My baby bruv. Love the bones of him. Don’t see him often because he lives near #bilbao & I am an #anxious traveller. He is a diamond. #authorlife #brother
#authorlife #lefties #basque my first holiday with my #brother in 10 years. Part of my #thriller Make Me Clean is set here. I love this area. 🖤💚🖤
I saw the #eclipse in Cornwall & now in the #basque country 🖤🕶️🖤 I’m glad I came to see it with my brother. #authorlife
Family meal as we wait for the #eclipse in the Basque Country. Hopefully nothing bad will happen as it inevitably does in my #thrillerbook #makemeclean which is partially set here. 🕶️🌞🕶️
A mini bit of the #camino today with my Basque country based brother #authorlife #pilgrimmage #inspo #walking
#basque #eclipse #holiday #authorlife Staying with my brother who lives here. Hoping for healing & inspiration. BTW part of my #psychologicalthriller Make Me Clean is set here. 🖤
The face of a woman full of #travelsickness pills, immodium & antihistamines for the stress rash in order to leave the country for the first time in 8 years. 😱 #authorlife #anxiety
My kindle’s trolling me. Brilliant book. But ‘celebrating’ #internationalcatday chasing Pip round the garden to remove a fledgling goldfinch from her chops. Managed to free it although a hosepipe may have been illegally employed for 33 seconds in pursuit. Traumatised. #Nesting #amreading
Editor: That section doesn’t work. Writer: But … Editor : It doesn’t work! Writer: BUT … Editor; IT DOESN’T WORK!!!! #authorlife #amwriting #polarbear #keepgoing
Er, ever do this? I wish I could pretend it was deliberate, but … However, it was wonderful. Quietly devastating. 🩷 #BrainFog #amreading #TheThingsWeNeverSay
The strangest sea vibe since Wyl Menmuir’s fabulous #themany 🌊🌊🌊 this is a weird & wonderful literary fever dream - #theendofeverything #bookerprize #authorlife 💙💙💙
A #rose cheers me up. I love my tiny #garden. It’s not in the country, but it’s a little oasis. #authorlife #london #amwriting
Only certain books will do when you’re feeling under the weather. #TheThingsWeNeverSay Elizabeth Strout - a masterclass in restraint. 💙
Anyone else do daytime books & nighttime books? I’m reading #TheCorrespondent in bed because I can’t have satanic murders when it’s dark. 😱 #FearNotTheDark @ViperBooks is to be feared, so I only read that in sunlight. #authorlife #amreading
Writers reading *certain* reviews. We’ve all had them. (Amazon package damaged 1 star!) #writingcommunity #authorlife #keepgoing
My mum was a #traveller. My dad wasn’t. At one point both sides hated each other & we were in a caravan by ourselves. Watching #secretlivesofgypsywives was surprisingly emotional. Not many #writers are from my background. #authorlife #amwriting about my heritage
Morning campers. Some kids get stickers for being brave. Big kids buy books for being brave(ish). My book haul after hospital. #MayWeFeedTheKing #TheEndofEverything #TheThingsWeNeverSay 🩷📚🩷 Hardbacks because the procedure bloody hurt! #CheckYourBreasts #authorlife
Anyone felt like they were being stabbed in the boobs while having vacuum excision? My 7th procedure yesterday was agony despite max anaesthetic & we had to stop. Apparently this is v unusual. FFS. I have abnormal cells tho, not cancer so 🤞#checkyourbreasts
King Kong on Empire State Building
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Off to the Whittington for more boob drilling - the 3rd this year. Still sleeping in a sports bra from the last round. I’ll be sitting with an ice pack on my bits for days. I lose work, social stuff, & it hurts. BUT IT’S BETTER THAN THE ALTERNATIVE!! My gran & aunty died from this #checkyourbreasts
So proud of my #PersonalTraining client Dave Leon - proudly wearing his England shirt after qualifying in his age group with a personal best. My work with him in the gym has supported his running club training. My clients’ wins make me happy. #DayJob #authorlife
Just finished 💙🏴💙 #JohnofJohn @Doug_D_Stuart #bookerprize #authorlife #amreading #literary
You can keep fit in a #heatwave - gently does it, sip water, perhaps exercise early, rest when you need, take it slower. This is a Zoom session I did with my 92-year-old client. My #dayjob to fund my #authorlife keeps me sane (ish). PS most gyms have air con! #fitpro
First #rain in London for over a month. About 92 seconds. 😬 #heatwave #drought #virtuesignalling #authorlife
Morning campers. We had 92 seconds of rain!!! #virtuesignalling #drought #heatwave #authorlife #hosepipeban
I’m not at Harrogate but I get to chill from the heatwave with #nordicnoir ! #bookpost #authorlife #thrillerbooks #fearnotthedark a debut from Per Moritz Stenborg translated from Swedish by Alex Fleming @viper.books Out January 2027