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Jacquie Bloese
@jacquiebloese.bsky.social
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Writer, dreamer, word lover. Writes about the past. Author of Richard & Judy pick The French House & The Secret Photographs. Brighton based. Made in Guernsey 🇬🇬
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“The descriptions of the seedy salons & grimy back streets were so vivid I felt like a voyeur, waving away the cigar smoke, watching the scene unfold”
A perfect review on a stressful day - thank you @jaffareadstoo.bsky.social 🙏🤩
December 5, 2024 at 5:50 PM
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Who’s for a spot of afternoon tea … with a good book?! Tap on the link below to enter the Brighton / Hove giveaway- a free afternoon tea for two boutique hotel The Claremont in Hove with copies of my 1890s novel The Secret Photographs thrown in!

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November 29, 2024 at 6:14 PM
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“If Sarah Waters & Elizabeth MacNeal had a love child, then The Secret Photographs would be the result” Thank you @shortbookandscribes.uk 😊🤩Check out Nicola’s blog for a Q & A about the REAL secret photographs! 📷🌊🌅
shortbookandscribes.uk Nicola Smith @shortbookandscribes.uk · Nov 28
#BookReview of #TheSecretPhotographs by @jacquiebloese.bsky.social and an author #QandA.

Find out more about the inspiration and research for this frankly magnificent book.

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November 28, 2024 at 11:12 PM
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“the cocked dog’s leg of Holywell Street … in which bodily fluids are expelled and on a nightly basis”

Read abt the secret photographs of Holywell Street in Victorian London, the 1890s music hall craze for ‘living statues’ & a scandal at a top public school … Thanks @shortbookandscribes.uk 🙏
November 25, 2024 at 1:28 PM
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Nice to be on here - feels like the early days of Twitter - uncluttered and … clean 🧹😊
November 20, 2024 at 8:19 PM