Olga Wojtas
@olgawojtas.bsky.social
As Olga Wojtas, writes the Miss Blaine's Prefect series. As Helena Marchmont, the Bunburry e-series. Supports the Caledonian Antisyzygy. NUJ life member.
Book post! Can't wait to read the latest by the fabulous @shonamaclean.bsky.social. Published by @quercusbooks.bsky.social, in bookshops in Feb.
November 24, 2025 at 3:07 PM
Book post! Can't wait to read the latest by the fabulous @shonamaclean.bsky.social. Published by @quercusbooks.bsky.social, in bookshops in Feb.
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✨ Paperback fiction bundle ✨
There’s something for everyone in the paperback fiction bundle, from prize winners to debut talent
Immerse yourself in historical and contemporary fiction, romance and cosy crime
Buy two bundle paperback fiction books for £20
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#Booksky
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There’s something for everyone in the paperback fiction bundle, from prize winners to debut talent
Immerse yourself in historical and contemporary fiction, romance and cosy crime
Buy two bundle paperback fiction books for £20
saraband.net/product/pape...
#Booksky
📚💙
November 24, 2025 at 11:17 AM
✨ Paperback fiction bundle ✨
There’s something for everyone in the paperback fiction bundle, from prize winners to debut talent
Immerse yourself in historical and contemporary fiction, romance and cosy crime
Buy two bundle paperback fiction books for £20
saraband.net/product/pape...
#Booksky
📚💙
There’s something for everyone in the paperback fiction bundle, from prize winners to debut talent
Immerse yourself in historical and contemporary fiction, romance and cosy crime
Buy two bundle paperback fiction books for £20
saraband.net/product/pape...
#Booksky
📚💙
Great time at the Scottish Christmas Book Fair for Book Week Scotland. With literary royalty Stewart Conn; @saraband-books.bsky.social superstars Graeme Macrae Burnet and Catherine Simpson; plus our fab publisher; and comparing MurielSpark-inspired books with @gillianshirreffs.bsky.social.
November 22, 2025 at 6:34 PM
Great time at the Scottish Christmas Book Fair for Book Week Scotland. With literary royalty Stewart Conn; @saraband-books.bsky.social superstars Graeme Macrae Burnet and Catherine Simpson; plus our fab publisher; and comparing MurielSpark-inspired books with @gillianshirreffs.bsky.social.
Incredible @rsno.bsky.social concert at the Usher Hall. A changing places scenario with conductor Patrick Hahn playing piano for Antheil's A Jazz Symphony, while Frank Dupree conducted. Then they swapped for Gershwin's Piano Concerto in F, including swapping shoes. Encore: jamming to Caravan.
November 22, 2025 at 12:21 AM
Incredible @rsno.bsky.social concert at the Usher Hall. A changing places scenario with conductor Patrick Hahn playing piano for Antheil's A Jazz Symphony, while Frank Dupree conducted. Then they swapped for Gershwin's Piano Concerto in F, including swapping shoes. Encore: jamming to Caravan.
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"With a psychedelic Robert Louis Stevenson emblazoned on the front cover, 'Cool Scots' provides a refreshingly contemporary reinvention of the various personalities behind Scottish culture."
Get a copy here: gregmoodie.com/product/cool...
Get a copy here: gregmoodie.com/product/cool...
November 9, 2025 at 9:33 AM
"With a psychedelic Robert Louis Stevenson emblazoned on the front cover, 'Cool Scots' provides a refreshingly contemporary reinvention of the various personalities behind Scottish culture."
Get a copy here: gregmoodie.com/product/cool...
Get a copy here: gregmoodie.com/product/cool...
With @qmuniversity.bsky.social at the Edinburgh universities' Remembrance Day service in Old College.
November 9, 2025 at 4:03 PM
With @qmuniversity.bsky.social at the Edinburgh universities' Remembrance Day service in Old College.
Marvellous workshop with Tessa Asquith-Lamb at Lauriston Castle on making Christmas decorations. Almost happy with mine. The Japanese Garden looking gorgeous.
November 8, 2025 at 9:07 PM
Marvellous workshop with Tessa Asquith-Lamb at Lauriston Castle on making Christmas decorations. Almost happy with mine. The Japanese Garden looking gorgeous.
Auld Reekie Scrievers, an Edinburgh group of short story writers, today launched our anthology "Pulling At Threads." Published by Dean Park Press, all profits to the homeless charity Streetwork for its library and creative writing group. Available from local bookshops and online.
November 7, 2025 at 11:16 PM
Auld Reekie Scrievers, an Edinburgh group of short story writers, today launched our anthology "Pulling At Threads." Published by Dean Park Press, all profits to the homeless charity Streetwork for its library and creative writing group. Available from local bookshops and online.
Fantastic pop-up display today of Mary Shelley's "Frankenstein" at the @natlibscot.bsky.social, marking the release of Guillermo del Toro's film. Includes Muriel Spark's Bram Stoker award for her biography of Mary Shelley, and Mary Shelley telling Sir Walter Scott he's an idiot.
November 7, 2025 at 8:27 PM
Fantastic pop-up display today of Mary Shelley's "Frankenstein" at the @natlibscot.bsky.social, marking the release of Guillermo del Toro's film. Includes Muriel Spark's Bram Stoker award for her biography of Mary Shelley, and Mary Shelley telling Sir Walter Scott he's an idiot.
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Anyway, we need some joy, so here's the Egyptian foreign minister being given a Lego Pyramid by the Danish foreign minister.
November 3, 2025 at 2:35 PM
Anyway, we need some joy, so here's the Egyptian foreign minister being given a Lego Pyramid by the Danish foreign minister.
What better Christmas present than a book? One signed for the recipient! 📖🖋
We're excited to be taking part in @publishingscotland.bsky.social's first Scottish Christmas Book Fair, with Saraband authors:
✨ Caroline Young
✨ @christinariley.bsky.social
✨ @olgawojtas.bsky.social
✨ Graeme Macrae Burnet
✨ @writercatherine.bsky.social
www.publishingscotland.org/event/scotti...
✨ Caroline Young
✨ @christinariley.bsky.social
✨ @olgawojtas.bsky.social
✨ Graeme Macrae Burnet
✨ @writercatherine.bsky.social
www.publishingscotland.org/event/scotti...
Scottish Christmas Book Fair | Publishing Scotland
Publishing Scotland will host a Scottish Christmas Book Fair during Book Week Scotland. You have the chance to speak to publishers, meet authors, get your books signed, and enjoy FREE mulled wine and ...
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November 4, 2025 at 2:56 PM
What better Christmas present than a book? One signed for the recipient! 📖🖋
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Wan o the 1%:
Ian Hamilton Finlay
FOX
see me
wan time
ah wis a fox
an wis ah sleekit! ah
gaed slinkin
heh
an snappin
yeh
the blokes
aa sayed ah wis a GREAT fox
aw nae kiddin
ah wis pretty good
had a whole damn wood
in them days
hen
Ian Hamilton Finlay
FOX
see me
wan time
ah wis a fox
an wis ah sleekit! ah
gaed slinkin
heh
an snappin
yeh
the blokes
aa sayed ah wis a GREAT fox
aw nae kiddin
ah wis pretty good
had a whole damn wood
in them days
hen
Heads up: if you are describing a fox, there’s like a 99% chance that you will use the adjective ‘sly.’
November 4, 2025 at 2:42 PM
Wan o the 1%:
Ian Hamilton Finlay
FOX
see me
wan time
ah wis a fox
an wis ah sleekit! ah
gaed slinkin
heh
an snappin
yeh
the blokes
aa sayed ah wis a GREAT fox
aw nae kiddin
ah wis pretty good
had a whole damn wood
in them days
hen
Ian Hamilton Finlay
FOX
see me
wan time
ah wis a fox
an wis ah sleekit! ah
gaed slinkin
heh
an snappin
yeh
the blokes
aa sayed ah wis a GREAT fox
aw nae kiddin
ah wis pretty good
had a whole damn wood
in them days
hen
Andy Goldsworthy Fifty Years at the @nationalgalleries.bsky.social
October 31, 2025 at 8:30 PM
Andy Goldsworthy Fifty Years at the @nationalgalleries.bsky.social
Fascinating talk by Professor Dan Gunn of the American University of Paris to the Muriel Spark Society and the Morningside Heritage Association, chaired by Alan Taylor. Dan is the brilliant editor of Muriel Spark's letters, volume 1 now available from Virago Press.
October 18, 2025 at 11:27 PM
Fascinating talk by Professor Dan Gunn of the American University of Paris to the Muriel Spark Society and the Morningside Heritage Association, chaired by Alan Taylor. Dan is the brilliant editor of Muriel Spark's letters, volume 1 now available from Virago Press.
Congratulations to @munozpoems.bsky.social fir her poem of the week in today's @scotsman.com
October 18, 2025 at 5:33 PM
Congratulations to @munozpoems.bsky.social fir her poem of the week in today's @scotsman.com
You may not be excited, but I am - never seen inside a hedge before!
October 15, 2025 at 5:46 PM
You may not be excited, but I am - never seen inside a hedge before!
From the wonderful BookmarkBlair, @billykayscot.bsky.social; @hugorifkind.bsky.social; catching up with @linanderson.bsky.social and @suzyaspleybooks.bsky.social; and star of the weekend, Mabel, who brought along @mrandrewcotter.bsky.social.
October 10, 2025 at 7:58 PM
From the wonderful BookmarkBlair, @billykayscot.bsky.social; @hugorifkind.bsky.social; catching up with @linanderson.bsky.social and @suzyaspleybooks.bsky.social; and star of the weekend, Mabel, who brought along @mrandrewcotter.bsky.social.
I'm sure they used to be bigger...
October 7, 2025 at 4:31 PM
I'm sure they used to be bigger...
Had a fabulous time at the Wigtown Book Festival being chaired by the lovely @writerkcampbell.bsky.social who unlike Eric Morecambe asked all the right questions and in the right order.
October 2, 2025 at 10:09 PM
Had a fabulous time at the Wigtown Book Festival being chaired by the lovely @writerkcampbell.bsky.social who unlike Eric Morecambe asked all the right questions and in the right order.
Delighted to be back to the @edbookfest.bsky.social - please do come along if you're free!
www.edbookfest.co.uk/the-festival...
www.edbookfest.co.uk/the-festival...
Olga Wojtas: Never Underestimate a Librarian
From Wed 13 Aug - Described in The Scotsman as having 'Jane Austen stylings and Stella Gibbons satirical wit', we're thrilled that Olga Wojtas is returning to the Festival…
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June 10, 2025 at 10:13 PM
Delighted to be back to the @edbookfest.bsky.social - please do come along if you're free!
www.edbookfest.co.uk/the-festival...
www.edbookfest.co.uk/the-festival...
Fascinating talk at the Muriel Spark Society by psychiatrist Allan Beveridge who talked about the presentation of madness and mental illness in her work. She wrote in The Comforters, "We are all a little mad in one or other particular." Then to Le Bistrot which has an interesting take on literature.
June 10, 2025 at 12:19 AM
Fascinating talk at the Muriel Spark Society by psychiatrist Allan Beveridge who talked about the presentation of madness and mental illness in her work. She wrote in The Comforters, "We are all a little mad in one or other particular." Then to Le Bistrot which has an interesting take on literature.
This is an incredible book - @gillianshirreffs.bsky.social exploring her diagnosis and treatment of breast cancer through the writing she did over 800 days. There are longer pieces and short bursts of words in emails, texts and tweets. Beautifully presented and produced by @intocreative.bsky.social
June 9, 2025 at 3:33 PM
This is an incredible book - @gillianshirreffs.bsky.social exploring her diagnosis and treatment of breast cancer through the writing she did over 800 days. There are longer pieces and short bursts of words in emails, texts and tweets. Beautifully presented and produced by @intocreative.bsky.social
Thank you so much, @portybelle.bsky.social!
Miss Blaine’s Prefect and the Uncharted Island by Olga Wojtas | #bookreview | @sarabandbooks @olgawojtas.bsky.social @saraband-books.bsky.social
I always look forward to the publication of a new book in Olga Wojtas's wonderful Miss Blaine's Prefect series and this latest book did not disappoint.…
I always look forward to the publication of a new book in Olga Wojtas's wonderful Miss Blaine's Prefect series and this latest book did not disappoint.…
Miss Blaine’s Prefect and the Uncharted Island by Olga Wojtas | #bookreview | @sarabandbooks @olgawojtas.bsky.social @saraband-books.bsky.social
I always look forward to the publication of a new book in Olga Wojtas's wonderful Miss Blaine's Prefect series and this latest book did not disappoint. This time, Shona finds herself on the uncharted island of the title and as usual has no idea why Miss Blaine has sent her there or what she has been sent to do. If you haven't come across Shona before what you need to know is that she is a time-travelling librarian who works at Morningside library here in Edinburgh.
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June 6, 2025 at 8:11 PM
Thank you so much, @portybelle.bsky.social!
Edward Hopper in Edinburgh
Edinburgh O'Clock - 3 minutes to every hour. - we run fast so you don't miss your train.
A new hourly image to brighten your day taken in #Scotland very often #Edinburgh and shared with love by Tom Duffin
@tomduffinphotos.bsky.social.
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A new hourly image to brighten your day taken in #Scotland very often #Edinburgh and shared with love by Tom Duffin
@tomduffinphotos.bsky.social.
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June 4, 2025 at 10:49 AM
Edward Hopper in Edinburgh
The fabulous @liammcilvanney.bsky.social hits town! (He's from the west, but if you concentrate, you can understand him.)
Edinburghers! I will be chatting all things The Good Father with the Queen of Crime on Wed 2 July at 6.30pm in St Vincent’s Chapel, courtesy of the good folk at Golden Hare Books. This is the first Scottish event on the tour and I am EXCITED! Get your tickets and I’ll see you there…!💙📚
4 WEEKS TODAY! 🥳 Join us on Wednesday 2nd of July to hear @liammcilvanney.bsky.social in conversation with @valmcdermid.bsky.social about The Good Father. 📚 Sign up here: goldenharebooks.com/products/the... @zaffrebooks.bsky.social
June 4, 2025 at 10:48 AM
The fabulous @liammcilvanney.bsky.social hits town! (He's from the west, but if you concentrate, you can understand him.)