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Lynda Cowles
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She/her. Writer/Producer of FMV games and murder mystery. Working on Doctor Dekker 2 @davekki.bsky.social

Books, writing, cards, languages, birds, and other random obsessions.
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Those bloody seas...
#hiddenbooksgame
A screenshot that says Congratulations! You've completed the Hidden Books Game from National Book Tokens. Underneath that is an illustration of a cluttered living room decorated for Christmas with two inconspicuous but actually very annoying books about the sea on an occasional table.
November 16, 2025 at 12:10 PM
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TIL about this incredible new book that's coming soon about the Eleanor Crosses! Will also be pre-ordering 😀
aliceloxton.com/eleanor-book
A hardback book with a pale illustrated cover and pretty blue, pink and black sprayed edges. The title Eleanor is written in a large medieval-style font and the subtitle is "A 200-Mile Walk in Search of England's Lost Queen". It's by Alice Loxton, the bestselling author of Eighteen.
September 29, 2025 at 5:33 PM
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Endurance
A postcard-sized collage featuring a polar bear made of mountain and snow, a Korean postage stamp with peach coloured flowers, abstract blue flower shapes, and the word ‘Endurance’ on a blue and white striped background.
September 27, 2025 at 11:48 AM
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Made a collage yesterday. Don’t hate it 🐦‍⬛
A paper collage of a green tree against a pink sky. A large spotty pink sun shines out below the branches and the outlines of two oversized birds can be seen in the foliage. Handwritten words read: Why don’t birds..?
September 22, 2025 at 7:00 PM
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First spooky read of the spooky season 👻
A hardback book with a black dust jacket. The cover depicts a glowing orange illustration of an abstract house with partially opened walls, swimming with upturned chairs, saucepans and hats. The book is Chasing the Dark, Encounters with the Supernatural by Ben Machell.
September 4, 2025 at 2:38 PM
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Today I’m reading Lissadell by Wendy Cope
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WENDY COPE Lissadell Last year we went to Lissadell. The sun shone over Sligo Bay And life was good and all was well. The bear, the books, the dinner bell, An air of dignified decay. Last year we went to Lissadell. This year the owners had to sell - It calls to mind a Chekhov play. Once life was good and all was well. The house is now an empty shell, The contents auctioned, shipped away. Last year we went to Lissadell And found it magical. "We fell In love with it," we sometimes say When life is good and all is well. The light of evening. A gazelle. It seemed unchanged since Yeats's day. Last year we went to Lissadell And life was good and all was well.
August 23, 2025 at 9:57 AM
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It's International Orangutan Day which is a good excuse to do something small to make the world a better place. Why not sponsor an acre of rainforest for just £2 with the Orangutan Foundation!
🌳🦧🧡
www.orangutan.org.uk/sponsor-an-a...
An infant orangutan hangs off the side of a mossy tree against a backdrop of sunlit green foliage. The orangutan looks past the camera into the distance with wide eyes and an expression that says 'wow I really love the rainforest I sure hope people sponsor lots of acres this year'
August 19, 2025 at 11:14 AM
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Happy to report I’ve got a new book full of squiggly black lines. Neographers get it.
#langsky #booksky
A sexy slim copy of the Handbook of Scripts and Alphabets by George L. Campbell A peek between the covers showing a page of the Epigraphic South Arabian Script.
August 6, 2025 at 4:34 PM
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Nekredeble, mi legas mian unuan Mumin libron 💚

Unbelievably, I’m reading my first Moomin book ❤️
A book with a pretty cover: Kometo en Muminvalo by Tove Jansson (Esperanto edition). Tall green hills and some tiny creatures on stilts against a blush pink sky. Two moomins peer out around the side of a mountain on the right.
May 24, 2025 at 12:12 PM
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Just finished / Just started.
Book cover showing a warm and inviting bookshop in a Korean neighbourhood. THE RUNAWAY KOREAN SENSATION WELCOME TO THE HYUNAM-DONG BOOKSHOP Translated by Shanna Tan A balm for the soul and a glorious love letter to books and reading! HWANG BO-REUM BLOOMSBURY Book cover showing a silhouette of a woman in traditional Korean dress against a sky blue background. 'A powerful story about resilience and compassion.' - Barack Obama 'A rich, moving novel about exile, identity and the determination to endure' - Sunday Times 'A deep, broad, addictive history of a Korean family in Japan.’ - David Mitchell 'A masterpiece of empathy, integrity and familial loyalty’ - Irish Times ‘Full of heart, full of grace, full of truth’ - Erica Wagner 파친코 PACHINKO MIN JIN LEE 'Eye-opening.’ - The Times
May 5, 2025 at 3:55 PM
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Playing Blue Prince be like
April 18, 2025 at 1:00 PM
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Just found this early concept art for Murderous Muses in my notes 😅
A very rough line drawing of a rectangle (with wobbly sides) below which is a box containing the word LOVE with three lines drawn underneath it.
April 16, 2025 at 9:58 AM
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Had to buy a gift this week and found this little shop based in Dorset with lovely items from local makers and a kind note included in the parcel ❤️
www.seasonsgreen.co.uk
Floral wrapping paper and gift bag, some pretty pink hedgehog socks and a blue velvet glasses case with a cheeky embroidered crab on it.
April 12, 2025 at 2:24 PM
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Today is the feast day of St Guthlac, who became a hermit on the island of Crowland in 699CE. The 13th Century Guthlac Roll tells his story through illustrated roundels. This one shows Guthlac being dragged to the gates of hell by weird-nosed demons. See more here crowlandabbey.org.uk/guthlac-roll/
I don't even know where to start with this one... an illustration on very old parchment shows a circular medieval scene. On the left, a robed man with halo and beard hands some kind of flail or whip to another bearded haloed man who appears to be held in the air by two winged scaly demons with long pointy ears and noses that resemble tiny elephant trunks. At the bottom right, a pit of several other similar demons have trapped three men and a king on top of what looks like a huge whale(?) The whole thing is a delight.
April 11, 2025 at 10:19 AM
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Thursday night doodle
An ink drawing of a flower(?) with an eyeball in the middle. The petals are patterned with lines and scales and outlined in red.
April 10, 2025 at 7:18 PM
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I’m not a fan of true crime but I’ll make an exception for murder in a moonlit Roman garden in 16th Italy
A paperback copy of Murder in the Garden of God by Eleanor Herman rests on a blue chair. The cover depicts the most beautiful girl in Rome in a ruffed dress.
April 6, 2025 at 12:26 PM
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My Mother’s Day treat was a trip to a real life bookshop! ☺️ 📚💙

#korean #langsky #한국
A stack of 3 books about Korea. From top to bottom: The Korean Myths; Hello, South Korea; and Korean Stories for Language Learners.
March 30, 2025 at 11:00 AM
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“Everybody’s after mystery, baby, and the saddest ones are those who have it explained to them. Facts ruin everything.”

The Great Ideas, Suzanne Cleminshaw
#BookSky #Quotes
A well-loved paperback lies on a bright wooden table. The cover is indigo and printed to look like worn cloth with scuffed edges. A pasted label shows the title of the book ‘The Great Ideas’ superimposed over a pale yellow sun with striped rays on orange background. The border of the label is cream and displays the author’s name, Suzanne Cleminshaw, at the bottom.
March 24, 2025 at 6:20 PM
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My new Lenormand arrived today from La Panthère Studio and it’s gorgeous (and the perfect size) 😍

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Small Lenormand cards fanned out on a wooden surface. The cards are colourful and borderless, with beautiful painted illustrations and titles such as Moon, Clover and Ring.
March 17, 2025 at 4:14 PM
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Guess what I’ve been doing this weekend…
A Korean Made Easy paperback lies next to a lilac notebook, a set of matching flash cards and a pencil and pen. Yeah, I know how to have a good time
March 16, 2025 at 7:14 PM
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Sometimes you just got to get all your tarot decks out to look at them (it’s been a while)
A top down view of 13 decks of tarot cards laid out in three rows on a wooden table. They look very pretty.
February 22, 2025 at 2:30 PM
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I’m quite shy when it comes to talking about personal projects but I want to so here goes: I’m writing first drafts of two murder mystery novels, codenamed ‘DUCKS’ and ‘CROWS’. Stay tuned for updates!
A bright yellow rubber duck against a blue background. The duck casts a sinister shadow. Crowland Abbey photographed against a cloudy blue sky. The Dutch angle is ooh dramatic.
February 15, 2025 at 2:04 PM
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That deliciously torturous moment when you finish a book and have to choose what to read next… 💙📚
Three books lying on a sun-drenched floor: Murder in the Garden of God by Eleanor Herman, Killingly by Katharine Beutner and Death in Her Hands by Ottessa Moshfegh. But which one to choose…?
February 4, 2025 at 2:01 PM
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Currently reading: a thriller about a late night radio host called Munroe 😉
A paperback book with a bright red cover: The Graveyard Shift by Maria Lewis. Blood drips from a pair of headphones over the silhouette of a knife. Back cover blurb for the same book: The killer is out there and they’re listening… Tinsel Munroe is the host of The Graveyard Shift - a late night radio show where she and her loyal listeners celebrate the sounds of cult cinema. She has busted her ass to carve out this section of the airwaves and nothing will keep her from reaching her prime-time dreams… That is, until someone gets murdered live on air.
January 2, 2025 at 9:30 AM
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Currently reading 💙📚
A hardback book “A Case of Mice and Murder” by Sally Smith lies on an inky blue sofa. The book’s cover depicts a tall cyan London skyline with an iron arch topped with a gold shining streetlamp, below which a mouse is seen escaping from a window next to a sharp knife. I don’t know about you but I think the mouse diddit.
December 15, 2024 at 9:00 AM