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Orla Owen
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Author of The Lost Thumb, PAH, and Christ On A Bike | Longlisted Dublin Literary Award 2025 | Rep: Susan Armstrong at C&W
Website: www.orlaowen.com
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December 6, 2025 at 2:38 PM
LOVED #TASK - if you liked Ozark you’ll love it ,and Tom Pelphrey is once again, phenomenal, as are all the cast, and what a perfect ending 👏👏👏👏👏
December 2, 2025 at 8:26 AM
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Exciting News!!!

Belfast launch for #FewAndFarBetween will be Tuesday 7th April

Dublin Launch Thursday 9th April

More info to come and more exciting events dates too. Currently taking bookings for festivals and events from April 7th onwards.
December 1, 2025 at 9:36 PM
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After the sudden death of Jonathan Main at @booksellercrow.bsky.social, some local authors decided to organise a Christmas signing to help the bookshop make some much-needed ££. If you'd like to help, come on down! And preorder books! booksellercrow.co.uk/shop-tag/lou... I'm on at 2pm!
December 1, 2025 at 9:07 AM
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Good morning and on this 'Blue Friday.'

If you are able, please do buy your books from bricks and mortar bookshops or: Bookshop.org.uk

They pay all their taxes and don't waste money on phallic space dreams.

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Bookshop.org: Buy books online. Support local bookstores.
A better way to buy books online. Every purchase financially supports local independent bookstores.
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November 28, 2025 at 7:53 AM
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London and environs - come along!
November 28, 2025 at 2:19 PM
Incredibly lovely to see Justine at @booksellercrow.bsky.social yesterday. They have the best book selection & are amazing-please visit them!

And so honoured to be sign some books & be given a new tote bag:

Keep fighting evil - read books 📚❤️📚

booksellercrow.co.uk

#books #CrystalPalace
November 28, 2025 at 9:55 AM
Love, love, LOVED #TheBenefactors by the wonderful @wednesdayerskin.bsky.social Highly recommend you read it 👏📚📚👏

#books #booksky @sceptrebooks.bsky.social
November 27, 2025 at 11:07 AM
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Good morning and many thanks to all the librarians who made the launch of

Orca and Bird by Anna Chilvers such a brilliant success last night at Hebden Bridge Library.

Marvelous

@thebookseller.com
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November 27, 2025 at 8:04 AM
Well, this will be wonderful. How I wish I could be there. For you all readers and writers in #Glasgow 💙📚💙

@ronanhession.bsky.social being interviewed on Wednesday 17 December 📚💙📚

#books #booksky @ofmooseandmen.bsky.social
Here's a wonderful opportunity to be in the audience and listen to @ronanhession.bsky.social being interviewed by James Naughtie for BBC Radio 4 ' Book Club on Wednesday 17th December in Glasgow.

@waterstones.bsky.social

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BBC Radio 4 - Bookclub - Come to a Recording
Join the audience for an edition of Bookclub
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November 26, 2025 at 12:57 PM
Lots of new words written plus website updated after putting it off for a wee while - big tick 💙📚💙

www.orlaowen.com
November 25, 2025 at 8:02 PM
Much needed time away from the laptop, climbing the sparkling hills. Turns out wearing spikes makes all the difference ⛰️☀️⛰️
November 21, 2025 at 2:45 PM
Very excited to start #TheBenefactors by @wednesdayerskin.bsky.social - reckon it’ll be good company for a long train journey North💛📚💛

#books #BookSky
November 19, 2025 at 7:20 PM
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The nominations for the 2026 Dublin Literary Award have been revealed! 📚🎉

The 69 nominated novels were selected by 80 libraries across 36 countries, showcasing an exceptional range of contemporary fiction.

Explore the full list of nominations here: dublinliteraryaward.ie/the-library/...
November 19, 2025 at 5:16 PM
So happy they took this risk - love reading their books. Thank you @ofmooseandmen.bsky.social 💙📚💙

#books #booksky
20 years ago today Heth and I remortgaged our house and Incorporated Bluemoose Books as a publishing company.

Many thanks to the wonderful librarians, booksellers, reviewers and readers who've promoted and hand sold our books.

Magic!

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@waterstones.bsky.social
November 18, 2025 at 9:01 PM
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20 years ago today Heth and I remortgaged our house and Incorporated Bluemoose Books as a publishing company.

Many thanks to the wonderful librarians, booksellers, reviewers and readers who've promoted and hand sold our books.

Magic!

@thebookseller.com
@waterstones.bsky.social
November 18, 2025 at 8:51 AM
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The excellent Jonathan Crain interviewed me about my novel The Orange Notebooks (@pressassembly.bsky.social & @ofmooseandmen.bsky.social). We talked about reclaiming the lost language of mourning, my hospital work, bees, the colour orange, lost libraries & more.
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Writing Against Silence: Susanna Crossman and the Radical Honesty of "The Orange Notebooks"
When Susanna Crossman speaks about her new novel The Orange Notebooks, she talks about process, practice, and experimentation—terms that suggest not a tidy narrative but a living, breathing act of cre...
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November 14, 2025 at 8:24 AM
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via @faberbooks.bsky.social
Christine Falls by John Banville is the One Dublin One Book choice for 2026,
November 14, 2025 at 4:07 PM
So wonderful to see. Thank you so much @ronanhession.bsky.social for recommending #ChristOnABike to Steve, who loves your books! 💛👏👏💛

#books #booksky #GhostMountain @ofmooseandmen.bsky.social 💙💙
As well as writing some of my favourite books of all time, @ronanhession.bsky.social recommended Christ on a Bike by @orlaowenwriting.bsky.social - it was a belter of a recommendation. Proper old-school playground scrap between that and Ghost Mountain for my favourite read of the year.
November 14, 2025 at 12:19 PM
Another day, another friend who LOVED Crow Lake by Mary Lawson & is now off to read all her other books & recommend them to all her friends. Her books are absolutely incredible 💛👏📚👏💛

#books #booksky
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November 13, 2025 at 8:20 AM
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We are delighted to announce the shortlist for the Warwick Prize for Women in Translation in 2025! "Each of these books arrives in English in expert and accessible translations that honour the art and voice of their original authors."
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November 11, 2025 at 12:08 PM
Thank you so much to everyone in Ireland who borrowed #ChristOnABike from their library. Lovely to get a PLR statement & enough to buy a wee treat. Love #readers Love #libraries ❤️📚❤️

#books #booksky
November 11, 2025 at 8:10 AM
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Delighted to reveal the beautiful cover of my next novel, Few and Far Between designed by the brilliant Irene Martinez Costa. Proofs are arriving next week. Preorders open now. Can’t believe I sat down 20 years ago to have a stab at writing a short story and now I have nine books in the world.
November 6, 2025 at 12:41 PM
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This is tomorrow, I know it is staying in, eating soup, watching telly weather but do please come along, we promise to do our utmost to delight you & tickets are free, although you can also order a book with one included
Glasgow loves please join me & @benpester.bsky.social at Mount Florida Books on the 6th of November to talk about the marvel that is The Expansion Project.
Everyone* is saying it’s going to be the real fireworks night

*No one is saying that. But it will be good
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November 5, 2025 at 12:41 PM
Hugely excited for this! Am such a big fan of @sharonduggal.bsky.social brilliant writing! This is great news. 👏💛💛👏

#books #BookSky
We're delighted to be publishing Sharon Duggal's new novel.

LIGHT ON THE PLAIN - September - 2026.

Her 3rd with Bluemoose.

Should We Fall Behind, her second novel was short listed for @rsliterature.bsky.social Encore Prize and selected for BBC Two - Between The Covers.

@thebookseller.com
November 4, 2025 at 4:57 PM