Delighted to be a guest on the brilliant podcast Lost Ladies of Lit! Thanks Amy and Kim for inviting me to talk about #JulianofNorwich and #MargeryKempe and my novel FOR THY GREAT PAIN HAVE MERCY ON MY LITTLE PAIN with you! 📚 www.lostladiesoflit.com/podcast/236-...

236. Margery Kempe and Julian of Norwich — Religious Mystics with Victoria MacKenzie — Lost Ladies of Lit Podcast

Religious mystics Margery of Kempe and Julian of Norwich lived in close proximity to one another in time and place, yet the lives of these two medieval women couldn’t have been more different. One tra...

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It's always 'more people are pretending to have poor mental health'. Never, 'piss poor governments and predatory, unregulated capitalism is making more people ill'

In further fun, Mother Naked also made the shortlist for the 2025 Republic of Consciousness Prize. A shortlist reading is March 13th in London. Links below. And the prize is announced on the 1st April. If you're down there, it'll be nice to see you x libraries.lewisham.gov.uk/events/199794

MOTHER NAKED is on the longlist for the 2025 Walter Scott Prize for historical fiction!  Thank thee to all at Prize for recognising my work, and to Peninsula Press for taking a punt on auld Mother in the first place. www.walterscottprize.co.uk/news-and-media

Dear #BookSky can you help us find our lost audience? We left 140,00 people behind on X and we want to reconnect!

"Old Soul" by Susan Barker. A protagonist to die for? horror #suprenaturalfiction endsoftheword.blogspot.com/2025/02/old-...

Old Soul by Susan Barker

Mainly book reviews, occasional poetry and short fiction, musings about literature and classical music

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Excellent review of an excellent book

Gary Kaill@garykaill.bsky.social · 2y ago

I reviewed Old Soul by Susan Barker for @thelondonmagazine.bsky.social and used this as an opportunity to waffle on about my teenage love for Stephen King by way of introduction.

Sublime Eternal Love The last song on David Lynch's last record. A fine way to bow out youtu.be/i4ECf-sElcY?...

Sublime Eternal Love

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The wonderful @jenbowden12.bsky.social had me on her equally wonderful #NorthernVoices to chat about Mother Naked, but also language, place, and the obstacles we often self-impose when it comes to creative expression. Even if my voice does your nut, do listen to Jen's other 59 episodes!

Jen Bowden@jenbowden12.bsky.social · 2y ago

'I'm still trying to figure out why it took me so long to give myself permission to write about the North East.' Episode 60 of #NorthernVoices features writer @glenjamesbrown.bsky.social on his new novel Mother Naked and Northern myth, legend and language. on.soundcloud.com/4s32VpWgaWhV...

This is the most wonderful, considered - and insightful - discussion of my book I've ever read. Thank you @lmcraeandrew.bsky.social I'm humbled and awed.

Laurie McRae Andrew@lmcraeandrew.bsky.social · 2y ago

For the new year, I've started a new blog for writing on recent fiction (and perhaps other things, eventually) - starting with last year's 'Mother Naked' by @glenjamesbrown.bsky.social lauriemcraeandrew.wordpress.com/2025/01/06/m...

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