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Alison Layland 💚🌳🏞️💙📚

@ecow0rrier.bsky.social

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Writer, editor, translator. Books, Earth & misc. musings. Someone Else's Conflict (2014) & #CliFi novels Riverflow (2019) and After the Clearances (coming 10 July 25) pub @honno. More at www.alayland.uk

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Alison Layland 💚🌳🏞️💙📚 @ecow0rrier.bsky.social · Jul 3

My daughter Trina and I spent a couple of lovely days roaming Ynys Enlli/Bardsey, filming the video for After the Clearances. And now, a week before publication, here it is! Enjoy!

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#books #trailer #booksky #islandlife

After the Clearances

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Alison Layland 💚🌳🏞️💙📚 @ecow0rrier.bsky.social · 21d

Happy publication day! x

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Fly on the Wall Press @flyonthewallpress.bsky.social · 22d

A very happy publication day to @amylilwall.bsky.social and the emotive novel 'The Water That May Come'!

In a future where we all may become refugees, it asks: how far would you go to stay afloat?

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Amy Lilwall @amylilwall.bsky.social · Sep 12

Really lovely to discuss The Water That May Come with the excellent @samszanto.bsky.social 💙📚

Sam Szanto @samszanto.bsky.social · Sep 12

New on my blog, an interview with the very talented Amy Lilwall @amylilwall.bsky.social about her fantastic new book, 'The Water That May Come', with @flyonthewallpress.bsky.social - please have a read and share
www.samszanto.com/post/amy-lil...

Amy Lilwall: "The fun starts when you have a full draft and the editing begins. It’s like building a house, then placing the furniture inside it."

A chat with Amy Lilwall about her book, The Water That May Come (Fly on the Wall Press, 2025)How would you describe The Water That May Come in one sentence? The Water That May Come is a book about rel...

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Alison Layland 💚🌳🏞️💙📚 @ecow0rrier.bsky.social · Aug 22

Wow, that's going to look fab!

Alison Layland 💚🌳🏞️💙📚 @ecow0rrier.bsky.social · Aug 21

Out today!
Looking for a chilling, gripping read for the bank holiday weekend?

Martine Bailey Writer @martinebailey.bsky.social · Aug 18

Just 3 days left until the paperback release of ##IsolationWard on Thursday.
Pre-order here tinyurl.com/48etnzp5

Alison Layland 💚🌳🏞️💙📚 @ecow0rrier.bsky.social · Aug 20

Having seen a broadcast, I'm really looking forward to seeing this live. 🎶🐄

Three Acres And A Cow @threeacresacow.bsky.social · Aug 19

Our Oswestry show is on Sunday 21st September
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It will be a-moo-sing 🐮 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

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Turnaround Books @turnarounduk.bsky.social · Jul 16

It's officially Plot Girl Summer! ☀️😎🏖️ If you're looking for a hot new read, click the link below to see our round-up of July's best new fiction!

Plot Girl Summer – July’s Best New Fiction

With July comes the realisation that we’re already over half way through the year, and I for one am woefully behind on my TBR target! But the release schedule waits for nobody, and we’v…

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Alison Layland 💚🌳🏞️💙📚 @ecow0rrier.bsky.social · Jul 25

Great to see After the Clearances featured in this @turnarounduk.bsky.social round-up of climate fiction to watch out for.

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Alison Layland 💚🌳🏞️💙📚 @ecow0rrier.bsky.social · Jul 14

A real pleasure!

Alison Layland 💚🌳🏞️💙📚 @ecow0rrier.bsky.social · Jul 14

I love the Writers Review blog, so it's been an honour to share some of the ideas behind my new novel with @lindanewbery.bsky.social on the site this week.

@writersreview 📚 @writersreview.bsky.social · Jul 14

Congratulations to today's guest Alison Layland on her excellent new novel AFTER THE CLEARANCES - a tale of near-future survival in a remote island community. Find out more from our Q&A. reviewsbywriters.blogspot.com/2025/07/q-al... @honnopress.bsky.social #clifi #future #survival #community

Q&A: Alison Layland talks to Linda Newbery about her new novel AFTER THE CLEARANCES

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Alison Layland 💚🌳🏞️💙📚 @ecow0rrier.bsky.social · Jul 3

After the Clearances

YouTube video by Alison Layland

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Alison Layland 💚🌳🏞️💙📚 @ecow0rrier.bsky.social · Jun 25

I'm so glad to have had the opportunity to read it, thank you - a wonderful novel!

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Fly on the Wall Press @flyonthewallpress.bsky.social · Jun 24

Delighted to have our first endorsement through for upcoming speculative novel 'The Water That May Come' by the talented @amylilwall.bsky.social ! Alison Layland, Author of 'Riverflow', 'After the Clearances' and 'Someone Else’s Conflict' immerses herself in this near-future Britain...

Sepia background of the sea with cover of book on right reading: The Water That May Come - a girl bottom centre watches the waves rise. Quote reads: Warmhearted yet dark. Amy Lilwall creates a world that is instantly relatable, populated by eccentric but engaging characters pushed to their limits by an extreme existential threat. It held me rapt from start to finish.

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Alison Layland 💚🌳🏞️💙📚 @ecow0rrier.bsky.social · May 10

A first! 🎉😎

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Fly on the Wall Press @flyonthewallpress.bsky.social · May 5

'We can choose to write contemporary fiction with no acknowledgement of the crisis going on outside our windows; but it will look as strange to readers in a hundred years’ time as a novel set in 1930s Germany would look if it made no mention of the war.'

Screenshot of Writing Magazine online's article written by John Ironmonger. On the left is his latest novel's book cover, The Wager and the Bear, which features curly handwritten title fonts and a standing polar bear on an ice berg in the centre

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Alison Layland 💚🌳🏞️💙📚 @ecow0rrier.bsky.social · Apr 17

Happy publication day! 🎉📚🎊

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The Crime Writers' Association @thecwa.bsky.social · Apr 17

📖 HAPPY PUBLICATION DAY to Martine Bailey @MartineBailey with ‘Isolation Ward’! #mystery #crime writer #booksky

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Martine Bailey Writer @martinebailey.bsky.social · Apr 16

Tripfiction is a site that matches books to locations - I've often used it to find inspiration for holiday reading. Today I'm delighted to see my article on Yorkshire, location of Isolation Ward, taking in Hebden Bridge, Menston Asylum, the empty moors, and more.

Talking Location With Martine Bailey - YORKSHIRE - TripFiction

#TalkingLocationWith… Martine Bailey, author of Isolation Ward, set in YORKSHIRE I knew right from the beginning that the setting for my latest book,

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Mr and Mrs Trellis @thenorfolkcoast.bsky.social · Apr 2

Help Save Leadbrook Wood and Meadows – Again!..

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Save Leadbrook Wood and Meadows

Leadbrook ancient woodland and meadows is under threat again by the Red Route: a proposed 13km highway that would destroy irreplaceable habitats. The North Wales Regional Transport Plan should not inc...

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Alison Layland 💚🌳🏞️💙📚 @ecow0rrier.bsky.social · Mar 24

Llongyfarchiadau! ❤️

Alison Layland 💚🌳🏞️💙📚 @ecow0rrier.bsky.social · Mar 13

I'm thrilled to be part of The Writing on the Wall, an exhibition with my friends Jood Gough and Bob Knowles, in Oswestry Library. Do come and have a look!

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GŵylCrimeCymruFestival @gwylcrimefest.bsky.social · Feb 14

Welcome to Gwyl Crime Cymru Festival 2025!

Only ten weeks then we'll be back in Aberystwyth with lots of lovely book loving readers and writers.

Tickets go on sale on March 1, 2025, because it's St David's Day and we are proud of being Welsh.

Do drop in if you can.

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Alison Layland 💚🌳🏞️💙📚 @ecow0rrier.bsky.social · Feb 23

Brilliant! Conveysvthe creepy suspense perfectly! x

Alison Layland 💚🌳🏞️💙📚 @ecow0rrier.bsky.social · Feb 23

I was fortunate to read an early copy of @martinebailey.bsky.social 's sinister and gripping Isolation Ward - love the cover, which conveys the atmosphere brilliantly!

Martine Bailey Writer @martinebailey.bsky.social · Feb 23

Excited to post this #CoverReveal today! Just 6 weeks until the follow up to #SharpScratch is released.
Lorraine Quick is sent to a northern asylum where dangerous memories and desires erupt in murder. Allison & Busby Books

Alison Layland 💚🌳🏞️💙📚 @ecow0rrier.bsky.social · Feb 21

I really hope so - it's a gorgeous read but also a message that all need to hear and understand. 🤞💚