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Jane Johnson

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Writer (Secrets of the Bees; Black Crescent, White Hare, Sea Gate, Tenth Gift etc), publisher (GRRM, Hobb, Feist, Lawrence, Heartfield, Kaner, ex Tolkien), allotmenteer. History. Morocco/Cornwall. Covid is airborne 💙📚 #Writing #Books

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Jane Johnson @janejohnsonbakrim.bsky.social · Nov 10

Reintroducing myself to try to find my people after X meltdown! Publisher at HarperCollins (GRRM, Hobb, Feist, Lawrence, Kaner, Heartfield), author of 20 novels, inc Tenth Gift, Salt Road, Sea Gate and Black Crescent for Simon & Schuster and Head of Zeus. Look forward to meeting you! #books

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Nick Pettigrew @nick-pettigrew.bsky.social · 1d

The veneration of Books As Objects misses the point entirely. If you're reading a book, turn the corners down, break the spine, spill soup on it. It's your book, go nuts. A pristine, unread book is a tragedy in a way that a beloved, much-read book that looks like the dog's been at it could never be.

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 1d

Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat

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Chise @sailorrooscout.bsky.social · 2d

GOOD NEWS! Researchers have developed a cancer vaccine that has shown STUNNING results, PREVENTING up to 88% of MULTIPLE aggressive cancers by harnessing dual-pathway nanoparticles that train the immune system to recognize and destroy tumor cells. In some cases, it COMPLETELY prevented metastasis.

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Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 2d

NEW: We need to talk about Russia.

So, yes, that's why we need to talk about Nigel Farage.

My personal newsletter on the story behind the story. Brexit, Trump, Russia & now...Nathan Gill.

open.substack.com/pub/broligar...

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Jane Johnson @janejohnsonbakrim.bsky.social · 2d

We must get that positive, big-picture message out there.

Jane Johnson @janejohnsonbakrim.bsky.social · 3d

Brilliant discussion about migration with Amol Rajan. She is right. We have to change the way we think about migrants and climate change, accept the inevitable and make it work. Buy her book NOMAD CENTURY. 💙📚 #books

Gaia Vince @wanderinggaia.bsky.social · Nov 22

A round-up introduction thread to some of my work and interests 🧵

Gaia Vince @wanderinggaia.bsky.social · Dec 30

Looking back on my 2023 highlights: #NomadCentury came out in paperback, was Highly Commended in the
Wainwright Prize for nature writing 2023, shortlisted for the Zócalo Book Prize and the Christopher Moore Prize For Human Rights books www.amazon.com/Nomad-Centur...

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Jane Johnson @janejohnsonbakrim.bsky.social · 7d

Well, this has come out of the blue. Financially, we’ve had an excellent year. I’ll miss Charlie - an affable fellow, elder brother of Eddie Redmayne. Kate is a publisher to her core, though. A very safe pair of hands who will keep the giant ship steady. #books www.thebookseller.com/news/harperc...

HarperCollins CEO Charlie Redmayne resigns as Kate Elton steps up

HarperCollins UK CEO Charlie Redmayne has resigned from his post, with Kate Elton appointed as interim CEO.

www.thebookseller.com

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Jane Johnson @janejohnsonbakrim.bsky.social · 8d

Really looking forward to this new HBO adaptation (coming in January). These stories are wonderful, set around 90 years before A GAME OF THRONES, and I'm so proud to have published them. #books 💙📚

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Jane Johnson @janejohnsonbakrim.bsky.social · 9d

Magnificent.

Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 9d

Warrior and legend.

KOJAMF🤘🖤🤘 @kojamf.bsky.social · 9d

Dr. Jane Goodall filmed an interview with Netflix in March 2025 that she understood would only be released after her death.

Jane Johnson @janejohnsonbakrim.bsky.social · 10d

They already finance him.

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Jane Johnson @janejohnsonbakrim.bsky.social · 13d

Lovely tributes to poet Brian Patten throughout the news and press, as there should be. His wife Linda Cookson reminded me yesterday that he had been afforded the Freedom of the City of Liverpool, which made him so proud. www.itv.com/news/granada...

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Jane Johnson @janejohnsonbakrim.bsky.social · 13d

Thanks, Terri. It’s such a sad loss for all of us x

Jane Johnson @janejohnsonbakrim.bsky.social · 14d

Oh, Martin 💔

Jane Johnson @janejohnsonbakrim.bsky.social · 14d

He had the biggest of hearts, and never forgot how hard it had been to get started in the literary world.

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Jane Johnson @janejohnsonbakrim.bsky.social · 14d

It really is. I shall carry the image of those little boats burning in the red light of dusk.

Jane Johnson @janejohnsonbakrim.bsky.social · 14d

Thanks, Nick. It's a loss for all of us.

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Jane Johnson @janejohnsonbakrim.bsky.social · 14d

I'm so sad to have lost my brilliant, mercurial friend, poet Brian Patten, with whom I worked for 39 years. This is how he signed off his last email to me: "It's dragonfly time here. The lake down the lane is alight with them..."
Brian, you left the world alight with your words.
Obit in comments.
💙📚

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Colin Smith @colinsmith.bsky.social · 14d

Oh no. RIP Brian Patten. Unwittingly but significantly, Patten had a huge influence over the high summer of superhero comics in the 80s. Alan Moore loved Patten’s poem “Where Are You Now, Batman?” & it strongly influenced his Marvelman stories & more. Which then influenced just about everyone else.

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Stephen McGann @stephenmcgann.uk · 14d

Many claims are made for the power of poetry to change lives. All I can offer on the death of Brian Patten is a simple truth. This poem - sent to me by my not-then-wife - is the reason I am with her 40 years on.

RIP Brian. x

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Jane Johnson @janejohnsonbakrim.bsky.social · 14d

I was his editor. I shall miss him terribly. Here's 'Armada', about the death of his mother.

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Jane Johnson @janejohnsonbakrim.bsky.social · 14d

It's so strange. I was overcome by sadness yesterday afternoon and suddenly thought, I must tell Brian the new Nazrudin/Joha story my (Moroccan) husband had told me the day before (same trickster tradition). I edited Brian for nearly 40 years and he became a dear friend. I will miss him terribly.

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Jane Johnson @janejohnsonbakrim.bsky.social · 14d

www.theguardian.com/books/2025/s...

Liverpool poet Brian Patten dies at 79

His poetry often explored love and relationships and he wrote books for children including Gargling With Jelly

www.theguardian.com

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Jane Johnson @janejohnsonbakrim.bsky.social · 14d

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Jane Johnson @janejohnsonbakrim.bsky.social · 15d

She saw the GP but no one could fill the prescription.

Jane Johnson @janejohnsonbakrim.bsky.social · 16d

Too bloody true

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Jane Johnson @janejohnsonbakrim.bsky.social · 18d

Beautiful walk today ... but there's a story behind it. Settle in.
Cornwall is beautiful, a lovely place to grow up, a lovely place to visit. But it can be a hard place to live in. I was walking through these woods to reach a friend in need.... 1/6

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