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Rachel Delahaye

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Childish writer. 🇬🇧 + 🇦🇺. Carnegie-nominated. Rep: @agentalicewilliams.bsky.social My type on paper YA: Splinters 🪞 Electric Life ⚡ MG: Day of the Whale 🐋 Mort the Meek 🐦‍⬛Little Animal Rescue School talks / workshops KS1-KS3 www.racheldelahaye.com

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Rachel Delahaye @racheldelahaye.bsky.social · Feb 13

Totally stoked! #ElectricLife won the #BristolTeenBookAward. Such a great day, meeting fabulous students and the excellent shortlisted authors @anikahussainwrites.bsky.social @orsorrel.bsky.social and #GavinExtance. Get a load of my smug mug.

Red and blue cover for Electric Life laid on a Winner panel for Bristol Teen Book Awards

Photo of Rachel Delahaye holding a round glass trophy.

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Rachel Delahaye @racheldelahaye.bsky.social · Sep 8

Thanks, Stu!

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Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · Sep 8

Yeah this is true for me, too.

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Rachel Delahaye @racheldelahaye.bsky.social · Sep 8

Would any senior schools in the West London (Richmond/Kingston/M4 corridor) be interested in a discounted KS3 author talk/workshop on Friday 3rd October on author life/creativity/world building/ futuristic and dystopian stories? Please get in touch!

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Scoobiesue2 @scoobiesue2.bsky.social · Sep 2

Lovely day today! I met @racheldelahaye.bsky.social in Wells and then visited the Cathedral, followed by a trip to King John's Hunting Lodge on the way home before having cuddles with baby Esme! Perfection!

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Troika Books @troikabooks.bsky.social · Aug 19

It's #NationalPotatoDay and we couldn't let that go by without saying that potato is a unlikely but very real hero in #ElectricLife by @racheldelahaye.bsky.social - if you know, you know. If you don't know, maybe you should find out...

Red and blue cover of Electric Life with a skyscraper city with wires coming out of it.

two potatoes next to a bowl of mashed potato.

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Rachel Delahaye @racheldelahaye.bsky.social · Aug 2

Thank you for reading, Tia ❤️ so glad you liked it.

Tia Fisher @tiafisher.bsky.social · Aug 2

Jean Sylvester is a complex teenager, with well-realised issues about family, friends and love-life. Her discovery that infinite parallel universes exist which had me completely gripped. Who would she have been if she'd made different decisions? And how would her relationships be different? ... 1/2

Rachel Delahaye @racheldelahaye.bsky.social · Jul 29

Yes! But not until he was 90 I think! 😊

Rachel Delahaye @racheldelahaye.bsky.social · Jul 28

Goodbye, great man. Funny, was only thinking of him last week at @timminchin.bsky.social show, thinking how Tim is in the new Tom. Razor sharp and raucously comedic, with lyrical hangovers and brilliant preamble. #RIP #TomLehrer

Lyrics from Tom Lehrer's song, College Days:
Soon we'll be out amid the cold world's strife
Soon we'll be sliding down the razor blade of life
But as we go our sordid separate ways
We shall ne'er forget thee
Thou golden college days
Hearts full of youth
Hearts full of truth
Six parts gin to one part vermouth

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Rachel Delahaye @racheldelahaye.bsky.social · Jul 27

I was trapped in its spell, pinned by beautiful storytelling and the fate of three girls, joined across time by their Wicca ways and ghostly fates. With whispers of mythology yet totally fresh, and woven with haunting gossamer prose... #ghost by @finbarhawkins.bsky.social @zephyrbooks.bsky.social

Cover of Ghost with a blue tinted forest scene with the silhouettes of three girls and a stone tower.

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Troika Books @troikabooks.bsky.social · Jul 26

It's #NationalMarineWeek so what better time to pick up a copy of the acclaimed children's book #DayOfTheWhale by @racheldelahaye.bsky.social which is a love letter to nature and a plea to conserve our oceans, wrapped up in an island thriller!

Bright book cover with the title again at a sea backdrop with a whale drawn into the sand at the bottom

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Emma Miller 😁 @emmadmiller.bsky.social · Jul 23

Everything you need to know about "STORY" in one cartoon, thanks to Grant Snider. He created this back in 2013 for the New York Times Book Review ❤️😁📚
#books #love #grantsnider

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Gareth L. Powell @garethlpowell.bsky.social · Jul 21

Does anyone else find it crazy that you can walk into a bookshop and be charged £9.99 for a paperback novel that took the author a year to complete, but £17.99 for a completely blank notebook?

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Rachel Delahaye @racheldelahaye.bsky.social · Jul 21

Me, approximately ten minutes after saying 'right, let's get this show on the road'.

I Post Animal Vids... 😊 @realjfairclough.bsky.social · Jul 19

Mood... 😅🤣

Rachel Delahaye @racheldelahaye.bsky.social · Jul 21

The only goose-stepping I want to see evah!

I Post Animal Vids... 😊 @realjfairclough.bsky.social · Jul 20

I have no idea what is happening here but it is the best thing I’ve seen today!

Rachel Delahaye @racheldelahaye.bsky.social · Jul 20

It's written in first person (17yr old) so I think I'll go with the casual form

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Rachel Delahaye @racheldelahaye.bsky.social · Jul 20

It's first person so character! Thank you. Just don't want to be criticised for writing bad English in a book for teens. 🙃

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Rachel Delahaye @racheldelahaye.bsky.social · Jul 20

YA writing question. Should we use 'to whomever' as it is correct, or go with the more natural 'to whoever'? Thoughts?

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Rachel Delahaye @racheldelahaye.bsky.social · Jul 19

No review could do it full justice. It's simply brilliant.

Rachel Delahaye @racheldelahaye.bsky.social · Jul 18

Going to see @timminchin.bsky.social tomorrow night. Wondering if I should work out a way of popping a copy of #DayoftheWhale #scholasticaustralia in his green room. Tim would make the most delicious Byron Voss in the film.... Ludicrous idea?

Rachel Delahaye @racheldelahaye.bsky.social · Jul 18

🤗 thank you for putting me in the spotlight!

UKYA Spotlight @ukyaspotlight.bsky.social · Jul 18

Today's annual event interviews with Curtis Jobling, Jan Dunning, and Rachael Delahaye

@curtisjobling.bsky.social @jandunning.bsky.social @racheldelahaye.bsky.social @foxandinkbooks.bsky.social @scholasticuk.bsky.social #UKYA #UKYASpotlight

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Annual Event 2025: Curtis Jobling, Jan Dunning, and Rachel Delahaye

Interview with three UKYA authors

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Rachel Delahaye @racheldelahaye.bsky.social · Jul 18

YA's answer to Sex Education (tv), brings huge issues like pregnancy and coercion into focus without sacrificing humour. Brilliant characters, un-sugar-coated and real, Tia distils teen emotion into immediate, must-read verse. Adored #NotGoingToPlan @tiafisher.bsky.social @hotkeybooks.bsky.social

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Rachel Delahaye @racheldelahaye.bsky.social · Jul 14

It's coming this September 😃

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coralrumble.bsky.social @coralrumble.bsky.social · Jul 14

This little beauty, by @racheldelahaye.bsky.social , explores a fascinating premise. I don’t want to say too much, but it explains the phenomenon that was The Spice Girls. As expected, every sentence testifies to Rachel’s huge writing talent. Mystery lovers will adore ‘Splinters’.

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Rachel Delahaye @racheldelahaye.bsky.social · Jul 14

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Rachel Delahaye @racheldelahaye.bsky.social · Jun 28

MASH is so good at comedy in adversity, and vice versa. Maybe the best US tv series of all time.