Jane Johnson
@janejohnsonbakrim.bsky.social
Writer (Secrets of the Bees; Black Crescent, White Hare, Sea Gate, Tenth Gift etc), publisher (GRRM, Hobb, Feist, Lawrence, Heartfield, Kaner, ex Tolkien), allotmenteer. History. Morocco/Cornwall. Covid is airborne 💙📚 #Writing #Books
Walking at the Lizard - the most southerly point of the UK. Cornwall at its best
November 22, 2025 at 12:48 PM
Walking at the Lizard - the most southerly point of the UK. Cornwall at its best
Today marks the 70th anniversary of Moroccan independence. THE BLACK CRESCENT is my novel about that fight, picked by The Times as one of the historical novels of the year. I absolutely loved researching and writing this one. #books 💙📚
November 18, 2025 at 9:13 PM
Today marks the 70th anniversary of Moroccan independence. THE BLACK CRESCENT is my novel about that fight, picked by The Times as one of the historical novels of the year. I absolutely loved researching and writing this one. #books 💙📚
In a break in the torrential rain, I went up to the Allotment by the Sea and was rewarded by finding this beautiful rare Crimson Speckled Flunkey (what a name!) taking shelter in one of the dahlias. They come from North Africa: must be a bit shellshocked by Cornwall in November. #garden #moth
November 14, 2025 at 8:30 PM
Writing a historical mystery centring on the 18th c. growing of saffron in Cornwall, so thought I'd try for myself. Idly bought some corms (late) in Oct (should have been June). Planted Oct 27... Yesterday:
What is going on? Book magic? Supermoon? Sheer dumb luck?
Book is called HEART OF SAFFRON
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What is going on? Book magic? Supermoon? Sheer dumb luck?
Book is called HEART OF SAFFRON
💙📚
November 9, 2025 at 12:10 PM
Writing a historical mystery centring on the 18th c. growing of saffron in Cornwall, so thought I'd try for myself. Idly bought some corms (late) in Oct (should have been June). Planted Oct 27... Yesterday:
What is going on? Book magic? Supermoon? Sheer dumb luck?
Book is called HEART OF SAFFRON
💙📚
What is going on? Book magic? Supermoon? Sheer dumb luck?
Book is called HEART OF SAFFRON
💙📚
With the wintry nights drawing in, what better time to curl up with a collection of spooky folktales? MONSTROUS TALES is out now in hardback and audio.
Such great stories, and all so different. @bloomsburybooksuk.bsky.social 💙📚 #books
Such great stories, and all so different. @bloomsburybooksuk.bsky.social 💙📚 #books
November 4, 2025 at 6:39 PM
With the wintry nights drawing in, what better time to curl up with a collection of spooky folktales? MONSTROUS TALES is out now in hardback and audio.
Such great stories, and all so different. @bloomsburybooksuk.bsky.social 💙📚 #books
Such great stories, and all so different. @bloomsburybooksuk.bsky.social 💙📚 #books
Yesterday, I was writing a very difficult chapter (will require trigger warnings) while sheltering from showers on the allotment. Today, wielding a sledgehammer to bang in stakes to repair the raised beds. My brain aches; my arms ache. Can you believe I'm still picking ripe tomatoes in November? 💙📚
November 2, 2025 at 7:10 PM
Yesterday, I was writing a very difficult chapter (will require trigger warnings) while sheltering from showers on the allotment. Today, wielding a sledgehammer to bang in stakes to repair the raised beds. My brain aches; my arms ache. Can you believe I'm still picking ripe tomatoes in November? 💙📚
Next week peers will vote for or against swift bricks to be incorporated into all new builds. To help please email steve.reed.mp@parliament.uk & james.cleverly.mp@parliament.uk who are crucial to the decision. Ask them to SAVE OUR SWIFTS ‼️put SWIFT BRICKS in the subject line 🙏 Such a small thing.
October 25, 2025 at 9:33 PM
Next week peers will vote for or against swift bricks to be incorporated into all new builds. To help please email steve.reed.mp@parliament.uk & james.cleverly.mp@parliament.uk who are crucial to the decision. Ask them to SAVE OUR SWIFTS ‼️put SWIFT BRICKS in the subject line 🙏 Such a small thing.
It's publication day for the deliciously spooky collection of MONSTROUS TALES from @bloomsburybooksuk.bsky.social - stories from a brilliant line-up of authors celebrating the weird and wonderful legendary creatures of the British Isles. Perfect reading for Hallowe'en!
#books 💙📚
#books 💙📚
October 23, 2025 at 4:14 PM
It's publication day for the deliciously spooky collection of MONSTROUS TALES from @bloomsburybooksuk.bsky.social - stories from a brilliant line-up of authors celebrating the weird and wonderful legendary creatures of the British Isles. Perfect reading for Hallowe'en!
#books 💙📚
#books 💙📚
This isle is full of noises...
From the Finfolk of Orkney and the plague monsters of the Welsh mountains, to the Beast of Bodmin Moor, Britain is home to many monsters of folklore. A deliciously chilling collection from @bloomsburybooksuk.bsky.social
Out October 23!
#Books 💙📚
From the Finfolk of Orkney and the plague monsters of the Welsh mountains, to the Beast of Bodmin Moor, Britain is home to many monsters of folklore. A deliciously chilling collection from @bloomsburybooksuk.bsky.social
Out October 23!
#Books 💙📚
October 22, 2025 at 4:02 PM
This isle is full of noises...
From the Finfolk of Orkney and the plague monsters of the Welsh mountains, to the Beast of Bodmin Moor, Britain is home to many monsters of folklore. A deliciously chilling collection from @bloomsburybooksuk.bsky.social
Out October 23!
#Books 💙📚
From the Finfolk of Orkney and the plague monsters of the Welsh mountains, to the Beast of Bodmin Moor, Britain is home to many monsters of folklore. A deliciously chilling collection from @bloomsburybooksuk.bsky.social
Out October 23!
#Books 💙📚
Without doubt the weirdest thing I have ever seen growing. It's Clathrus ruber - basket stinkhorn - and it lives up to its name. "Although the edibility of the fungus is not known with certainty, it has a deterrent odour..." (You'd have to be mad.)
In rural France it's known as cœur de sorcière 😁
In rural France it's known as cœur de sorcière 😁
October 19, 2025 at 8:09 PM
Without doubt the weirdest thing I have ever seen growing. It's Clathrus ruber - basket stinkhorn - and it lives up to its name. "Although the edibility of the fungus is not known with certainty, it has a deterrent odour..." (You'd have to be mad.)
In rural France it's known as cœur de sorcière 😁
In rural France it's known as cœur de sorcière 😁
Nice to see the paperback of SECRETS OF THE BEES included in the Waterstones pre-order promotion! I’ll drop a link into the comments. You just select your book from the landing page and enter code OCTOBER25 to get your 25% off. Lots of wonderful books to choose from. 💙📚
October 15, 2025 at 2:36 PM
Nice to see the paperback of SECRETS OF THE BEES included in the Waterstones pre-order promotion! I’ll drop a link into the comments. You just select your book from the landing page and enter code OCTOBER25 to get your 25% off. Lots of wonderful books to choose from. 💙📚
Really looking forward to this new HBO adaptation (coming in January). These stories are wonderful, set around 90 years before A GAME OF THRONES, and I'm so proud to have published them. #books 💙📚
October 6, 2025 at 4:43 PM
Really looking forward to this new HBO adaptation (coming in January). These stories are wonderful, set around 90 years before A GAME OF THRONES, and I'm so proud to have published them. #books 💙📚
I was his editor. I shall miss him terribly. Here's 'Armada', about the death of his mother.
September 30, 2025 at 5:37 PM
I was his editor. I shall miss him terribly. Here's 'Armada', about the death of his mother.
I'm so sad to have lost my brilliant, mercurial friend, poet Brian Patten, with whom I worked for 39 years. This is how he signed off his last email to me: "It's dragonfly time here. The lake down the lane is alight with them..."
Brian, you left the world alight with your words.
Obit in comments.
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Brian, you left the world alight with your words.
Obit in comments.
💙📚
September 30, 2025 at 1:53 PM
I'm so sad to have lost my brilliant, mercurial friend, poet Brian Patten, with whom I worked for 39 years. This is how he signed off his last email to me: "It's dragonfly time here. The lake down the lane is alight with them..."
Brian, you left the world alight with your words.
Obit in comments.
💙📚
Brian, you left the world alight with your words.
Obit in comments.
💙📚
Beautiful walk today ... but there's a story behind it. Settle in.
Cornwall is beautiful, a lovely place to grow up, a lovely place to visit. But it can be a hard place to live in. I was walking through these woods to reach a friend in need.... 1/6
Cornwall is beautiful, a lovely place to grow up, a lovely place to visit. But it can be a hard place to live in. I was walking through these woods to reach a friend in need.... 1/6
September 26, 2025 at 9:21 PM
Beautiful walk today ... but there's a story behind it. Settle in.
Cornwall is beautiful, a lovely place to grow up, a lovely place to visit. But it can be a hard place to live in. I was walking through these woods to reach a friend in need.... 1/6
Cornwall is beautiful, a lovely place to grow up, a lovely place to visit. But it can be a hard place to live in. I was walking through these woods to reach a friend in need.... 1/6
Good morning from Cornwall!
Beautiful sunrise here today.
Beautiful sunrise here today.
September 21, 2025 at 7:12 AM
Good morning from Cornwall!
Beautiful sunrise here today.
Beautiful sunrise here today.
Good morning!
September 16, 2025 at 9:05 AM
Good morning!
I snapped this dahlia recently - I loved its name as well as its beauty: Night Silence.
September 6, 2025 at 2:09 PM
I snapped this dahlia recently - I loved its name as well as its beauty: Night Silence.
This woodland archway could take you anywhere, or anywhen. Step through the circle of light into another world, someone else's story...
#cornwall
#cornwall
August 29, 2025 at 7:45 PM
This woodland archway could take you anywhere, or anywhen. Step through the circle of light into another world, someone else's story...
#cornwall
#cornwall
I have grown a mutant dahlia! #gardening
August 24, 2025 at 4:34 PM
I have grown a mutant dahlia! #gardening
Love being part of this spooky venture: a collection of original folk horror stories commissioned by Bloomsbury Books covering the monsters of the British Isles (mine of course being the Beast of Bodmin 🐈⬛). Great line-up of writers, gorgeous design, out in Oct!
💙📚 #books #horror #cornwall
💙📚 #books #horror #cornwall
August 13, 2025 at 12:21 PM
With Labour encouraging councils to sell off centuries-old allotments to the highest bidder, I reckon it's time for a new Diggers movement! The 17th century Diggers believed in "digging" on common land to provide for themselves and others, establishing a "community of goods". #radical #gardening
August 3, 2025 at 8:04 PM
With Labour encouraging councils to sell off centuries-old allotments to the highest bidder, I reckon it's time for a new Diggers movement! The 17th century Diggers believed in "digging" on common land to provide for themselves and others, establishing a "community of goods". #radical #gardening
Here are the pigeons who set up home in my tulip pot on the balcony and now have two large and healthy-looking squabs. I wonder which of them they will favour. Perhaps I should take bets...
Watching them up close has changed my view of pigeons. They are incredibly devoted parents.
Watching them up close has changed my view of pigeons. They are incredibly devoted parents.
July 24, 2025 at 9:08 PM
Here are the pigeons who set up home in my tulip pot on the balcony and now have two large and healthy-looking squabs. I wonder which of them they will favour. Perhaps I should take bets...
Watching them up close has changed my view of pigeons. They are incredibly devoted parents.
Watching them up close has changed my view of pigeons. They are incredibly devoted parents.