I finished reading “Chocolat” today, and decided to draw the main character in honor of it.
myakmyak : I finished reading “Chocolat” today, and decided to draw the main character in honor of it.
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My cartoon for this week’s New Scientist.
myjetpack : ALT My cartoon for this week’s New Scientist. Tom Gauld
In Praise of the Battered Paperback
Old books are the heart of my childhood. While I was growing up, we had more books in the house than we had furniture. The walls were shelved in hardbacked books; there were books under the beds, on the floor; stacked under a tablecloth to make a coffee-table. I spent my pocket-money on books, working out how many I could afford to buy with my weekly allowance. If I went onto the market, I could…
I finished reading “Chocolat” today, and decided to draw the main character in honor of it.
myakmyak : I finished reading “Chocolat” today, and decided to draw the main character in honor of it.
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Vianne’s Confession | Joanne Harris
You wanted to know what she looks like? Here she is: Vianne’s Chocolat; available from all Blue…
You wanted to know what she looks like? Here she is: Vianne’s Chocolat; available from all Blue Diamond Nurseries from May 22nd. And she smells gorgeous…
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trochaic-mutant-ninja-tetrameter : art-tnt : ALT 🎶 You deserve to get paid! Let them know that! 🎵
Naming the rose
I wrote this about the weird and emotional journey that is finding and naming a new rose. I hope you like it… “It’s funny, how far a glass of champagne can sometimes lead.” It’s April 2025, and I’m standing in a muddy field in Hereford. The line you just read has been spoken by an attractive blonde woman wearing a lapel microphone. I too am wearing a microphone, and a few feet away, another…
Burn the library, or walk inside. Either way, it’s your choice.
Unless you’ve been living under a rock, you can’t have missed the escalating riots all around the country - riots which the media keep referring to as “protests”, in spite of the fact that no-one involved seems to agree on just what they are protesting against . Dragging strangers out of cars, burning down public buildings, throwing stones at ambulancemen, setting fire to…
Two Boxers Walk Into the Ring…
No-one can have missed the absolute scenes on social media, both before and after the boxing match between Imane Khelife and Angela Carini, from which Carini withdrew after just 46 seconds, having received a blow to the face. Social media had already been abuzz with unfounded claims that Khelife was a man, largely based on her athletic (and to Westerners, “masculine”) body type. (The same rumours…
On Turning 60
When I was a child, someone told me: “Every life is a story.” I used to wonder what mine would be like; what adventures I would have. My favourite stories were from Rudyard Kipling’s Jungle Book , which my grandfather used to read to me: thus I imagined my own story as a forest adventure in which I would run wild with my friends, and pick fruit by the wayside. I never imagined growing old, just as…
Your writing scratches my brain,,,it’s been like atleast 5 years since I first read runemarks and I still think about it. I have no idea how you do it but you’re amazing :] You are also the reason I annoyed my mom with a bunch of norse myth facts, thanks for that 🚶♂️
I’m delighted to hear it! X
Omg you’re on Tumblr??? Lollipop Shoes rewired my brain. And I LOVE the first cookbook. I should maybe check out the other ones 😅 [excuse the fangirling but omg omg omg I love when writers are on Tumblr]
I'm so glad you liked it! x
Content Warning: contains scenes of graphic kindness; wokery; tolerance; profanity.
A few days ago, I posted a little Twitter poll, asking readers (and authors) what they thought of trigger warnings. I followed this up with a short thread, outlining my own thoughts on this, and how they have changed over the years. The Daily Mail immediately seized the idea, and without contacting me, or asking for further clarification, published an article quoting my words, under a headline…
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commandtower-solring-go : janesexyway : It should also be recognised that Lucille Ball helped advance the medium of television as a whole by, more or less, inventing the idea of reruns. This was, in large part, what drove the success of non-serialised shows such as Star Trek, but also paved the way for extremely popular television genres like the sitcom
Hello! I just wanted to say that I’ve recently reread the Runemarks books (with the exception of Testament of Loki, which I’m reading for the first time!) and finding endless reasons why child me loved these books, and why adult me loves them even more. They’re infused with such hopeful magic, and have kept me afloat during my first Christmas without my mother — I feel like they found me again at just the right time. Thank you so much for writing them and sharing those stories and characters with the world! (I’m sad to say they spent some not-inconsiderable time in storage after we moved house, but I’m very pleased to say they now have pride of place on my bookshelf once again!)
I’m so very glad you’ve enjoyed them. Happy reading in 2024!
Books of the Year! For the Guardian.
myjetpack : ALT Books of the Year! For the Guardian.
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Check out this beautiful thing - the cover for the new collection by @joannechocolat! It features…
gollancz : Check out this beautiful thing - the cover for the new collection by @joannechocolat ! It features her stunning novellas A POCKETFUL OF CROWS, THE BLUE SALT ROAD and ORFEIA, alongside three brand new stories from the world of HONEYCOMB - the stories that the bees tell… Cover art by the wonderful Sue Gent , interior illustrations by Bonnie Helen Hawkins , and, uh, admin done by…