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Nervous networker or conference presenter? Just care less, says speech coach Susie Ashfield The author of Just F**cking Say It offers tips to boost your confidence as a public speaker.

Nervous networker or conference presenter? Just. Care. Less.

Listen to Susie Ashfield, leading speech coach and author of #JustFingSayIt, on @nature.com's Working Scientist podcast: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

#PublicSpeaking #Confidence #Speech #Upskilling #Pitch #SpeechCoach #Presenting

'Water is not a story because stories finish. Water is like time, there is no end, not really, and no beginning, only a constant flow, a continuous cycle.'

From @steverutt.bsky.social's #TheWaterlands, out 26 March 💧

Pre-order @waterstones.bsky.social: bit.ly/4djuTvy
#waterlands #wetlands #marsh

I worked at the Home Office, what I saw will shock you | Nicola Kelly interview YouTube video by PoliticsJOE

#AnywhereButHere by @nicolakellywrites.bsky.social is out in paperback today!

'I worked at the Home Office, what I saw will shock you...'

Nicola speaks to @politicsjoe.bsky.social on the strategies of the government in housing and deporting refugees:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=TPKv...

LONGLISTED FOR THE 2025 MOORE PRIZE FOR HUMAN RIGHTS

From an award-winning journalist comes the hugely timely story of Britain’s broken asylum system and the search for belonging in Britain today.

#AnywhereButHere by @nicolakellywrites.bsky.social - out in paperback today! bit.ly/4bgRK8n

Don't forget about #MothersDay this Sunday!

#TheCatsTales: Feline fairy tales and #folklore by @charliecreed.bsky.social is the perfect gift for cat-lovers, beautifully illustrated by Tim Oakenfull.

Available at @bookshop-org-uk.bsky.social: bit.ly/4biGNmS
#MothersDayGifts #cat #CatLovers #Cats

Thank you to Bookish Beck for this review of @julianhoffman.bsky.social's sun-soaked memoir #Lifelines:

'The lingering message is a valuable one of bridging divisions and learning how to live in harmony with other people – and with other species.'
bit.ly/4b4J1HM
#Travel #Greece #Memoir #NonFiction

Psst… it’s Mother’s Day on Sunday 15th March!

MOTHER ANIMAL by @helenjukes.bsky.social is the perfect bookish gift for mum – a ‘passionate plea to revalue and celebrate motherhood’ (New Scientist).
#MothersDay #MothersDayGift #MotherAnimal #mothering #Motherhood

The four family dynasties playing world powers off against each other Asia's dynastic rulers are busy balancing Putin, China and the West, to retain their firm grip on their countries

Author of #FarewellToRussia @joelucbarnes.bsky.social writes for @theipaper.com on Asia's dynastic rulers, who are busy balancing Putin, China and the West to retain their firm grip on their countries:
inews.co.uk/news/world/f...

Tim Marshall: To understand Iran, understand its many peoples This diverse, mountainous nation of 92 million has long been held together by force. Can it last, the Prisoners of Geography author asks

Tim Marshall writes on Iran for @thetimes.com: This diverse, mountainous nation of 92 million has long been held together by force. Can it last, the #PrisonersOfGeography author asks?
www.thetimes.com/world/middle...
#Geopolitics #Iran #NonFiction #Politics

'The droplet percolates. It swirls through the soil to the clay beneath, then rises again with the groundwater to become surface water; a cocktail of rainwater, river water, aquifer water ... bringing nutrients to what grows, liquid to a dry place.'

From Stephen Rutt's #TheWaterlands, out 26 March

The Myth of the Perfect Writer's Room from the @newyorker.com - an essay from Joshua Rothman about the self-defeating quest for the 'perfect' writer's room: bit.ly/4bhiaqS

Katie da Cunha Lewin's book, #TheWritersRoom, is out now!
#Creativity #writing #books #CreativeWriting

🥂 #HearthOfDarkness by Matt Blake has been shortlisted for two categories at the #TrueCrime Awards - 'Book of the Year' and 'Best New Author'! 👏

This is a haunting exploration of what it means to feel unsafe… in your own home.

bit.ly/4brGIyr
#Memoir #Paranormal #GhostStories #E17 #Walthamstow

The first #Spitfire flew #OnThisDay in 1936!

The Supermarine Spitfire's prototype, K5054, flew from Eastleigh airfield near Southampton, piloted by Vickers chief test pilot Captain Joseph "Mutt" Summer.

Read more in Paul Beaver's biography of Spitfire engineer, R. J. #Mitchell: bit.ly/4r8FDQD

We had a wonderful time at @stanfordstravel.bsky.social
last night, celebrating the launch of @joelucbarnes.bsky.social's new political travelogue, #FarewellToRussia: A Journey Through the Former USSR.

Look at that table display 😍
Published today! bit.ly/4d4jijP

📕 A very happy publication day to #FarewellToRussia by @joelucbarnes.bsky.social! They might have said goodbye to the USSR — but can they ever say farewell to Russia? Farewell to Russia is an immersive political travelogue through the former USSR, set in the shadow of the Ukraine war: bit.ly/46Ju8I9

Farewell to Russia by Joe Luc Barnes I've long been interested in Russia, from the early 90s, I've enjoyed the country's great literature and philosophy, yet the country is one

My review of Farewell to Russia: A Journey Through the Former USSR by @joelucbarnes.bsky.social published by,
@eandtbooks.bsky.social is on my website to read now:

tomasstanger.com/farewell-to-...

#Booksky #writingcommunity #bookreviews #Travel #NonFiction #History #Russia #Ukraine

Nicola Kelly in conversation with Robert Winder Buy tickets for the event with Nicola Kelly in conversation with Robert Winder at Daunt Books Hampstead from Daunt Books today.

Don't miss this #AnywhereButHere event at @dauntbooks.bsky.social Hampstead! Author @nicolakellywrites.bsky.social will be in-conversation with Robert Winder (author of #ThreeRivers and Bloody Foreigners).

26th March 2026
6:30pm
🎟️ dauntbooks.co.uk/shop/events/...
#asylum #NonFiction #AsylumSeekers

Stop rambling, here's how to communicate properly If you want people to take you more seriously without changing who you are, and you’re fed up of saying like every five seconds, this video is for you. Today we’re breaking down how to become a stronger communicator in everyday life and at work with the amazing Susie Ashfield. + Susie Ashfield: Website: https://susieashfield.com/ IG: https://www.instagram.com/susieashfieldspeechcoach/ Book: https://www.waterstones.com/book/just-f-king-say-it/susie-ashfield/9781783968725? + SIGN UP TO THE WORKING HARD NEWSLETTER: https://graceb.myflodesk.com/k0sfhlac34 + FOLLOW THE PODCAST Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/workinghard... TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@workinghardpo... + DILEMMA SUBMISSION If you'd like to submit any dilemmas to the podcast to be answered in the bonus episodes, please send them to podcast@grace-beverley.com with the subject beginning DILEMMAS or DM us @workinghardpod on instagram! + MY LINKS: https://gracebeverley.komi.io/ + RETROGRADE, SHREDDY, TALA and THE PRODUCTIVITY METHOD are my own businesses, therefore any mention of them - whilst not being a sponsorship - is monetarily endorsed. As usual, sponsorships do not change my opinions nor my honesty, but I will always disclaim to make sure motives are clear 😊

Learn how to articulate your thoughts and master conversations in this episode of the Working Hard podcast with Grace Beverley and #JustFingSayIt author Susie Ashfield:
bit.ly/4si867z
#HowTo #PublicSpeaking #Presentations #GuideToPublicSpeaking

Just F**king Say It is out in paperback on 19th March

'Our droplet gently drifts through the water, cooling, carried by slow currents into depths it hasn’t known since the sea, a chilling stillness it hasn’t experienced since it was last here; all potential, waiting.'

From @steverutt.bsky.social's #TheWaterlands:
www.waterstones.com/book/the-wat...

If you want people to take you more seriously when you speak up, and you’re fed up of saying 'like' every 5 seconds, this video is for you.

🎤Susie Ashfield joins Grace Beverley on the Working Hard Podcast to share how to become a stronger communicator: bit.ly/4r12iOP

💧‘It falls in a moment. When the heaviest droplets of ice can no longer be held, the first slips from the sky and plunges, down through the damp, cold air, thawing as it falls. Once one slips, the others come. The earth inhaling rain, again.’

📕 #TheWaterlands by @steverutt.bsky.social, out 26 March

#ToTheEdgeOfTheWorld tells the true story of Mary Ann Patten who, in 1856, took command of a clipper ship and navigated it around Cape Horn. What drove her to sail into the unknown?

Listen to author Tilar J. Mazzeo on The Mariner's Mirror podcast here:
shows.acast.com/f547f9fb-a07...

🐾 Happy paperback publication day to #MotherAnimal by @helenjukes.bsky.social, a beautiful and unexpected memoir of motherhood and wildness. This is an expansive reimagining of care, instinct and what it might mean to be a mother – animal and human – today.
📚 bit.ly/4caqLgZ
#MothersDay #motherhood

Writing motherhood with Helen Jukes Podcast Episode · In Haste · 13 May 2025 · 39m

#MotherAnimal by @helenjukes.bsky.social is out in paperback today!

Helen was interviewed by Alice Vincent and Charlotte Runcie on the In Haste podcast about her book, the concept of "natural" processes, community, and #mothering in a polluted world: bit.ly/3MLuc3q

#NonFiction #Memoir #Motherhood

#MotherAnimal, a beautiful memoir on motherhood by @helenjukes.bsky.social, is out this week in paperback!

⭐‘Joyful.’ Guardian
⭐‘Astounding.’ Daisy Johnson
⭐‘Blows societal ideas about parenthood wide open.’ Marchelle Farrell
⭐‘Honest and unflinching.’ Stylist

Order your copy: bit.ly/3MXVzax

Looking forward to reading #TheWaterlands? Close your eyes and immerse yourself in Britain's watery landscapes with author @steverutt.bsky.social's playlist on Spotify:

🎧https://open.spotify.com/playlist/1ib6U5Mayp8LuXk4BdFLTY?si=37ZlSZiqSrOfKeeaKLHz-g&pi=ZJglFI8ARkCiA&nd=1&dlsi=f7a09a9f067841dc

Snow, concrete, the KGB: that’s the cliché of the Soviet Union. But its collapse in 1991 sparked a story messier & more compelling than any stereotype... Join @joelucbarnes.bsky.social at @booksontherise.bsky.social for a special event as we uncover what has become of the former USSR: bit.ly/3OuYEiN

Members Behaving Badly with Debbie Kilroy Podcast Episode · History with Jackson · 22 February · 33m

Ever wondered what makes a great political rogue? Discover the intriguing behaviors of historical politicians in the latest episode of History With Jackson with guest @debbiekilroyauthor.bsky.social:
podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/m...

Debbie's book #MembersBehavingBadly is out now!

Introducing… #AllTheFeels by @pamelapavliscak.bsky.social!

Instead of raging against the machines, we need to learn how to live with them. Read #AllTheFeels and learn how to harness the power of technology to lead an emotionally rich life – both online and off.

🗓 Out 11 June!
bit.ly/3MKLrBV

Bribery, murder, and fraud - just another day in the life on an MP A deliciously scandalous new history charts the dishonourable antics of our honourable members

#MembersBehavingBadly by @debbiekilroyauthor.bsky.social is a @dailymail.co.uk Book of the Week!

‘A deliciously scandalous new history charts the dishonourable antics of our honourable members.' Daily Mail
www.dailymail.co.uk/home/books/a...

#Politics #History #MP #NonFiction #Scandal