Kirsty Doole
@otherkirsty.bsky.social
Snr Publicity Director @atlanticbooks.bsky.social. Glaswegian down south. Mum. Books, cats, theatre, weird and spooky stuff. Swemo. Passionate about SEND issues.
Delighted by the line, ‘I wore an audible amount of corduroy.’
June 13, 2025 at 7:09 PM
Delighted by the line, ‘I wore an audible amount of corduroy.’
I cannot tell you how UNBELIEVABLY excited I am to be working on Daniel Pollack-Pelzner's extraordinary authorised biography of Lin-Manuel Miranda this September. Books and theatre are my two great loves, and I've been an LMM superfan for years. THRILLED!
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Atlantic Books to publish biography of Hamilton creator Lin-Manuel Miranda
Atlantic Books will give Hamilton fans a peek into the room where it happened with the publication of Lin-Manuel Miranda: The Education of an Artist.
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April 4, 2025 at 9:12 AM
I cannot tell you how UNBELIEVABLY excited I am to be working on Daniel Pollack-Pelzner's extraordinary authorised biography of Lin-Manuel Miranda this September. Books and theatre are my two great loves, and I've been an LMM superfan for years. THRILLED!
www.thebookseller.com/rights/atlan...
www.thebookseller.com/rights/atlan...
I’m personally all for (All Four?) the ‘new midlife crisis novel’ if only because I can’t take another ‘messy woman in her late 20s’ novel.
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/m...
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/m...
Judgy kids, road-trips and ‘epic scenes of female masturbation’: welcome to the new midlife crisis novel
Coined to define the ennui of mid-30s men, the midlife crisis has evolved, says Benjamin Markovits, bringing a boom in sharp writing about messy middle age
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March 15, 2025 at 2:39 PM
I’m personally all for (All Four?) the ‘new midlife crisis novel’ if only because I can’t take another ‘messy woman in her late 20s’ novel.
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/m...
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/m...
Third book on the Women’s Prize for Fiction longlist finished. I hadn’t heard of Amma by Saraid de Silva before the prize and I hope this brings her work to more people. Really enjoyed this despite being slightly weary of the “three generations of women” structure in general.
March 15, 2025 at 12:58 PM
Third book on the Women’s Prize for Fiction longlist finished. I hadn’t heard of Amma by Saraid de Silva before the prize and I hope this brings her work to more people. Really enjoyed this despite being slightly weary of the “three generations of women” structure in general.
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Delighted to share that we are shortlisted for the 2025 Independent Publisher of the Year. 🎉 To have this coincide with our 25th year is the cherry on top of our birthday cake... and we're just getting started! A big thanks to all our partners, staff and importantly our amazing authors. #Nibbies
March 14, 2025 at 11:06 AM
Delighted to share that we are shortlisted for the 2025 Independent Publisher of the Year. 🎉 To have this coincide with our 25th year is the cherry on top of our birthday cake... and we're just getting started! A big thanks to all our partners, staff and importantly our amazing authors. #Nibbies
I'm unbelievably proud of my @atlanticbooks.bsky.social colleagues this morning. Shortlistees for Marketing Strategy of the Year and Editor of the Year, and then to top it all, we are shortlisted for Independent Publisher of the Year. Gaun yerself, Atlantic pals.
The trade awards reflect the breadth of the book business with stars from sales, design, editing, rights, agenting, marketing, bookselling, librarianship and publicity all recognised across the shortlists, says Philip Jones.
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#BritishBookAwards #Nibbies
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#BritishBookAwards #Nibbies
March 14, 2025 at 10:24 AM
I'm unbelievably proud of my @atlanticbooks.bsky.social colleagues this morning. Shortlistees for Marketing Strategy of the Year and Editor of the Year, and then to top it all, we are shortlisted for Independent Publisher of the Year. Gaun yerself, Atlantic pals.
Hot proof alert: Vera, or Faith, the new novel by Gary Shteyngart is out @atlanticbooks.bsky.social in August. Reviewers/booksellers/librarians hmu. Karen Russell says it’s “a novel that you can read in one sitting that will stay with you forever.”
March 10, 2025 at 10:13 AM
Hot proof alert: Vera, or Faith, the new novel by Gary Shteyngart is out @atlanticbooks.bsky.social in August. Reviewers/booksellers/librarians hmu. Karen Russell says it’s “a novel that you can read in one sitting that will stay with you forever.”
I have become one of those people who has a Substack. It's called In The Bookstacks and is, unsurprisingly, about books (and theatre and culture and... stuff). I'm starting strong with the fact that I'm reading the whole Women's Prize for Fiction longlist.
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Reading the Women's Prize for Fiction 2025 longlist
Or, as if I didn't have enough to be getting on with
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March 6, 2025 at 4:10 PM
I have become one of those people who has a Substack. It's called In The Bookstacks and is, unsurprisingly, about books (and theatre and culture and... stuff). I'm starting strong with the fact that I'm reading the whole Women's Prize for Fiction longlist.
open.substack.com/pub/intheboo...
open.substack.com/pub/intheboo...
Wishing @carolehailey.bsky.social an extremely happy publication day for Scenes From A Tragedy! Buzz Magazine *gets it*.
www.buzzmag.co.uk/scenes-trage...
www.buzzmag.co.uk/scenes-trage...
SCENES FROM A TRAGEDY: Wales-based novelist CAROLE HAILEY dishes up a fine thriller
Carole Hailey's debut novel The Silence Project is a powerful piece of fiction, and her latest work Scenes From A Tragedy ups the ante.
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March 6, 2025 at 9:17 AM
Wishing @carolehailey.bsky.social an extremely happy publication day for Scenes From A Tragedy! Buzz Magazine *gets it*.
www.buzzmag.co.uk/scenes-trage...
www.buzzmag.co.uk/scenes-trage...
*Slightly* forgot about Bluesky, I'm so sorry. I got out of the habit after I deleted The Other App.
March 6, 2025 at 9:09 AM
*Slightly* forgot about Bluesky, I'm so sorry. I got out of the habit after I deleted The Other App.
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"I am one hundred per cent a Faithful."
February 28, 2025 at 9:05 AM
"I am one hundred per cent a Faithful."
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February 5, 2025 at 5:07 PM
This excellent piece by John Harris is from 29 Dec but I've only just read it.
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Children with special needs are now the focus of the culture war and the budget debate – Labour must tread carefully | John Harris
With the yawning gap between available funding and rising demand, parents are right to fear the government’s reaction, says Guardian columnist John Harris
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January 14, 2025 at 8:45 AM
This excellent piece by John Harris is from 29 Dec but I've only just read it.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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I was correct.
January 14, 2025 at 7:59 AM
I was correct.
My daughter just came to complain that my music is too loud. Isn't this supposed to be the other way round?
January 6, 2025 at 4:09 PM
My daughter just came to complain that my music is too loud. Isn't this supposed to be the other way round?
This is a niche publicist moan but honestly, the hours of my life I have lost in trying to track down accurate contact details to pitch authors to podcasts.
January 2, 2025 at 4:18 PM
This is a niche publicist moan but honestly, the hours of my life I have lost in trying to track down accurate contact details to pitch authors to podcasts.
So enjoyed this episode. I fear I might have to, finally, read Moby Dick.
New Christmas episode up now. Moby-Dick by Herman Melville, with guests Jarred McGinnis and Erica Wagner @ericawgnr.bsky.social, with @iammilliam.bsky.social @johnmitchinson.bsky.social @birchos.bsky.social. THAR SHE BLOWS!! 🎄📚 🐳
www.backlisted.fm/episodes/229
www.backlisted.fm/episodes/229
229. Moby-Dick; or the Whale by Herman Melville — Backlisted
Join the Backlisted crew as we navigate the swells and surges of Moby-Dick; or the Whale by Herman Melville. That's right, Moby Dick is a Christmas book! Andy, John and Nicky welcome aboard nove...
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December 26, 2024 at 2:29 PM
So enjoyed this episode. I fear I might have to, finally, read Moby Dick.
Have made enough roast potatoes to feed about ten people, when only two people in the house will eat them. Cold roasties for days. Merry Christmas!
December 25, 2024 at 1:58 PM
Have made enough roast potatoes to feed about ten people, when only two people in the house will eat them. Cold roasties for days. Merry Christmas!
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To learn more about these remarkable women I recommend Jack and Eve by Wendy Moore, out from @atlanticbooks.bsky.social. (@otherkirsty.bsky.social)
December 1914, the first unit of Elsie Inglis' Scottish Women's Hospitals to leave from Edinburgh for Serbia. 1500 women served in this remarkable all-female endeavour providing medical & surgical care to sick & wounded soldiers, civilians & refugees archiveandlibrary.rcsed.ac.uk/special-coll...?
December 24, 2024 at 9:14 AM
To learn more about these remarkable women I recommend Jack and Eve by Wendy Moore, out from @atlanticbooks.bsky.social. (@otherkirsty.bsky.social)
No one writes ghost stories like women in the mid-20th century: a thesis.
I haven’t written this thesis but I’m starting to want to.
I haven’t written this thesis but I’m starting to want to.
December 24, 2024 at 9:03 AM
No one writes ghost stories like women in the mid-20th century: a thesis.
I haven’t written this thesis but I’m starting to want to.
I haven’t written this thesis but I’m starting to want to.
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£100m spent in England on failed efforts to block children’s Send support
£100m spent in England on failed efforts to block children’s Send support
Exclusive: Councils win just 1.2% of tribunals, as experts see signs provision is becoming a battle with desperate families
* Analysis: Why England’s Send system is buckling
* ‘Fobbed off and rejected’: Birmingham’s Send crisis
More than £100m was…
www.theguardian.com
December 22, 2024 at 8:05 PM
£100m spent in England on failed efforts to block children’s Send support
Current festive reading (I love her short stories so much).
December 6, 2024 at 5:30 PM
Current festive reading (I love her short stories so much).
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Everyone’s gangster until they use a pen that is satisfyingly smooth and fun to write with.
December 4, 2024 at 1:46 PM
Everyone’s gangster until they use a pen that is satisfyingly smooth and fun to write with.
My cheery festive reading continues! Thank you @chloe-bookpr.bsky.social
December 4, 2024 at 3:25 PM
My cheery festive reading continues! Thank you @chloe-bookpr.bsky.social
Yeah, sounds about right tbh
December 4, 2024 at 2:41 PM
Yeah, sounds about right tbh