Gabrielle Griffiths
@gabriellegriffiths.bsky.social
Writer in Brighton • Debut novel GREATER SINS out now from Doubleday (UK)
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I wrote a novel called GREATER SINS. It'll be published in March '25 and can be preordered now if you like books about shame, blame, desire, human failings, superstition, peat bogs, Scottish balladry and/or rugged landscapes
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Today the order banning #PalestineAction as "terrorists" came into effect. But they are not terrorists. They are protesters trying to stop a genocide. This is a "first they came for ..." situation. Unless we stand in solidarity against this assault on our freedom, they will pick us off one by one.
July 5, 2025 at 6:12 AM
Today the order banning #PalestineAction as "terrorists" came into effect. But they are not terrorists. They are protesters trying to stop a genocide. This is a "first they came for ..." situation. Unless we stand in solidarity against this assault on our freedom, they will pick us off one by one.
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So the UK Met Office is inviting people to suggest up to 5 names for storms.
And apparently lots of people have been suggesting "Storm Bigoil", along with BP, Equinor, Exxon & Shell...
This is obviously appalling & definitely not to be emulated via this link: www.metoffice.gov.uk/forms/name-o...
And apparently lots of people have been suggesting "Storm Bigoil", along with BP, Equinor, Exxon & Shell...
This is obviously appalling & definitely not to be emulated via this link: www.metoffice.gov.uk/forms/name-o...
![Screenshot of form on the UK Met Office website. Text reads: "You can provide up to 5 storm names in the boxes below.
Storm Name: [a user has filled this in with "BigOil"]
Storm Name (optional): [filled in with BP]
Storm Name (optional): [filled in with Equinor]
Storm Name (optional): [filled in with Exxon]
Storm Name (optional): [filled in with Shell]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:qqz5lt666gxyaxsw3kvswdfs/bafkreifqikwow4ascrvzme7x5rxb7sxha5rrmcgbj3qe5chgn7qu3vopiy@jpeg)
June 25, 2025 at 4:01 PM
So the UK Met Office is inviting people to suggest up to 5 names for storms.
And apparently lots of people have been suggesting "Storm Bigoil", along with BP, Equinor, Exxon & Shell...
This is obviously appalling & definitely not to be emulated via this link: www.metoffice.gov.uk/forms/name-o...
And apparently lots of people have been suggesting "Storm Bigoil", along with BP, Equinor, Exxon & Shell...
This is obviously appalling & definitely not to be emulated via this link: www.metoffice.gov.uk/forms/name-o...
Well done to all these brilliant writers!
Thank you to everyone who joined us for #WriteCBC!
Shout-outs go to: @michellemmcgrath.bsky.social, @judepickledplum.bsky.social, @katesfwriter.bsky.social & @howardteece.bsky.social 💐
And a special thank you to our guest @gabriellegriffiths.bsky.social for setting such a wonderful task!
Shout-outs go to: @michellemmcgrath.bsky.social, @judepickledplum.bsky.social, @katesfwriter.bsky.social & @howardteece.bsky.social 💐
And a special thank you to our guest @gabriellegriffiths.bsky.social for setting such a wonderful task!
June 6, 2025 at 11:19 AM
Well done to all these brilliant writers!
Congratulations to the winner @kylieh31.bsky.social - you've created such intrigue in so few words ✨️
Congratulations to our June #WriteCBC winner, @kylieh31.bsky.social! 🏆
You’ve won an online writing course (worth up to £230). We loved how you built suspense in this gripping scene without giving too much away.
Read the winning entry here:
You’ve won an online writing course (worth up to £230). We loved how you built suspense in this gripping scene without giving too much away.
Read the winning entry here:
#WriteCBC tip and task from Gabrielle Griffiths
Enter our monthly writing competition on Bluesky! This month's #WriteCBC task comes from debut novelist Gabrielle Griffiths
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June 6, 2025 at 11:18 AM
Congratulations to the winner @kylieh31.bsky.social - you've created such intrigue in so few words ✨️
Go go go!
#WriteCBC task from @gabriellegriffiths.bsky.social: Start with your character opening the door to a stranger. Use specific details to introduce this stranger and to hint at how their relationship might unfold. Do they trust each other? Will they fall in love? Or is disaster in their future?
June 5, 2025 at 10:34 AM
Go go go!
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#WriteCBC tip from @gabriellegriffiths.bsky.social: Deftness and specificity can tell a reader more than reams of description. When you walk into a room or meet a new person, it will often be a small detail that stands out. Learn to hone in on these specifics and use them to your advantage.
June 5, 2025 at 10:00 AM
#WriteCBC tip from @gabriellegriffiths.bsky.social: Deftness and specificity can tell a reader more than reams of description. When you walk into a room or meet a new person, it will often be a small detail that stands out. Learn to hone in on these specifics and use them to your advantage.
I entered #WriteCBC when Greater Sins was in its very early days...delighted to be coming full circle and setting June's task!
It's time for the June #WriteCBC guest reveal 🥁
Next month's writing task comes from @gabriellegriffiths.bsky.social alumna of our three-month London Writing Your Novel course and author of #GreaterSins.
Join us next Thurs: www.curtisbrowncreative.co.uk/blog/writecb...
Next month's writing task comes from @gabriellegriffiths.bsky.social alumna of our three-month London Writing Your Novel course and author of #GreaterSins.
Join us next Thurs: www.curtisbrowncreative.co.uk/blog/writecb...
May 28, 2025 at 9:11 PM
I entered #WriteCBC when Greater Sins was in its very early days...delighted to be coming full circle and setting June's task!
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#GreaterSins by @gabriellegriffiths.bsky.social is a darkly tense and atmospheric novel set during WWI. Lizzie finds a woman's body in the peat bog, creating a catalyst for superstition, rivalry and reflection in an isolated community.
Thanks @netgalley.bsky.social and @transworldbooks.bsky.social
Thanks @netgalley.bsky.social and @transworldbooks.bsky.social
May 8, 2025 at 1:24 PM
#GreaterSins by @gabriellegriffiths.bsky.social is a darkly tense and atmospheric novel set during WWI. Lizzie finds a woman's body in the peat bog, creating a catalyst for superstition, rivalry and reflection in an isolated community.
Thanks @netgalley.bsky.social and @transworldbooks.bsky.social
Thanks @netgalley.bsky.social and @transworldbooks.bsky.social
In fine company!
My @blackwelloxford.bsky.social book haul! I'm the world's grumpiest tight-wad, shopper. I hate shopping. I hate buying things. I avoid the salon. But I will buy a shit load of books
@stejhoward.bsky.social @wildhuntbooks.bsky.social @gabriellegriffiths.bsky.social #booksky
@stejhoward.bsky.social @wildhuntbooks.bsky.social @gabriellegriffiths.bsky.social #booksky
April 13, 2025 at 2:41 PM
In fine company!
The Observer! Bit of a bucket list one, this ✨️
I reviewed Greater Sins by the talented @gabriellegriffiths.bsky.social for @ObserverNew Review: an atmospheric debut and affecting love story: @doubledayuk.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/books/2025/a...
Greater Sins by Gabrielle Griffiths review – a dark discovery upturns a Scottish village
The unearthing of a woman’s body in a peat bog during the first world war is the catalyst for a gritty tale of secrets, guilt and desire
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April 13, 2025 at 11:52 AM
The Observer! Bit of a bucket list one, this ✨️
On @tre.radio at 6pm UK time if anyone wants to hear me talking about my book!
In the 1st hour of the #TREBookshow, with @radiohannah from 19.00CET - bestseller lists from @AmazonUK and #TheSundayTimes, Deborah Lawrenson, @samuelashworth.bsky.social , and @gabriellegriffiths.bsky.social #TuneIn on https://tre.radio or @TRERadioApp
April 3, 2025 at 4:55 PM
On @tre.radio at 6pm UK time if anyone wants to hear me talking about my book!
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This is next on my tbr list! We also have an interview with the author in the mag this month
snackmag.co.uk/read-this-mo...
snackmag.co.uk/read-this-mo...
March 31, 2025 at 12:22 PM
This is next on my tbr list! We also have an interview with the author in the mag this month
snackmag.co.uk/read-this-mo...
snackmag.co.uk/read-this-mo...
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I just finished Greater Sins by @gabriellegriffiths.bsky.social and loved every single page. An atmospheric, poignant, and beautifully written debut, set just a few miles down the road from me in The Cabrach.
It is publication day for GREATER SINS ✨️ so very proud of this book and the astonishing team at @doubledayuk.bsky.social who have made it happen. Riding high today!
March 31, 2025 at 12:14 PM
I just finished Greater Sins by @gabriellegriffiths.bsky.social and loved every single page. An atmospheric, poignant, and beautifully written debut, set just a few miles down the road from me in The Cabrach.
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Gabrielle Griffiths: 'I love testing a reader’s sympathies towards a character' 📚
We caught up with CBC alumna @gabriellegriffiths.bsky.social to discuss her debut novel #GreaterSins, out now from @doubledayuk.bsky.social
We caught up with CBC alumna @gabriellegriffiths.bsky.social to discuss her debut novel #GreaterSins, out now from @doubledayuk.bsky.social
Gabrielle Griffiths: 'I love testing a reader’s sympathies towards a character'
Gabrielle Griffiths was a student on our three-month London Writing Your Novel course in 2021. We caught up to discuss her debut novel, Greater Sins.
www.curtisbrowncreative.co.uk
March 27, 2025 at 11:05 AM
Gabrielle Griffiths: 'I love testing a reader’s sympathies towards a character' 📚
We caught up with CBC alumna @gabriellegriffiths.bsky.social to discuss her debut novel #GreaterSins, out now from @doubledayuk.bsky.social
We caught up with CBC alumna @gabriellegriffiths.bsky.social to discuss her debut novel #GreaterSins, out now from @doubledayuk.bsky.social
It is publication day for GREATER SINS ✨️ so very proud of this book and the astonishing team at @doubledayuk.bsky.social who have made it happen. Riding high today!
March 27, 2025 at 10:15 AM
It is publication day for GREATER SINS ✨️ so very proud of this book and the astonishing team at @doubledayuk.bsky.social who have made it happen. Riding high today!
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Open letter in response to Meta's use of pirated material to train its AI. Authors, writers, creatives, please sign & share!
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Open letter in response to Meta's use of pirated material to train its AI
In light of the recent revelation that Meta used millions of pirated books to train its AI, we are writing to express our deep concern about this alleged unfair and unauthorised use of our copyrighted...
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March 21, 2025 at 3:17 PM
Open letter in response to Meta's use of pirated material to train its AI. Authors, writers, creatives, please sign & share!
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More v nice press for GREATER SINS - "an atmospheric and assured debut" @dailymail.co.uk ✨️ and "compelling and powerful" @pamedia.bsky.social ✨️
March 22, 2025 at 9:49 AM
More v nice press for GREATER SINS - "an atmospheric and assured debut" @dailymail.co.uk ✨️ and "compelling and powerful" @pamedia.bsky.social ✨️
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You know I hate to do this (just kidding it's my favorite) but I have made a list of upcoming and anticipated Folk Horror books for myself, that I am not sharing with you. Go feral! Full list in the alt ✔️ @manylittlewords.bsky.social @shortwavebooks.bsky.social @timlebbon.bsky.social
March 17, 2025 at 5:48 PM
You know I hate to do this (just kidding it's my favorite) but I have made a list of upcoming and anticipated Folk Horror books for myself, that I am not sharing with you. Go feral! Full list in the alt ✔️ @manylittlewords.bsky.social @shortwavebooks.bsky.social @timlebbon.bsky.social
GREATER SINS in @thetimes.com. Out 27th March for those who like their fiction "striking and atmospheric" ✨️
March 16, 2025 at 8:04 PM
GREATER SINS in @thetimes.com. Out 27th March for those who like their fiction "striking and atmospheric" ✨️
Grateful for reviews like this 💛
Elegant on the surface, with gorgeous prose, and atmosphere so thick you can smell it, at its cloying, festering core, “Greater Sins,” by @gabriellegriffiths.bsky.social is dirty, rotten, and uneasy.
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Review: Greater Sins by Gabrielle Griffiths | FanFiAddict
Synopsis: Who will cast the first stone?1915, the Cabrach, Aberdeenshire. An isolated Scottish community is disturbed by a strange discovery: a body in a pe ...
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February 14, 2025 at 4:56 PM
Grateful for reviews like this 💛
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"waitrose finest Cornish mature vintage cheddar" is an anagram of "rev, the stationer's wife charmed a dancing suitor"
"waitrose finest" is an anagram of "stationer's wife"
February 4, 2025 at 5:28 PM
"waitrose finest Cornish mature vintage cheddar" is an anagram of "rev, the stationer's wife charmed a dancing suitor"
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If you cannot call it what it is when all in a week: a government removes every mention of a group of people, destroys information about them en masse, bans their discussion in schools, restricts their ability to travel and starts seizing and refusing their official identification, when will you?
February 1, 2025 at 12:45 PM
If you cannot call it what it is when all in a week: a government removes every mention of a group of people, destroys information about them en masse, bans their discussion in schools, restricts their ability to travel and starts seizing and refusing their official identification, when will you?
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Some thoughts while returning on the Eurostar from Paris.
1. It’s a cliché but nonetheless true that the intellectual culture in France reminds us what we are missing in the UK. 🧵
1. It’s a cliché but nonetheless true that the intellectual culture in France reminds us what we are missing in the UK. 🧵
January 31, 2025 at 4:17 PM
Some thoughts while returning on the Eurostar from Paris.
1. It’s a cliché but nonetheless true that the intellectual culture in France reminds us what we are missing in the UK. 🧵
1. It’s a cliché but nonetheless true that the intellectual culture in France reminds us what we are missing in the UK. 🧵
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OpenAI are sad someone is using their IP without asking?
Maybe they should ask ChatGPT for a definition of irony?
Maybe they should ask ChatGPT for a definition of irony?
January 29, 2025 at 8:20 AM
OpenAI are sad someone is using their IP without asking?
Maybe they should ask ChatGPT for a definition of irony?
Maybe they should ask ChatGPT for a definition of irony?
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We are obsessed with the paperback cover for SPOILT CREATURES by @aetwigg.bsky.social
An Observer top ten best new novelist for 2024🥀
Available to pre-order in paperback: linktr.ee/spoiltcreatures
An Observer top ten best new novelist for 2024🥀
Available to pre-order in paperback: linktr.ee/spoiltcreatures
January 27, 2025 at 11:17 AM
We are obsessed with the paperback cover for SPOILT CREATURES by @aetwigg.bsky.social
An Observer top ten best new novelist for 2024🥀
Available to pre-order in paperback: linktr.ee/spoiltcreatures
An Observer top ten best new novelist for 2024🥀
Available to pre-order in paperback: linktr.ee/spoiltcreatures