Maggie Brookes
@maggiebrookesbutt.bsky.social
📚Historical novelist with Penguin Random House (Maggie Brookes)
📚Poet with six published collections (Maggie Butt)
🥰 Besotted grandmother (Nanma)
📖 Eager reader
🌹Hopeful gardener
📚Poet with six published collections (Maggie Butt)
🥰 Besotted grandmother (Nanma)
📖 Eager reader
🌹Hopeful gardener
Amazing book launch at Keats House! Huge thanks to everyone who came, and to my publisher Greenwich Exchange.
January 28, 2025 at 6:24 PM
Amazing book launch at Keats House! Huge thanks to everyone who came, and to my publisher Greenwich Exchange.
Looking forward to a bit of a tour with my new book!!
January 23, 2025 at 9:45 PM
Looking forward to a bit of a tour with my new book!!
Superb performance by Tracy-Ann Oberman as Shylock in this Merchant of Venice set in 1936. Timely and very moving.
. #shakespeare #merchantofvenice @tracyannoberman @trafalgartheatre
. #shakespeare #merchantofvenice @tracyannoberman @trafalgartheatre
January 22, 2025 at 7:01 PM
Superb performance by Tracy-Ann Oberman as Shylock in this Merchant of Venice set in 1936. Timely and very moving.
. #shakespeare #merchantofvenice @tracyannoberman @trafalgartheatre
. #shakespeare #merchantofvenice @tracyannoberman @trafalgartheatre
The indomitable and irrepressible Katherine Gallagher launched her new collection last night to a packed house. ‘Can the Dandelions Be Trusted’ (Arc Publications) is her 7th full collection, in addition to a chapbook and book of translations. The love in the room was palpable. #poetry
January 17, 2025 at 8:51 AM
The indomitable and irrepressible Katherine Gallagher launched her new collection last night to a packed house. ‘Can the Dandelions Be Trusted’ (Arc Publications) is her 7th full collection, in addition to a chapbook and book of translations. The love in the room was palpable. #poetry
Acumen Literary Journal has always been very special to me. It was the first highly regarded magazine to publish a poem of mine. A few years later, Patrica Oxley published my first pamphlet, ‘Quintana Roo’.
Thank you Acumen.
Thank you Acumen.
January 9, 2025 at 6:34 PM
Acumen Literary Journal has always been very special to me. It was the first highly regarded magazine to publish a poem of mine. A few years later, Patrica Oxley published my first pamphlet, ‘Quintana Roo’.
Thank you Acumen.
Thank you Acumen.
Wise, witty and consummately clever. Harriet Walter tells us what Shakespeare’s female characters might have said, if they’d been given a chance! Not just for Shakespeare fans and feminists, as you can see from these two sonnets. @viragopress #harrietwalter #shespeaks #shakespeare
January 6, 2025 at 8:42 PM
Wise, witty and consummately clever. Harriet Walter tells us what Shakespeare’s female characters might have said, if they’d been given a chance! Not just for Shakespeare fans and feminists, as you can see from these two sonnets. @viragopress #harrietwalter #shespeaks #shakespeare
Has anyone got a better cure for the new year blues?
January 4, 2025 at 7:59 PM
Has anyone got a better cure for the new year blues?
Happy new year! May it bring you happiness, hope, peace and love. (This clock has chimed 248 new years!)
January 1, 2025 at 12:15 PM
Happy new year! May it bring you happiness, hope, peace and love. (This clock has chimed 248 new years!)
Some of my favourite reads from this year which sent me whizzing through space and time. Any of your top 10 here? @lizfremantle.bsky.social @gillpaulauthor.bsky.social
December 29, 2024 at 11:44 AM
Some of my favourite reads from this year which sent me whizzing through space and time. Any of your top 10 here? @lizfremantle.bsky.social @gillpaulauthor.bsky.social
Beautiful writing in this vivid portrayal of Calcutta. And wonderful characters. And so wise. But is it a novel if nothing really happens? Discuss. #amitchaudhuri #whatisanovel
December 28, 2024 at 3:58 PM
Beautiful writing in this vivid portrayal of Calcutta. And wonderful characters. And so wise. But is it a novel if nothing really happens? Discuss. #amitchaudhuri #whatisanovel
Look closely at my favourite Christmas card: Mary is sitting up in bed, reading, while an exhausted-looking Joseph sits on the floor, holding the baby. No, it’s not a modern meme, but a genuine 15th century image. Happy Christmas to all who celebrate it. #fitzwilliammuseum
December 24, 2024 at 6:20 PM
Look closely at my favourite Christmas card: Mary is sitting up in bed, reading, while an exhausted-looking Joseph sits on the floor, holding the baby. No, it’s not a modern meme, but a genuine 15th century image. Happy Christmas to all who celebrate it. #fitzwilliammuseum
The wonderful Renard Press produces one of these gorgeous little books each year in aid of Three Peas, a charity which helps refugees and asylum seekers in Europe. Happy Christmas @renardpress.bsky.social
December 23, 2024 at 6:06 PM
The wonderful Renard Press produces one of these gorgeous little books each year in aid of Three Peas, a charity which helps refugees and asylum seekers in Europe. Happy Christmas @renardpress.bsky.social
The suspense at the end of this powerful, atmospheric novel was so great that I couldn’t bear to read it at bed-time, in case the ending kept me awake all night. So I had to get up early this morning to finish it! Wrung out! @larsmytting #thebellinthelake #readers
December 9, 2024 at 9:34 AM
The suspense at the end of this powerful, atmospheric novel was so great that I couldn’t bear to read it at bed-time, in case the ending kept me awake all night. So I had to get up early this morning to finish it! Wrung out! @larsmytting #thebellinthelake #readers
Wonderful Christmas histfic writers lunch at the Ivy.
@tracyreesbooks.bsky.social
@gillpaulauthor.bsky.social
@hazelgaynor.bsky.social
@evepollychase.bsky.social
@jennyashcroft.bsky.social
@rachelhore.bsky.social
@louisefein.bsky.social
@juliakellywrites.bsky.social
@tracyreesbooks.bsky.social
@gillpaulauthor.bsky.social
@hazelgaynor.bsky.social
@evepollychase.bsky.social
@jennyashcroft.bsky.social
@rachelhore.bsky.social
@louisefein.bsky.social
@juliakellywrites.bsky.social
December 5, 2024 at 4:52 PM
Wonderful Christmas histfic writers lunch at the Ivy.
@tracyreesbooks.bsky.social
@gillpaulauthor.bsky.social
@hazelgaynor.bsky.social
@evepollychase.bsky.social
@jennyashcroft.bsky.social
@rachelhore.bsky.social
@louisefein.bsky.social
@juliakellywrites.bsky.social
@tracyreesbooks.bsky.social
@gillpaulauthor.bsky.social
@hazelgaynor.bsky.social
@evepollychase.bsky.social
@jennyashcroft.bsky.social
@rachelhore.bsky.social
@louisefein.bsky.social
@juliakellywrites.bsky.social
December 2, 2024 at 12:22 PM
Tip for a struggling writer:
When Norwegian novelist Cora Sandel fell on hard times she wrote “I didn’t make a living by writing… I survived by pawning my typewriter. For each short story payment I redeemed it again. One can get a lot out of a typewriter if one just doesn’t use it’
When Norwegian novelist Cora Sandel fell on hard times she wrote “I didn’t make a living by writing… I survived by pawning my typewriter. For each short story payment I redeemed it again. One can get a lot out of a typewriter if one just doesn’t use it’
December 2, 2024 at 8:52 AM
Tip for a struggling writer:
When Norwegian novelist Cora Sandel fell on hard times she wrote “I didn’t make a living by writing… I survived by pawning my typewriter. For each short story payment I redeemed it again. One can get a lot out of a typewriter if one just doesn’t use it’
When Norwegian novelist Cora Sandel fell on hard times she wrote “I didn’t make a living by writing… I survived by pawning my typewriter. For each short story payment I redeemed it again. One can get a lot out of a typewriter if one just doesn’t use it’
Sliced reindeer stew or a whale steak anyone?? #arcticfood #tromsø
December 1, 2024 at 3:25 PM
Sliced reindeer stew or a whale steak anyone?? #arcticfood #tromsø
Hard to think of a better book I could have brought to snowy Tromsø. A snow child might materialise at any moment! @eowyn.ivey #thesnowchild
November 30, 2024 at 5:05 PM
Hard to think of a better book I could have brought to snowy Tromsø. A snow child might materialise at any moment! @eowyn.ivey #thesnowchild
Still snowing, and this is a real cathedral, not a library! Pretty spectacular. #tromsø #arcticcathedral #arcticcathedraltromsø
November 30, 2024 at 4:56 PM
Still snowing, and this is a real cathedral, not a library! Pretty spectacular. #tromsø #arcticcathedral #arcticcathedraltromsø
Another sky-related post! Off to Tromsø. Hoping for northern lights. Def going to see snow! Very excited to go to a place with an ø. #tromsø
November 28, 2024 at 2:21 PM
Another sky-related post! Off to Tromsø. Hoping for northern lights. Def going to see snow! Very excited to go to a place with an ø. #tromsø