@aprilroach.bsky.social
✍🏾 Spec-fic writer, journalist
📚 Rep: Sara Langham, DHA Books
⭐ Board member, The Lit Platform
⭐ Runner up Commonword Fiction Prize 2018
📚 Rep: Sara Langham, DHA Books
⭐ Board member, The Lit Platform
⭐ Runner up Commonword Fiction Prize 2018
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Some much needed good news. “Jamaicans Have Been Turning to Solar Power. It Paid Off After the Storm.” Guft link: www.nytimes.com/2025/11/08/c...
Jamaicans Have Been Turning to Solar Power. It Paid Off After the Storm.
www.nytimes.com
November 8, 2025 at 4:37 PM
Some much needed good news. “Jamaicans Have Been Turning to Solar Power. It Paid Off After the Storm.” Guft link: www.nytimes.com/2025/11/08/c...
This was such a fun audio book. Never did I think a novel about a lecturer running a de-radicalisation programme for Isis brides in Iraq would be so funny, while also balancing the human element of the story. #Booksky #amreading
November 7, 2025 at 7:24 AM
This was such a fun audio book. Never did I think a novel about a lecturer running a de-radicalisation programme for Isis brides in Iraq would be so funny, while also balancing the human element of the story. #Booksky #amreading
Saw some cool French translations of Octavia Butler's novels at Tropismes Libraries in Brussels. Definitely one of the fancier looking bookshops I've visited lately 👀 #booksky
October 30, 2025 at 11:57 AM
Saw some cool French translations of Octavia Butler's novels at Tropismes Libraries in Brussels. Definitely one of the fancier looking bookshops I've visited lately 👀 #booksky
7am to train Brussels = star gazing at 4am in South London, baked blueberry and banana oats and a good book on the train to get me through the journey 🚂 #Booksky #travelsky #amreading
October 25, 2025 at 6:54 AM
7am to train Brussels = star gazing at 4am in South London, baked blueberry and banana oats and a good book on the train to get me through the journey 🚂 #Booksky #travelsky #amreading
So excited to be at the Black British Book Festival today @barbicancentre.bsky.social. So many interesting talks, don't know how I'm going to fit them all in! #Booksky #bbbf
October 19, 2025 at 1:58 PM
So excited to be at the Black British Book Festival today @barbicancentre.bsky.social. So many interesting talks, don't know how I'm going to fit them all in! #Booksky #bbbf
Birthday gift from the husband rescued me from my holiday reading slump. Shame I finished it in 24 hours and it didn't last longer 😅 #Booksky #travelsky #amreading
September 27, 2025 at 8:17 AM
Birthday gift from the husband rescued me from my holiday reading slump. Shame I finished it in 24 hours and it didn't last longer 😅 #Booksky #travelsky #amreading
Playing my favourite game, can you guess the titles of these blind book dates? Pretty sure the first is The Road by Cormac Mccarthy... #Booksky
September 16, 2025 at 8:10 PM
Playing my favourite game, can you guess the titles of these blind book dates? Pretty sure the first is The Road by Cormac Mccarthy... #Booksky
"A book is a dream that you hold in your hand.." - Upper Street Bookshop near Angel, London
September 16, 2025 at 8:05 PM
"A book is a dream that you hold in your hand.." - Upper Street Bookshop near Angel, London
A dystopian novel won the YA Booker Prize... More signs of a comeback for the genre?? 👀 #booksky #authorsky www.thebookseller.com/news/moira-b...
Moira Buffini’s dystopian debut Songlight wins the YA Book Prize 2025
Moira Buffini’s "captivating" dystopian debut novel, Songlight (Faber), has been named as the winner of the YA Book Prize 2025.
www.thebookseller.com
August 22, 2025 at 9:07 AM
A dystopian novel won the YA Booker Prize... More signs of a comeback for the genre?? 👀 #booksky #authorsky www.thebookseller.com/news/moira-b...
Lekker boekje lezen, koffie drinken bij een Amsterdaamse gracht ☀️☀️ And yes this book is just as good as everyone is saying it is! 5✨ #Booksky #travelsky
August 17, 2025 at 2:45 PM
Lekker boekje lezen, koffie drinken bij een Amsterdaamse gracht ☀️☀️ And yes this book is just as good as everyone is saying it is! 5✨ #Booksky #travelsky
Back in the Netherlands for the weekend and couldn't resist stopping by Amsterdam for a quick visit. 📚🇳🇱🇳🇱 #travelsky
August 15, 2025 at 5:35 PM
Back in the Netherlands for the weekend and couldn't resist stopping by Amsterdam for a quick visit. 📚🇳🇱🇳🇱 #travelsky
🌡️ Europe’s #heatwaves are reshaping demand for air conditioning — only 20% of households have AC, but that’s changing.
⚡ The IEA has warned of a #coolcrunch: energy demand from cooling could nearly triple by 2050 if left unchecked.
Here's my story on the latest: shorturl.at/4S7w3
⚡ The IEA has warned of a #coolcrunch: energy demand from cooling could nearly triple by 2050 if left unchecked.
Here's my story on the latest: shorturl.at/4S7w3
Europe’s record-breaking heat waves are driving spikes in demand for air conditioning
Heat waves and longer summers are driving seasonal spikes in demand for cooling units, highlighting the need for efficient technologies and adequate power supply to keep Europe cool.
www.cnbc.com
August 4, 2025 at 8:51 AM
🌡️ Europe’s #heatwaves are reshaping demand for air conditioning — only 20% of households have AC, but that’s changing.
⚡ The IEA has warned of a #coolcrunch: energy demand from cooling could nearly triple by 2050 if left unchecked.
Here's my story on the latest: shorturl.at/4S7w3
⚡ The IEA has warned of a #coolcrunch: energy demand from cooling could nearly triple by 2050 if left unchecked.
Here's my story on the latest: shorturl.at/4S7w3
It was a musical weekend with first Evita and then the Devil Wears Prada musical on Saturday. Definitely brought back the nostalgia seeing the movie play out on stage. 💃🏾💃🏾
July 21, 2025 at 10:33 AM
It was a musical weekend with first Evita and then the Devil Wears Prada musical on Saturday. Definitely brought back the nostalgia seeing the movie play out on stage. 💃🏾💃🏾
Completley blown away by every single actor and the production of Evita. Rachel Zegler's voice was breathtaking, she completely owned that role. Diego Andres Rodriguez as the narrator was incredible. That standing ovation went on for ages! #Evita
July 19, 2025 at 9:01 AM
Completley blown away by every single actor and the production of Evita. Rachel Zegler's voice was breathtaking, she completely owned that role. Diego Andres Rodriguez as the narrator was incredible. That standing ovation went on for ages! #Evita
Absolutely stunning views in Taormina 😍☀️☀️ #travelsky
July 13, 2025 at 6:43 AM
Absolutely stunning views in Taormina 😍☀️☀️ #travelsky
The food markets in Sicily, Palermo are everything 😍 #travelsky
July 10, 2025 at 5:33 AM
The food markets in Sicily, Palermo are everything 😍 #travelsky
Really enjoying buddy reading Problematic Summer Romance by Ali Hazelwood with my sister. I get most of my book recommendations from Olivia-Savannah and I loved her idea of reading this Sicily set romance during our family holiday to Sicily! ❤️☀️🍋 #Booksky #amreading
July 9, 2025 at 5:51 AM
Really enjoying buddy reading Problematic Summer Romance by Ali Hazelwood with my sister. I get most of my book recommendations from Olivia-Savannah and I loved her idea of reading this Sicily set romance during our family holiday to Sicily! ❤️☀️🍋 #Booksky #amreading
In the world of afrofuturism, the sankofa is a key image. Ytasha L. Womack writes the word sankofa means to "retrieve," it's about "looking back to go forward," signifying a way to the future by "remembering the past." 1/ #booksky #writingcommunity
June 28, 2025 at 7:18 AM
In the world of afrofuturism, the sankofa is a key image. Ytasha L. Womack writes the word sankofa means to "retrieve," it's about "looking back to go forward," signifying a way to the future by "remembering the past." 1/ #booksky #writingcommunity
It was so great to see Maggie Stiefvater talk about luxury and the themes behind her new novel The Listeners. I love reading historical fiction that introduces me to a new element of WWII that I wasn't aware of, and then there are the captivating characters too. Loved it! #Booksky
June 24, 2025 at 6:54 AM
It was so great to see Maggie Stiefvater talk about luxury and the themes behind her new novel The Listeners. I love reading historical fiction that introduces me to a new element of WWII that I wasn't aware of, and then there are the captivating characters too. Loved it! #Booksky
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Historic Mitchelville Freedom Park was the first self-governing town of formerly enslaved people in the country, according to the nonprofit that runs it.
Now, visitors sleep there to get close to history.
Now, visitors sleep there to get close to history.
At a Juneteenth sleepover, campers commune with ancestors
A South Carolina park was once a town founded by freed people. Now visitors sleep there to get close to history.
www.washingtonpost.com
June 19, 2025 at 2:59 PM
Historic Mitchelville Freedom Park was the first self-governing town of formerly enslaved people in the country, according to the nonprofit that runs it.
Now, visitors sleep there to get close to history.
Now, visitors sleep there to get close to history.
So my question on this is, if #AI is analysing manuscripts and providing assessments for editors on structure and pace etc. what about the manuscripts that blend genres? Stories that adopt abnormal structures and experiment with dialogue and narrative?
Bloodhound Books partners with AI tool ProWritingAid to ‘enhance editorial and submissions process’
Bloodhound Books has partnered with UK-based platform ProWritingAid to ’accelerate and enhance’ the editorial process by using AI to generate manuscript insights.
www.thebookseller.com
June 17, 2025 at 8:25 AM
So my question on this is, if #AI is analysing manuscripts and providing assessments for editors on structure and pace etc. what about the manuscripts that blend genres? Stories that adopt abnormal structures and experiment with dialogue and narrative?
When a five star read leads you to another five star book 😍
Rebecca Roanhorse's short story, "Eye and Tooth" was just so good, I had to find what else she had written. I'm so glad it lead me to Black Sun, an epic fantasy which I blitzed through. #Booksky
Rebecca Roanhorse's short story, "Eye and Tooth" was just so good, I had to find what else she had written. I'm so glad it lead me to Black Sun, an epic fantasy which I blitzed through. #Booksky
June 14, 2025 at 12:53 PM
When a five star read leads you to another five star book 😍
Rebecca Roanhorse's short story, "Eye and Tooth" was just so good, I had to find what else she had written. I'm so glad it lead me to Black Sun, an epic fantasy which I blitzed through. #Booksky
Rebecca Roanhorse's short story, "Eye and Tooth" was just so good, I had to find what else she had written. I'm so glad it lead me to Black Sun, an epic fantasy which I blitzed through. #Booksky
Weekend break = weekend treat 🎁📚 #Booksky #amreading
June 5, 2025 at 3:41 PM
Weekend break = weekend treat 🎁📚 #Booksky #amreading
A day off work means time for a long walk & iced coffee & cake & writing ✍🏾☕ #amwriting #authorsky
May 30, 2025 at 4:43 PM
A day off work means time for a long walk & iced coffee & cake & writing ✍🏾☕ #amwriting #authorsky