Anna Mazzola
@annamazz.bsky.social
Writer. Very small. Books normal size. THE CLOCKWORK GIRL, BOOK OF SECRETS etc. Writes thrillers as Anna Sharpe.
Also a criminal justice lawyer and a dark history geek.
Also a criminal justice lawyer and a dark history geek.
I missed that. Will have to go back tomorrow!
November 8, 2025 at 12:09 PM
I missed that. Will have to go back tomorrow!
PLEASE DO NOT ASK STAFF WHERE DRACULA’S GRAVE IS THERE ISN’T ONE.
Iconic sign from St Mary’s Church next to Whitby Abbey. I love that people think Bram Stoker’s Dracula was a real person/vampire who lived and died in Whitby.
Iconic sign from St Mary’s Church next to Whitby Abbey. I love that people think Bram Stoker’s Dracula was a real person/vampire who lived and died in Whitby.
November 8, 2025 at 10:15 AM
PLEASE DO NOT ASK STAFF WHERE DRACULA’S GRAVE IS THERE ISN’T ONE.
Iconic sign from St Mary’s Church next to Whitby Abbey. I love that people think Bram Stoker’s Dracula was a real person/vampire who lived and died in Whitby.
Iconic sign from St Mary’s Church next to Whitby Abbey. I love that people think Bram Stoker’s Dracula was a real person/vampire who lived and died in Whitby.
The Book of Secrets, winner of the Gold Dagger for best crime novel of 2025, is 99p on kindle for a limited time.
Sorcery, mystery, sisterhood. Based on a real poisoning case from 17th century Rome.
www.amazon.co.uk/Book-Secrets...
Sorcery, mystery, sisterhood. Based on a real poisoning case from 17th century Rome.
www.amazon.co.uk/Book-Secrets...
November 2, 2025 at 4:06 PM
The Book of Secrets, winner of the Gold Dagger for best crime novel of 2025, is 99p on kindle for a limited time.
Sorcery, mystery, sisterhood. Based on a real poisoning case from 17th century Rome.
www.amazon.co.uk/Book-Secrets...
Sorcery, mystery, sisterhood. Based on a real poisoning case from 17th century Rome.
www.amazon.co.uk/Book-Secrets...
Happy Halloween, witches! Remember to hold tight to your horse or goat when riding to the meet tonight.
Frenzy of Exultations, 1893, by Władysław Podkowiński, and Witches Going to Their Sabbath, 1878, by Luis Ricardo Falero.
#happyhalloween
Frenzy of Exultations, 1893, by Władysław Podkowiński, and Witches Going to Their Sabbath, 1878, by Luis Ricardo Falero.
#happyhalloween
October 31, 2025 at 8:04 AM
Happy Halloween, witches! Remember to hold tight to your horse or goat when riding to the meet tonight.
Frenzy of Exultations, 1893, by Władysław Podkowiński, and Witches Going to Their Sabbath, 1878, by Luis Ricardo Falero.
#happyhalloween
Frenzy of Exultations, 1893, by Władysław Podkowiński, and Witches Going to Their Sabbath, 1878, by Luis Ricardo Falero.
#happyhalloween
Thrills, chills, possibly spills (of wine) this Thursday. Join us at Waterstones Greenwich for a drink and a chat. @nadinematheson.com @holly.bsky.social
Tickets: www.waterstones.com/events/thril...
Tickets: www.waterstones.com/events/thril...
October 6, 2025 at 3:24 PM
Thrills, chills, possibly spills (of wine) this Thursday. Join us at Waterstones Greenwich for a drink and a chat. @nadinematheson.com @holly.bsky.social
Tickets: www.waterstones.com/events/thril...
Tickets: www.waterstones.com/events/thril...
Didn’t do it again though, did he?
October 1, 2025 at 9:01 AM
Didn’t do it again though, did he?
Brains of BlueSky: can you think of stories about lost or stolen treasures or artefacts? Book, film, TV, whatever. The gems. Thank you kindly.
August 14, 2025 at 5:12 PM
Brains of BlueSky: can you think of stories about lost or stolen treasures or artefacts? Book, film, TV, whatever. The gems. Thank you kindly.
Burglar Bill. The Jolly Postman. Each Peach. I can still recite it off my heart. What a legacy Allan Ahlberg and Janet Ahlberg have left. Janet died in 1994. Allan has just died, aged 87. Clever, funny, wise books that both I and my kids loved. Which was your favourite? I think Burglar Bill was mine
August 1, 2025 at 3:16 PM
Burglar Bill. The Jolly Postman. Each Peach. I can still recite it off my heart. What a legacy Allan Ahlberg and Janet Ahlberg have left. Janet died in 1994. Allan has just died, aged 87. Clever, funny, wise books that both I and my kids loved. Which was your favourite? I think Burglar Bill was mine
My bestselling novel The Clockwork Girl is 99p on Kindle this month if you fancy some mystery, glamour, squalor and moving dolls. 18th century Versailles. Real copies from bookshops also available! (I always feel conflicted sharing these deals, but there we are).
amzn.eu/d/1W9aX3q
amzn.eu/d/1W9aX3q
August 1, 2025 at 7:08 AM
My bestselling novel The Clockwork Girl is 99p on Kindle this month if you fancy some mystery, glamour, squalor and moving dolls. 18th century Versailles. Real copies from bookshops also available! (I always feel conflicted sharing these deals, but there we are).
amzn.eu/d/1W9aX3q
amzn.eu/d/1W9aX3q
Last chance to get in person tickets for St Hilda’s Gothic Crime weekend. Lots of fascinating talks in a beautiful setting, a murder mystery play, bats, books, drinks etc.
Online tickets also available. They send you a bat in a bag.*
www.st-hildas.ox.ac.uk/events/2025-...
*maybe
Online tickets also available. They send you a bat in a bag.*
www.st-hildas.ox.ac.uk/events/2025-...
*maybe
July 25, 2025 at 7:27 PM
Last chance to get in person tickets for St Hilda’s Gothic Crime weekend. Lots of fascinating talks in a beautiful setting, a murder mystery play, bats, books, drinks etc.
Online tickets also available. They send you a bat in a bag.*
www.st-hildas.ox.ac.uk/events/2025-...
*maybe
Online tickets also available. They send you a bat in a bag.*
www.st-hildas.ox.ac.uk/events/2025-...
*maybe
Montenegro so far winning ‘country with the most religious paintings of fish eating men that I’ve ever been to.’
The first fresco shows Tito, Engels, Marx and other ‘church haters’ being swallowed into Hell. In the second, sea creatures eat human body parts, but I just don’t know why.
The first fresco shows Tito, Engels, Marx and other ‘church haters’ being swallowed into Hell. In the second, sea creatures eat human body parts, but I just don’t know why.
July 17, 2025 at 8:26 PM
Montenegro so far winning ‘country with the most religious paintings of fish eating men that I’ve ever been to.’
The first fresco shows Tito, Engels, Marx and other ‘church haters’ being swallowed into Hell. In the second, sea creatures eat human body parts, but I just don’t know why.
The first fresco shows Tito, Engels, Marx and other ‘church haters’ being swallowed into Hell. In the second, sea creatures eat human body parts, but I just don’t know why.
Bosniaaaaa (and Herzegovina). What a beautiful, fascinating, incredible country.
We were in Sarajevo during the 30th anniversary of the Srebrenica Massacre - the war crime that the West failed to stop. Worth remembering.
We were in Sarajevo during the 30th anniversary of the Srebrenica Massacre - the war crime that the West failed to stop. Worth remembering.
July 15, 2025 at 6:55 AM
Bosniaaaaa (and Herzegovina). What a beautiful, fascinating, incredible country.
We were in Sarajevo during the 30th anniversary of the Srebrenica Massacre - the war crime that the West failed to stop. Worth remembering.
We were in Sarajevo during the 30th anniversary of the Srebrenica Massacre - the war crime that the West failed to stop. Worth remembering.
Good morning. Turns out the original bronze Bruce Lee sculpture in Mostar has been stolen by local scallywags and melted down for scrap, so it was recreated by me, my husband and this dog.
July 12, 2025 at 6:49 AM
Good morning. Turns out the original bronze Bruce Lee sculpture in Mostar has been stolen by local scallywags and melted down for scrap, so it was recreated by me, my husband and this dog.
Timeline of the Srebrenica genocide, July 1995, and room of peace at the Museum of War and Genocide, Mostar, Bosnia. If only humans learned from their history.
July 10, 2025 at 2:48 PM
Timeline of the Srebrenica genocide, July 1995, and room of peace at the Museum of War and Genocide, Mostar, Bosnia. If only humans learned from their history.
‘We are all living under the same sky.’
Street art at the bullet-ridden Sniper Tower in Mostar, Bosnia - a former bank seized as a sniper vantage point during the Bosnian war and now covered with art.
Officially, you can no longer enter, but in fact you can climb in with a leg up.
Street art at the bullet-ridden Sniper Tower in Mostar, Bosnia - a former bank seized as a sniper vantage point during the Bosnian war and now covered with art.
Officially, you can no longer enter, but in fact you can climb in with a leg up.
July 10, 2025 at 9:22 AM
‘We are all living under the same sky.’
Street art at the bullet-ridden Sniper Tower in Mostar, Bosnia - a former bank seized as a sniper vantage point during the Bosnian war and now covered with art.
Officially, you can no longer enter, but in fact you can climb in with a leg up.
Street art at the bullet-ridden Sniper Tower in Mostar, Bosnia - a former bank seized as a sniper vantage point during the Bosnian war and now covered with art.
Officially, you can no longer enter, but in fact you can climb in with a leg up.
Edvard Munch wasn’t all about screaming. He did this very jolly Dance on the Beach on a good day in 1904.
July 9, 2025 at 6:51 AM
Edvard Munch wasn’t all about screaming. He did this very jolly Dance on the Beach on a good day in 1904.
Yugoslav adverts were in a league of their own.
July 7, 2025 at 5:15 PM
Yugoslav adverts were in a league of their own.
Wanna swap summer reading recommendations with me? And learn some behind-the-scenes stuff? Sign up to my Readers' Club newsletter here and you get a free short story whether you want one or not:
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July 5, 2025 at 3:23 PM
Wanna swap summer reading recommendations with me? And learn some behind-the-scenes stuff? Sign up to my Readers' Club newsletter here and you get a free short story whether you want one or not:
annamazzola.com/contact/
annamazzola.com/contact/
Your summer reading just dropped. (In price. To 99p). London and Tokyo. Two determined women uncover a scandal involving misogyny and abuse of power. A Times thriller of 2025.
‘A brilliantly pacy page-turner with a deeply compassionate centre.’ - The Express.
www.amazon.co.uk/Notes-Drowni...
‘A brilliantly pacy page-turner with a deeply compassionate centre.’ - The Express.
www.amazon.co.uk/Notes-Drowni...
July 2, 2025 at 5:41 PM
Your summer reading just dropped. (In price. To 99p). London and Tokyo. Two determined women uncover a scandal involving misogyny and abuse of power. A Times thriller of 2025.
‘A brilliantly pacy page-turner with a deeply compassionate centre.’ - The Express.
www.amazon.co.uk/Notes-Drowni...
‘A brilliantly pacy page-turner with a deeply compassionate centre.’ - The Express.
www.amazon.co.uk/Notes-Drowni...
I scream. You scream. We all scream for no real reason.
July 1, 2025 at 7:04 PM
I scream. You scream. We all scream for no real reason.
Delighted to be back at @BloodyScotland.bsky.social on 13 September where I’ll be appearing with brilliant @kiaabdullah.bsky.social and @guymorpuss.bsky.social and possibly doing crime karaoke.
bloodyscotland.com/event/their-....
bloodyscotland.com/event/their-....
June 16, 2025 at 8:15 AM
Delighted to be back at @BloodyScotland.bsky.social on 13 September where I’ll be appearing with brilliant @kiaabdullah.bsky.social and @guymorpuss.bsky.social and possibly doing crime karaoke.
bloodyscotland.com/event/their-....
bloodyscotland.com/event/their-....
No biggie. Just a new selection of thirteen Dapne Du Maurier stories with a brilliant introduction by @stephenking.bsky.social
(I don’t generally squeal when opening book mail, but for this one I made the exception).
(I don’t generally squeal when opening book mail, but for this one I made the exception).
June 6, 2025 at 3:51 PM
No biggie. Just a new selection of thirteen Dapne Du Maurier stories with a brilliant introduction by @stephenking.bsky.social
(I don’t generally squeal when opening book mail, but for this one I made the exception).
(I don’t generally squeal when opening book mail, but for this one I made the exception).
Opening time at the fish shop. Gaios, Paxos.
May 30, 2025 at 7:58 AM
Opening time at the fish shop. Gaios, Paxos.
This is the face of a woman who has been mansplained at for three hours.
May 21, 2025 at 11:39 AM
This is the face of a woman who has been mansplained at for three hours.
‘Now let me explain my other artistic techniques to you.’
May 21, 2025 at 11:38 AM
‘Now let me explain my other artistic techniques to you.’