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Mia - Book Blogger / Author
@paradiselibrary.bsky.social
12K followers 450 following 1.4K posts
📚 Award-winning #book & #theatre critic.
✍🏻 #Writer querying my first novel.
🎭 Often pretend to be someone else on stage.
💻 Day job: global #marketing.

All my links: https://linktr.ee/Paradise_Library
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Mia - Book Blogger / Author @paradiselibrary.bsky.social · Feb 1
#MiseryPit

As teenager Evie lies in a coma, a stranger offers her mother Anna a final chance to save her.

Anna must journey through her buried past, relive her worst memories and choose someone to die in Evie’s place.

But what is the stranger’s motive?

And does Evie want to be saved?

#CT #A
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Possibly the most impressive set I’ve ever seen in a production 🩷 Colin Richmond is a mastermind! My review of @the-rsc.bsky.social Wendy and Peter Pan @barbican.bsky.social for @theatreandtonic.bsky.social ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ theatreandtonic.co.uk/blog/wendy-and… 🎭�#TheatreSkyk#TheatreReviewe#PeterPanan
October 30, 2025 at 9:07 AM
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Tonight’s show was another @the-rsc.bsky.social production: Wendy & Peter Pan @barbican.bsky.social

Great concept, and the set, music and choreography are absolutely stunning 🤩

Reviewing coming soon for @theatreandtonic.bsky.social

#TheatreSky #PeterPan #PressNight
October 28, 2025 at 11:56 PM
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Good morning everyone! ❤️‍🔥

Just over here alternating between Taylor’s Showgirl and Lily’s West End Girl. 💃🏼

What a time to be alive! 🎵

#LilyAllen #TaylorSwift #WestEndGirl #TLOASG #MusicSky
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October 27, 2025 at 10:41 AM
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Come with me to Stratford @The-RSC to take in a show with witchy vibes…

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Honestly one of the best plays I’ve ever seen!

#TheOtherPlace #Macbeth #Stratford #SamHeughan #Shakespeare
October 26, 2025 at 9:46 PM
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This @the-rsc.bsky.social production of #Macbeth was exceptional.

I’m still trying to process my thoughts. On top of excellent performances there were so many little details with costumes and set.

Review for @theatreandtonic.bsky.social coming soon.

#TheatreSky #Shakespeare #ScottishPlay
October 26, 2025 at 9:55 AM
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Fixed my thermostat all on my own like a proper grown-up - without breaking any nails I hasten to add - so I clearly deserve a treat… not least because I’ve not had the heating all week and #GirlMath🥶

What book should I buy? 😍

💙📚

#BookSky #BookTok #Bookish #BookReview #BookRecommendation
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October 24, 2025 at 3:18 PM
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Highly anticipated bookmail has arrived… but what is it? 🤔

💚🐦‍⬛

Take a guess…

💙📋

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Instagram version up soon… 👀

#BookSky #Books #NewBooks #SprayedEdges #AmReading

@jenniegauthor.bsky.social @penguinhuddleuk.bsky.social
October 23, 2025 at 5:25 PM
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New autumnal video over on insta for all the Gilmore Girls fans…
🍂🍁

Featuring my little Rory cat 🐈‍⬛

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#BookSky #TVSky #GilmoreGirls
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October 19, 2025 at 7:44 PM
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When autumn means you can watch Gilmore Girls again… and do some colouring by candlelight! 💙

Thanks @rachelmayquin.bsky.social and Insight Editions for these beautiful blue GG goodies! I can’t wait to open the advent calendar… 🩵

#Autumn #StarsHollow #GilmoreGirls
October 18, 2025 at 1:53 PM
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Had a pretty trying day at work and this perked us right up! 🥹

Absolutely loved the Live Aid Musical - so much so that I didn’t even mind the woman next to us singing her little heart out, living her best life 👀

Highly recommend 🎵🤘🏻and such an amazing cast!

#TheatreSky #Theatre #JustForOneDay
October 13, 2025 at 9:59 PM
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After a(nother) week on stage I’m having a quiet night in watching the Victoria Beckham documentary. 📺

I am stanning her kitchen - at this point I’m not sure if I prefer Beckham’s or Tucci’s. 😅

Tomorrow is a @spicegirls.bsky.social day! All the music 🎵

#MusicSky #SpiceGirls
October 12, 2025 at 6:20 PM
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Terribly sad news about one of the greats. Diane Keaton has died at 79.
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Diane Keaton, Famed for Roles in 'Father of the Bride,' 'First Wives Club' and More, Dies at 79 (Exclusive)
Diane Keaton has died at age 79. Keaton was best known for roles in movies like 'Annie Hall,' 'The First Wives Club,' 'Something's Gotta Give' and 'The Godfather.'
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October 11, 2025 at 6:52 PM
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Took on two small, contrasting roles in Edward II and somehow I look prettier as the murderer? I spent the whole time trying to look evil… 😂

Great photos though and so pleased to wear my Queenie dress again!

📷 @beccockcroft.bsky.social #ActorsLife #EdwardII #Stagey #TheatreSky
October 11, 2025 at 4:13 PM
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New review: Coffin Moon by Keith Rosson is ‘gross, creepy and believable…’ 🪦

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⭐️⭐️⭐️💫

@blackcrowbooks.bsky.social #BookSky #HorrorBooks #BookTour
October 9, 2025 at 2:31 PM
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You don’t know the life of a showgirl… ❤️‍🔥

Actually, I do! 🎭

Cheeky little bit of Marlowe this week 📜

#ActorLife #ShowgirlLife #EdwardII #TLOAS
October 6, 2025 at 6:51 PM
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Still struggling with a brutal cold (hope it’s not Covid) after it returned with a vengeance this morning, preventing me going on my work trip to Amsterdam… so I finally finished watching #Buffy (for the first time). I actually thought the ending was good. 🧛🏻‍♀️

Team Spike forever!

#TVSky
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September 29, 2025 at 9:34 PM
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Apparently I’m now writing a book in a book… whose mad idea was that? 😅

Loving writing this high concept thriller about influencers & diet culture though.

My two protagonists are vile, loathsome creatures and yet you can’t help but relate to them! 🩷

#AmWriting #AmQuerying
September 18, 2025 at 12:30 PM
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Happy publication to the latest book in the series that got me back into fantasy! ❤️‍🔥

I’m still in awe of the covers which are so pretty. 🐉

Among the Burning Flowers by @samanthashannon.bsky.social is out today from @bloomsburybooks.bsky.social

#BookSky #PrettyBooks @rachelmayquin.bsky.social
September 11, 2025 at 2:55 PM
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Current read… 🎡

I know it’s going to be dark and mysterious from the prologue! 👀

#TheMidnightCarousel by @fizalovesbooks.bsky.social is out now from #MichaelJoseph & matches my @capitalcrime.bsky.social bag 😂

Well aware that I should be learning lines but hey…🤫

💙📚

#BookSky #Books #prettybooks
September 11, 2025 at 9:31 AM
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Why do so many trains no longer have tables?

It makes it very difficult to use your journey to write when you have to balance unceremoniously on your lap… and where the hell do you put your coffee? ☹️

#Writing #Travelling
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September 5, 2025 at 9:46 AM
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Just finished Parenthood - no series has ever made me cry so much throughout 😂 ups and downs and so relatable. I loved it.

Think it’s helped me heal too actually.

Also just adore Lauren Graham 😂

#Parenthood #FamilyDrama #Life #TVSky
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September 4, 2025 at 8:05 PM
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New review: Sound Advice by Alan Green is ‘a fascinating idea’ full of timeless life lessons linked to musical hits of the 1980s. 🎵

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@saltpublishing.com

📚 💙

#BookSky #Booksta #BookReview #SoundAdvice
August 28, 2025 at 6:29 PM
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Preparing to query my high-concept thriller whilst working on a second, and just found a book I wrote in my teens 😅

It hits different (cringe) but actually has a lot of the same themes as my current WIP but sad…😭

Better handwriting though!

#AmQuerying #PastWriting #WriterSky #ThrowbackThursday
August 28, 2025 at 7:28 AM
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Hatchards St Pancras is the place to be! Popped in fresh from the Derby train and who should I bump into but the lovely @paradiselibrary.bsky.social! So nice to trade a bit of bookish gossip. Also, I did sign some paperbacks for the shop, but there's only one left, so grab it before it disappears...
August 23, 2025 at 4:10 PM
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Perfect Friday night - book, bubbles and some theatre! 🥂

Reviewing tonight for @theatreandtonic.bsky.social 🎭

Book and theatre about remarkable women so feels appropriate! 🎪

@emmacowing.bsky.social @swkplay.bsky.social

#BookSky #TheatreSky #TheAnimator #TheShowwoman @hodderfiction.bsky.social
August 22, 2025 at 6:31 PM