Lucy Sussex
@lucysussex.bsky.social
Writer, researcher, historian and editor. Also dispenser of weird facts and snarky comments
Tawny frogmouth fledgling, resting between flying lessons
November 11, 2025 at 6:18 AM
Tawny frogmouth fledgling, resting between flying lessons
Robert Potter's THE GERM GROWERS (said to be first alien invasion story) had some good illustrations. However I think this was one just hanging around the publisher's office, as the book is set in Australia, not Africa
November 9, 2025 at 12:23 AM
Robert Potter's THE GERM GROWERS (said to be first alien invasion story) had some good illustrations. However I think this was one just hanging around the publisher's office, as the book is set in Australia, not Africa
1. An 1892 book by Hutchinsons in London, author Robert Potter, an Anglican canon in Melbourne. It has interest as early Australian science fiction, and has been claimed to be the first alien invasion novel.
November 4, 2025 at 11:15 AM
1. An 1892 book by Hutchinsons in London, author Robert Potter, an Anglican canon in Melbourne. It has interest as early Australian science fiction, and has been claimed to be the first alien invasion novel.
I had no idea Mick Herron was standing behind me @bloodyscotland.bsky.social
September 20, 2025 at 9:43 PM
I had no idea Mick Herron was standing behind me @bloodyscotland.bsky.social
What Australian 1800s short detective story was a hit single internationally? Find out at undercoveragents conference St Andrews University, 27-8 August 2025
August 23, 2025 at 7:23 AM
What Australian 1800s short detective story was a hit single internationally? Find out at undercoveragents conference St Andrews University, 27-8 August 2025
It might look like an explosive umbrella stand. It might be a prop for my talk on Mary and George Fortune at willylitfest on Sunday
June 20, 2025 at 4:45 AM
It might look like an explosive umbrella stand. It might be a prop for my talk on Mary and George Fortune at willylitfest on Sunday
At the State Library of NSW bookshops, the books were there, together, and in good company (L. Moriarty). So glad the covers are complementary: white, red and blue
May 15, 2025 at 12:16 PM
At the State Library of NSW bookshops, the books were there, together, and in good company (L. Moriarty). So glad the covers are complementary: white, red and blue
Stolid but gobsmacked lady sees thieves digging up their stolen loot--in a graveyard. How very Mary Fortune, an image by her editor Richard Egan-Lee
May 11, 2025 at 11:48 AM
Stolid but gobsmacked lady sees thieves digging up their stolen loot--in a graveyard. How very Mary Fortune, an image by her editor Richard Egan-Lee
Thanks to all who came along to hear Megan Brown and I talk OUTRAGEOUS FORTUNES @gleebooks last night. We had a great audience and sold books. And despite my lingering ENT I performed without coughing or sneezing (amazing what a glass of red can do)
May 9, 2025 at 12:43 PM
Thanks to all who came along to hear Megan Brown and I talk OUTRAGEOUS FORTUNES @gleebooks last night. We had a great audience and sold books. And despite my lingering ENT I performed without coughing or sneezing (amazing what a glass of red can do)
Looking forward tomorrow to talking with Megan Brown @gleebooks about the Outrageous Fortunes, Mary and her criminal son George. She wrote about a shark who ate rapists, and here is a shark from her editor Richard Egan-Lee's best-selling true crime weekly
May 7, 2025 at 1:45 PM
Looking forward tomorrow to talking with Megan Brown @gleebooks about the Outrageous Fortunes, Mary and her criminal son George. She wrote about a shark who ate rapists, and here is a shark from her editor Richard Egan-Lee's best-selling true crime weekly
Looking forward to talk at Gleebooks on May 8 on the subjects of Mary and George Fortune, with Megan Brown. We will discuss crimewriting vs true crime. Content will include Nosy Bob the Sydney Hangman (he had no nose), Ned Kelly, Bigamy (Mary did it), and impersonating the police in fiction.
May 6, 2025 at 11:55 AM
Looking forward to talk at Gleebooks on May 8 on the subjects of Mary and George Fortune, with Megan Brown. We will discuss crimewriting vs true crime. Content will include Nosy Bob the Sydney Hangman (he had no nose), Ned Kelly, Bigamy (Mary did it), and impersonating the police in fiction.
As long as I must promote the 8 May event at @gleebooks.bsky.social I will post the POLICE NEWS images. The raised chair, the braces! #MaryFortune was edited by the POLICE NEWS's Richard Egan-Lee and they both knew how keen Victorians were on crime
gleebooks.com.au/event/lucy-s...
gleebooks.com.au/event/lucy-s...
May 1, 2025 at 1:25 PM
As long as I must promote the 8 May event at @gleebooks.bsky.social I will post the POLICE NEWS images. The raised chair, the braces! #MaryFortune was edited by the POLICE NEWS's Richard Egan-Lee and they both knew how keen Victorians were on crime
gleebooks.com.au/event/lucy-s...
gleebooks.com.au/event/lucy-s...
I won't be eloping to Sydney, but I will be talking about crime writer Mary Fortune (who did elope) and her criminal son George at Gleebooks, evening of May 8 gleebooks.com.au/event/lucy-s...
April 30, 2025 at 12:49 PM
I won't be eloping to Sydney, but I will be talking about crime writer Mary Fortune (who did elope) and her criminal son George at Gleebooks, evening of May 8 gleebooks.com.au/event/lucy-s...
Vale Kerry Greenwood
April 6, 2025 at 6:17 PM
Vale Kerry Greenwood
Found it! From a little free library.
March 25, 2025 at 10:40 AM
Found it! From a little free library.
@margaretmorgan.bsky.social
Turquoise splashback, cork tiles, stainless steel benchtops
Turquoise splashback, cork tiles, stainless steel benchtops
March 20, 2025 at 12:34 AM
@margaretmorgan.bsky.social
Turquoise splashback, cork tiles, stainless steel benchtops
Turquoise splashback, cork tiles, stainless steel benchtops
Mary Fortune's Melbourne, from 1860s. Down this mean street she walked at night, thinking up crime stories
February 27, 2025 at 1:35 AM
Mary Fortune's Melbourne, from 1860s. Down this mean street she walked at night, thinking up crime stories
The mean streets of colonial Melbourne, where crimewriter Mary Fortune walked. It would be one of the largest and richest cities in the 1800s
February 24, 2025 at 4:37 AM
The mean streets of colonial Melbourne, where crimewriter Mary Fortune walked. It would be one of the largest and richest cities in the 1800s
From Melbourne's Waxworks, which Mary Fortune visited Christmas 1868. This was one of the various displays she found underwhelming, covered in dust. She did also see a serial killer she knew, Sullivan of the Maungatapu murders, and said it was no likeness
February 22, 2025 at 4:01 AM
From Melbourne's Waxworks, which Mary Fortune visited Christmas 1868. This was one of the various displays she found underwhelming, covered in dust. She did also see a serial killer she knew, Sullivan of the Maungatapu murders, and said it was no likeness
Mary Fortune description, from an apb
February 20, 2025 at 7:49 AM
Mary Fortune description, from an apb
Booklaunch flowers
February 12, 2025 at 12:23 PM
Booklaunch flowers
1. Mary Fortune was a fine nature writer: the white cockatoos screamed and turned around the bending branches of a slender wattle;
February 10, 2025 at 10:23 AM
1. Mary Fortune was a fine nature writer: the white cockatoos screamed and turned around the bending branches of a slender wattle;
1. The Green Hills goldfield, Buninyong, by Tasmanian author Louisa Meredith. Both she and #maryfortune were literary women who visited here in 1856, but they likely did not coincide.
February 9, 2025 at 10:27 AM
1. The Green Hills goldfield, Buninyong, by Tasmanian author Louisa Meredith. Both she and #maryfortune were literary women who visited here in 1856, but they likely did not coincide.
The trial brief for Mary Fortune's son George, tried for a sensational bankrobbery in Richmond, 1885. A muckraking journalist said Mary's crime fiction was obviously a bad influence on George. At the PROV.
February 8, 2025 at 10:23 AM
The trial brief for Mary Fortune's son George, tried for a sensational bankrobbery in Richmond, 1885. A muckraking journalist said Mary's crime fiction was obviously a bad influence on George. At the PROV.