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Such a wonderful evening Small Press Alliance summer party and so good to catch up with the uber talented team of Muswell authors Dugald Bruce-Lockhart Heidi Amsinck Louise Soraya Black Isabel Costello Donna Freed Ros Franey Toby Faber somehow evaded the lens....

Delighted to see #DarknessFallsinJakarta selected as a Summer Read! Huge thanks to everyone at the Cobham Bookshop Muswell Press Watson, Little Ltd #SummerReading #fiction #book #thrillerbooks

Thrilled with this review of #DarknessFallsinJakarta! Thank you very much for reading Laughter and Thunderstorms (skbookwormfever)

Thanks so much to everyone who has supported this tour. It’s been a joy to see readers connecting with my novel! #DarknessFallsinJakarta Muswell Press Watson, Little Ltd Random Things Tours 🇺🇦

Brotherless Night by V.V. (Sugi) Ganeshananthan is the most powerful, extraordinary, haunting novel I’ve read this year. Absolutely brilliant. Women's Prize

🔊Agent Interview with Megan Carroll! Writers, today we’re bringing you an agent interview with Megan Carroll with insights into querying, Megan’s mswl, and more! Check it out and share👇🏼 #WritingCommunity #amquerying path2pub.wordpress.com/2024/09/13/age…

Prof Dr Kevin Fong giving the most devastating and moving testimony to the Covid Inquiry of visiting hospital intensive care units at the height of the second wave in late Dec 2020. The unimaginable scale of death, the trauma, the loss of hope. Please watch this 2min clip.

I’ll be on tonight’s #TREBookShow on TRE Talk Radio Europe talking about my latest novel #DarknessFallsinJakarta. Thank you so much for inviting me onto the Book Show Hannah Murray Lopez! Muswell Press Megan Carroll Watson, Little Ltd Fiona Brownlee #book #fiction #thriller

Coming up in the second hour of the #TREBookshow, with Hannah Murray Lopez from 20.00CET - Ed Needham, editor of Strong Words Magazine, @whitwelltracy, Louise Soraya Black, and @davyfennell #TuneIn on tre.radio or TRE Radio App

Important stuff from Tom Bawden that certain institutions need to acknowledge. #SARSCoV2 is showing no signs of becoming predictable, so YET another reason why a vaccine only, "flu-like" plan isn't working. Comments from Prof. Christina Pagel - @chrischirp.bsky.social, Prof Sheena Cruickshank (she/her) and me. inews.co.uk/news/science/w…

Important 🧵on our new peer-reviewed paper: The pandemic is as bad as it ever was for babies - in year to Aug 2023, 6,300 babies under 1 were admitted to hospital wholly or partly BECAUSE of Covid. They are ONLY age group where admissions have NOT gone down over time 1/17

Not sure how much longer I will be on Twitter! Please find me on Instagram and Louisesblack.bsky.social

Announcing an exciting collaboration with @deiawriterscamps founded by musician Jonny Quinn. Designed to bring creatives together in the inspiring landscape of #deia The first creative writing course with publishers Kate and Sarah Beal and author Andrew Meehan in May '25

Lovely to see our friends finally catch up 👏👏👏👏👏👏👏 “Huge anti-government protests in Tehran and other Iranian cities, videos show - BBC News” bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

An Iranian hero Long Live Iran

Iran report says 16,500 dead in ‘genocide under digital darkness’ thetimes.com/world/middle-e…

🟣 Iranian medics believe more than 30,000 people have died in recent protests, according to The Guardian. @SoniaSodha praises the 'extraordinary bravery' of those who have risked their safety to take part in protests. Latest 🔗 trib.al/Q3qGQrL 📺 Sky 501 and YouTube