Heather Child
@heatherika.bsky.social
Author, environmentalist & egalitarian based in Bristol UK. Novels EVERYTHING ABOUT YOU and THE UNDOING OF ARLO KNOTT published by Orbit books. Rep Julie Crisp. www.heather-child.co.uk
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Heather Child
@heatherika.bsky.social
· Sep 7
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Autumn Picaresque is out now! 🍁📚🥳
Brunel’s relationship with personal glory, plus book recommendation, news, devil’s dictionary… Read it here: www.heather-child.co.uk/past-newslet...
#IsambardKingdomBrunel #BookSky
Brunel’s relationship with personal glory, plus book recommendation, news, devil’s dictionary… Read it here: www.heather-child.co.uk/past-newslet...
#IsambardKingdomBrunel #BookSky
Past newsletters - Heather Child
Read the newsletters you missed Autumn Picaresque – Brunel’s relationship with personal glory, plus book recommendation, news, devil’s dictionary…
www.heather-child.co.uk
November 2, 2025 at 9:59 AM
Autumn Picaresque is out now! 🍁📚🥳
Brunel’s relationship with personal glory, plus book recommendation, news, devil’s dictionary… Read it here: www.heather-child.co.uk/past-newslet...
#IsambardKingdomBrunel #BookSky
Brunel’s relationship with personal glory, plus book recommendation, news, devil’s dictionary… Read it here: www.heather-child.co.uk/past-newslet...
#IsambardKingdomBrunel #BookSky
AI will take our writing jobs, just give it thyme... #AI share.google/2Lo3EPNZrY2t...
Detection firm finds 82% of herbal remedy books on Amazon ‘likely written’ by AI
Originality.ai scans 558 titles in herbal remedies section between January and September
share.google
October 26, 2025 at 9:48 AM
AI will take our writing jobs, just give it thyme... #AI share.google/2Lo3EPNZrY2t...
If you like the idea of snapping up a private island & setting up your own utopia, you may enjoy my next book... 🌴 secretldn.com/hallsmead-ai... #booksky #PeoplesRepublicOfLove
A Secret Private Island In The River Thames Is Up For Sale – And It Could Be Snapped Up For As Little As A Few Pounds Next Month
This lush and leafy oasis is perched in the middle of the River Thames - and it's set to be auctioned off next month.
secretldn.com
October 24, 2025 at 6:24 PM
If you like the idea of snapping up a private island & setting up your own utopia, you may enjoy my next book... 🌴 secretldn.com/hallsmead-ai... #booksky #PeoplesRepublicOfLove
Kids are... saying 'six' and 'seven'? Oh the horror! 🙈 www.standard.co.uk/lifestyle/6-...
'Like a plague': what is the 6-7 meme and why are teachers so fed up?
School children across the globe are blurting out the numbers “six” and “seven” — and teachers are at their wits’ end
www.standard.co.uk
October 24, 2025 at 4:27 PM
Kids are... saying 'six' and 'seven'? Oh the horror! 🙈 www.standard.co.uk/lifestyle/6-...
Autumn newsletter coming soon - please join now if you haven't already! #booksky 🍁
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October 20, 2025 at 4:58 PM
Autumn newsletter coming soon - please join now if you haven't already! #booksky 🍁
I've got an Itch! Have you? New horror from @manylittlewords.bsky.social 🙌 #booksky
October 11, 2025 at 12:22 PM
I've got an Itch! Have you? New horror from @manylittlewords.bsky.social 🙌 #booksky
Reposted by Heather Child
It's Bookshop Day! Get down to your local independent bookshop and buy a book or three. No local bookshop? Snap up a book with us 10-12 October and you could WIN a £250 gift card.
EVERY sale supports indie booksellers, not billionaires. uk.bookshop.org/lists/win-a-...
EVERY sale supports indie booksellers, not billionaires. uk.bookshop.org/lists/win-a-...
October 11, 2025 at 8:42 AM
It's Bookshop Day! Get down to your local independent bookshop and buy a book or three. No local bookshop? Snap up a book with us 10-12 October and you could WIN a £250 gift card.
EVERY sale supports indie booksellers, not billionaires. uk.bookshop.org/lists/win-a-...
EVERY sale supports indie booksellers, not billionaires. uk.bookshop.org/lists/win-a-...
Ooo there's a station on this line called Bat & Ball. That sounds like a fun station.
October 10, 2025 at 5:46 PM
Ooo there's a station on this line called Bat & Ball. That sounds like a fun station.
"Horror writers are the nicest people..." Great to see @timlebbon.bsky.social & @cgolden.bsky.social launching their intriguing new books at @forbiddenplanet.bsky.social this evening with @manylittlewords.bsky.social 📚🌃🤩
October 8, 2025 at 7:27 PM
"Horror writers are the nicest people..." Great to see @timlebbon.bsky.social & @cgolden.bsky.social launching their intriguing new books at @forbiddenplanet.bsky.social this evening with @manylittlewords.bsky.social 📚🌃🤩
Reposted by Heather Child
What's on our latest eBook sale?
THESE BEAUTIES
Get the below books, for just £1.99 each on our website for the next TWO WEEKS
See it, Buy it, Sorted x
#BookSky
THESE BEAUTIES
Get the below books, for just £1.99 each on our website for the next TWO WEEKS
See it, Buy it, Sorted x
#BookSky
October 6, 2025 at 10:34 AM
What's on our latest eBook sale?
THESE BEAUTIES
Get the below books, for just £1.99 each on our website for the next TWO WEEKS
See it, Buy it, Sorted x
#BookSky
THESE BEAUTIES
Get the below books, for just £1.99 each on our website for the next TWO WEEKS
See it, Buy it, Sorted x
#BookSky
Reposted by Heather Child
No matter how weirdly different our methods, our brains do something AI will never accomplish. Author Kelsey Allagood unravels the awesome weirdness, today at WU.
Your Brain Is a Story Machine
Note: When I wrote about being a neurodivergent writer last time, many of you told me it was the first time you felt truly seen. That meant so much to me. I realized I had more thoughts about it, s…
writerunboxed.com
October 2, 2025 at 2:06 PM
No matter how weirdly different our methods, our brains do something AI will never accomplish. Author Kelsey Allagood unravels the awesome weirdness, today at WU.
September 30, 2025 at 5:20 PM
Congratulations to @voidcricket.bsky.social on the launch of #AnUnbreakableWorld & @garethlpowell.bsky.social with #WhoWillYouSave! 🙌 🚀 📚 @forbiddenplanet.bsky.social
September 18, 2025 at 6:02 PM
Congratulations to @voidcricket.bsky.social on the launch of #AnUnbreakableWorld & @garethlpowell.bsky.social with #WhoWillYouSave! 🙌 🚀 📚 @forbiddenplanet.bsky.social
How about a little detour? 🌲🌳🌲
Please join my newsletter, PICARESQUE! Quirky research, giveaways, novel news and a free short story... 👇
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September 7, 2025 at 8:57 AM
How about a little detour? 🌲🌳🌲
Please join my newsletter, PICARESQUE! Quirky research, giveaways, novel news and a free short story... 👇
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"I think being a writer is a bit like being a linguistic archaeologist: you have to dig through layers of stories, but also layers of forgettings." ~ Elif Shafak
Wonderful and enlarging coversation between @leaypi.bsky.social and Elif Shafak.
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/a...
Wonderful and enlarging coversation between @leaypi.bsky.social and Elif Shafak.
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/a...
‘Literature can be a form of resistance’: Lea Ypi talks to Elif Shafak about writing in the age of demagogues
The Albanian author of Free and the Turkish novelist discuss the rise of populism, censorship – and how today’s conflicts all come from the unresolved trauma of the past
www.theguardian.com
September 1, 2025 at 2:47 PM
"I think being a writer is a bit like being a linguistic archaeologist: you have to dig through layers of stories, but also layers of forgettings." ~ Elif Shafak
Wonderful and enlarging coversation between @leaypi.bsky.social and Elif Shafak.
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/a...
Wonderful and enlarging coversation between @leaypi.bsky.social and Elif Shafak.
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/a...
Can't remember the last time I looked forward to rain, but here we are ☔
August 26, 2025 at 9:43 PM
Can't remember the last time I looked forward to rain, but here we are ☔
Very excited to read this! ✨
Out now: THE IMMEASURABLE HEAVEN, @caspargeon.bsky.social 's reality-bending SciFi that reads like a fable from another galaxy, and features an entirely non-human cast!
“Fearlessly creative, wildly imaginative” @garethlpowell.bsky.social
Buy geni.us/immeasurable
“Fearlessly creative, wildly imaginative” @garethlpowell.bsky.social
Buy geni.us/immeasurable
August 24, 2025 at 6:19 PM
Very excited to read this! ✨
I'd also add The Absent Heart by @AliBacon - great historical fiction & especially for any fans of Robert Louis Stevenson
Summer is the perfect time to lose yourself in a good book – and history lovers have plenty of new titles to choose from this year. BBC History Magazine rounds up 28 of the best history summer reads for 2025
www.historyextra.com/period/gener... @historyextra.bsky.social #Booksky 💙📚
www.historyextra.com/period/gener... @historyextra.bsky.social #Booksky 💙📚
28 of the best history summer reads for 2025
Summer is the perfect time to lose yourself in a good book – and history lovers have plenty of new titles to choose from this year. We've rounded up 28 of favourites from the year so far
www.historyextra.com
August 24, 2025 at 5:58 PM
I'd also add The Absent Heart by @AliBacon - great historical fiction & especially for any fans of Robert Louis Stevenson
Another good move from Denmark 🙌
Denmark to abolish VAT on books in effort to get more people reading
Denmark to abolish VAT on books in effort to get more people reading
Culture minister says government will propose ending the 25% rate, the highest in the world, in its budget bill
Denmark is to stop charging VAT on books in an attempt to get more people reading.
At 25%, the country’s tax rate on books is the highest in the world, a policy the government believes is contributing to a growing “reading crisis”. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
August 21, 2025 at 9:07 PM
Another good move from Denmark 🙌
Good.
The class action lawsuit charging the AI giant with copyright infringement is rapidly developing despite an appeal from Anthropic, with two new firms joining to represent the interests of publishers and a full list of pirated books used to train Anthropic’s AI due September 1.
Authors v. Anthropic Copyright Piracy Lawsuit Speeds Ahead
The class action lawsuit charging the AI giant with copyright infringement is rapidly developing despite an appeal from Anthropic, with two new firms joining to represent the interests of publishers…
buff.ly
August 12, 2025 at 9:01 PM
Good.
Reposted by Heather Child
NEW BOOK KLAXON! My existential acid-western fantasy novella, For the Road, is coming from PS Publishing in August! In hardback and a limited signed, numbered run of 100.
You can pre-order here:
pspublishing.co.uk/for-the-road...
You can pre-order here:
pspublishing.co.uk/for-the-road...
For The Road [hardcover] by Stark Holborn
A NOVELLA by Stark Holborn CATEGORY Acid Western / Fantasy PUBLICATION DATE August 2025 COVER ART Ashni Wilson PAGES 62 EDITIONS Unsigned Jacketed
pspublishing.co.uk
July 15, 2025 at 12:27 PM
NEW BOOK KLAXON! My existential acid-western fantasy novella, For the Road, is coming from PS Publishing in August! In hardback and a limited signed, numbered run of 100.
You can pre-order here:
pspublishing.co.uk/for-the-road...
You can pre-order here:
pspublishing.co.uk/for-the-road...
One part of me watches the euphoria, the other watches Hugh Laurie... youtube.com/shorts/2GXzs... #Weuros2025
World's worst football coach #hughlaurie #shorts
YouTube video by BBC Comedy Greats
youtube.com
July 27, 2025 at 9:17 PM
One part of me watches the euphoria, the other watches Hugh Laurie... youtube.com/shorts/2GXzs... #Weuros2025