Victoria Stewart
@verbivorial.bsky.social
When not reading, often writing. Represented by @litagentfran.bsky.social
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Quiet everyone, Leonard is sleeping
February 15, 2026 at 10:07 AM
Quiet everyone, Leonard is sleeping
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‘Terry’ is just so wrong.
February 8, 2026 at 12:20 AM
‘Terry’ is just so wrong.
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From the archive for Irmgard Keun, #BornOnThisDay in 1905, thoughts on GILGI, ONE OF US (tr. Geoff Wilkes).
A striking feminist first-person narrative set in Weimar-era Cologne. Fans of Jean Rhys & Christopher Isherwood would likely enjoy this! #BookSky 💙📚
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A striking feminist first-person narrative set in Weimar-era Cologne. Fans of Jean Rhys & Christopher Isherwood would likely enjoy this! #BookSky 💙📚
jacquiwine.wordpress.com/2022/01/06/g...
Gilgi, One of Us by Irmgard Keun (tr. Geoff Wilkes)
I loved this novella, a striking portrayal of a determined young woman set in Weimar-era Cologne. First published in 1931, and subsequently banned by the Nazi authorities, Gilgi (One of Us), was Ir…
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February 6, 2026 at 11:04 AM
From the archive for Irmgard Keun, #BornOnThisDay in 1905, thoughts on GILGI, ONE OF US (tr. Geoff Wilkes).
A striking feminist first-person narrative set in Weimar-era Cologne. Fans of Jean Rhys & Christopher Isherwood would likely enjoy this! #BookSky 💙📚
jacquiwine.wordpress.com/2022/01/06/g...
A striking feminist first-person narrative set in Weimar-era Cologne. Fans of Jean Rhys & Christopher Isherwood would likely enjoy this! #BookSky 💙📚
jacquiwine.wordpress.com/2022/01/06/g...
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A detail from St. Wilfrid & St. John Berchmans, a 1927 stained glass window by the inimitable Harry Clarke. Originally in the Convent of Notre Dame, Glasgow, and now in the Stained Glass Museum, Ely.
January 31, 2026 at 8:10 AM
A detail from St. Wilfrid & St. John Berchmans, a 1927 stained glass window by the inimitable Harry Clarke. Originally in the Convent of Notre Dame, Glasgow, and now in the Stained Glass Museum, Ely.
Looking forward to seeing Christian Petzold’s Afire again
BBC Four - Afire
Tensions escalate among a group of young people at a holiday home by the Baltic coast.
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January 31, 2026 at 11:44 AM
Looking forward to seeing Christian Petzold’s Afire again
Tessa Hadley’s “The Quiet House” in this week’s New Yorker. “You could never read everything. Completion or mastery were beyond the point”
“The Quiet House,” by Tessa Hadley
What was the point of keeping all those secrets? Wasn’t your story wasted if nobody knew it?
www.newyorker.com
January 28, 2026 at 3:50 PM
Tessa Hadley’s “The Quiet House” in this week’s New Yorker. “You could never read everything. Completion or mastery were beyond the point”
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Very much enjoyed being a guest on the latest “Green Penguin” episode of The Shedunnit Show, discussing Dorothy L. Sayers’s The Documents in the Case
www.shedunnitshow.com/thedocuments...
www.shedunnitshow.com/thedocuments...
The Documents in the Case (Green Penguin Book Club 13)
Victoria Stewart joins Caroline to discuss Dorothy L. Sayers’ epistolary poisoning mystery.
www.shedunnitshow.com
January 21, 2026 at 4:42 PM
Very much enjoyed being a guest on the latest “Green Penguin” episode of The Shedunnit Show, discussing Dorothy L. Sayers’s The Documents in the Case
www.shedunnitshow.com/thedocuments...
www.shedunnitshow.com/thedocuments...
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J: F Tennyson Jesse; A Pin to See the Peepshow
Excellent neglected feminist novel from the 1930s--'Therese Raquin'-meets-the-Thompson/Bywaters case. Perceptive, subtle and surprising in the small details, if not the grim arc of the plot.
Excellent neglected feminist novel from the 1930s--'Therese Raquin'-meets-the-Thompson/Bywaters case. Perceptive, subtle and surprising in the small details, if not the grim arc of the plot.
January 25, 2026 at 6:15 AM
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'I really felt like singing aloud, like doing something insane in this elated state I was in; it is always when you see that you actually count for something in other people's eyes that you begin to feel some sense, some purpose, in your own existence.'
January 24, 2026 at 12:38 AM
'I really felt like singing aloud, like doing something insane in this elated state I was in; it is always when you see that you actually count for something in other people's eyes that you begin to feel some sense, some purpose, in your own existence.'
Very excited to have a story in Oaths and Offerings, the first anthology from @carnyxpress.co.uk - coming in June.
Revealing the title and cover of our very first anthology!
Oaths and Offerings: A Carnyx anthology of folklore will be published this June, and will include folklore-inspired stories from writers across the North of England.
Oaths and Offerings: A Carnyx anthology of folklore will be published this June, and will include folklore-inspired stories from writers across the North of England.
January 22, 2026 at 11:48 AM
Very excited to have a story in Oaths and Offerings, the first anthology from @carnyxpress.co.uk - coming in June.
Very much enjoyed being a guest on the latest “Green Penguin” episode of The Shedunnit Show, discussing Dorothy L. Sayers’s The Documents in the Case
www.shedunnitshow.com/thedocuments...
www.shedunnitshow.com/thedocuments...
The Documents in the Case (Green Penguin Book Club 13)
Victoria Stewart joins Caroline to discuss Dorothy L. Sayers’ epistolary poisoning mystery.
www.shedunnitshow.com
January 21, 2026 at 4:42 PM
Very much enjoyed being a guest on the latest “Green Penguin” episode of The Shedunnit Show, discussing Dorothy L. Sayers’s The Documents in the Case
www.shedunnitshow.com/thedocuments...
www.shedunnitshow.com/thedocuments...
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Today is Ivor Novello’s birthday.
January 15, 2026 at 10:32 PM
Today is Ivor Novello’s birthday.
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Lovely things in this thread - there are some memories of the Puffin Club at the start of this Shedunnit episode: www.shedunnitshow.com/myfirstgreen...
lots more puffin club issues & ephemera at my granny’s house @regretteruane.bsky.social
January 11, 2026 at 6:28 AM
Lovely things in this thread - there are some memories of the Puffin Club at the start of this Shedunnit episode: www.shedunnitshow.com/myfirstgreen...
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🖼️ Jozef Wilkon
January 10, 2026 at 5:42 AM
🖼️ Jozef Wilkon
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Other work of the Ladybird artists.
Winter Landscape
Artist: Rowland Hilder
Winter Landscape
Artist: Rowland Hilder
January 3, 2026 at 8:23 PM
Other work of the Ladybird artists.
Winter Landscape
Artist: Rowland Hilder
Winter Landscape
Artist: Rowland Hilder
Had the John Moores exhibition at the Walker to myself for half an hour this morning
January 2, 2026 at 4:27 PM
Had the John Moores exhibition at the Walker to myself for half an hour this morning
See you on the other side, friends.
December 31, 2025 at 7:00 PM
See you on the other side, friends.
Well, this was a beast and will be going straight to the charity shop
December 31, 2025 at 9:59 AM
Well, this was a beast and will be going straight to the charity shop
Spent my book tokens
December 30, 2025 at 6:47 PM
Spent my book tokens
Have a peaceful day, all.
December 25, 2025 at 7:44 AM
Have a peaceful day, all.
PSA: Dr Zhivago is on the i-player
December 22, 2025 at 6:30 PM
PSA: Dr Zhivago is on the i-player
Still at work for a day or two but looking forward to getting my nose into this when I log off.
December 22, 2025 at 11:33 AM
Still at work for a day or two but looking forward to getting my nose into this when I log off.
@andrewmale.bsky.social Hope this isn’t what your dog smells like today
Call me Benoit Blanc, because Why Does The Coat Cupboard Smell: A Christmas Mystery has finally been solved. The culprit: once-frozen peas left for too long in a shopping bag, turned to grey mush.
December 22, 2025 at 11:29 AM
@andrewmale.bsky.social Hope this isn’t what your dog smells like today