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Lari Don
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Children's writer based in Edinburgh. Adventure novels, pic books, trad tale retellings. Passionate re stories, politics, feminism. #longcovid. she/lher
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My favourite silver birch, turning to gold. (It’s the tallest tree I can see from my kitchen window, so keeps me connected to the seasons even when I can’t leave the house…) #autumn #Scotland
The top half of a tall silver birch, with leaves turning to yellow, against a bright blue sky. A couple of smaller greener trees to either side. At the bottom of the picture, the roof of a wooden shed. Slicing across the picture, at a gentle diagonal, a couple of telephone wires.
October 29, 2025 at 3:16 PM
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I’m excited about sharing this book (published today!) with you. It contains so many of my favourite things: untrustworthy fairies, battling dragons, shapeshifting magic & strong clever girls who defeat their own monsters. And amazing art by @elisecillustration.com #Celtictales #storytelling #kidlit
a hardback book laid flat on a wooden table. The title of the book, in shiny green foil in the centre of the cover, is Celtic Folk and Fairy Tales, and two names at the bottom left are: Lari Don and Elise Carmichael. The cover art is a black horse with wild mane and sharp teeth leaping across the top, a seal wearing a pointy gold crown swimming at the bottom, and a wave of blue and white curving up the left side of the cover, linking them. There is a subtitle in smaller font reading: Magical Stories from Scotland, Ireland, Wales, Cornwall, the Isle of Man and Brittany
October 16, 2025 at 2:50 PM
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Publication day! Time to send these beautiful beasties out into the world! Celtic Folk And Fairy Tales is now available wherever you like to get your selkie, dragon, shapeshifter, monster & changeling tales. The amazing artwork is by @elisecillustration.com #kidlit #celtictales #folklore #folktales
A display of hardback books, four laid flat on a wooden table like tiles, and a pile of five placed on top, in a slightly teetering step fashion. The title of the book, in shiny green foil in the centre of the cover, is Celtic Folk and Fairy Tales, and two names at the bottom left are: Lari Don and Elise Carmichael. The cover art is a black horse with wild mane and sharp teeth leaping across the top, a seal wearing a pointy gold crown swimming at the bottom, and a wave of blue and white curving up the left side of the cover, linking them. There is a subtitle in smaller font reading: Magical Stories from Scotland, Ireland, Wales, Cornwall, the Isle of Man and Brittany.
October 16, 2025 at 9:09 AM
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I have a fond admiration for plants which are still growing new green, while all the plants around them are turning gold #Edinburgh #cyclepath #determination
close up of a nettle plant from above, with neat pairs of mid green leaves. A new pair of leaves is growing in the centre - tiny, and brighter green three docken leaves, the front one is smaller and still growing, becuase its sides are folded behind it, and it's shaped like a spearhead green ivy leaves, with three newer paler smaller ivy leaves growing in middle. Yellow-brown tree leaf lying on top of ivy in bottom of picure
October 15, 2025 at 9:22 AM
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enjoying autumn's colours, one leaf at a time #Edinburgh #cyclepath
bright red leaf, lying on paler leaves rounded leaf, bright yellow with green veins, lying on earth and twigs red and yellow leaf, hanging in front of ivy bright yellow leaf, on a twig with a couple of pale green leaves; background of deep green ivy
October 11, 2025 at 3:48 PM
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I've turned my writing shed into a studio so I can film wee clips about my new book Celtic Folk And Fairy Tales to share with you. I've even filmed a full-length telling of one Celtic tale! Doesn't @elisecillustration.com artwork look splendid on the walls? @discoverkelpies.bsky.social #storytelling
corner of a small white room, with printed A3 artwork stuck on walls, including cover image of a book called Celtic Folk and Fairy Tales, a map of the British Isles and Brittany, several illustrations including a selkie, 2 dragons, a herd of cows, and a water monster floating on a lake surrounded by mountains. Also visible are a hand-drawn picture of a market stall, a red and black poster for a book series called Spellchasers, and a black phone tripod
October 8, 2025 at 12:29 PM
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Last of the brambles! We have a variety of berries in our unkempt garden (inc goosegogs, tayberries and these teeny tiny brambles) which all ripen at different times, giving me something to harvest and nibble from late June onwards. But we’ve now reached the end of the berries this year...
a dozen small shiny black brambles, in a bright green colander, on a spotty table cloth
October 5, 2025 at 8:37 AM
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I reread Emma regularly, and I realised this time that I identified more with Mr Woodhouse - with his desire to stay in, to be warm and cosy, not be to surprised by new things – than with any of the young women and their intrigues. Not sure if that’s age, wisdom, or #longcovid… #emma #janeausten
paperback book laid on wooden table. Cover shows an old painting of a dreich brown landscape, hills, a curving road, and groups of people in old-fashioned clothes. Black box at top of cover contains words: Penguin Classics, Jane Austen, Emma
September 23, 2025 at 10:08 AM
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I've never taken so long to research and write a book (due to #longcovid) so I've never been so delighted to hold a new book in my hands! I can't wait to share these #CelticTales, and @elisecillustration.com's stunning illustrations, with everyone! I don't have to wait long, it's published on 16 Oct
Shiny book on wooden table, black horse leaping across top of cover, seal wearing golden crown at bottom, wave of seawater curving between them. Title in green foil, centred between the horse and the seal: Celtic Folk and Fairy Tales, Magical Stories from Scotland, Ireland, Wales, Cornwall, the Isle of Man and Brittany. Two names in yellow at the bottom of the cover: Lari Don and Elise Carmichael
September 21, 2025 at 2:42 PM