We've had another fun morning with Jak at our Autumn Super Storytime event - learning about trees, hanging out leaves, making bird feeders, and drawing Autumn scenes! #SchoolHolidays #HalfTerm #AutumnFun #ChildrensEvents #AutumnInTheLibrary #Autumn #LoveYourLibrary #FeedTheBirds

'Literary suspense meets folk horror' 😎 Well that's me sold! #SmallFires by Ronnie Turner follows two sisters who, accused of murdering their parents, flee to a remote Scottish island... a place where nothing is as it seems. Can't wait! Thanks Karen Sullivan 🇺🇦🇨🇦🇬🇧 🙏 Out Feb #BookPost

We're reflecting on our Poetry Competition Prize Giving event which took place at The Exchange at the end of last month. The afternoon was a celebration of all of the shortlisted poets & included readings of the winning poems too. Photos: Ian Kingsnorth bit.ly/40GDEcV

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Dark, folkloric & unsettling, Small Fires is Midsommar meets Angela Carter's The Bloody Chamber! 🔥 🔥 Enjoy gothic fiction & fairytales? 🔥 🔥 This is part fever dream, part dark fable set in Cornwall & Scotland, inspired by folklore across Europe. linktr.ee/ronnieturner...

Setting is a large part of #SmallFires. It features ancient forests both in Cornwall & also on my fictional island. I've wanted to tip my hat to the classic fairy tales we are raised with - like Baba Yaga, the old crone in the trees and witches. I LOVED writing it.

5 brilliant stars for #SmallFires by Ronnie Turner and published by Karen Sullivan 🇺🇦🇨🇦🇬🇧 in February 2025. If you loved #SoPretty you will love this. Deliciously dark and full of plenty of folk horror I guarantee you will not be disappointed. Many thanks to Karen Sullivan 🇺🇦🇨🇦🇬🇧 for my copy.

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Catherine Peters - one of the finest of Wilkie Collins's biographers - has died aged 94. The King of Inventors was written pre-internet. She went everywhere, read everything including his letters scattered around the world and set the bar for others bit.ly/4aP9sza RIP

And happy publication day to the absolute superstar that is Ronnie Turner - queen of the folk horror. SMALL FIRES is an absolutely spine-chilling tour de force. Best read with the lights on… 🔥🔥🔥

Obligatory (but belated) publication day photo! Thanks all who so sweetly shared their support and kind words yesterday! It was a great day full of cake and chocolate and lots of books! #SmallFires @orendabooks

Welcome to my stop on the #blogtour for the haunting and hypnotic #SmallFires by Ronnie Turner emmasbibliotreasures.com/2025/03/10/blo… Karen Sullivan 🇺🇦🇨🇦🇬🇧 Random Things Tours 🇺🇦 #BookReview #BookTwitter

SMALL FIRES by Ronnie Turner ‘We hold small fires in our palms.’ Evocative of ‘The Wicker Man’ and ‘Midsommar’, SMALL FIRES is an exceptionally atmospheric and effective literary Gothic novel which engages with notions of evil, image, gods, devils and myth. On a nameless

I had a blast in Aberystwyth! Thanks for having me Gail and all the volunteers at GŵylCrimeCymruFestival who made my visit a truly fantastic one! And a thanks to Waterstones Aberystwyth letting me sign lots of stock! #SmallFires #LiteraryFestival #Aberystwyth #Wales

Stabbing on LNER train RMT general secretary Eddie Dempsey said: “I am deeply concerned to hear reports of multiple people stabbed onboard an LNER train tonight. “The thoughts of everyone at RMT are with the victims, train crew and all the emergency services dealing with this

Dan Sealey Beware of Darkness Tour He started his career with Ocean Colour Scene & co-founded the Merrymouth. He re-formed Cosmotheka who were huge on the folk scene in the 80’s & 90’s Sunday 23rd November 8:00 pm Tickets:theacornpenzance.com/events/dan-sea… youtube.com/watch?v=7SwHr8…

We pay £1.5mn a year until 2033 to Prince William, whose Duchy of Cornwall owns the prison, for an unusable empty prison bit.ly/4bje5DV This deal done in 2022 by previous Conservative govt.

Wilkie Collins (8 Jan 1824-23 Sept 1889) ‘Author of The Woman in White and other Works of Fiction’ in the words he wrote to put on his tombstone, was born this day 202 years ago in New Cavendish Street, London of Harriet née Geddes and William Collins RA. Happy birthday Wilkie.

POV: You just opened a brand new book 👃 📖 #Corrie

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