Andrew's Book Festival | London 2024
Scots in London is delighted to be running the first ever St Andrew’s Book Festival in London from 25 November to 1 December at locations across central London. Hosting an exciting mix of Scottish bes...
www.standrewsbookfestival.org
November 30, 2024 at 6:59 PM
What a great new festival this is - thank you @standrewsbookfest.bsky.social for a hugely interesting, engaging informative day
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Congratulations @jenstout.bsky.social on winning the Saltire First Book Awards! Can't wait for your event at the Festival on Saturday at 5pm.
Tickets www.ticketsource.co.uk/standrewsboo...
Tickets www.ticketsource.co.uk/standrewsboo...
November 29, 2024 at 9:27 AM
Congratulations @jenstout.bsky.social on winning the Saltire First Book Awards! Can't wait for your event at the Festival on Saturday at 5pm.
Tickets www.ticketsource.co.uk/standrewsboo...
Tickets www.ticketsource.co.uk/standrewsboo...
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Yes, to suspire is to utter a deep sigh. It’s all about breath, as are ‘inspire’ (to breathe life into an idea/person), ‘expire’ (breathe out), ‘perspire’ (to breathe through), ‘conspire’ (to breathe together), and ‘spirit’, because the ancients believed the spirit was breathed into the body.
Is that like perspiring? so can you suspire?
November 29, 2024 at 7:44 PM
Yes, to suspire is to utter a deep sigh. It’s all about breath, as are ‘inspire’ (to breathe life into an idea/person), ‘expire’ (breathe out), ‘perspire’ (to breathe through), ‘conspire’ (to breathe together), and ‘spirit’, because the ancients believed the spirit was breathed into the body.
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It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas, and you know what that means? That's right! It’s time for your favorite festive tradition: THE FOUR DRAWS OF CHRISTMAS! 🎉🎨
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November 29, 2024 at 7:01 PM
It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas, and you know what that means? That's right! It’s time for your favorite festive tradition: THE FOUR DRAWS OF CHRISTMAS! 🎉🎨
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@jenstout.bsky.social thrilled that you won the Saltire First Book Award last night in conjunction with @thescotsmanpaper.bsky.social. See you at @standrewsbookfest.bsky.social on Saturday at 5pm with @gavinesler.bsky.social
November 29, 2024 at 9:22 AM
@jenstout.bsky.social thrilled that you won the Saltire First Book Award last night in conjunction with @thescotsmanpaper.bsky.social. See you at @standrewsbookfest.bsky.social on Saturday at 5pm with @gavinesler.bsky.social
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If the good Lord spares me, Jo!
November 29, 2024 at 8:59 AM
If the good Lord spares me, Jo!