Finbar Hawkins
@finbarhawkins.bsky.social
Writer, Director, Illustrator
'WITCH', Branford-Boase shortlist, CLIP Carnegie nom'd.
'STONE' pub'd by Zephyr/Bloomsbury https://t.co/uHV6Gtoeni
'GHOST' publishing November 6th!
'WITCH', Branford-Boase shortlist, CLIP Carnegie nom'd.
'STONE' pub'd by Zephyr/Bloomsbury https://t.co/uHV6Gtoeni
'GHOST' publishing November 6th!
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Traitors on the inside, Trump on the outside ... who’d want to run the BBC now? Actually, I would
This week’s column by Stewart Lee
www.thenerve.news/p/stewart-le...
This week’s column by Stewart Lee
www.thenerve.news/p/stewart-le...
November 16, 2025 at 10:22 AM
Traitors on the inside, Trump on the outside ... who’d want to run the BBC now? Actually, I would
This week’s column by Stewart Lee
www.thenerve.news/p/stewart-le...
This week’s column by Stewart Lee
www.thenerve.news/p/stewart-le...
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What do you do when your media org is captured? You start your own.
Introducing....The Nerve!!! @thenerve-news.bsky.social
We're all-female, journalist-owned & launching next week.
Please help us build a truly independent, progressive new media!👊👊👊
Introducing....The Nerve!!! @thenerve-news.bsky.social
We're all-female, journalist-owned & launching next week.
Please help us build a truly independent, progressive new media!👊👊👊
Former Observer big-hitters inc @carolecadwalla.bsky.social launch new title The Nerve with redundancy payouts
After Observer sale: "We decided to launch a title that the journalists themselves would own, that would be truly independent"
pressgazette.co.uk/news/former-...
After Observer sale: "We decided to launch a title that the journalists themselves would own, that would be truly independent"
pressgazette.co.uk/news/former-...
Former Observer big-hitters launch new title with redundancy payouts
Five former Observer journalists including Carole Cadwalladr have launched their own culture publication using their redundancy money.
pressgazette.co.uk
September 26, 2025 at 11:03 AM
What do you do when your media org is captured? You start your own.
Introducing....The Nerve!!! @thenerve-news.bsky.social
We're all-female, journalist-owned & launching next week.
Please help us build a truly independent, progressive new media!👊👊👊
Introducing....The Nerve!!! @thenerve-news.bsky.social
We're all-female, journalist-owned & launching next week.
Please help us build a truly independent, progressive new media!👊👊👊
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This is the new image I meant to put as main pic. It shows the change in Thiel's holdings. Those letters NVDA stand for Nvidia and the words next to it are self-explanatory "SOLD ALL".
Thiel, the closest thing that Silicon Valley has to a bond villain, has pumped & dumped. So...what happens next?!?
Thiel, the closest thing that Silicon Valley has to a bond villain, has pumped & dumped. So...what happens next?!?
November 17, 2025 at 7:10 PM
This is the new image I meant to put as main pic. It shows the change in Thiel's holdings. Those letters NVDA stand for Nvidia and the words next to it are self-explanatory "SOLD ALL".
Thiel, the closest thing that Silicon Valley has to a bond villain, has pumped & dumped. So...what happens next?!?
Thiel, the closest thing that Silicon Valley has to a bond villain, has pumped & dumped. So...what happens next?!?
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This mural has gone up in Kingston, ostensibly for Christmas but AI has ensured it's actually to celebrate the return of our dark lord Cthulhu
November 18, 2025 at 9:44 AM
This mural has gone up in Kingston, ostensibly for Christmas but AI has ensured it's actually to celebrate the return of our dark lord Cthulhu
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The Two Ronnies (15th November 1980). Swear box.
November 15, 2025 at 5:01 PM
The Two Ronnies (15th November 1980). Swear box.
It's been a grand launch week for GHOST with lovely reviews in @theobserveruk.bsky.social and The Telegraph. Today GHOST arrived in the top 5 Amazon/YA Historical nestled between @philippullmanreal.bsky.social and Robert Louis Stevenson 👻😍👻
November 14, 2025 at 9:39 AM
It's been a grand launch week for GHOST with lovely reviews in @theobserveruk.bsky.social and The Telegraph. Today GHOST arrived in the top 5 Amazon/YA Historical nestled between @philippullmanreal.bsky.social and Robert Louis Stevenson 👻😍👻
Skipping about the place that GHOST, out this week, is featured in @theobserveruk.bsky.social best YA books for Autumn in illustrious company with authors @tiafisher.bsky.social and her ‘Not Going to Plan’ and Manjeet Mann’s ‘Roar’ Thank you, Fiona Noble, day made!
November 9, 2025 at 9:24 AM
Skipping about the place that GHOST, out this week, is featured in @theobserveruk.bsky.social best YA books for Autumn in illustrious company with authors @tiafisher.bsky.social and her ‘Not Going to Plan’ and Manjeet Mann’s ‘Roar’ Thank you, Fiona Noble, day made!
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A very Happy Book Birthday to @finbarhawkins.bsky.social whose wonderful novel GHOST is out today 👻😍👻
November 6, 2025 at 1:50 PM
A very Happy Book Birthday to @finbarhawkins.bsky.social whose wonderful novel GHOST is out today 👻😍👻
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Join us tonight -Tues 4th Nov 8-9pm GMT for #ukteenchat with the fabulous @finbarhawkins.bsky.social who will be chatting all about his new book - Ghost. All welcome to come along and join in the chat here on BlueSky 🙂
#YA #writerslife #Ghost #FinbarHawkins
#YA #writerslife #Ghost #FinbarHawkins
Next #ukteenchat will be on Tues 4th November 8-9pm GMT with the fabulous @finbarhawkins.bsky.social who will be chatting all about his new book - Ghost. All welcome to come along and join in the chat here on BlueSky 🙂
#YA #writerslife #Ghost #FinbarHawkins
#YA #writerslife #Ghost #FinbarHawkins
November 4, 2025 at 7:02 PM
Join us tonight -Tues 4th Nov 8-9pm GMT for #ukteenchat with the fabulous @finbarhawkins.bsky.social who will be chatting all about his new book - Ghost. All welcome to come along and join in the chat here on BlueSky 🙂
#YA #writerslife #Ghost #FinbarHawkins
#YA #writerslife #Ghost #FinbarHawkins
WITCH is #1 on Amazon/Historical Renaissance Fiction for Young Adults, whoop!
Just in time for next book, GHOST launch this Thursday 6th November. Spooky times, folks!
Just in time for next book, GHOST launch this Thursday 6th November. Spooky times, folks!
November 3, 2025 at 9:10 AM
WITCH is #1 on Amazon/Historical Renaissance Fiction for Young Adults, whoop!
Just in time for next book, GHOST launch this Thursday 6th November. Spooky times, folks!
Just in time for next book, GHOST launch this Thursday 6th November. Spooky times, folks!
Five days til publication of GHOST and a couple of my illustrations from the book. Autumn is truly the best month ;-)
These prints, along with many others, will be available on my Etsy store opening soon…
#yabooks #ghost #childrensbookillustration
These prints, along with many others, will be available on my Etsy store opening soon…
#yabooks #ghost #childrensbookillustration
November 1, 2025 at 1:11 PM
Five days til publication of GHOST and a couple of my illustrations from the book. Autumn is truly the best month ;-)
These prints, along with many others, will be available on my Etsy store opening soon…
#yabooks #ghost #childrensbookillustration
These prints, along with many others, will be available on my Etsy store opening soon…
#yabooks #ghost #childrensbookillustration
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Next #ukteenchat will be on Tues 4th November 8-9pm GMT with the fabulous @finbarhawkins.bsky.social who will be chatting all about his new book - Ghost. All welcome to come along and join in the chat here on BlueSky 🙂
#YA #writerslife #Ghost #FinbarHawkins
#YA #writerslife #Ghost #FinbarHawkins
October 28, 2025 at 7:18 PM
Next #ukteenchat will be on Tues 4th November 8-9pm GMT with the fabulous @finbarhawkins.bsky.social who will be chatting all about his new book - Ghost. All welcome to come along and join in the chat here on BlueSky 🙂
#YA #writerslife #Ghost #FinbarHawkins
#YA #writerslife #Ghost #FinbarHawkins
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Thanks, Jacqui! So kind of you! And always happy to meet fellow Birth lovers!
The piece is here incidentally
eigermonchjungfrau.blog/2018/05/04/o...
The piece is here incidentally
eigermonchjungfrau.blog/2018/05/04/o...
On the Opening Scene of Birth (2004)
Before we see anything, we hear a man’s voice: “Okay, let me say this.” He sighs, then repeats himself. It turns out he is answering a question at a talk he has been giving. We don’t hear the quest…
eigermonchjungfrau.blog
October 21, 2025 at 9:26 PM
Thanks, Jacqui! So kind of you! And always happy to meet fellow Birth lovers!
The piece is here incidentally
eigermonchjungfrau.blog/2018/05/04/o...
The piece is here incidentally
eigermonchjungfrau.blog/2018/05/04/o...
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![1
Nurse:
It’s become a real problem in this area
2
Nurse:
We’ve seen the whole community lost to addiction
3
Show a building sign posted:
Westminster ‘X’ Addiction Clinic
With various Westminster people or looking at their phones outside it
Nurse:
Ministers, Spads, Researchers…
4
Nurse:
Most mornings we’ll get a call about someone acting strangely
[Nurse on phone taking a call]
Ok - we’ll be right over
5
Nurse:
We just have a gentle chat
[Nurses approach a minister –Robert Jenrick? - standing in the Palace of Westminster
Minister:
I understand your concerns…
6
Nurse:
Are you OK love?
Minister:
Yes I’m just hearing legitimate concerns from real voters
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Nurse:
That’s a robot, a Nazi and a poorly-disguised Russian
[Show that the people he is talking to are precisely these characters]
Nurse 2:
Give us your phone, love
8
Nurse:
At the clinic we put them in a Grass-Touching Pod, with a real voter to talk to
[We see them back at the clinic, holding the minister's head and pushing him into a glass isolation booth with a grass floor. And it is a baffled looking woman, on a chair, ready to talk to him.]
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Minister:
YOU MUST BE WORRIED ABOUT THE COMING CIVIL WAR
[woman looks baffled]
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woman:
I just want a bus service
Minister:
LOOK AT MY FLAG
[produces a St George's flag]
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Grab one of the best YA books this decade. Loved this so much!
UK folks!
I am excited to see that ‘The Call’ reissue is included in Waterstones’ 25% off FLASH SALE on selected pre-ordered books this week! 😍🎉
Enter the code OCTOBER25 at the checkout to redeem your discount and pre-order your copy now.
Offer ends at 23.59 Friday 17th October.
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I am excited to see that ‘The Call’ reissue is included in Waterstones’ 25% off FLASH SALE on selected pre-ordered books this week! 😍🎉
Enter the code OCTOBER25 at the checkout to redeem your discount and pre-order your copy now.
Offer ends at 23.59 Friday 17th October.
ow.ly/OVe350XbaWf
The Call by Peadar O'Guilin | Waterstones
Buy The Call by Peadar O'Guilin from Waterstones today! Click and Collect from your local Waterstones or get FREE UK delivery on orders over £25.
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October 14, 2025 at 10:12 PM
Grab one of the best YA books this decade. Loved this so much!
There’s a GHOST in my house! Hardbacks arrived of my new book, and I am pretty chuffed with them. @headofzeus.bsky.social have done me proud. Out in November, so bag a pre-order now!
October 13, 2025 at 11:07 AM
There’s a GHOST in my house! Hardbacks arrived of my new book, and I am pretty chuffed with them. @headofzeus.bsky.social have done me proud. Out in November, so bag a pre-order now!
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Incredible people.
October 12, 2025 at 11:56 AM
Incredible people.
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Premium: The AI Bubble's promises are impossible. NVIDIA's customers are running out of money, GPUs die in 3-5 years, most 1GW data centers will never get built, and OpenAI's Abilene data center doesn't won't have the power it needs before 2028 - if it ever does.
www.wheresyoured.at/the-ai-bubbl...
www.wheresyoured.at/the-ai-bubbl...
The AI Bubble's Impossible Promises
Readers: I’ve done a very generous “free” portion of this newsletter, but I do recommend paying for premium to get the in-depth analysis underpinning the intro. That being said, I want as many people ...
www.wheresyoured.at
October 10, 2025 at 2:01 PM
Premium: The AI Bubble's promises are impossible. NVIDIA's customers are running out of money, GPUs die in 3-5 years, most 1GW data centers will never get built, and OpenAI's Abilene data center doesn't won't have the power it needs before 2028 - if it ever does.
www.wheresyoured.at/the-ai-bubbl...
www.wheresyoured.at/the-ai-bubbl...
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📢 Calling all teachers, librarians and booksellers! 📢
We have some suitably spooky bookmarks available to celebrate the publication of @finbarhawkins.bsky.social's YA novel #Ghost next month.
DM with your postal address if you'd like some!
We have some suitably spooky bookmarks available to celebrate the publication of @finbarhawkins.bsky.social's YA novel #Ghost next month.
DM with your postal address if you'd like some!
October 10, 2025 at 8:42 AM
📢 Calling all teachers, librarians and booksellers! 📢
We have some suitably spooky bookmarks available to celebrate the publication of @finbarhawkins.bsky.social's YA novel #Ghost next month.
DM with your postal address if you'd like some!
We have some suitably spooky bookmarks available to celebrate the publication of @finbarhawkins.bsky.social's YA novel #Ghost next month.
DM with your postal address if you'd like some!
Hey BlueSkyers,
My next book, GHOST, is publishing on November 6th.
It's currently on NetGalley for any kindly reviewers out there... And so far people have been very kind ;->
www.netgalley.co.uk/catalog/book...
My next book, GHOST, is publishing on November 6th.
It's currently on NetGalley for any kindly reviewers out there... And so far people have been very kind ;->
www.netgalley.co.uk/catalog/book...
Ghost
NetGalley helps publishers and authors promote digital review copies to book advocates and industry professionals. Publishers make digital review copies and audiobooks available for the NetGalley comm...
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October 7, 2025 at 10:16 AM
Hey BlueSkyers,
My next book, GHOST, is publishing on November 6th.
It's currently on NetGalley for any kindly reviewers out there... And so far people have been very kind ;->
www.netgalley.co.uk/catalog/book...
My next book, GHOST, is publishing on November 6th.
It's currently on NetGalley for any kindly reviewers out there... And so far people have been very kind ;->
www.netgalley.co.uk/catalog/book...
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October 4, 2025 at 8:47 AM
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As I was saying…
Jimmy Kimmel is Back!
YouTube video by Jimmy Kimmel Live
youtu.be
September 24, 2025 at 4:27 AM
As I was saying…
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Me at my uncle's wedding in 1992 during the speeches when I can literally SEE the cake.
September 17, 2025 at 9:32 PM
Me at my uncle's wedding in 1992 during the speeches when I can literally SEE the cake.
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Peter Mandelson already planning his return to public life. He'll say that everybody deserves a fourth chance.
September 11, 2025 at 9:58 AM
Peter Mandelson already planning his return to public life. He'll say that everybody deserves a fourth chance.