Una Rose 📚
@unaroseauthor.bsky.social
WRITER (journalism, publishing, novels, YA, short stories, plays)
❤️ cats, travel, British comedy
❤️ cats, travel, British comedy
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In May, Simon & Schuster announced a new award for unpublished authors of colour which included a two-book deal with six-figure advance 👇
#TheBooksellerMostRead
#TheBooksellerMostRead
New Simon & Schuster award for unpublished authors of colour includes two-book deal with six-figure advance
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December 23, 2025 at 11:31 AM
In May, Simon & Schuster announced a new award for unpublished authors of colour which included a two-book deal with six-figure advance 👇
#TheBooksellerMostRead
#TheBooksellerMostRead
Reality of Christmas with chronic illness - another bloody flare! At leasts gives me every reason to be my natural Grinch
December 22, 2025 at 7:37 PM
Reality of Christmas with chronic illness - another bloody flare! At leasts gives me every reason to be my natural Grinch
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I’ve finished my manuscript #amwriting on hilarious time in #Kyiv at end of the soviet regime. I meet artists, students, doctors, drunks, and babushkas who everyone fears. We break rules, dodge KGB, find kinship.
It’s a heartwarming #memoir but unable to spark #bookagent interest. Who best to try?📚
It’s a heartwarming #memoir but unable to spark #bookagent interest. Who best to try?📚
December 22, 2025 at 4:22 PM
I’ve finished my manuscript #amwriting on hilarious time in #Kyiv at end of the soviet regime. I meet artists, students, doctors, drunks, and babushkas who everyone fears. We break rules, dodge KGB, find kinship.
It’s a heartwarming #memoir but unable to spark #bookagent interest. Who best to try?📚
It’s a heartwarming #memoir but unable to spark #bookagent interest. Who best to try?📚
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The White House has been caught.
The administration inserted a photo of Bill Clinton, Michael Jackson, and Diana Ross into the Epstein files and falsely implied it showed them with victims.
In reality, it’s a publicly available fundraiser photo featuring Jackson and Ross’s own children.
The administration inserted a photo of Bill Clinton, Michael Jackson, and Diana Ross into the Epstein files and falsely implied it showed them with victims.
In reality, it’s a publicly available fundraiser photo featuring Jackson and Ross’s own children.
December 20, 2025 at 12:33 PM
The White House has been caught.
The administration inserted a photo of Bill Clinton, Michael Jackson, and Diana Ross into the Epstein files and falsely implied it showed them with victims.
In reality, it’s a publicly available fundraiser photo featuring Jackson and Ross’s own children.
The administration inserted a photo of Bill Clinton, Michael Jackson, and Diana Ross into the Epstein files and falsely implied it showed them with victims.
In reality, it’s a publicly available fundraiser photo featuring Jackson and Ross’s own children.
Gorgeous production of the #Nutcracker at the London #Coliseum! Go see it if you can. Great festive show and their trees are anazing too🎄
December 19, 2025 at 1:36 PM
Gorgeous production of the #Nutcracker at the London #Coliseum! Go see it if you can. Great festive show and their trees are anazing too🎄
Need this right now! Have just cancelled a few events as feeling the strain. I’m blessed with good friends who understand 😍
December 19, 2025 at 1:33 PM
Need this right now! Have just cancelled a few events as feeling the strain. I’m blessed with good friends who understand 😍
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Actual Good News: Labour has launched its fair funding formula for local councils. The aim is to push more cash towards deprived communities like Middlesbrough and Birmingham. And less for wealthier areas such as Kensington and the Home Counties. www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
Council funding deal: who are the winners and losers – and will tax bills rise?
Cash is now being distributed using a new Fair Funding formula that gives greater weighting to local authorities with high ‘deprivation’ scores
www.theguardian.com
December 18, 2025 at 10:45 AM
Actual Good News: Labour has launched its fair funding formula for local councils. The aim is to push more cash towards deprived communities like Middlesbrough and Birmingham. And less for wealthier areas such as Kensington and the Home Counties. www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
Interesting to read that publishing is still a growth industry in the UK. Especially as bookshops get little government support or tax breaks, authors aren’t really supported in any arts funding and libraries are being closed. Imagine if UK @teamlabouruk.bsky.social
govt supported the book trade!
govt supported the book trade!
ICYMI: The impact of small creative businesses in the UK in international markets is outstripping the rest of the economy says a new report from Newcastle University, with publishing exports rising in particular 👇 #BookSky
Newcastle University research highlights how small UK publishing businesses are booming overseas
ebx.sh
December 14, 2025 at 10:00 AM
Interesting to read that publishing is still a growth industry in the UK. Especially as bookshops get little government support or tax breaks, authors aren’t really supported in any arts funding and libraries are being closed. Imagine if UK @teamlabouruk.bsky.social
govt supported the book trade!
govt supported the book trade!
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Remember when Amazon held a sale during Independent Bookstore Day in an effort to undercut indie bookstores?
We didn’t forget. Support local bookstores during Small Business Saturday and beyond.
We didn’t forget. Support local bookstores during Small Business Saturday and beyond.
November 29, 2025 at 3:08 PM
Remember when Amazon held a sale during Independent Bookstore Day in an effort to undercut indie bookstores?
We didn’t forget. Support local bookstores during Small Business Saturday and beyond.
We didn’t forget. Support local bookstores during Small Business Saturday and beyond.
I’m pleased to announce I bought nothing on #BlackFriday except medicine 😇
November 28, 2025 at 8:54 PM
I’m pleased to announce I bought nothing on #BlackFriday except medicine 😇
Saw #ImportanceOfBeingEarnest in London last night. #StephenFry was an excellent cantankerous old dame in full Victorian dress. The show is pure joy. Don’t miss it. The finale was something else!
November 28, 2025 at 7:22 PM
Saw #ImportanceOfBeingEarnest in London last night. #StephenFry was an excellent cantankerous old dame in full Victorian dress. The show is pure joy. Don’t miss it. The finale was something else!
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This is classic NHS “wisdom” where they keep using a faulty test and then use that as an excuse not to test 😵💫
I got diagnosed too late because there is no screening process. I have stage 4 cancer and I will die a lot earlier than I should. I have two mates who got tested because of me and they found they had cancer and it was treated successfully. Now tell me why testing does not work?
November 28, 2025 at 7:18 PM
This is classic NHS “wisdom” where they keep using a faulty test and then use that as an excuse not to test 😵💫
When I’m looking for a way to relax my mind and get into writing mode, this grand dame’s succulent purring does the trick!
#caturday #amwriting
#caturday #amwriting
November 28, 2025 at 7:16 PM
When I’m looking for a way to relax my mind and get into writing mode, this grand dame’s succulent purring does the trick!
#caturday #amwriting
#caturday #amwriting
Sadly too accurate!
November 28, 2025 at 7:12 PM
Sadly too accurate!
Wonderful wisdom!
Before she died, Alice Wong was kind enough to give me an interview for my book, Who Wants Normal?
Here’s her wonderful advice to disabled women (from the Guardian extract): www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...
Here’s her wonderful advice to disabled women (from the Guardian extract): www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...
November 17, 2025 at 6:16 PM
Wonderful wisdom!
Me neither 😱
WTF?! I didn't vote for this shit 🤬
Tip for the Labour Party. If you have to clarify asylum seekers’ wedding rings won’t be seized, your policy is horrific. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
November 17, 2025 at 6:12 PM
Me neither 😱
The shame of Labour
Shabana Mahmood on the BBC this morning talking about desperate people fleeing war and persecution as being given a "golden ticket" and "handouts" and saying she's got a "moral mission" to take them away from them
Indistinguishable from the rhetoric of Reform www.adambienkov.co.uk/p/shabana-ma...
Indistinguishable from the rhetoric of Reform www.adambienkov.co.uk/p/shabana-ma...
Shabana Mahmood and the Politics of Extortion
Labour's strategy of telling its supporters to back Reform-style policies, or get a Reform Government, is the politics of the protection racket and it is not going to work
www.adambienkov.co.uk
November 16, 2025 at 11:31 AM
The shame of Labour
Join me in sharing a photo from nature that YOU took and say where you took it. Let’s remind ourselves of the beauty of nature amid all the global chaos.
Here is mine taken in Bosnia. #nature #mentalwelbeing #photogtaphy #mindfulness #escapethechaos #Bosnia #beauty
Here is mine taken in Bosnia. #nature #mentalwelbeing #photogtaphy #mindfulness #escapethechaos #Bosnia #beauty
November 6, 2025 at 9:08 AM
Join me in sharing a photo from nature that YOU took and say where you took it. Let’s remind ourselves of the beauty of nature amid all the global chaos.
Here is mine taken in Bosnia. #nature #mentalwelbeing #photogtaphy #mindfulness #escapethechaos #Bosnia #beauty
Here is mine taken in Bosnia. #nature #mentalwelbeing #photogtaphy #mindfulness #escapethechaos #Bosnia #beauty
I met him while he was the patron of the National Society for the Protection of Children NSPCC) where I worked. A royal paedophile representing the most vulnerable children. On his visit to the NSPCC he flirted with a buxom colleague and I could see clearly even then the slimeball he is 🤮
“I have decided, as I always have, to put my duty to my family and country first.”
Top tier trolling to the very end, Andy. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Top tier trolling to the very end, Andy. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Prince Andrew gives up royal titles including Duke of York after ‘discussion with king’
In statement released by Buckingham Palace, Andrew says he will give up titles and honours including the Duke of York
www.theguardian.com
October 17, 2025 at 7:18 PM
I met him while he was the patron of the National Society for the Protection of Children NSPCC) where I worked. A royal paedophile representing the most vulnerable children. On his visit to the NSPCC he flirted with a buxom colleague and I could see clearly even then the slimeball he is 🤮
Met both a child survivor and a previous war reporter on a trip to Mostar in Bosnia who both celebrated the British media for its coverage of the Balkan war and peace negotiations. A rare moment to feel pride as a member of the press!
October 17, 2025 at 10:50 AM
Met both a child survivor and a previous war reporter on a trip to Mostar in Bosnia who both celebrated the British media for its coverage of the Balkan war and peace negotiations. A rare moment to feel pride as a member of the press!
Fascinating trip to Bosnia Herzegovinia. The Mostar bridge blown up in the Balkan war was rebuilt in 2004. Locals were annoyed Prince Charles opened the new bridge when it was Princess Diana who did so much to bring the world’s attention to the horrors of the conflict and stood in the minefield!
October 17, 2025 at 10:46 AM
Fascinating trip to Bosnia Herzegovinia. The Mostar bridge blown up in the Balkan war was rebuilt in 2004. Locals were annoyed Prince Charles opened the new bridge when it was Princess Diana who did so much to bring the world’s attention to the horrors of the conflict and stood in the minefield!