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The BELLA CALEDONIA crowdfunder is currently at 77% with 6 days left to go

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Was walking along Waterloo St earlier and couldn't resist a photo of this building. It's so unusual Lost Glasgow This Is My Glasgow

My latest book purchases: Lady Macbethad, by Isabelle Schuler , and Clairmont, by Dr Lesley McDowell . Two powerful novels about real women. I’m really looking forward to reading these!
What was the last book you bought?
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Lectures in the Creative Arts at Edge Hill Uni are facing a terrifying amount of redundancies in an attempt to save ~£1m in payroll. Us students have started a petition to make some noise on their behalf. Please read for more info!!
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The misinformation around the Hate Crime Act was simply extraordinary and resulted in the public being misinformed and even the police having their time wasted. We have to do better than this.

Missing Aye Write's wider programme this year? Well, only 10 mins away on the train .... and later this week loads of us will be on PaisleyBookFest Tix here for my event with the fab Dr Lesley McDowell We will be spilling all the 19th century gossip ofc. 👇
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📚 The SWH! preview of PaisleyBookFest includes (part 1)
Sara Sheridan + Dr Lesley McDowell
Andrew McMillan + Rebecca Smith
Merryn Glover + Hamish Napier
Ajay Close + Donna Moore
✨Lentil Pentil✨ + Sarah Grant

For full details, & all the links, click here
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Just three days between these two stories

I'm on the look out for Scottish or Scotland based LGBTQ authors for a feature. Please share any recommendations via DM or tag someone you think I should know about. TYSM #booktwt #journorequest #authors

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~ Liz Truss’s memoir — I have no regrets, says the Mrs Pooter of politics ~

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Book Review – Clairmont by Lesley McDowall

A powerful novel, one which leaves you wanting more: more about these writers, but also more from Dr Lesley McDowell

Out now, published by Wildfire Books
Read the review by Alistair Braidwood in this month's SNACK 💛

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'Shedding them has compensations. We can get up early or sleep in as we choose; it’s cheaper & we don’t have to be so organised. Yet we feel their presence/absence like amputated limbs.' I wrote about missing your kids on holiday for The Herald. heraldscotland.com/opinion/242674…

Labour will adopt tory welfare reform because its driven by an ideology shared by both main parties. These reforms which seek to remove medical opinion and reconfigure social security in the image of a US insurance company have been in the pipeline since the days of John Major.

Coming next: If the Tories can legislate to declare Rwanda a safe country in defiance of reality, it's not much of a stretch to imagine them going for a law that declares sick people well.

Scotland rejected Brexit, yet Labour wants to deny our young people the opportunity to live, study, and work in the EU, all to appease hard-brexiteers.

I would expect this from the Tories, but for Labour to follow the same path is unforgivable.

“Is it not strange that grief should quickly follow so divine a happiness? I drank of an enchanted cup but gall was at the bottom of its long drawn sweetness. My heart was full of deep affection, but it was calm from its very depth and fulness. I had no idea that misery could

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I hope everyone under 30 will show their disgust at this blank refusal by both major parties to give our youth the joy of mobility in Europe. Craven surrender to a minority of ageing Europhobes.Sunak rejects offer of youth mobility scheme between EU and UK theguardian.com/politics/2024/…