I’m listening to a podcast about AI psychosis and it reminds me so much of spiritualism in the early twentieth century: also a con, also preyed on people who were convinced it promised some eternal truths wrapped up in great personal significance.
Jane Casey
@janecasey.bsky.social
Author from Ireland. Responsible for the Maeve Kerrigan series and Everything She Didn't Say (out 16 July). Also owner of the world’s least cooperative spaniel.
Farrow and Ball have started emailing me in French which makes me feel very sophisticated if embrouillé.
Today is Michaelmas, a quarter day in the Irish calendar, and traditionally when rents were paid & contracts signed. It's also the last day to eat blackberries - after today, they belong to the Devil and will make you sick!
I can sum up today with this story: I treated myself to a g&t on the plane and they gave me ginger ale instead of tonic and I drank it anyway.
In the latest Taskmaster NZ, Rose Matafeo says she'll fight for a thing "...unless I'm slightly tired, a little bit shy, or I don't feel like it" and that might be the most relatable thing I've heard this year.
New on the blog today, my thoughts on THE BLANK WALL by Elisabeth Sanxay Holding. An utterly gripping novel in which an ordinary woman finds herself in an extraordinary situation. Filmed by Max Ophüls as THE RECKLESS MOMENT, it's a 5-star knockout read! 💙📚 jacquiwine.wordpress.com/2026/09/22/t...
The Blank Wall by Elisabeth Sanxay Holding
Praised by Raymond Chandler as one of the best suspense writers of her era, the American writer Elisabeth Sanxay Holding produced eighteen crime novels and many short stories over the course of her…
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Japanese writer Jirō Osaragi (大佛次郎) and his cat, Japan,1930s.
I’ve bought the cat (who shuns me and everything to do with me) a cushion from Etsy and he adores it.
I was on the last chapters of this and everyone in my family decided to chat to me separately and together. Find somewhere you won’t be disturbed before you start it. Excellent crime novel.
Wow! Just finished Everything she didn’t say by the incomparable @janecasey.bsky.social I lost count of the number of times I gasped out loud at yet another plot twist. One of the best books I’ve read this year. Characters, setting and what a plot. Just perfection 💙📚
I like to imagine he thinks he’s posing for a seasonal calendar when he stops on the dog walk like this. August, in the bag.
We've had Jane Harper on our wish list for the festival for years and we're beyond excited that's she's finally appearing this year with perhaps her best book yet - the atmospheric and emotional 'Last One Out' she'll be on with @janecasey.bsky.social: bloodyscotland.com/event/denise...
What are South Africa currently doing in sport? The next door neighbours are beside themselves.
A very old accidental Renaissance painting. They’re both taller than me now.
The 14 year old has started to make requests that end with ‘who do I need to speak to about this?’ and I just don’t think I’ve ever been as effective at managing people as he is at any point in my life.
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Rolled in some grass. Returned looking like a compost heap.
At the dump. My husband has so much dump-regular aura other men are approaching him to ask advice on where their items should go.
A courtyard in Delft, c. 1658, by Pieter de Hooch, Dutch Golden Age painter, whose domestic scenes with perspective views reveal subtleties of light & mood; a contemporary of Vermeer, he lived 1629-c 1679, worked in Delft and Amsterdam. National Gallery London
