Mel Frances author
@melfrances.bsky.social
Geordie, lover of bridges, rivers, books and writing.
THE LETTER FROM ITALY out now! Hannah and Verna were best friends since childhood, until accusations fly. Can they reconcile when a stranger sends a letter from Italy, revealing devastating secrets?
THE LETTER FROM ITALY out now! Hannah and Verna were best friends since childhood, until accusations fly. Can they reconcile when a stranger sends a letter from Italy, revealing devastating secrets?
Pinned
Hannah and Verna's friendship fractures when one accuses the other's husband of infidelity. A stranger's letter from Italy reveals devastating secrets, but is the damage too deep for the friends to reconcile? #Books #Writing
www.amazon.co.uk/dp/103691299X
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www.amazon.co.uk/dp/103691299X
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This is who she was.
Passionate in her beliefs. Fiercely loyal to her friends. Never afraid to let you know exactly where she stood. The best.
Fun Fact: I remember arguing with her over which of us hated Piggy the most. I was sure I did. She disagreed. It remains unresolved...
Passionate in her beliefs. Fiercely loyal to her friends. Never afraid to let you know exactly where she stood. The best.
Fun Fact: I remember arguing with her over which of us hated Piggy the most. I was sure I did. She disagreed. It remains unresolved...
November 24, 2025 at 8:15 PM
This is who she was.
Passionate in her beliefs. Fiercely loyal to her friends. Never afraid to let you know exactly where she stood. The best.
Fun Fact: I remember arguing with her over which of us hated Piggy the most. I was sure I did. She disagreed. It remains unresolved...
Passionate in her beliefs. Fiercely loyal to her friends. Never afraid to let you know exactly where she stood. The best.
Fun Fact: I remember arguing with her over which of us hated Piggy the most. I was sure I did. She disagreed. It remains unresolved...
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Newmarket MP Matt Hancock gave a £37bn Covid testing contract to Jockey Club director Dido Harding, who subcontracted it to Grand National sponsor Randox, employer of Tory MP Owen Paterson, whose late wife chaired Aintree racecourse. That's how the Tories handled the pandemic.
November 22, 2025 at 12:42 PM
Newmarket MP Matt Hancock gave a £37bn Covid testing contract to Jockey Club director Dido Harding, who subcontracted it to Grand National sponsor Randox, employer of Tory MP Owen Paterson, whose late wife chaired Aintree racecourse. That's how the Tories handled the pandemic.
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🔥 Britain is about to launch a new GCSE in natural history – a vital step toward restoring our knowledge of and respect for the natural world.
Fellow creatures: the new GCSE in natural history
The new GCSE in natural history is a vital step toward restoring our knowledge of and respect for the natural world
westenglandbylines.co.uk
October 4, 2025 at 6:07 AM
🔥 Britain is about to launch a new GCSE in natural history – a vital step toward restoring our knowledge of and respect for the natural world.
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The Royal Society for Blind Children (RSBC) urgent appealing to children’s authors, writers and publishers to donate stories to its new bedtime stories app.
The charity relies on stories in the public domain but are running out of books.
Anyone willing to donate should contact media@rsbc.org.
The charity relies on stories in the public domain but are running out of books.
Anyone willing to donate should contact media@rsbc.org.
September 23, 2025 at 8:37 AM
The Royal Society for Blind Children (RSBC) urgent appealing to children’s authors, writers and publishers to donate stories to its new bedtime stories app.
The charity relies on stories in the public domain but are running out of books.
Anyone willing to donate should contact media@rsbc.org.
The charity relies on stories in the public domain but are running out of books.
Anyone willing to donate should contact media@rsbc.org.
Poor love doesn’t want the rapture to fall on her birthday 🎂 Quite right! 😂
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www.threads.com/@liosaraffer...
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Poor love is upset that the Rapture might happen on her birthday 🎂. She gives some helpful tips though.
www.threads.com
September 23, 2025 at 3:11 PM
Poor love doesn’t want the rapture to fall on her birthday 🎂 Quite right! 😂
www.threads.com/@liosaraffer...
www.threads.com/@liosaraffer...
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September 23, 2025 at 7:02 AM
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"It's the immigrants."
Look at this picture.
It's these people.
Look at this picture.
It's these people.
September 21, 2025 at 7:35 PM
"It's the immigrants."
Look at this picture.
It's these people.
Look at this picture.
It's these people.
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Archive September 11, 2025
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September 12, 2025 at 6:00 AM
Archive September 11, 2025
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Catching up on Wordle from yesterday. Genuinely got it in one! 😊
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Catching up on Wordle from yesterday. Genuinely got it in one! 😊
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Yep
September 9, 2025 at 1:13 PM
Yep
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New # just dropped :
#FaragesVandalism
#FaragesVandalism
September 9, 2025 at 2:30 PM
New # just dropped :
#FaragesVandalism
#FaragesVandalism
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Now Victoria how about asking how farage avoided 2nd home tax by buying another property in his partners name
September 5, 2025 at 11:16 AM
Now Victoria how about asking how farage avoided 2nd home tax by buying another property in his partners name
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Jamie Raskin, "They only want to protect free speech that they agree with"
JR then demolishes Farage, ending with
"You might want to think twice before you let Nigel Farage Make Britain Great Again"
JR then demolishes Farage, ending with
"You might want to think twice before you let Nigel Farage Make Britain Great Again"
September 3, 2025 at 5:01 PM
Jamie Raskin, "They only want to protect free speech that they agree with"
JR then demolishes Farage, ending with
"You might want to think twice before you let Nigel Farage Make Britain Great Again"
JR then demolishes Farage, ending with
"You might want to think twice before you let Nigel Farage Make Britain Great Again"
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Farage has gone to the US to tell them Britain is ”awful” - If you don’t like it over here Nigel maybe don’t catch a return flight?
September 3, 2025 at 6:43 PM
Farage has gone to the US to tell them Britain is ”awful” - If you don’t like it over here Nigel maybe don’t catch a return flight?
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'Honest Bob' Jenrick, a politician obviously & deliberately embracing xenophobia, does some weapons grade xenophobia & the BBC *apologises* for a Thought For The Day contributor calling it xenophobic. Licence fee payers need to know who makes these decisions & why. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
BBC apologises after Robert Jenrick accused of xenophobia
A contributor to Radio 4's Thought for the Day slot made the remark about the shadow justice secretary.
www.bbc.co.uk
August 13, 2025 at 6:12 PM
'Honest Bob' Jenrick, a politician obviously & deliberately embracing xenophobia, does some weapons grade xenophobia & the BBC *apologises* for a Thought For The Day contributor calling it xenophobic. Licence fee payers need to know who makes these decisions & why. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
2016 was a weird year. Of those we lost; Bowie, George Michael, Victoria Wood, Alan Rickman & more, I find myself pining for Carrie Fisher. Her writing gives me so much joy. The humour, pathos, wordplay and wit; laughing & crying in one sentence. Sadly we’ll never know what more she could have given
August 4, 2025 at 3:57 PM
2016 was a weird year. Of those we lost; Bowie, George Michael, Victoria Wood, Alan Rickman & more, I find myself pining for Carrie Fisher. Her writing gives me so much joy. The humour, pathos, wordplay and wit; laughing & crying in one sentence. Sadly we’ll never know what more she could have given
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Email Sky News now!
For a second day running, Sky News has broadcast a Reform UK press conference live from their new 'briefing room'.
No other political party receives this special treatment.
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Take Action: Make a complaint to Sky News about excessive coverage of Reform UK
Change Minds → Change Politics
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July 30, 2025 at 8:08 AM
Email Sky News now!
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I really don't want to go through the whole rigmarole of seeing Farage win power and then fuck everything up and have loads of sympathetic voxpops with dismayed Reform voters expressing their regrets when it was extremely fucking obvious what would happen because his platform is incoherent garbage
July 21, 2025 at 10:32 AM
I really don't want to go through the whole rigmarole of seeing Farage win power and then fuck everything up and have loads of sympathetic voxpops with dismayed Reform voters expressing their regrets when it was extremely fucking obvious what would happen because his platform is incoherent garbage
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Nice work, Private Eye.
Celebs, stop using the publishing industry as your casual publicity platform.
And if you *really* want to be a published author, either write the book yourself or name your ghostwriter and give them proper credit.
We’re tired of this crap.
Celebs, stop using the publishing industry as your casual publicity platform.
And if you *really* want to be a published author, either write the book yourself or name your ghostwriter and give them proper credit.
We’re tired of this crap.
July 10, 2025 at 6:01 PM
Nice work, Private Eye.
Celebs, stop using the publishing industry as your casual publicity platform.
And if you *really* want to be a published author, either write the book yourself or name your ghostwriter and give them proper credit.
We’re tired of this crap.
Celebs, stop using the publishing industry as your casual publicity platform.
And if you *really* want to be a published author, either write the book yourself or name your ghostwriter and give them proper credit.
We’re tired of this crap.
A bright and breezy walk over the High Level Bridge to buy fresh fruit from the Grainger Market this morning. Taking in the sights of my wonderful city 🤩
June 19, 2025 at 1:45 PM
A bright and breezy walk over the High Level Bridge to buy fresh fruit from the Grainger Market this morning. Taking in the sights of my wonderful city 🤩
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Please, if you are able, support Indy publishers.
As the big 5 buy up all the book shelves with their astronomic discounting.
It would be grand if you could look at.
@galleybeggars.bsky.social
@influxpress.bsky.social
@littletollerbooks.bsky.social
@saraband-books.bsky.social
& many more
As the big 5 buy up all the book shelves with their astronomic discounting.
It would be grand if you could look at.
@galleybeggars.bsky.social
@influxpress.bsky.social
@littletollerbooks.bsky.social
@saraband-books.bsky.social
& many more
November 19, 2024 at 12:33 PM
Please, if you are able, support Indy publishers.
As the big 5 buy up all the book shelves with their astronomic discounting.
It would be grand if you could look at.
@galleybeggars.bsky.social
@influxpress.bsky.social
@littletollerbooks.bsky.social
@saraband-books.bsky.social
& many more
As the big 5 buy up all the book shelves with their astronomic discounting.
It would be grand if you could look at.
@galleybeggars.bsky.social
@influxpress.bsky.social
@littletollerbooks.bsky.social
@saraband-books.bsky.social
& many more
Anyone discovered the reason(s) for BJ's unrelenting promotion of Miss Owen yet? All we can do is speculate upon the potential merits, genetic or otherwise, that catapulted her to the dizzy and lucrative heights she has been gifted 🤔
Latest on Charlotte Owen, the obscure 29 year old catapulted in Boris Johnson’s resignation honours into the House of Lords, is that BJ has also made her VP of a nuclear energy company he’s set up with his former minister Chris Skidmore & a mine owner 👀 open.substack.com/pub/alanrusb...
First a peerage, now a plum job—why does Boris keep promoting Charlotte Owen?
Baroness Owen was just 29 when she was given a life peerage by the former prime minister. A year on, she has another new role. What makes her so uniquely qualified?
open.substack.com
May 21, 2025 at 7:38 PM
Anyone discovered the reason(s) for BJ's unrelenting promotion of Miss Owen yet? All we can do is speculate upon the potential merits, genetic or otherwise, that catapulted her to the dizzy and lucrative heights she has been gifted 🤔