It's a year today since Eggy died, so in her honour I'm resurfacing this thread of TOTAL CHAOS. In it a cat falls off a 60ft cliff and survives because she gets caught in a bunch of vines. Which we then had to rescue her from. At 3 in the afternoon. Oh, Egg.

#Learwife is now out in glorious summery paperback! A perfect beach read, if you like your beach reads to involve Shakespeare, nuns, and CRIMES.

In the first of this year's series of holiday-themed reads, Cork-based Australian writer JR Thorp reflects on the summers of her childhood JR Thorp West Cork Literary Festival irishexaminer.com/lifestyle/arts…

Pop over to Canongate (has left) on Instagram today to see me get WILDLY EXCITED in their Stories about #Learwife in paperback, Jane Smiley, and tiny vegetable plots in the garden plans of St Gall! (This is the least silly screenshot I could take. I make some FACES.)

Book club's back, baby! Our Words, Words, Words Book Club returns September 8 with a discussion of JR Thorp's "Learwife." Plus, we explore Folger collection items related to the book. Register to join for free at bit.ly/3KlviNr.

Stoked, bewildered, frankly astonished to have been selected as one of the participants in Ireland's three-year #BasicIncomeForTheArts pilot scheme. Celebrated, as one does, by baking a Nutella Biscoff babka and gibbering slightly.

Happy #BookshopDay! Bookshops are magic. 📚✨ Here are just a few reasons why you should #ChooseBookshops today: - Local jobs. - Local economy. - Local community. - Real passion. - Real people. - Real conversations. - Proper service. - Perfect gifts. - (and taxes paid!)

A very happy BOOKSHOP DAY to one and all. Here are some of our favourite fiction paperbacks of the moment. Come and see us in the Clifton Arcade 9-6 or support your local bookshop wherever you are. #booksaremybag #discoverclifton #choosebookshops

It's #Learwife's Book Birthday! Intense gratitude to Janklow & Nesbit UK, Canongate (has left), Pegasus Books and the collection of geniuses and delights who put the Furious Queen out into the world with frankly staggering results. May you all create at least a LITTLE queenly chaos today.

It's been two years and Eglantine, deservedly, is still the most popular thing I've ever put on the internet. (Jutta and Hildegard, fortunately, continue to hold up the Absolutely Batshit Animal quotient with aplomb.)

🚢Introducing Death on Ice by R. O. Thorp🚢 'A brilliant modern cosy . . . pure class from start to finish.' Ian Moore On scientific problems, the Blanchard twins are a brilliant team – but can they solve a murder? Out 13 February 2025.

.Faber Books has snapped up Death on Ice by R O Thorp, a "delightful cosy mystery, featuring twin scientists investigating a crime on an Arctic voyage" 👇 thebookseller.com/rights/rights/…