Rebecca Lehmann
@rebeccaslehmann.bsky.social
Novelist & poet. THE BEHEADING GAME pubs 3/24 US (Crown Publishing) 3/26 UK (Harvill Books). Opinions my own.
Reposting this because I just finished The Beheading Game by @rebeccaslehmann.bsky.social and it DID NOT DISAPPOINT #booksky www.whoevenreads.com/books-we-lik...
Books We Like the Looks Of: New Releases in March 2026
Check out five books we're looking forward to that are coming out in March, including new releases from Rebecca Solnit and Louise Erdrich.
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The Beheading Game is in the New York Times!!!! Available for pre-order now—pubs 3/24 US and 3/26 UK. Long may she reign! 🗡️🪡👑 www.nytimes.com/2026/02/27/b...
27 Books Coming in March
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Here are my April book recommendations! Check out the titles that impressed me here: readeratworkblog.wordpress.com/2026/04/01/s... @dragons.bsky.social @charleenhurtubise.bsky.social @rebeccaslehmann.bsky.social @torbooks.bsky.social 📚💙
Shazzie@readeratwork.bsky.social · 8mo agoMe January recommendations are out now! It looks like a great year for books and here are three impressive reads: readeratworkblog.wordpress.com/2026/01/05/s... @kirstenking.bsky.social @atriabooks.bsky.social @putnambooks.bsky.social 📚💙
Newest addition to my bookshelf 📚 "The Beheading Game" by @rebeccaslehmann.bsky.social ❤️ I've been looking forward to reading this for ages!
Really loved this reimagining of Anne Boleyn by @rebeccaslehmann.bsky.social. Fantastical, suspenseful, compassionate, & with a sapphic side quest to boot 👑
The Beheading Game: A Novel
A Novel
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Now here's ep. 395B! Rebecca Lehmann shares THE BEHEADING GAME, a sharp-as-knives work of speculative historical fiction that imagines Anne Boleyn's mysterious resurrection after her execution. @rebeccaslehmann.bsky.social @crownpublishing.bsky.social turnthepage.blubrry.net/2026/03/26/t...
And this book and fascinating and wild and cathartic as hell. Thanks @rebeccaslehmann.bsky.social!
Turn The Page! - Syosset Public Library 🎤 @splturnthepage.bsky.social · 5mo agoNow here's ep. 395B! Rebecca Lehmann shares THE BEHEADING GAME, a sharp-as-knives work of speculative historical fiction that imagines Anne Boleyn's mysterious resurrection after her execution. @rebeccaslehmann.bsky.social @crownpublishing.bsky.social turnthepage.blubrry.net/2026/03/26/t...
Roses are redde Noble are the manatees For a bettir future Teach artes and humanityes
"The thing about the story that I find resonant and that I think resonates with people 500 years later is that in so many ways, it seems like she's a woman being punished for her power and her success." @rebeccaslehmann.bsky.social, author of The Beheading Game:
Rebecca Lehmann: Resurrecting Anne Boleyn and Going from Poet to Novelist
Eva and Amanda chat with Rebecca Lehmann, author of The Beheading Game, about rewriting Anne Boleyn through the lens of motherhood and bringing a poetry background to novel-writing.
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This convo was a delight! Tune in to hear me talk The Beheading Game, Anne Boleyn as a mother, and my own attempts at “pizza” parenting 🍕😂
Literary Mama@literarymama.bsky.social · 6mo ago***NEW EPISODE!*** @evalangston.bsky.social & Amanda Fields talk w @rebeccaslehmann.bsky.social, author of The Beheading Game, about rewriting Anne Boleyn through the lens of motherhood and bringing a poetry background to novel-writing.
The Beheading Game is an Indie Next Pick for April!!! Plus, tour dates! Pre-orders open now: 3/24 pub date US, 3/26 pub date UK @crownpublishing.bsky.social
The Beheading Game is in the New York Times!!!! Available for pre-order now—pubs 3/24 US and 3/26 UK. Long may she reign! 🗡️🪡👑 www.nytimes.com/2026/02/27/b...
27 Books Coming in March
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Hi All!! The Beheading Game pubs on 3/24 US @crownpublishing.bsky.social & 3/26 UK (Harvill Books). What if Anne Boleyn woke up after her execution, sewed her head back on & tried to kill Henry VIII before he could remarry? Long may she reign 🪡🗡️👑 www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/786110...
The Beheading Game by Rebecca Lehmann: 9798217086481 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books
Disgraced. Beheaded. And out for revenge . . . We all know what happened to Henry VIII’s second wife, Anne Boleyn. But what if she woke up the day after her execution and took it upon herself to...
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It was a DELIGHT to talk THE BEHEADING GAME with @chatteronbooks.bsky.social Link below to listen and also link below to pre-order TBG—out 3/24 US, 3/26 UK 🪡👑🗡️
Chatter On Books@chatteronbooks.bsky.social · 6mo agoThis week we Chattered with @rebeccaslehmann.bsky.social about The Beheading Game. Anne Boleyn is well-trod ground but Lehmann tackles it with imagination, empathy, and provocative thinking. Couldn’t put it down. 👑📚🎧 Listen now | 🔗 Link in bio | open.spotify.com/episode/6s2W...
A great little book haul from the @nolapoetry.bsky.social & @amorak.bsky.social's chapbook waiting for me. Can't wait to dig into poems from @nicolecallihan.bsky.social @lesleymwheeler.bsky.social @tracibrimhall.bsky.social @rebeccaslehmann.bsky.social & Patrycja Humienik.
“betraying / their own brothers and stepping in front / of trains that have come loose / from their tracks and instead of brakes / have two sad faced women / waving kerchiefs” — @rebeccaslehmann.bsky.social, “Two Lovers” @southernreview.bsky.social @upittpress.bsky.social
My huge thanks to Susie of @penguinrandomhouse.bsky.social for this brilliant sounding The Beheading Game by @rebeccaslehmann.bsky.social coming from @vintagebooks.bsky.social Harvill in March www.penguin.co.uk/books/476256...
With generous supporters of the literary arts, Prairie Schooner was able to award 15 writing prizes totaling $8,250 for work published in 2025. Award winners include @skyskkyy.bsky.social, @thomaskneeland.bsky.social, @ellgpeck.bsky.social, @rebeccaslehmann.bsky.social, and more. go.unl.edu/bfya
The Beheading Game by @rebeccaslehmann.bsky.social is a brilliantly original debut novel which imagines the undead Anne Boleyn plotting vengeance on her murderers with the aid of fenlander Alice. Brilliant #Tudor history with a good sprinkle of magic - out 26th March! 🪐📚💙
Sharing the latest publications from MR contributors, including David Ricchiute, Amanda Hawkins, @rebeccaslehmann.bsky.social and more! themassachusettsreview.substack.com/p/contributo...
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I’m thrilled to announce my forthcoming novel, The Beheading Game, about my girl, Anne Boleyn 🎉🥳🍾🗡️
The Sweating Sickness got a mention in last weekend’s @nytbooks.bsky.social !!! @upittpress.bsky.social
Chicago!!! I am reading from The Sweating Sickness TONIGHT at 6:30pm at City Lit Books with @rubenq.bsky.social —come join us for an evening of poetry in the Windy City (but hopefully not too windy…).
Look I’ve thrown a lot of shade at Thomas Cromwell but the man had a pet leopard and loved to dress in black velvet so…irl I probably would have been his friend.
Valentine’s Day is a great day to order a copy of The Sweating Sickness, and dream about the spouse awaiting us all one day: death ☠️ University of Pittsburgh Press (link to order below) @upittpress.bsky.social
It’s official!! The Sweating Sickness, my third book of poetry, is out today from @upittpress.bsky.social! I’m so proud of these poems, and hope you love them.
My tragic flaw is that I revert to British spellings when stressed because I read too many British/Canadian novels as a kid.
Chicago! Start your New Year with Poetry & Biscuits! Carrie and I are excited to bring you readings by Natalie Eilbert, Donato Loia, Ruben Quesada, and Deborah Shapiro along with biscuits and cozy company. Fri, Jan. 17 @ 7pm 2145 W Walton RSVP to the biscuit maker: mailto:carrieolivia@gmail.com
“I’ll move back/to the Midwest, and leave bone cold/New England far behind. I can imagine/all the tattered houses fading from sight/over the back of my son’s car seat as we drive/down the tollway, the mountains receding like sad/contractions” — @rebeccaslehmann.bsky.social “Into the Firmament”
