It’s bloody brilliant, Jan!

Young lives cut short on an unimaginable scale: the 18,457 children on Gaza’s list of war dead Every name on a list compiled by health authorities in Gaza of the child victims of Israel’s offensive

The Guardian has published the names of the 18,457 children killed in Gaza. www.theguardian.com/world/ng-int...

Disappearing people, disappearing morals – how two years has changed Gaza and Israel | Orly Noy There can be no healing until the world stares into and acknowledges the void torn open by this conflict, says Israeli journalist Orly Noy

I did not believe Israel would reach the point of starving people to death.
I did not believe it would, on average, erase a classroom of children every single day for two whole years.”

- Orly Noy www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

For a limited time only! There Came A-Tapping is awfully cheap…

#BREAKING | Irish president calls for potential MILITARY ACTION in Gaza

He wants the UN to invoke ‘Chapter 7’ – which allows an international force to defend aid corridors

‘Are we to watch children starving? Something MUST happen’

Love Little Acorns!

I think that did happen (I’m wondering now if the sex scene was in a tree… it couldn’t have been could it?!)

Ooh, thank you!!

Ooh, yes!

Joseph O’Connor’s ‘Inishowen’?

Also Joseph O’Connor’s Inishowen?

Nice! I remember vividly our Irish teacher having to translate the ‘first night together’ scene!!

Not the right time for me to have opened Bluesky. About to do one…

Congratulations! It’s a cracking book!

Thank you!!

"How many mystery writers does it take to change a light bulb? Two. One to change the bulb, and the other to give it an unexpected twist at the end."

‘Humanitarian city’ would be concentration camp for Palestinians, says former Israeli PM Ehud Olmert says forcing people into camp would be ethnic cleansing, and anger at Israel is not all down to antisemitism

“It is a concentration camp. I am sorry," - former Israeli PM.

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...

Thanks so much to @irishexaminer.bsky.social @sweetoblivion.bsky.social for including #ThereCameATapping in such august company today!

Very happy with the new paperback cover of There Came A-Tapping. Coming October 2025!

A Borzoi dog, looking forlorn, sits next to a dresser as their owner mimics them using a sock puppet adorned with googly eyes.

“I know you think you’re being funny, but honestly Dave, it’s just hurtful.”

'It's a Killing Field': IDF Soldiers Ordered to Shoot Deliberately at Unarmed Gazans Waiting for Humanitarian Aid IDF officers and soldiers told Haaretz they were ordered to fire at unarmed crowds near food distribution sites in Gaza, even when no threat was present. Hundreds of Palestinians have been killed, prompting the military prosecution to call for a review into possible war crimes

IDF soldiers have now themselves admitted they have been ordered to murder aid-seekers in Gaza.

Truly an atrocity built on atrocity.

www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...

Loved it, Karen! Thank you so much for sending it. Xx

All true, Doug! So moving. Everyone should read the Sandy series - might give humanity the kick up the a__e it needs! Big congratulations. ❤️

Frank Carson: A man says to the doctor: "What's the good news?" "You've got 24 hours to live." He says: "What's the bad news?" The doctor says: "We should have told you yesterday."

#itsthewayitellthem

Frank Carson: There were two Irishmen eating sandwiches in a pub and the landlord said: "You can't eat your own food in here." So they swapped sandwiches.

#itsthewayitellthem

Frank Carson: My wife said to me: "If you won the lottery, would you still love me?" I said: "Of course I would. I'd miss you, but I'd still love you."

#itsthewayitellthem

I loved this book so much. The conclusion to the Enceladons Trilogy is rage-inducing and heartbreaking, but ultimately full of hope. I’m going to miss Sandy (& the good energy humans!). Out August 2025. @orendabooks.bsky.social
@dougjohnstone.bsky.social

Did you buy a book today? Borrow one from the library? Get a loan of one from a friend? Find one waiting for you on a park bench? Yes? Very good, carry on.

Ha! I’m pleading to any god that’ll listen to me!

Oh, same! I know this stage (it happens every time) but can’t for the life of me see the light at the end of the tunnel yet…