Lucie McKnight Hardy
@lmcknighthardy.bsky.social
Author of NIGHT BABIES (2026) @johnmurrays.bsky.social
and DEAD RELATIVES (2021) & WATER SHALL REFUSE THEM (2019) @deadinkbooks.bsky.social
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lmcknighthardy.com
Agent: @donaldwin.bsky.social @watsonlittle.bsky.social
and DEAD RELATIVES (2021) & WATER SHALL REFUSE THEM (2019) @deadinkbooks.bsky.social
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Agent: @donaldwin.bsky.social @watsonlittle.bsky.social
Should you be that way inclined, you can pre-order Night Babies from today until Friday 17th October from Waterstones and get 25% off
Just use code OCTOBER 25
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Just use code OCTOBER 25
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October 14, 2025 at 11:27 AM
Should you be that way inclined, you can pre-order Night Babies from today until Friday 17th October from Waterstones and get 25% off
Just use code OCTOBER 25
www.waterstones.com/campaign/oct...
Just use code OCTOBER 25
www.waterstones.com/campaign/oct...
Page proofs are in 👀
October 7, 2025 at 12:16 PM
Page proofs are in 👀
Tickets are now on sale for this fantastic book festival in the Lake District (links in comments). I’ll be on a couple of panels, doing a reading and signing, but most excitingly, I get to interview my top-favourite (living) author, Andrew Michael Hurley! 🖤
April 26, 2025 at 9:27 AM
Tickets are now on sale for this fantastic book festival in the Lake District (links in comments). I’ll be on a couple of panels, doing a reading and signing, but most excitingly, I get to interview my top-favourite (living) author, Andrew Michael Hurley! 🖤
Guess which child just landed in America
March 2, 2025 at 5:31 AM
Guess which child just landed in America
I would love to, but it’s just too far
February 13, 2025 at 1:25 PM
I would love to, but it’s just too far
It’s happening.
January 20, 2025 at 11:17 AM
It’s happening.
It’s so cold, there’s a queue for a turn on the radiator
January 8, 2025 at 6:44 PM
It’s so cold, there’s a queue for a turn on the radiator
I’d booked myself onto an untutored writing retreat at the wonderful Moniack Mhor in the Highlands for mid-January, but am now unable to attend. If anyone’s interested in taking my place, you can book online at the link in the comments below. All their other retreats are fully booked until May!
December 23, 2024 at 9:34 AM
I’d booked myself onto an untutored writing retreat at the wonderful Moniack Mhor in the Highlands for mid-January, but am now unable to attend. If anyone’s interested in taking my place, you can book online at the link in the comments below. All their other retreats are fully booked until May!
Kids, please don’t do this, when you know the Kindle version is only £3.99. It demeans you.
November 27, 2024 at 8:32 PM
Kids, please don’t do this, when you know the Kindle version is only £3.99. It demeans you.
Hay-on-Wye Castle staff, Christmas 1915. I like the various expressions, demeanours, and facial hair, but what I love most is the woman in the window, top left, defiantly gazing down on those posing below. I wonder who she was, and whether she planned for future generations to imagine her as a ghost
November 24, 2024 at 9:33 PM
Hay-on-Wye Castle staff, Christmas 1915. I like the various expressions, demeanours, and facial hair, but what I love most is the woman in the window, top left, defiantly gazing down on those posing below. I wonder who she was, and whether she planned for future generations to imagine her as a ghost
Stunning book delivery from @galleybeggars.bsky.social Three ghost stories - Dickens, Gaskell and Spark - each in their own dinky volume, with matching bookmarks - and just look at those cute French flaps! Thanks so much for these
November 24, 2024 at 1:13 PM
Stunning book delivery from @galleybeggars.bsky.social Three ghost stories - Dickens, Gaskell and Spark - each in their own dinky volume, with matching bookmarks - and just look at those cute French flaps! Thanks so much for these
Post a non-religious photo you think of as holy
November 21, 2024 at 11:20 PM
Post a non-religious photo you think of as holy
Found an inclusion in a second-hand cookery book today which, on first glance, appears to be a recipe for some bizarre grapefruit curry, but on closer inspection seems to show a family sitting down to feast on an entire snake AND the only adult has trotters for feet (cc @nicholasroyle.bsky.social)
November 19, 2024 at 7:46 PM
Found an inclusion in a second-hand cookery book today which, on first glance, appears to be a recipe for some bizarre grapefruit curry, but on closer inspection seems to show a family sitting down to feast on an entire snake AND the only adult has trotters for feet (cc @nicholasroyle.bsky.social)
We moved house in summer and have only just got round to clearing some of the more overgrown parts of the garden. Turns out we have a pet cemetery/sematary (at least we *think* it’s pets). The headstone on the left, barely legible, reads ‘Jack. Died March 12 1872 😳
October 19, 2024 at 12:53 PM
We moved house in summer and have only just got round to clearing some of the more overgrown parts of the garden. Turns out we have a pet cemetery/sematary (at least we *think* it’s pets). The headstone on the left, barely legible, reads ‘Jack. Died March 12 1872 😳
Always a delight to see my sun-drenched, sweaty little baby on a bookseller’s display (spotted at Waterstones Hereford)
August 13, 2024 at 2:41 PM
Always a delight to see my sun-drenched, sweaty little baby on a bookseller’s display (spotted at Waterstones Hereford)
I've not been on here for ages, but feel that now is the time to come back. So, errr, here's a cat pic. Thank you for your time.
July 19, 2024 at 9:46 PM
I've not been on here for ages, but feel that now is the time to come back. So, errr, here's a cat pic. Thank you for your time.
There’s a reason this corner of the kitchen has come to be known as Fur City
May 4, 2024 at 8:27 PM
There’s a reason this corner of the kitchen has come to be known as Fur City
Might have to give some thought to shelving some books
December 3, 2023 at 11:58 AM
Might have to give some thought to shelving some books
A fantastic day in Bath during which I said hello to Mary Shelley’s monster and also my own 🖤🖤🖤
November 28, 2023 at 7:27 PM
A fantastic day in Bath during which I said hello to Mary Shelley’s monster and also my own 🖤🖤🖤
Just a couple of places left on this, at the sumptuous Bishop’s Lodge. More info here: retreatatbishopslodge.uk
September 2, 2023 at 4:53 PM
Just a couple of places left on this, at the sumptuous Bishop’s Lodge. More info here: retreatatbishopslodge.uk