Ava Glass
@avaglassbooks.bsky.social
'Queen of spy fiction' - the Guardian. Author of the Emma Makepeace series, and other books using other identities. Former gov't comms. Many names – Not a spy.
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It's snowing in the shires.
November 19, 2025 at 9:27 AM
It's snowing in the shires.
October 27, 2025 at 4:48 PM
This is the cover from 1977, and I would argue that it's the last time this excellent novel actually had a worthy cover. It's brutal, it's clean, and it relates to the plot. I can't believe I have to go this far back to find a good design.
October 26, 2025 at 2:03 PM
This is the cover from 1977, and I would argue that it's the last time this excellent novel actually had a worthy cover. It's brutal, it's clean, and it relates to the plot. I can't believe I have to go this far back to find a good design.
Ok, this is not from the 2000s, it's actually the 1986 cover and I'm just putting it up because WTH does a sexy statue and a purple sky have to do with a murder? This jacket should give some comfort to modern publishing as it at least indicates bad cover designs are not new.
October 26, 2025 at 2:03 PM
Ok, this is not from the 2000s, it's actually the 1986 cover and I'm just putting it up because WTH does a sexy statue and a purple sky have to do with a murder? This jacket should give some comfort to modern publishing as it at least indicates bad cover designs are not new.
2000. I just need someone to explain what this is, and what it's doing on the cover of a novel. It looks like a photo someone took by accident when picking up their phone. How did this get approved?
October 26, 2025 at 2:03 PM
2000. I just need someone to explain what this is, and what it's doing on the cover of a novel. It looks like a photo someone took by accident when picking up their phone. How did this get approved?
2010. A typewriter again. Maybe they're trying to say she typed her investigation? Where is the obsession with a typewriter coming from? Would they put a typewriter on the cover of a crime novel about a male detective? Is everyone Ok?
October 26, 2025 at 2:03 PM
2010. A typewriter again. Maybe they're trying to say she typed her investigation? Where is the obsession with a typewriter coming from? Would they put a typewriter on the cover of a crime novel about a male detective? Is everyone Ok?
2015. A telephone. What happened in this design studio? Did somebody fall over and accidentally click 'print'? I need an explanation.
October 26, 2025 at 2:03 PM
2015. A telephone. What happened in this design studio? Did somebody fall over and accidentally click 'print'? I need an explanation.
2006. A typewriter and I think a church? Lime cordial green. What does a typewriter have to do with a private investigator, a suicide, and a murder? What's the church doing there? Why is everything?
October 26, 2025 at 2:03 PM
2006. A typewriter and I think a church? Lime cordial green. What does a typewriter have to do with a private investigator, a suicide, and a murder? What's the church doing there? Why is everything?
Let's take the PD James novel, An Unsuitable Job for a Woman. This is a novel about a young woman who works for a detective agency and finds herself completing her boss's investigation after his suicide. The original cover (1972) is appropriately brutal and almost beautiful in its simplicity.
October 26, 2025 at 2:03 PM
Let's take the PD James novel, An Unsuitable Job for a Woman. This is a novel about a young woman who works for a detective agency and finds herself completing her boss's investigation after his suicide. The original cover (1972) is appropriately brutal and almost beautiful in its simplicity.
British followers! My new novel comes out in March, and I'd love for you to read it on the cheap! This week only, you can pre-order it from Waterstones for barely more than a pumpkin spice latte! Just use the code OCTOBER25 for 25% off. Tell them Ava sent you. www.waterstones.com/book/the-hid...
October 15, 2025 at 3:36 PM
British followers! My new novel comes out in March, and I'd love for you to read it on the cheap! This week only, you can pre-order it from Waterstones for barely more than a pumpkin spice latte! Just use the code OCTOBER25 for 25% off. Tell them Ava sent you. www.waterstones.com/book/the-hid...
Being an adult involves far more time at the tip than I expected, however my husband took this picture of me after dropping off cardboard, and now I have a logo.
October 11, 2025 at 4:31 PM
Being an adult involves far more time at the tip than I expected, however my husband took this picture of me after dropping off cardboard, and now I have a logo.
Stopped the car in the middle of the (quiet) road to take this photo because I have NEVER seen a more perfect October sky. Well done, universe. 10/10.
October 8, 2025 at 9:15 PM
Stopped the car in the middle of the (quiet) road to take this photo because I have NEVER seen a more perfect October sky. Well done, universe. 10/10.
Can't wait for this panel at Chiswick Book Festival in 2 weeks! We'll be talking spies, lies, and killers, and if that doesn't hook you in, I don't know what will. A few tickets are still available. Chiswick is one of my favourite festivals. Come join us! www.ticketsource.co.uk/chiswickbook...
September 1, 2025 at 2:15 PM
Can't wait for this panel at Chiswick Book Festival in 2 weeks! We'll be talking spies, lies, and killers, and if that doesn't hook you in, I don't know what will. A few tickets are still available. Chiswick is one of my favourite festivals. Come join us! www.ticketsource.co.uk/chiswickbook...
My fashion goals going forward are to be just half as glamorous and eccentric as Elisabeth McGovern's Tatler photos.
August 27, 2025 at 8:26 AM
My fashion goals going forward are to be just half as glamorous and eccentric as Elisabeth McGovern's Tatler photos.
A letter written by Greta Garbo in 1964. 'I can speak to no one.' 💔 Introverts everywhere would understand.
August 22, 2025 at 2:18 PM
A letter written by Greta Garbo in 1964. 'I can speak to no one.' 💔 Introverts everywhere would understand.
Drove across the south of England to Cornwall this week - as did most of you it seemed, given the traffic - and I can report that everything is burned gold from the sun, and it's all quite beautiful. As evidence, this Somerset field of burnished amber.
August 16, 2025 at 4:48 PM
Drove across the south of England to Cornwall this week - as did most of you it seemed, given the traffic - and I can report that everything is burned gold from the sun, and it's all quite beautiful. As evidence, this Somerset field of burnished amber.
This rain. This weather. My hair.
July 31, 2025 at 11:02 AM
This rain. This weather. My hair.
They're back filming the new season of House of the Dragon in the woods near my town, and everyone is genuinely delighted to have fun things to watch on dog walks again.
July 18, 2025 at 5:21 PM
They're back filming the new season of House of the Dragon in the woods near my town, and everyone is genuinely delighted to have fun things to watch on dog walks again.
I'm intrigued by how crime novels have always been marketed as much for the price as for the title or author. In this 1930s edition, the word 'Cheap' is nearly the same size font as 'Sayers'. Imagine that on a book of poetry. CHEAP YEATS.
July 13, 2025 at 4:09 PM
I'm intrigued by how crime novels have always been marketed as much for the price as for the title or author. In this 1930s edition, the word 'Cheap' is nearly the same size font as 'Sayers'. Imagine that on a book of poetry. CHEAP YEATS.
Hey USA, I'm on sale! Get The Traitor for just 199 pennies. I do love that cover.
July 2, 2025 at 8:04 PM
Hey USA, I'm on sale! Get The Traitor for just 199 pennies. I do love that cover.
Today is a good day to just sit in your toy box and have a think.
June 21, 2025 at 1:14 PM
Today is a good day to just sit in your toy box and have a think.
Today is Lillian Hellman's birthday. Best friend of Dorothy Parker, mortal enemy to Mary McCarthy, longtime partner to Dashiell Hammett – love her or hate her, the woman could write. I keep a battered copy of her memoir, 'An Unfinished Woman', always – it's a master class in narrative memoir.
June 20, 2025 at 5:12 PM
Today is Lillian Hellman's birthday. Best friend of Dorothy Parker, mortal enemy to Mary McCarthy, longtime partner to Dashiell Hammett – love her or hate her, the woman could write. I keep a battered copy of her memoir, 'An Unfinished Woman', always – it's a master class in narrative memoir.
I'm so intrigued to see what Blaise Metreweli does as head of MI6. Thanks so much to @skynewsrss.bsky.social for having me on tonight to discuss the new C!
June 16, 2025 at 7:57 PM
I'm so intrigued to see what Blaise Metreweli does as head of MI6. Thanks so much to @skynewsrss.bsky.social for having me on tonight to discuss the new C!
And Jewel Robbery! The marijuana scene is an absolute classic.
June 14, 2025 at 8:52 PM
And Jewel Robbery! The marijuana scene is an absolute classic.