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Lauren Mooney
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Writer. Debut novel SERVICE out June 2026 with Manilla. Writer of theatre for Kandinsky & audio for Big Finish. Freelance dramaturg, tortoise keeper, slow swimmer.

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Lauren Mooney @mooneylwrites.bsky.social · Feb 24
Wrote a whole bloody book didn't I? Beyond delighted that SERVICE will be published in June 2026 by @manillapress.bsky.social 💫
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You know a country by its values. By what a country values. And it turns out thatwhat a country values can change overtime. Sometimes, though, there's a sort of cognitive delay between the country you think you are in, and the country you've actually become. For example, you can keep selling yourself, to foreigners, as the country of William Shakespeare and Jane Austen, and luring busloads of tourists to Stratford-upon-Avon and Bath, and put a statue of George Orwell in front of the BBC, and imagine yourself a cultured and literate nation, which the rest of the world admires for its devotion to the written word - but if you then chronically underfund your cultural institutions, and treat your cultural workers with contempt, many people will suspect you of being full of it. And as the decades pass - and fewer and fewer Shakespeares and Austens and Orwells emerge from your little island - even more people will begin to suspect that in truth you do not value culture at all, and are in fact running a giant heritage museum in which the only cultural workers you respect are the dead ones.
November 12, 2025 at 8:55 AM
mooneylwrites.bsky.social
I'm not very good at remembering to post here, but my novel SERVICE (out June 2026) is part of the Waterstones pre-order offer! From today until Friday, you can take 25% off the price with the code OCTOBER25. Pre-ordering is a great way to support debut writers ❤️ www.waterstones.com/book/service...
October 14, 2025 at 12:38 PM
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This is an absolute banger of a @bigfinish.bsky.social story by @mooneylwrites.bsky.social & @stewartwpringle.bsky.social. Fascinating concept, very well executed. Claustrophobic, tense, with top-notch performances by Christopher Eccleston and Kelly Adams. A must-hear. #DoctorWho #AudioDrama
July 14, 2025 at 1:23 AM
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cleanbrk.bsky.social
For more information about Clean Break's trans inclusion policy, please visit our website: cleanbreak.org.uk/policies
In light of the Supreme Court’s ruling on the definition of woman in the Equality Act 2010, we send our support and solidarity to trans and intersex women across the UK. Clean Break is for all women, including trans and intersex women. We take an intersectional approach to understanding identity and know that womanhood is not a monolith. We acknowledge the specific experiences of discrimination and oppression that trans women, particularly Black trans women, face in wider society and in the sectors we work in. Whilst the impact of this ruling remains uncertain, we want to be clear that our services and who we serve will not be changing. Trans inclusivity will continue to be upheld as we work towards a world where all women are free to realise their full potential.
April 24, 2025 at 9:02 AM
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sohotheatre.bsky.social
'Astounding' ★★★★★ ( @thestage.co.uk ) for Salty Brine 👏

You've got until Sat 26 Apr to catch this 'feat of bravura (...) with hella pizazz' ( @theguardian.com ) - so what are you waiting for?!

buff.ly/RaBbs90
April 17, 2025 at 3:05 PM
mooneylwrites.bsky.social
At least once a month, I get an email from a website I have no memory of using, where I bought like, one book eight years ago, saying they've been hacked and everything about me is now on the dark web. Ok well I didn't even want YOU to know everything about me???? so thanks
April 10, 2025 at 9:23 AM
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scifibulletin.bsky.social
Details on the next three Torchwood tales from @bigfinish.bsky.social
@gossjam.bsky.social @lisabowerman.bsky.social @scotthandcock1984.bsky.social @mooneylwrites.bsky.social @josephlidster.bsky.social
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Double Green for Torchwood
Big Finish has released details of the first three stories to be released on Torchwood’s new bimonthly schedule. May’s release, The Boy Who Never Laughed, features Jonny Green as Tyler Steele…
scifibulletin.com
March 28, 2025 at 8:45 AM
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#severance is renewed for Season 3.

#PraiseKier and Tim Cook.

film still #67

Choreography & Merriment
March 21, 2025 at 12:23 PM
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holbolrob.bsky.social
coming in july. mine + @saagifletch.bsky.social’s bit of writing together ! with great help from @mooneylwrites.bsky.social. more in the summer !
March 27, 2025 at 11:16 PM
mooneylwrites.bsky.social
Bloody love writing for the Paternosters. What a joy that @stewartwpringle.bsky.social & I have been allowed to get away with another, frankly, ridiculous hour
bigfinish.bsky.social Big Finish Insider @bigfinish.bsky.social · Mar 27
🚨 OUT NOW! 🚨 The Paternoster Gang's Last Stand. Click https://bgfn.sh/poblom to get the final box set of the Trespassers saga as a download to own and collector's edition CD.
Rafe Wallbank's cover art for The Paternoster Gang: Trespassers - Last Stand. On the left are The Eighth Doctor and Vastra , highlighted in pink. In the middle is Strax with a half Zygon face , highlighted in blue. To the right are Jenny and a girl ghost, highlighted in purple.
March 27, 2025 at 10:15 AM
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stewartwpringle.bsky.social
'The Final Poblom' is here ... and they may not all make it out alive....
bigfinish.bsky.social Big Finish Insider @bigfinish.bsky.social · Mar 27
🚨 OUT NOW! 🚨 The Paternoster Gang's Last Stand. Click https://bgfn.sh/poblom to get the final box set of the Trespassers saga as a download to own and collector's edition CD.
Rafe Wallbank's cover art for The Paternoster Gang: Trespassers - Last Stand. On the left are The Eighth Doctor and Vastra , highlighted in pink. In the middle is Strax with a half Zygon face , highlighted in blue. To the right are Jenny and a girl ghost, highlighted in purple.
March 27, 2025 at 9:54 AM
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nickhernbooks.bsky.social
'Thrilling... a smartly composed exploration of greed, loss and the loneliness of eternity'
★★★★ Guardian

More Life by NHB authors @mooneylwrites.bsky.social and James Yeatman is now on @royalcourt.bsky.social.

Get your playscript copy at the venue, or online:
www.nickhernbooks.co.uk/more-life
Top photo: Alison Halstead in More Life at Royal Court Theatre. Photo by Helen Murray. Bottom photo: Playscript cover of More Life by Lauren Mooney and James Yeatman.
March 7, 2025 at 1:40 PM
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livunienglish.bsky.social
👻A spectre is haunting contemporary fiction – the spectre of former Liverpool English student @mooneylwrites.bsky.social's spooky debut novel about class and precarity, Service, which will be published by Manilla Press in summer 2026! Huge congratulations! We can't wait!📚
February 27, 2025 at 1:26 PM
mooneylwrites.bsky.social
Wrote a whole bloody book didn't I? Beyond delighted that SERVICE will be published in June 2026 by @manillapress.bsky.social 💫
February 24, 2025 at 10:24 AM
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stewartwpringle.bsky.social
Bloody hell @mooneylwrites.bsky.social smashing it absurdly hard this month - so proud of her for this beautiful modern ghost story, which has so much of her heart and mind and rage and brilliance inside it - SERVICE, out next year from @manillapress.bsky.social www.thebookseller.com/rights/manil...
Manilla Press pre-empts Lauren Mooney’s 'wildly entertaining' Gothic workplace novel
Manilla Press has preempted Service by Lauren Mooney, a working-class writer based in South London, in a two-book deal.
www.thebookseller.com
February 24, 2025 at 9:41 AM
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bigfinish.bsky.social
🌹 2025! bgfn.sh/wtf

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The Ninth Doctor and Rose
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February 15, 2025 at 6:35 PM
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painesplough.bsky.social
last performances of My Mother’s Funeral: The Show today at @theyardtheatre.bsky.social to round off the tour, so we’ve prepared some final words:

Gillian, don’t forget the pie in the oven.

Sending all of the love for this team for shows 83 and 84 💐
February 15, 2025 at 12:18 PM
mooneylwrites.bsky.social
MORE LIFE is now running at the Royal Court.

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Guardian
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Whatsonstage
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ London Theatre
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Broadway World
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Everything Theatre
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ The Rendition
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ North West End

Some returns to 8th March or £15 Monday tickets released weekly:
royalcourttheatre.com/whats-on/mor...
February 14, 2025 at 8:40 PM
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emilyoram.bsky.social
I'm afraid what risks 'hollowing out' London is property prices, foreign consortia owning countless empty buildings, rental costs, the decimation of nightlife, gentrification and Pretification and the demise of in person shopping. It should be somewhere we want to go not have to.
February 10, 2025 at 9:02 AM
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verbatimfoley.bsky.social
Tonight, DRIFTWOOD is in Liverpool! A handful of tix left! www.unitytheatreliverpool.co.uk/whats-on/dri...
Driftwood - Unity Theatre
An inspiring story about hope, love and belonging.
www.unitytheatreliverpool.co.uk
February 6, 2025 at 10:06 AM
mooneylwrites.bsky.social
I wrote about our show. Previews start tonight! royalcourttheatre.com/whats-on/mor... Tickets very limited so please get booking if you want to join us 🤖
February 6, 2025 at 12:09 PM
mooneylwrites.bsky.social
The carnage this caused on the group chat really made my Monday
alicemarples.bsky.social Alice Marples @alicemarples.bsky.social · Feb 3
Absolutely devastated to get to work and discover that my smug freezer breakfast parkin is actually stilton 😭
February 3, 2025 at 12:01 PM
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painesplough.bsky.social
Tonight we open at the Yard, and we also invite you to a Grief Mixer next Tuesday 4 Feb. DM us if you want a discount code for that Eve as well!
theyardtheatre.bsky.social The Yard Theatre @theyardtheatre.bsky.social · Jan 28
Just landed: @painesplough.bsky.social's My Mother's Funeral: The Show, Grief Mixer 💐

A post-show space for the grief and death-positive communities. With Charlotte Bennett, Naomi Westerman + Ruth Arnold on 4 Feb, free with a ticket to the show.

theyardtheatre.co.uk/mymothersfuneral
January 28, 2025 at 4:24 PM
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stewartwpringle.bsky.social
File this under ‘how have we been allowed to get away with…?’ @mooneylwrites.bsky.social and I bringing this chapter of the Paternoster Gang to a close this March bsky.app/profile/bigf...
bigfinish.bsky.social Big Finish Insider @bigfinish.bsky.social · Jan 27
🚨 COVER REVEAL 🚨 The Trespassers saga will conclude in March's Last Stand.

Click https://bgfn.sh/Confront1 to learn more!
The cover art for The Paternoster Gang: Trespassers - Last Stand, with art by Rafe Wallbank. On the left are The Eighth Doctor and Vastra , highlighted in pink. In the middle is Strax with a half Zygon face , highlighted in blue. To the right are Jenny and a girl ghost, highlighted in purple.
January 28, 2025 at 9:28 AM
mooneylwrites.bsky.social
We've written the final episode of the Trespassers saga and it is very very silly. Out in March!
bigfinish.bsky.social Big Finish Insider @bigfinish.bsky.social · Jan 27
🚨 COVER REVEAL 🚨 The Trespassers saga will conclude in March's Last Stand.

Click https://bgfn.sh/Confront1 to learn more!
The cover art for The Paternoster Gang: Trespassers - Last Stand, with art by Rafe Wallbank. On the left are The Eighth Doctor and Vastra , highlighted in pink. In the middle is Strax with a half Zygon face , highlighted in blue. To the right are Jenny and a girl ghost, highlighted in purple.
January 27, 2025 at 8:14 PM