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Nikki Marmery
@nikkimarmery.bsky.social
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Author LILITH 🐍🍎🌴 ON WILDER SEAS 🌊⚓️🌅 Historical Fiction | Mythology | Ancient Women | Agent: DKW Literary Agency
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Nikki Marmery @nikkimarmery.bsky.social · Nov 17
Introducing my books through the lazy medium of comparing them to great films 😀 HERETIC and LILITH both feature protagonists who preach the One True Religion. But Mr Reed’s, like most religions conceived by men, does NOT end well for women 😳
Poster of the film ‘Heretic’ beside the cover of the book ‘Lilith’, beneath the banner: The One True Religion
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Ironically, Lilith tells us herself what happens when you ban words: “They leap beyond those denouncing men. They soar above those who mock them from pulpits… They fly into the world and are read, discussed and debated. They reach those with open minds and breaking hearts.” 🐍🐍🐍
October 9, 2025 at 9:37 AM
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LILITH is a banned book - but she's used to that. She's been banned since the dawn of time for asking some VERY dangerous questions... What are you reading for #BannedBookWeek2025?
October 9, 2025 at 9:31 AM
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“Their hoped for afterlife shifted their gaze from this world. Why care for it? Why cherish it? If there is something better to come. Why take any notice of it at all? This mere blink before the superior business of eternity.”

~ "Lilith" by @nikkimarmery.bsky.social

#NowReading
August 18, 2025 at 3:09 PM
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Thank god I was born too late to be an Excellent Woman - the single women who manage everything (unpaid, of course) in Pym’s 1952 novel, from parish jumble sales to soothing the marital troubles of more glamorous neighbours. Brilliant comic writing from Barbara Pym ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
July 22, 2025 at 4:00 PM
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Family Holiday Reading post 1/4

Featuring @jasperfforde.bsky.social @nikkimarmery.bsky.social #AnaHuang
July 3, 2025 at 2:22 PM
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After a sun-soaked day, there’s nothing better than sinking into a brilliant book as the evening stays warm and golden. Which one will you be picking up first? 💛

@nikkimarmery.bsky.social @gjwilliams92.bsky.social @davidwhitfield.bsky.social @annehamilton.bsky.social

#books #summerreads #Fiction
June 26, 2025 at 12:20 PM
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So excited for this PAINT JAM with Whitney Freya on June 21. 24 hours, 12 feminine archetypes. I’ll be exploring the CREATRIX with Whitney as we create ❤️ Join us!
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June 17, 2025 at 8:06 AM
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LILITH as a #feminist manifesto? We love to see it 💪

Shout out to @peepmybookshelf for the iconic comparison, it stuck with us! We’ve pulled together some of our favourite quotes from the book that definitely give feminist manifesto energy
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June 9, 2025 at 12:29 PM
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If you're interested in knowing more about Gertrude Eileen Trevelyan and her remarkable novels (four now available from @bhousepress.bsky.social), I invite you to watch the presentation I put together almost 5 years ago, before I had any hope of bringing her work back to print.
June 6, 2025 at 3:24 PM
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These are 2 of hundreds of 8th-7th BC terracotta goddess figures - likely Asherah, once consort of Yahweh - found from Ancient Israel and Judah. She is usually depicted with milk-heavy breasts and was probably kept in a household shrine.
June 6, 2025 at 2:54 PM
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I will once again be giving prizes* for book shop Father's Day displays that don't include Clarkson, WWII, arctic explorers, Stalingrad, or books that refer to the wife as "the war office."

And before you say that men don't read books - men who read books DO read books.

*in spirit anyway.
June 5, 2025 at 9:13 PM
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These 6 top indie novels are being promoted on #Kindle this month, a great chance to try a new author!

@gramurphy.bsky.social @nikkimarmery.bsky.social @gjwilliams92.bsky.social @franhill123.bsky.social Pascal Engman

#books #kindlebooks #kindledeals #amazonkindle #bookrecommends
June 5, 2025 at 11:17 AM
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A fifteenth-century gold Angel coin depicting the Archangel Michael, recovered from the wreck of the Mary Rose. This is an Edward IV version. Edward introduced the Angel to Britain in 1465, and different versions were minted until 1662. They were so iconic that many pubs were named after them
A gold coin with an image of an angel in armor slaying a dragon
May 23, 2025 at 9:53 AM
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So excited to see this! Congrats @ofmooseandmen.bsky.social and @ronanhession.bsky.social
May 24, 2025 at 12:37 PM
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Please, if you have a Labour MP, write to them & ask why they are so determined to help rich Ai companies keep secret what copyrighted work they steal from creatives to make a profit. I mean everyone write to your Labour MP cos when they destroy our income, it takes money out of your local economy.
May 23, 2025 at 8:47 PM
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Loved talking to the Wicked Women podcast about my much maligned heroine Lilith 🐍 Thank you for having me! 🙏

open.spotify.com/episode/6kp7...
The Legend of Lilith
Wicked Women: The Podcast · Episode
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May 21, 2025 at 9:27 PM
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One of two paintings recently discovered in Beirut by an art historian which are believed to be the work of Artemisia Gentileschi #womensart
Photo of a painting on a canvas resting on concrete ground featuring a white woman in a gold dress
May 19, 2025 at 5:18 AM
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My girl #Lilith on the new fiction table this morning. Thank you for stocking, @waterstones.bsky.social Amersham 🙌
#ancientbluesky #booksky
May 11, 2025 at 12:16 PM
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Celebrating the UK paperback launch with 4000 years of LILITH. Which is your favourite?! 🐍
#booksky #ancientbluesky
April 28, 2025 at 6:49 PM
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The paperback of LILITH by @nikkimarmery.bsky.social is out today

Meet the heroine women have waited 6000 years for.

‘Furious, fierce & feminist… Simply the best book I’ve read in years’ Nydia Hetherington

amazon.co.uk/Lilith-heroi...

uk.bookshop.org/p/books/lili... #books
April 22, 2025 at 10:15 AM
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Two Amazons overpower a pair of Greek hoplites
Combat takes place in a barren wilderness
Note iconic dead tree & unique sandy ground
under the fallen Greek
ancient Greek vase painting
April 18, 2025 at 4:39 PM
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This guy kneeling in a panel of the Black Obelisk of Shalmaneser III at the British Museum is Jehu, the 9th c BC king of Israel who murdered Queen Jezebel (and most of her family, including 70 children whose heads he cut off and left by the city gates).
April 19, 2025 at 3:12 PM
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Gob, the world’s first narrator tells the story of the first word. For he was there 35,000 years ago, when man first spoke (the women had been speaking for a while, “mouthing off” their own private ancient sounds the men could never grasp 🤣)
April 13, 2025 at 1:29 PM
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Take the quiz! How well do you know Shakespeare @nationalbooktokens.bsky.social www.nationalbooktokens.com/quizzes/how-...
How well do you know the life and works of Shakespeare? Take our quiz to find out!
Nydia Hetherington's Sycorax is a beautifully written and deeply moving imagining of the life lived by William Shakespeare's greatest witch before her banishment to the island in The Tempest. Ahead of...
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April 10, 2025 at 5:53 PM