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'Queen of spy fiction' - the Guardian. Author of the Emma Makepeace series, and other books using other identities. Former gov't comms. Many names – Not a spy. https://linktr.ee/avaglass

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Ava Glass @avaglassbooks.bsky.social · Nov 18

Please allow me to introduce myself. I'm an author of espionage novels, most of them centred around a British spy named Emma Makepeace. Her task is to find and remove Russian spies operating inside the UK. Let's just say things get a little... heated.

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Ava Glass @avaglassbooks.bsky.social · 1h

Perfect!! 🦉

Ava Glass @avaglassbooks.bsky.social · 23h

Thank you!

Ava Glass @avaglassbooks.bsky.social · 23h

Thank you!

Ava Glass @avaglassbooks.bsky.social · 23h

Thank you!

Ava Glass @avaglassbooks.bsky.social · 1d

Stopped the car in the middle of the (quiet) road to take this photo because I have NEVER seen a more perfect October sky. Well done, universe. 10/10.

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Ray E. Boomhower @rboomhower.bsky.social · 11d

“The most important truths are likely to be those which society at that time least wants to hear.”
W. H. Auden, who died on this day in 1973

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Ava Glass @avaglassbooks.bsky.social · 11d

Those of you who read my novels already know this but I'm putting it here because every writer of fiction enjoys validation of their literary speculation.

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UK may already be at war with Russia, says former MI5 chief

Baroness Manningham-Buller said a rise in cyberattacks, sabotage and covert operations showed that Britain had entered a ‘new kind of conflict’ with Moscow

www.thetimes.com

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Ava Glass @avaglassbooks.bsky.social · 24d

The world is less beautiful now.

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Robert Redford, award-winning actor and director, dies aged 89

Hollywood icon starred in films including The Sting and Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid

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Ava Glass @avaglassbooks.bsky.social · 27d

Thank yooou! How was Bute? I heard it was good!

Ava Glass @avaglassbooks.bsky.social · Sep 1

Can't wait for this panel at Chiswick Book Festival in 2 weeks! We'll be talking spies, lies, and killers, and if that doesn't hook you in, I don't know what will. A few tickets are still available. Chiswick is one of my favourite festivals. Come join us! www.ticketsource.co.uk/chiswickbook...

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Ava Glass @avaglassbooks.bsky.social · Sep 1

Russia's been doing this for months now, but they're getting much more lazily obvious about it.

Sky News @news.sky.com · Sep 1

Russia suspected of 'blatant interference' after GPS of EU Commission president's plane jammed over Bulgaria

A plane carrying European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen suffered GPS jamming as a result of suspected Russian interference, an EU spokesperson has confirmed to Sky News.

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Ava Glass @avaglassbooks.bsky.social · Aug 31

Ugh.The worst.

Ava Glass @avaglassbooks.bsky.social · Aug 27

I believe for many years that phrase had to appear in every young adult novel. It was the LAW. Even now you're looked at askance if you don't include it.

Ava Glass @avaglassbooks.bsky.social · Aug 27

My fashion goals going forward are to be just half as glamorous and eccentric as Elisabeth McGovern's Tatler photos.

Ava Glass @avaglassbooks.bsky.social · Aug 22

I say this as a lifelong writer and reader: I did not know about tortuous. Take my pens away.

Benjamin Dreyer @bcdreyer.social · Aug 22

tortuous = twisty

torturous = like torture

tortious = wrongful

#copyediting

Ava Glass @avaglassbooks.bsky.social · Aug 22

A letter written by Greta Garbo in 1964. 'I can speak to no one.' 💔 Introverts everywhere would understand.

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Ava Glass @avaglassbooks.bsky.social · Aug 20

Oh yes, me too! My childhood library was books from floor to ceiling in every room. It was a den of magic for me. I remember it vividly, and I haven't seen it since I was 10 years old. The approach that books aren't enough in libraries is basically the opposite of all that I believe.

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Ava Glass @avaglassbooks.bsky.social · Aug 20

The house once shared by John Cassavetes and Gina Rowlands looks exactly as you'd think it would. Cool 1950's Hollywood.

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An artefact of Old Hollywood goes on sale in Laurel Canyon - The Spaces

It has serious indie cred

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Ava Glass @avaglassbooks.bsky.social · Aug 20

I live an hour from London and parking at the station here is £8.50 a day. It's usurious but normal, I fear.

Ava Glass @avaglassbooks.bsky.social · Aug 20

Libraries without books break my heart.

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · Aug 19

The Queen of May, 1900, by Margaret Macdonald Mackintosh of the Glasgow School, who pushed the boundaries of Art Nouveau #WomensArt

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Ava Glass @avaglassbooks.bsky.social · Aug 18

*Gives you a significant look* Absolutely.

Ava Glass @avaglassbooks.bsky.social · Aug 18

To be fair, I'm extremely elusive.

Ava Glass @avaglassbooks.bsky.social · Aug 18

I hope the man I spotted on the M3 30 minutes ago heading out of London singing and conducting an imaginary orchestra while also driving perfectly is one of you. We should all be this skilled.

Ava Glass @avaglassbooks.bsky.social · Aug 17

Is Rosamund Pilcher huge in Germany?