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Carol Farrelly
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Fiction writer. Ignite Fellow 2025: Scottish Book Trust. Winner: Canada & Europe, 2021 Commonwealth Short Story Prize. Stories: Granta, New Writing Scotland, BBC Radio 4. Www.carolfarrelly.com
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My happy place.
#MoniackMhor
A writing desk with a window view of gorse, fields and distant snow-capped mountains.
March 13, 2025 at 12:48 PM
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David Lynch quote: ‘People might bring up Vincent van Gogh as an example of a painter who did great work in spite of,or because of, his suffering. I like to think that van Gogh would have been even more prolific and even greater if he wasn’t so restricted by the things tormenting him. I don’t think it was pain that made him so great, I think his painting brought him whatever happiness he had.’
January 16, 2025 at 8:23 PM
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The challenge is to choose twenty books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for twenty days, in no particular order. No explanations. No reviews. Just covers.
#BookSky
#BookChallenge

20/20
Folio Society hardback edition of ‘Selected Poems’ by Thomas Hardy. Title page: poems selected by Robert Macfarlane, illustrated by Stanley Donwood. Frontispiece illustration of a rural scene: we look across a field to houses and trees on the horizon. A murmuration of birds crowd the sky.
December 24, 2024 at 5:07 PM
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The challenge is to choose twenty books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for twenty days, in no particular order. No explanations. No reviews. Just covers.
#BookSky
#BookChallenge

19/20
Penguin paperback edition of ‘Villette’ by Charlotte Brontë. The cover illustration is of a young woman, eyes downward, opening a letter. She has a serious expression.
December 22, 2024 at 9:54 AM
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The challenge is to choose twenty books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for twenty days, in no particular order. No explanations. No reviews. Just covers.
#BookSky
#BookChallenge

18/20
Paperback Harper Collins edition of ‘Purple Hibiscus’ by Chimimanda Ngozi Adichie. The front cover shows a hibiscus and the lower half of a woman’s face.
December 21, 2024 at 3:48 PM
carolfarrelly.bsky.social
The challenge is to choose twenty books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for twenty days, in no particular order. No explanations. No reviews. Just covers.
#BookSky
#BookChallenge

17/20
Paperback Faber edition of ‘The Complete Stories’ by Flannery O’Connor. The front cover shows a blue-toned photo of high-rise buildings and telephone lines. Printed stars, resembling those in the United States’ flag, float in the sky.
December 19, 2024 at 1:43 PM
carolfarrelly.bsky.social
The challenge is to choose twenty books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for twenty days, in no particular order. No explanations. No reviews. Just covers.
#BookSky
#BookChallenge

16/20
Hardback Stinging Fly edition of ‘The Springs of Affection’ by Maeve Brennan. The front cover splices together two images. On the bottom right, there is a photo of Maeve Brennan looking over her shoulder. Above, is a green-tinted rainy Dublin street scene. Figures huddle beneath umbrellas at a bus stop.
December 18, 2024 at 8:39 PM
carolfarrelly.bsky.social
The challenge is to choose twenty books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for twenty days, in no particular order. No explanations. No reviews. Just covers.
#BookSky
#BookChallenge

15/20
Paperback Hamish Hamilton edition of ‘How to Be Both’ by Ali Smith. The front cover features a photograph of Sylvie Vartan and Françoise Hardy walking together down a sunny shopping street.
December 17, 2024 at 10:05 AM
carolfarrelly.bsky.social
The challenge is to choose twenty books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for twenty days, in no particular order. No explanations. No reviews. Just covers.
#BookSky
#BookChallenge

14/20
Paperback Penguin edition of ‘The Dubliners’ by James Joyce. The front cover shows a Dublin street scene. Blurred figures, perhaps a family, stand on a corner and look back at the camera. The picture is overlaid with faint text.
December 16, 2024 at 8:30 PM
carolfarrelly.bsky.social
The challenge is to choose twenty books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for twenty days, in no particular order. No explanations. No reviews. Just covers.
#BookSky
#BookChallenge

13/20
Paperback Einaudi edition of ‘Se Questo E’ un Uomo’ by Primo Levi. The front cover shows a solitary figure walking away in a blank white landscape towards a wash of grey. Hardback Folio Society edition of ‘If This Is a Man’ by Primo Levi, translated by Stuart Woolf. The front cover shows a a figure against a blue background. The figure stares up at a cross of barbed wire.
December 15, 2024 at 11:39 AM
carolfarrelly.bsky.social
The challenge is to choose twenty books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for twenty days, in no particular order. No explanations. No reviews. Just covers.
#BookSky
#BookChallenge

12/20
Hardback Virago edition of ‘How Much of These Hills Is Gold’ by C Pam Zhang. The front cover shows two wild horses rearing towards one another. We see plains and low hill range in the background.
December 14, 2024 at 11:21 AM
carolfarrelly.bsky.social
The challenge is to choose twenty books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for twenty days, in no particular order. No explanations. No reviews. Just covers.
#BookSky
#BookChallenge

11/20
Paperback Einaudi edition of Dante Alighieri’s ‘Inferno.’ Front cover shows red geometric profile of Dante against a dark starry background. On top of Dante’s head stand the two small figures of Virgil and Dante, as though on a precipice.
December 13, 2024 at 5:07 PM
carolfarrelly.bsky.social
The challenge is to choose twenty books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for twenty days, in no particular order. No explanations. No reviews. Just covers.
#BookSky
#BookChallenge

10/20
Paperback Fourth Estate edition of ‘Close Range’ by Annie Proulx. Front cover, in sepia, shows a cowboy boot with glinting spur lying in the dirt.
December 11, 2024 at 8:37 PM
carolfarrelly.bsky.social
The challenge is to choose twenty books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for twenty days, in no particular order. No explanations. No reviews. Just covers.
#BookSky
#BookChallenge

9/20
Hardback Viking edition of ‘God’s Own Country’ by Ross Raisin. The front cover shows a sheep’s skull slung on barbed wire. In the background, clouds roll above moorland.
December 10, 2024 at 7:27 PM
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The challenge is to choose twenty books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for twenty days, in no particular order. No explanations. No reviews. Just covers.
#BookSky
#BookChallenge

8/20
Paperback Granta edition of ‘West’ by Carys Davies. The front cover shows a figure and horse silhouetted against a desert and white sky.
December 9, 2024 at 2:05 PM
carolfarrelly.bsky.social
The challenge is to choose twenty books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for twenty days, in no particular order. No explanations. No reviews. Just covers.
#BookSky
#BookChallenge

7/20
Hardback Bloomsbury edition of ‘Diving Belles’ by Lucy Wood. The front cover features a surfacing mermaid peering at a twist of blue and gold waves, gulls and shells. In the bottom right corner, a fish swims by a sunken lantern.
December 8, 2024 at 7:32 PM
carolfarrelly.bsky.social
The challenge is to choose twenty books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for twenty days, in no particular order. No explanations. No reviews. Just covers.
#BookSky
#BookChallenge

6/20
Paperback Vintage edition of ‘The End of the Affair’ by Graham Greene. The front cover shows a gold ring lying on top of an open notebook.
December 7, 2024 at 5:30 PM
carolfarrelly.bsky.social
The challenge is to choose twenty books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for twenty days, in no particular order. No explanations. No reviews. Just covers.
#BookSky
#BookChallenge

5/20
Fourth Estate paperback edition of ‘The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Klay’ by Michael Chabon. The front cover illustration shows a figure swinging with a rope from the Empire State Building. One side of the building is illuminated with the image of a silver key.
December 6, 2024 at 7:45 AM
carolfarrelly.bsky.social
The challenge is to choose twenty books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for twenty days, in no particular order. No explanations. No reviews. Just covers.
#BookSky
#BookChallenge

4/20
Paperback Vintage edition of ‘Sula’ by Toni Morrison. Front cover shows scattered red petals and a pair of scissors against a snowy-white background.
December 5, 2024 at 6:25 PM
carolfarrelly.bsky.social
The challenge is to choose twenty books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for twenty days, in no particular order. No explanations. No reviews. Just covers.
#BookSky
#BookChallenge
3/20
Penguin paperback edition of ‘Don’t Look Now and Other Stories’ by Daphne du Maurier. The front cover shows an alarmed woman in a red coat against a Venetian cityscape.
December 4, 2024 at 8:46 PM
carolfarrelly.bsky.social
The challenge is to choose twenty books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for twenty days, in no particular order. No explanations. No reviews. Just covers.

#BookSky
#BookChallenge
Hardback of ‘The Ice Palace’ by Tarjei Vesaas. Peter Owen edition. The front cover is a cut-out icicle against a turquoise background. The cut-out reveals a person’s silhouette in a snowy mountainous landscape.
December 3, 2024 at 8:49 PM
carolfarrelly.bsky.social
The challenge is to choose twenty books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for twenty days, in no particular order. No explanations. No reviews. Just covers.
#BookSky
#BookChallenge
Penguin paperback edition of 'After Rain' by William Trevor. The front cover shows a black and white photo of a woman walking away through a series of sunlit porticoes.
December 2, 2024 at 2:38 PM