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Oliver Darkshire

@deathbybadger.bsky.social

some exciting news: another book! announcing The Devil and Mrs Gooch, a fantasy in which our capricious friend The Devil falls head over hoof for dread entrepreneur Gwendolyn Gooch, and her latest diabolical scheme: the rented apartment. expect torrid results. releasing USA May 2026 from W.W. Norton

cover for The Devil and Mrs Gooch, by Oliver Darkshire, featuring a woman in a flaming ballgown leading a caprine devil by a leash, who stares up at her in adoration. Marked "Household Gramarye Book 2"

September 29, 2025 at 12:45 PM

Tenser

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"Do me a favour and bend over that table for me"

"Wait w...wha...what are you doing!?!"

August 14, 2025 at 1:11 PM

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Porthos

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Just started @deathbybadger.bsky.social's latest story ❤️ A dark-but-cosy fantasy of one woman's need to understand and be more! Plus a donkey's need for friendship, all of it imperilled by temptation and the greed of others.

Also, a very suspicious pot of basil!

#IsabellaNagg #NewBook #LGBTQBooks

A book cover, with the title "Isabella Nagg and the Pot of Basil", written by Oliver Darkshire. The cover is illustrated in the style of a Mediaeval manuscript, with small goblins holding red apple-like fruits, the titular Pot of Basil and Isabella Nagg. Also a donkey, a dog with large eyes and a one-eyed cat who appears to be looking straight at you.

June 19, 2025 at 3:28 PM

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Oliver Darkshire

@deathbybadger.bsky.social

today is the UK release day of Isabella Nagg and the Pot of Basil ✨🌱 and while this is a big moment for me I really do have to insist that you do NOT eat the goblin fruit. don't do it. not even once. no fruit for you, it's a terrible idea, truly.

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The UK cover of Isabella Nagg and the Pot of Basil

June 19, 2025 at 12:00 PM

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Oliver Darkshire

@deathbybadger.bsky.social

I actually only write books so I can do the dedications

the dedications for Isabella Nagg and the Pot of Basil, reading "for my sisters: Amelia, who started all of this along ago by asking me for a story, and therefore is to blame; and Isobel, who once tried to convince the entire family that I pushed her down the stairs"

June 10, 2025 at 7:59 AM

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May 17, 2025 at 6:36 PM

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Oliver Darkshire

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IT'S PUBLICATION DAY. which means I can sell you some lovely, not at all suspicious goblin fruit. i mean novel. a lovely, juicy goblin novel. wait, wait. DO buy the novel. do NOT buy the oddly sensual goblin fruit

ISABELLA NAGG AND THE POT OF BASIL is out now in the US

wwnorton.com/books/978132...

promo text for Isabella Nagg and the Pot of Basil. reads "Come buy," they said in unison. "Buy our lovely goblin fruit. Taste." There's a little illustration of a cross-legged goblin by Sophie Grunnet (ArtSilverglass)

Cover of Isabella Nagg and the Pot of Basil, accompanied by a grimalkin (not to scale)

May 13, 2025 at 1:28 PM

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Oliver Darkshire

@deathbybadger.bsky.social

looks like we have both covers for ISABELLA NAGG AND THE POT OF BASIL [May 25], US cover (left) and UK cover (right). apparently americans like cats and the british like goblins? please lament that the cover you want is not in your area, and preorder so I don't look like jimmy no-mates (links below)

the US cover for Isabella Nagg and the Pot of Basil. It has a one-eyed cat, an overly tempting fruit (not the author, mind), and a suspicious vase filled with basil (as god intended). Naturally, this is the best one, unless you are british in which case the other one is better.

the UK cover for ISABELLA NAGG AND THE POT OF BASIL. It has a vibe like if you threw a medieval grimoire in a tumble dryer, a donkey, and goblins ferrying delicious goblin fruit climbing all over the place. This is absolutely the best one, unless you are american in which case the other one is better.

January 29, 2025 at 4:26 PM

Tenser

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Body progress!

January 14, 2025 at 4:05 PM

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Oliver Darkshire

@deathbybadger.bsky.social

the cat is out of the bag and firmly in the basil. looks like the US cover for Isabella Nagg and the Pot of Basil has unveiled itself online, so I can't keep it secret any longer! (UK cover is pending). Advance copies are circling like vultures. please beg your local bookseller to preorder

Joe_Jones @jjbooklvr.bsky.social · Dec 18

New book alert! Isabella Nagg and the Pot of Basil by Oliver Darkshire comes out May 13, 2025! I loved his last book which was nonfiction. I can't wait to see how his fiction is. Bonus if you are on Edelweiss where it is available to download now. Which I did of course.