Samantha Ellis
@samanthaellis.bsky.social
Writer of books (How to be a Heroine, Take Courage & Chopping Onions on my Heart) & plays (How to Date a Feminist)
www.samanthaellis.me.uk 🧿
https://open.substack.com/pub/samanthaellis1?r=53sh&utm_medium=ios
www.samanthaellis.me.uk 🧿
https://open.substack.com/pub/samanthaellis1?r=53sh&utm_medium=ios
I’ve made a list of books I read while writing mine on @bookshop.org - for all your Chanukah / other gifting needs!
uk.bookshop.org/lists/books-...
uk.bookshop.org/lists/books-...
November 6, 2025 at 1:00 PM
I’ve made a list of books I read while writing mine on @bookshop.org - for all your Chanukah / other gifting needs!
uk.bookshop.org/lists/books-...
uk.bookshop.org/lists/books-...
Saturday! RSL BookSlam with me & five (five!) other authors: Sabrina Mahfouz, Nii Ayikwei Parkes, Karrie Fransman, Felicity Ward & Theon Cross. The theme is Reanimate. It’s free. Come along!
September 10, 2025 at 8:49 PM
Saturday! RSL BookSlam with me & five (five!) other authors: Sabrina Mahfouz, Nii Ayikwei Parkes, Karrie Fransman, Felicity Ward & Theon Cross. The theme is Reanimate. It’s free. Come along!
US readers! My new book is available for preorder now & if you do it in the next 3 days it’s 25% off at @barnesandnoble.com with the code PREORDER25 so please do!
www.barnesandnoble.com/w/always-car...
www.barnesandnoble.com/w/always-car...
September 3, 2025 at 4:06 PM
US readers! My new book is available for preorder now & if you do it in the next 3 days it’s 25% off at @barnesandnoble.com with the code PREORDER25 so please do!
www.barnesandnoble.com/w/always-car...
www.barnesandnoble.com/w/always-car...
If I hadn’t taken my mother to @chalkefestival.bsky.social where I was speaking with Lorna Gibb & Shalina Patel I wouldn’t have learned that the Judeo-Iraqi Arabic for ferris wheel is doolab el huwa, “cupboard of air”. Archiving endangered languages only goes so far; to save them you need to speak.
July 1, 2025 at 10:28 AM
If I hadn’t taken my mother to @chalkefestival.bsky.social where I was speaking with Lorna Gibb & Shalina Patel I wouldn’t have learned that the Judeo-Iraqi Arabic for ferris wheel is doolab el huwa, “cupboard of air”. Archiving endangered languages only goes so far; to save them you need to speak.
First time writing for the FT - on how the constraints of Passover have inspired some (sometimes crazy) creativity.
April 12, 2025 at 8:56 AM
First time writing for the FT - on how the constraints of Passover have inspired some (sometimes crazy) creativity.
I had such a lovely evening launching Chopping Onions on my Heart.
April 4, 2025 at 10:42 AM
I had such a lovely evening launching Chopping Onions on my Heart.
Two weeks till my book is out! If you’d like to preorder a signed copy from an independent bookshop, here’s a link…
owlbookshop.co.uk/product/chop...
owlbookshop.co.uk/product/chop...
March 20, 2025 at 4:15 PM
Two weeks till my book is out! If you’d like to preorder a signed copy from an independent bookshop, here’s a link…
owlbookshop.co.uk/product/chop...
owlbookshop.co.uk/product/chop...
25% off preorders this weekend at Waterstones!
February 22, 2025 at 7:20 PM
25% off preorders this weekend at Waterstones!
V happy that my book will be out in the US - different title, same book (!) - from Pegasus Books in 2026.
February 12, 2025 at 2:55 PM
V happy that my book will be out in the US - different title, same book (!) - from Pegasus Books in 2026.
On the page where the heroine turns pages with her teeth, my nearly 8 year old has bitten through the paper. We laughed so much reading this. Now he wants to hang out on a roof and pick some locks. I also introduced him to Cats! My childhood copy.
January 18, 2025 at 11:03 PM
On the page where the heroine turns pages with her teeth, my nearly 8 year old has bitten through the paper. We laughed so much reading this. Now he wants to hang out on a roof and pick some locks. I also introduced him to Cats! My childhood copy.
Makhboose forever.
January 18, 2025 at 9:50 PM
Makhboose forever.
Thank you @carosanderson.bsky.social!
January 18, 2025 at 10:53 AM
Thank you @carosanderson.bsky.social!
Looking forward to chairing this with Ross Perlin at Jewish Book Week. I loved his book Language City. It’s online & free if you sign up at jewishliteraryfoundation.co.uk
January 18, 2025 at 9:09 AM
Looking forward to chairing this with Ross Perlin at Jewish Book Week. I loved his book Language City. It’s online & free if you sign up at jewishliteraryfoundation.co.uk
How it feels in the bit before your book comes out / postcard from an insanely cold yet clarifying December trip to Folkestone.
January 8, 2025 at 10:31 PM
How it feels in the bit before your book comes out / postcard from an insanely cold yet clarifying December trip to Folkestone.
This is so so good by @rachelshabi.bsky.social on how to talk about - & fight - antisemitism better.
December 10, 2024 at 2:30 PM
This is so so good by @rachelshabi.bsky.social on how to talk about - & fight - antisemitism better.
The proofs are out so it must be real! My new book, CHOPPING ONIONS ON MY HEART, will be published by Chatto & Windus
in April 2025. It’s about losing and preserving culture, the Iraqi Jewish story, music & mango pickle & more. Please preorder!
in April 2025. It’s about losing and preserving culture, the Iraqi Jewish story, music & mango pickle & more. Please preorder!
November 26, 2024 at 3:55 PM
The proofs are out so it must be real! My new book, CHOPPING ONIONS ON MY HEART, will be published by Chatto & Windus
in April 2025. It’s about losing and preserving culture, the Iraqi Jewish story, music & mango pickle & more. Please preorder!
in April 2025. It’s about losing and preserving culture, the Iraqi Jewish story, music & mango pickle & more. Please preorder!
Wishing us all more light / very messy zangoola (what Iraqi Jews make instead of doughnuts).
December 7, 2023 at 6:49 PM
Wishing us all more light / very messy zangoola (what Iraqi Jews make instead of doughnuts).
What I did last night. Wonka is really magical and life-affirming. My six year old sidekick was enchanted.
November 29, 2023 at 6:33 PM
What I did last night. Wonka is really magical and life-affirming. My six year old sidekick was enchanted.