Transparency post: I have cobbled together an excel sheet and the number of sales of The Planter's Daughter since it came out is c. 171. That might seem a low number but given I'm a one-woman operation, I don't think it's too bad. I will keep going!

Had enough of hearing about climate change. You might want to give this book a skip so. If however you want to read an incisive, evocative murder mystery which encompasses current eco challenges and the long shadow of history’s feuds, you can check out The Planter’s Daughter here

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Climate denial is getting louder. Reality is getting harder to ignore. When parks are brown, rivers are shrinking and firefighters are battling blazes across the globe, governments must accelerate climate action, not slow it down.

This burning summer is the proof: the voices of climate denial aren’t just delusional, they’re deadly | Sadiq Khan

Look at our blazing forests and parched cities. Green policies aren’t a ‘luxury’, and we can’t burn more oil and gas. People need the truth, says London mayor Sadiq Khan

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Word of mouth is the best way 🙂

Yer wan@yerwannn.bsky.social · 17h ago

My friend's teenage daughter now has my copy to read! I started to tell her about the plot and instantly her face lit up and she practically grabbed the book out of my hands 😅 I think you have gained another fan!

Had enough of hearing about climate change. You might want to give this book a skip so. If however you want to read an incisive, evocative murder mystery which encompasses current eco challenges and the long shadow of history’s feuds, you can check out The Planter’s Daughter here

Susan Lanigan

The Planter’s Daughter CAP Awards 2026 Longlisted — Novel Buy EBook Buy paperback Book Clubs “Contentious subjects are handled with a lightness of touch and a humanity rare in public di…

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These businesses have known for years that a ban on single use plastic was inevitable. Instead of adapting, they lobby. (No surprise to see two fossil fuel companies lobbying to keep plastic lined cups 😏)

The Journal@thejournal.ie · yesterday

A coalition of service stations, fast food restaurants, café chains and shops is lobbying hard against the latest government plans for a tax on disposable cups. Applegreen, Bewley's, Butlers Chocolates, McDonald's, Insomnia and Maxol are among firms pushing against a 'latte levy'. jrnl.ie/7121909

It’s deeply enraging and frustrating.

Joe Noonan@joenoonan.bsky.social · yesterday

‘Then there was the casual, almost Muskian, manner in which minister Jack Chambers disbanded the climate division in the Department of Public Expenditure. In other words, the man holding the purse strings on big projects does not need any environmental inputs on their effects or improvement.’

Wildfire was still smoking in Glencullen area in the Dublin mountains yesterday. Fair play to all the firefighters up and down the country fighting fires like this. Leave no trace!

Crowdsourcing appeal: anyone got any suggestions for a name for a horrible young white female in the arts/media/hack world? Must be Anglo sounding.

Jesus Christ, it's Gilead over there.

Bryce Covert@brycecovert.bsky.social · 2d ago

Yikes. Women accounted for all of the job losses and all of the labor force decline in July, according to @nwlc.org

Another thought from holidays: Disneyland is structural violence.

Feel like I have buckets of mental and creative energy, stimulated and excited - this happens every time I take a week off 😂

FFS

Feljin Jose@feljin.ie · 4d ago

Jack Chambers wants you to believe that the Climate Act of 2021 is the reason for decades of poor infrastructure delivery and not the decisions of decades of Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael governments

For comparison, the car park at Mayfield library was recently resurfaced, something that has to be done periodically — at a cost of approximately €3,500 per space.

IrishCycle.com@irishcycle.com · 6d ago

Bike parking enabling 60 hospital staff to cycle to work is a win for the taxpayer Comment & Analysis: A cost of €85,000, or €1,416 per space, for a secure bicycle shed for the National Maternity Hospital is cheap compared to building car parking, which is estimated to cost €5,000 to €85,000 per…

@susanlanigan.bsky.social I just finished your book and I absolutely LOVED it 🤯 The last few chapters had my heart racing from dying to find out what happened next!

Yer wan@yerwannn.bsky.social · last wk.

I started the novel 'The Planter's Daughter' by @susanlanigan.bsky.social on Monday, and 3 days later and I've almost finished it - it's just so good! Eco-crime murder mystery get into my veeeeins 🌱🔪🔥 #speirgorm #murdermystery

Thanks to whoever bought copies of The Planter’s Daughter recently if you came from here 👋

As a driver I say hurrah! Any excuse not to have to deal with the ring road or Cork city.

Oliver Moran 🌻🇮🇪🇪🇺@oliver.ie · last wk.

Great news! Irish Rail have lodged planning for a P&R at Dunkettle — 300 standard parking spaces and 166 cycle parking, including 42 secure bike lockers. This is the first P&R on the northside and will serve motorists from East Cork/Waterford and the motorway, as well a commuters in Glanmire.

Now this is the kind of trash talk we can get behind. We’re containerizing neighborhoods by taking trash off our sidewalks and allowing mid-size buildings to trade in their wheelie bins for a bigger, better, cleaner alternative: Empire Bins. It’s time to put a lid on it, New York.

This comes up in The Planter's Daughter - the murder victim being a geography teacher and riling up the local pillars of the community when she tells her pupils their prosperous dairy farmer parents are responsible for climate breakdown. The school board then gets her dismissed.

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The Planter’s Daughter CAP Awards 2026 Longlisted — Novel Buy EBook Buy paperback Book Clubs “Contentious subjects are handled with a lightness of touch and a humanity rare in public di…

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Bylines Network@bylinesnetwork.co.uk · last wk.

Council row about climate change teaching in school Warwickshire County Council: Leader accuses primary school of 'teaching children the world is going to end' @centralbylines.co.uk

This comes up in The Planter's Daughter - the murder victim being a geography teacher and riling up the local pillars of the community when she tells her pupils their prosperous dairy farmer parents are responsible for climate breakdown. The school board then gets her dismissed.

Susan Lanigan

The Planter’s Daughter CAP Awards 2026 Longlisted — Novel Buy EBook Buy paperback Book Clubs “Contentious subjects are handled with a lightness of touch and a humanity rare in public di…

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Bylines Network@bylinesnetwork.co.uk · last wk.

Council row about climate change teaching in school Warwickshire County Council: Leader accuses primary school of 'teaching children the world is going to end' @centralbylines.co.uk

A very distant, much zoomed-in-upon, grainy and bashful kingfisher from this morning's dog walk. But a briefly paused dot of electric blue is still a dot of electric blue injected into a morning. And its flight to get to its perch was all the startled joy you could wish for.

I'll be running a 6-week course at the @irishwriterscentre.bsky.social in Dublin in September on writing science fiction and fantasy. Check out the details on their website if you'd like to join me in my discussions about making stuff up. irishwriterscentre.ie/courses/writ...

That’s mad, Ted. I was on the team who developed that system, tho I was responsible for internal eSubmissions rather than ePQs. That was my team mate, a gentleman from Portugal.

Gavan Reilly@gavreilly.com · last wk.

A couple of months on, an update: the current system allows TDs to lodge PQs simply by sending the text to an designated email address. After the recess they’ll have to use a gated online system to supply questions instead, making it more cumbersome to lodge multiple interrelated questions at once.

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Yer wan@yerwannn.bsky.social · last wk.

I started the novel 'The Planter's Daughter' by @susanlanigan.bsky.social on Monday, and 3 days later and I've almost finished it - it's just so good! Eco-crime murder mystery get into my veeeeins 🌱🔪🔥 #speirgorm #murdermystery

Holy shit. He was part of the furniture. RIP.

The Journal@thejournal.ie · 2w ago

Glen Hansard, Oscar-winning songwriter and lead singer with Dublin band The Frames has died aged 56. jrnl.ie/7116253

This is short-sighted. There are many bright people in Gaza who have a lot to offer this country. This “not enough documentation” bullshit is pure gradgrind meanness.

Fergal Lenehan@fergallenehan.bsky.social · 2w ago

‘Studying in Ireland was the hope I was holding on to’: Palestinian teacher ‘dying inside’ since visa refused www.irishtimes.com/ireland/2026...

Meet the bestselling Irish author you may never have heard of – The Irish Times share.google/Z3vklgscA8nB... Interesting that there's now a whole genre of Irish writing now that has nothing to do with mainstream published elites

Meet the bestselling Irish author you may never have heard of

Cork-based Jean Grainger writes Irish historical fiction books, popular in the US among the diaspora

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What's going is that Grainger is exactly the kind of author the Irish times would have turned up their nose at a year or two ago

Can anyone explain what this means? I got an order today but it seems to have gone back to zero.