James Bailey
@drjamesbailey.bsky.social
Writer who lives in Manchester. Rep’d by Creative Artists Agency. LIKE A CAT LOVES A BIRD, my biography of Muriel Spark, is out in April 2026 🐈⬛
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And today I’m in The Scotsman’s list of ‘cracking page-turners’ for 2026.
(Incidentally, I once met a drag queen called Paige Turner. Hope she’s doing well, wherever she is these days ✨)
(Incidentally, I once met a drag queen called Paige Turner. Hope she’s doing well, wherever she is these days ✨)
December 27, 2025 at 9:04 PM
And today I’m in The Scotsman’s list of ‘cracking page-turners’ for 2026.
(Incidentally, I once met a drag queen called Paige Turner. Hope she’s doing well, wherever she is these days ✨)
(Incidentally, I once met a drag queen called Paige Turner. Hope she’s doing well, wherever she is these days ✨)
Aaaah, thank you!! 🐈⬛💘🐦⬛
December 26, 2025 at 12:41 PM
Aaaah, thank you!! 🐈⬛💘🐦⬛
Merry Christmas, Louisa! x
December 25, 2025 at 9:21 PM
Merry Christmas, Louisa! x
Happy holidays to you too!
December 25, 2025 at 6:04 PM
Happy holidays to you too!
Just realised I’m not, in fact, sandwiched between Liza and Cher. I follow them up… like a strange dessert at the end of a very camp dinner. 🍮
December 25, 2025 at 5:36 PM
Just realised I’m not, in fact, sandwiched between Liza and Cher. I follow them up… like a strange dessert at the end of a very camp dinner. 🍮
Rereading Sinéad O'Connor’s autobiography - here she is, as a teenager, giving Yeats a bit of a kicking
December 21, 2025 at 9:59 AM
Rereading Sinéad O'Connor’s autobiography - here she is, as a teenager, giving Yeats a bit of a kicking
Because she refused to have the US national anthem played before her shows (this was all pre-Pope incident). Footage here! www.youtube.com/watch?v=Clm6...
Sinead O'Connor in disguise at SPAC: 1990
YouTube video by WNYT NewsChannel 13
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December 20, 2025 at 8:23 PM
Because she refused to have the US national anthem played before her shows (this was all pre-Pope incident). Footage here! www.youtube.com/watch?v=Clm6...
Please please do! I know no one in Edinburgh, so I’m obviously terrified it’ll just be me talking to myself in an empty bookshop. Do encourage your friends and colleagues to come too!
December 19, 2025 at 10:05 AM
Please please do! I know no one in Edinburgh, so I’m obviously terrified it’ll just be me talking to myself in an empty bookshop. Do encourage your friends and colleagues to come too!
Only remote (alas) - HOWEVER, I have an Edinburgh book launch on 23rd April at Toppings, and it would be amazing to meet at long last! www.toppingbooks.co.uk/events/edinb...
James Bailey for Like a Cat Loves a Bird: The Nine Lives of Muriel Spark at Topping & Company Booksellers of Edinburgh
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December 18, 2025 at 7:57 PM
Only remote (alas) - HOWEVER, I have an Edinburgh book launch on 23rd April at Toppings, and it would be amazing to meet at long last! www.toppingbooks.co.uk/events/edinb...
News! ARCs of LIKE A CAT LOVES A BIRD: THE NINE LIVES OF MURIEL SPARK are now available to request on NetGalley, for those who like that sort of thing: www.netgalley.co.uk/catalog/book...
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Like a Cat Loves a Bird
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December 12, 2025 at 1:16 PM
News! ARCs of LIKE A CAT LOVES A BIRD: THE NINE LIVES OF MURIEL SPARK are now available to request on NetGalley, for those who like that sort of thing: www.netgalley.co.uk/catalog/book...
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