Sarah Todd Taylor
@sarahtoddtaylor.bsky.social
Author of the Alice Éclair and Max the Detective Cat series and Arthur and Me. Loves singing, cats and guinea pigs.
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I’m very pleased to offer a range of workshops both online and in-person and am happy to tailor my workshop to your school’s needs. Please get in touch via the contact page. For more in…
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I've been working on my author visits this month, so if your schools is looking to book an author to run workshops on building characters, crafting stories or cracking codes, do get in touch via my website.
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I will be posting about this non stop in the days to come but v excited to say this auction is LIVE! Funds will go to Emergency Response Rooms in Sudan. Perfect xmas presents and treats for you! app.galabid.com/creatives4su... #keepeyesonsudan
November 23, 2025 at 3:42 PM
I will be posting about this non stop in the days to come but v excited to say this auction is LIVE! Funds will go to Emergency Response Rooms in Sudan. Perfect xmas presents and treats for you! app.galabid.com/creatives4su... #keepeyesonsudan
Still angry.
Will never not be angry.
Will never not be angry.
Brexit has caused almost twice as much damage to the UK economy than estimated by official forecasts, according to new paper from a group of experts including a senior Bank of England economist
Brexit Hit to UK Economy Double Official Estimate, Study Finds
Brexit has caused almost twice as much damage to the UK economy than estimated by official forecasts, according to new paper from a group of experts including a senior Bank of England economist.
bloom.bg
November 21, 2025 at 1:08 PM
Still angry.
Will never not be angry.
Will never not be angry.
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Back at the top of the tree where she belongs. Margo Leadbetter. 🚬
November 20, 2025 at 1:34 PM
Back at the top of the tree where she belongs. Margo Leadbetter. 🚬
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Join us for our annual Books of the Year Online event on Monday 24th November. Check out the fab line up of authors we’ll be talking to below! And we will be giving out a 10% discount code on the night! Book your free ticket here: halfwayupthestairs.ie/product/2411...
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November 18, 2025 at 8:50 PM
Join us for our annual Books of the Year Online event on Monday 24th November. Check out the fab line up of authors we’ll be talking to below! And we will be giving out a 10% discount code on the night! Book your free ticket here: halfwayupthestairs.ie/product/2411...
@sarahwebbwriter.bsky.social
@sarahwebbwriter.bsky.social
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Just back from the optometrist. All of the glasses were half-full & rose-tinted. I think I went to an optimist by mistake
November 18, 2025 at 1:42 PM
Just back from the optometrist. All of the glasses were half-full & rose-tinted. I think I went to an optimist by mistake
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My favourite year for oppressed literary masculinity was 2023 when the number of women on the Booker shortlist was smaller than the number of men named Paul
Exactly one woman has won the Booker in the past six years www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
November 16, 2025 at 3:14 PM
My favourite year for oppressed literary masculinity was 2023 when the number of women on the Booker shortlist was smaller than the number of men named Paul
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If you’re feeling a bit sad it might help a little to know that this painting exists. It’s called Dynamism of a dog on a leash, by Giacomo Galla, 1912:
November 16, 2025 at 9:48 AM
If you’re feeling a bit sad it might help a little to know that this painting exists. It’s called Dynamism of a dog on a leash, by Giacomo Galla, 1912:
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At a rugby club in small-town Leicestershire. This was on the window ledge in the toilet. Fearing the worst, I scanned the QR & opened it in an incognito window…
It’s a link to Amnesty International’s explainer on asylum & refugees 😍
It’s a link to Amnesty International’s explainer on asylum & refugees 😍
November 15, 2025 at 1:52 PM
At a rugby club in small-town Leicestershire. This was on the window ledge in the toilet. Fearing the worst, I scanned the QR & opened it in an incognito window…
It’s a link to Amnesty International’s explainer on asylum & refugees 😍
It’s a link to Amnesty International’s explainer on asylum & refugees 😍
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A Room of One's Own: Sarah Todd Taylor crime.cymru/2025/11/14/a...
A Room of One’s Own: Sarah Todd Taylor
A Room of One’s Own (If only for a weekend): Sarah Todd Taylor It was Virginia Woolf who espoused the necessity of a room of one’s own if one is to write fiction. Some lucky writers may achieve thi…
crime.cymru
November 14, 2025 at 10:53 PM
A Room of One's Own: Sarah Todd Taylor crime.cymru/2025/11/14/a...
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…and James Bond, who did not die!’
November 11, 2025 at 7:15 PM
…and James Bond, who did not die!’
PROTECT THE NHS!!!!!
Quack medicine stall, Bolton’s open market, 1937, photo by Humphrey Spender. Visiting a doctor was expensive, so people relied on such stalls.
November 10, 2025 at 8:37 PM
PROTECT THE NHS!!!!!
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Creative pals, we need you! A group of us are running an auction to raise funds for the Emergency Response Rooms in Sudan. Sudanese people are dealing with the worst humanitarian crisis since records began. Can you donate mentoring/art/signed books etc? SIGN UP HERE: www.sudancoup.com/auction
Creatives4Sudan Fundraising Auction — Keep Eyes On Sudan
Creatives coming together to raise life-saving funds for the people escaping genocide in El-Fasher, Sudan
www.sudancoup.com
November 10, 2025 at 1:15 PM
Creative pals, we need you! A group of us are running an auction to raise funds for the Emergency Response Rooms in Sudan. Sudanese people are dealing with the worst humanitarian crisis since records began. Can you donate mentoring/art/signed books etc? SIGN UP HERE: www.sudancoup.com/auction
This book is SO good
Just finished the proof of The Golden Monkey Mystery by @piudg.bsky.social, out 15th Jan - now that's an adventure story as adventure stories are meant to be! Death! Monkeys! Jewels! Danger! A subtle deconstruction of colonial childhood narratives! #KidLitUK #UKKidlit
November 10, 2025 at 8:54 AM
This book is SO good
Just finally watched Matthew Bourne's Swan Lake and I am not OK.
Utterly magnificent and the most heartbreaking interpretation I have seen.
Utterly magnificent and the most heartbreaking interpretation I have seen.
November 9, 2025 at 11:43 PM
Just finally watched Matthew Bourne's Swan Lake and I am not OK.
Utterly magnificent and the most heartbreaking interpretation I have seen.
Utterly magnificent and the most heartbreaking interpretation I have seen.
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sudden urge to share @mcnees.bsky.social 🧵 on Rosalind Franklin
Rosalind Franklin was born #OTD in 1920. Her X-ray diffraction work was critical for establishing the helical nature of DNA. 👩🔬 🧪
Work carried out by Franklin (with doctoral student Raymond Gosling) was given to Watson and Crick without her consent.
Image: Vittorio Luzzati / Jewish Women’s Archive
Work carried out by Franklin (with doctoral student Raymond Gosling) was given to Watson and Crick without her consent.
Image: Vittorio Luzzati / Jewish Women’s Archive
November 7, 2025 at 8:23 PM
sudden urge to share @mcnees.bsky.social 🧵 on Rosalind Franklin
@classicfm.com Fergus and Logan all tucked up for the night and chilling to the pets classics.
November 5, 2025 at 6:12 PM
@classicfm.com Fergus and Logan all tucked up for the night and chilling to the pets classics.
How AMAZING does this look!!!
We're thrilled to share the cover for Animagicals: Mia's Tiger - an exciting new fantasy adventure series by bestselling author @paulabooks.bsky.social about children who transform into animals. Illustrated with dynamic artwork from Erwin Madrid. 🐅
November 5, 2025 at 3:06 PM
How AMAZING does this look!!!
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🎉 Happy Flux Capacitor Day! On this day in Back to the Future film history (5th November 1955), Doc Emmett Brown had the idea for the Flux Capacitor.
The UK will be marking this day with fireworks across the land this evening*.
#BackToTheFuture #BonfireNight #Fireworks
* oh, and bonfire night.
The UK will be marking this day with fireworks across the land this evening*.
#BackToTheFuture #BonfireNight #Fireworks
* oh, and bonfire night.
disconnect capacitor drive before opening shield eyes from light written on a box
ALT: disconnect capacitor drive before opening shield eyes from light written on a box
media.tenor.com
November 5, 2025 at 9:12 AM
🎉 Happy Flux Capacitor Day! On this day in Back to the Future film history (5th November 1955), Doc Emmett Brown had the idea for the Flux Capacitor.
The UK will be marking this day with fireworks across the land this evening*.
#BackToTheFuture #BonfireNight #Fireworks
* oh, and bonfire night.
The UK will be marking this day with fireworks across the land this evening*.
#BackToTheFuture #BonfireNight #Fireworks
* oh, and bonfire night.
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A sneak peek at the cover of next week’s issue, which celebrates Zohran Mamdani’s historic win. #NewYorkerCovers
https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/451hFM
https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/451hFM
November 5, 2025 at 3:15 AM
A sneak peek at the cover of next week’s issue, which celebrates Zohran Mamdani’s historic win. #NewYorkerCovers
https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/451hFM
https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/451hFM
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Breaking News: Zohran Mamdani, a 34-year-old state lawmaker from Queens, will be the 111th mayor of New York. He will be the first Muslim to ever lead the city, as well as its first South Asian mayor and the youngest mayor in more than a century.
nyti.ms/47O4mT0
nyti.ms/47O4mT0
November 5, 2025 at 2:41 AM
Breaking News: Zohran Mamdani, a 34-year-old state lawmaker from Queens, will be the 111th mayor of New York. He will be the first Muslim to ever lead the city, as well as its first South Asian mayor and the youngest mayor in more than a century.
nyti.ms/47O4mT0
nyti.ms/47O4mT0
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Very excited to receive a proof of The Golden Monkey Mystery by @piudg.bsky.social, having loved Secrets of the Snakestone. Out 15/01 for 9+ readers, huge thanks go to @hannahprutton.bsky.social @nosycrow.bsky.social 🐒
#KidlitUK #UKKidlit
#KidlitUK #UKKidlit
November 4, 2025 at 1:00 PM
Very excited to receive a proof of The Golden Monkey Mystery by @piudg.bsky.social, having loved Secrets of the Snakestone. Out 15/01 for 9+ readers, huge thanks go to @hannahprutton.bsky.social @nosycrow.bsky.social 🐒
#KidlitUK #UKKidlit
#KidlitUK #UKKidlit
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Here in Atlanta yesterday, more than 2,000 people waited in their cars—one woman for 14 hours—for a box of food. The giveaway ended early; there wasn't enough to go around.
Multiply this scene by countless others across the country, and you get a sense of how crushing the desperation is right now.
Multiply this scene by countless others across the country, and you get a sense of how crushing the desperation is right now.
November 2, 2025 at 5:05 PM
Here in Atlanta yesterday, more than 2,000 people waited in their cars—one woman for 14 hours—for a box of food. The giveaway ended early; there wasn't enough to go around.
Multiply this scene by countless others across the country, and you get a sense of how crushing the desperation is right now.
Multiply this scene by countless others across the country, and you get a sense of how crushing the desperation is right now.
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Massively chuffed to find #MurderatChristmas in the @mrbsemporium.bsky.social Christmas Catalogue - popped in this morning and found a humungous pile in need of signing.
October 31, 2025 at 4:54 PM
Massively chuffed to find #MurderatChristmas in the @mrbsemporium.bsky.social Christmas Catalogue - popped in this morning and found a humungous pile in need of signing.
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Get your #Christmas cards and wrap here www.gailmyerscough.co.uk
November 1, 2025 at 10:08 AM
Get your #Christmas cards and wrap here www.gailmyerscough.co.uk
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If you're a National Trust member, it's that time of year again: Midnight tonight is the deadline. It's a shame people have to keep doing this to keep a toehold on historical truth in this country, but here we are. Voting link: www.nationaltrust.org.uk/who-we-are/a...
![[Scene is the entrance cabin to a NATIONAL TRUST PROPERTY AND GARDENS]
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NATIONAL TRUST EMPLOYEE [inside cabin]:
Hello there
2
[A young family - two parents two kids - have arrived at the front desk].
DAD:
Hi - do you have an activity trail, for the kids?
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NT EMPLOYEE:
Of course – you’re just in time for the Autumn Gammon Trail!
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MUM:
That sounds fun, doesn’t it kids?
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NT EMPLOYEE [handing an activity sheet and pencils to the kids]:
Every autumn, the Reform Trust gammons flock back to the National Trust for the AGM. Just follow the trail round the grounds, and see how many you can spot!
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NT EMPLOYEE [hearing something in the gardens]:
Listen - that's their call
[Calls emanating from the landscape]:
tut-tut
woke-woke
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NT EMPLOYEE [showing the family an apparently empty fenced enclosure with some bushes in]:
They are extremely sensitive and fragile...
But you can bring them out of hiding if you put a little sign down mentioning slavery.
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KIDS [pointing]:
There they are!
[Some little red faced PEOPLE wearing Barbour jackets and gilets emerge cautiously from the bushes. They are creeping towards a TINY SIGN in the middle of the enclosure].
[Little people noises]:
woke-woke
tut-tut
woke-woke
9
[Close-up of the TINY SIGN - we can read that it says]:
Slavery had a bit to do with building this massive house.
[Noises from the little people again as they inspect the tiny sign]:
tut-tut
woke-woke
10
MUM [pointing]:
What's that one doing there?
NT EMPLOYEE:
Oh, that's so sweet…
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[We see that one of the people is sat on a rock, with a little laptop open on a tree stump, and they are furiously typing away].
NT EMPLOYEE:
I think he's writing a column for the Daily Telegraph…
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[We see close up to the little person’s screen, it is a word document reading]:
Are National Trust scones secretly WOKE?
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October 31, 2025 at 9:02 AM
If you're a National Trust member, it's that time of year again: Midnight tonight is the deadline. It's a shame people have to keep doing this to keep a toehold on historical truth in this country, but here we are. Voting link: www.nationaltrust.org.uk/who-we-are/a...