Vesna Main
@vesnamain.bsky.social
Novelist and short story writer. European. Vegan. Cake baker. Swimmer. London and rural France.
Waiting for a Party (Salt, 2024), a novel about an older woman’s desire for sexual intimacy
Waiting for a Party (Salt, 2024), a novel about an older woman’s desire for sexual intimacy
I am reading from work-in-progress, my novel, I, Lolita, tonight at European Writers Salon.
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October 28, 2025 at 10:34 AM
I am reading from work-in-progress, my novel, I, Lolita, tonight at European Writers Salon.
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October 12, 2025 at 8:36 PM
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Very pleased with this review of Waiting for A Party (@saltpublishing.com, 2024) in the latest @thetls.bsky.social.
September 22, 2025 at 10:02 AM
Very pleased with this review of Waiting for A Party (@saltpublishing.com, 2024) in the latest @thetls.bsky.social.
Sunday. Vegan, of course.
August 31, 2025 at 7:08 AM
Sunday. Vegan, of course.
Talking about reading and writing with Shawn breathes books: m.youtube.com/watch?v=jkAz...
A conversation with Vesna Main about her writing and reading
YouTube video by Shawn Breathes Books
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June 19, 2025 at 2:06 PM
Talking about reading and writing with Shawn breathes books: m.youtube.com/watch?v=jkAz...
My thoughts on short stories
Short fiction in a flash: a bite-size interview with Vesna Main, by Sonya Moor is now live on the ENSFR website.
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May 8, 2025 at 12:06 PM
My thoughts on short stories
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May 1, 2025 at 7:21 AM
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March 10, 2025 at 8:34 PM
Reposted by Vesna Main
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Waiting for a Party
Vesna Main is in The Book Room
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February 25, 2025 at 10:34 AM
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Delighted to feature in the Book Room suereed.substack.com/p/waiting-fo...
Waiting for a Party
Vesna Main is in The Book Room
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February 25, 2025 at 10:34 AM
Delighted to feature in the Book Room suereed.substack.com/p/waiting-fo...
Reposted by Vesna Main
So pleased to see Clays in this episode of Inside the Factory – all our UK books are manufactured here and we've worked with them for over a decade. They're marvellous.
Inside the Factory - Series 9: 5. Hardback Books
Paddy McGuinness and Cherry Healey visit a factory that produces three million books every week and makes 20,000 hardback copies of Pride and Prejudice.
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January 29, 2025 at 11:46 AM
So pleased to see Clays in this episode of Inside the Factory – all our UK books are manufactured here and we've worked with them for over a decade. They're marvellous.
January 25, 2025 at 11:37 AM
Reposted by Vesna Main
Only a few remaining days left in our MASSIVE winter sale – don’t miss out on some amazing prices! 🛍️🛒😍
Sale
Special prices on selected titles while stocks last. Grab your next great read today. From children’s books to memoirs, novels to poetry, short stories to writers’ guides – there are superb books on o...
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January 22, 2025 at 6:58 AM
Only a few remaining days left in our MASSIVE winter sale – don’t miss out on some amazing prices! 🛍️🛒😍
Friday Reads: So Far, So Good
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January 11, 2025 at 9:50 AM
If you still haven’t got it, here is a great New Year’s present for yourself or anyone else.
Available from Salt, Amazon and all good bookshops.
Available from Salt, Amazon and all good bookshops.
December 28, 2024 at 7:45 PM
If you still haven’t got it, here is a great New Year’s present for yourself or anyone else.
Available from Salt, Amazon and all good bookshops.
Available from Salt, Amazon and all good bookshops.
Your Sunday rendez-vous:
‘Zip’ in the wonderful Bombay Literary Magazine:
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‘Zip’ in the wonderful Bombay Literary Magazine:
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December 15, 2024 at 9:08 AM
Your Sunday rendez-vous:
‘Zip’ in the wonderful Bombay Literary Magazine:
bombaylitmag.com/issue59-vesn...
‘Zip’ in the wonderful Bombay Literary Magazine:
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Here comes Claire Meadows, 92 years young
November 18, 2024 at 3:37 PM
Here comes Claire Meadows, 92 years young
Thank you, Salt
We've just launched three amazing books and think you'd like them – first up, this from Vesna Main:
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Waiting for a Party, Vesna Main
Claire Meadows, 92, reminiscences about her life, her failed ambition to become a concert pianist, her missed opportunity to have a child, her friends and lover
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November 18, 2024 at 3:36 PM
Thank you, Salt
Stephanie Cross reviews Vesna Main's ‘Waiting for a Party’ in the Daily Mail.
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The Literary Fiction you should be reading: Salt, Coe, Murakami
Stephanie Cross reviews the best Literary Fiction out now.
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November 18, 2024 at 3:35 PM