Laura Shepherd-Robinson
@laurasrobinson.bsky.social
Sunday Times and USA Today bestselling author. Amazon #1 bestseller. 🇬🇧 Mantle, Pan-Macmillan 🇺🇸 Atria, Simon & Schuster Agent: Antony Topping @greeneandheaton.bsky.social https://www.laurashepherdrobinson.com/
airbnb I’m staying at unintentionally created the toughest punk album cover of 2027
Having researched this question in depth for my novel THE ART OF A LIE, I can report that pistachio, vanilla, and salted caramel are the best flavours. Absolute fact.
YouGov@yougov.co.uk · 5d agoBeyond their overall favourites, which ice cream flavours do Britons like? Vanilla: 84% love or like Raspberry ripple: 70% Chocolate: 67% Strawberry: 66% Mint choc chip: 64% Salted caramel: 64% Neapolitan: 50% Pistachio: 48% Coffee: 41% Banana: 38% Rum and raisin: 35% yougov.com/en-gb/articl...
when my child misbehaves i make him go stare at the old Hardee’s fry statue
I have exciting news!!! I have a new book coming out in 2027 - a contemporary crime novel, but set in the Tower of London, featuring the first beheading in the Tower in 300 years. I'm so excited for you to meet Brontë Hayes and the Brontëverse! Available to pre-order now! More to follow soon...
WE ARE THE DEAD Out Spring 2027 Preorder now...
I have exciting news!!! I have a new book coming out in 2027 - a contemporary crime novel, but set in the Tower of London, featuring the first beheading in the Tower in 300 years. I'm so excited for you to meet Brontë Hayes and the Brontëverse! Available to pre-order now! More to follow soon...
I genuinely cannot understand how the Labour government has now had two, genuinely cultured prime ministers who both looked at Lisa Nandy’s record there and went “I’m pleased with this. I want this to continue.”
I can't work out if this is intended as a punishment to Lisa Nandy, who clearly hates the job; or a punishment to the entire UK culture sector, which is suffering as a result of that. Maybe both?
We desperately need a study to figure out which stolen artefact we need to return to lift this curse. Unfortunately, any such study would fall under the purview of the culture secretary, so we're in something of a bind here.
James Ball@jamesrball.com · 2w ago"Lisa Nandy will remain as the culture secretary, Downing Street said." OH GOOD GRIEF
People we have learned that Andy Burnham hates: 1. The creative sector, which is full of soft southerners who don't work down the pits. 2. Lisa Nandy.
James Ball@jamesrball.com · 2w agoI can't work out if this is intended as a punishment to Lisa Nandy, who clearly hates the job; or a punishment to the entire UK culture sector, which is suffering as a result of that. Maybe both?
I'm open to the possibility that we have our first satirical Cabinet.
Any dregs of optimism dangling from a thread labelled "Andy hasn't actually realised Lisa is in the Cabinet."
I think it’s a real shame about Liz Kendall, whose very good employment paper was undermined by Rachel Reeves and had moved policy away from “intellectual property, intellectual schmoperty” at DSIT. (Also RIP DSIT.)
Andy Burnham opens door to using ‘flexibility’ within fiscal rules
New PM to name cabinet after becoming UK’s seventh leader in past decade
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a) Hamilton remains brilliant and a pretty fantastic artistic achievement b) Cynicism and nilhism is cancer to the soul; there is a reason facism is its political manifestation. c) Tempted ernestness is The Way. Believing in things and having hope is Good Actually even if uncool
Marie Le Conte@youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 3w agoo Father I have sinned and weighed in on some tedious online discourse, by which I mean - I defended still loving Hamilton and Parks and Rec in 2026 and still finding both joy and political purpose in both of them: youngvulgarian.substack.com/p/some-notes...
I've just seen about 40 kids sneak into watch 'The Odyssey' without paying by hiding in a giant wooden coat.
If you haven’t yet read Laura’s latest - put it at the top of your TBR now! Recess starts tomorrow, what are you waiting for?!
Laura Shepherd-Robinson@laurasrobinson.bsky.social · 3w agoMany thanks to @antoniabance.bsky.social and @jessbrownfullermp.bsky.social for reading THE ART OF A LIE and putting me on the summer reading list for parliamentarians Full list is here: www.publishers.org.uk/publications...
Many thanks to @antoniabance.bsky.social and @jessbrownfullermp.bsky.social for reading THE ART OF A LIE and putting me on the summer reading list for parliamentarians Full list is here: www.publishers.org.uk/publications...
Nothing says “this insurance company knows my country” than using an AI generated map of Belgium that puts Ghent in Wallonie, gives us two Namurs and a south coast on the Med.
A Brit in the semis of Wimbledon, England still in the World Cup and Nigel Farage spending the summer arguing with a bin. Oh this happy breed of men, this little world, This precious stone set in the silver sea
What's that you say? It's publication day for #TheViolentHour *and* you get a newsletter? Surely I am spoiling you all! mailchi.mp/f2e0f3733751...
And...that's a wrap on Book 5!!! (Not really, still need to polish the final ten chapters, and then there will be edits, but still, this is a cause for celebration!) 🥳🥳🥳
On holiday and the game didn’t start until 4 in Greece. We predictably fell asleep and missed the beginning but then we woke up and saw the rest and danced round the garden as we watched the sun come up.
Just written the penultimate chapter of my latest book. I get very emotional writing the final chapters as they are usually conceived in the early stages & have been with me a very long time. Soon I’m going to be able to tell the world about this book & I can’t wait. One teaser: it’s set in 2026!!!
Nice argument, but it’s too late. I’ve already depicted myself as the calm under pressure, cheerful, and suave Pico Lopes while you are the shocked and fearful Lionel Messi
