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Fiona Lensvelt

@FionaWilson_

editor and writer. co-author of wild card: let the tarot tell your story, with @booksbybluebird.

 Cambridge, England
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Joined July 2011
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'In June, when the jewel climbs up highest in the year into the heavens, brightest of stars... At that time the fairest of lights likes to gaze longer upon the earth, to move more slowly across the meadows.' Anglo-Saxon writers on the summer solstice: aclerkofoxford.blogspot.com/…
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Fabulous piece on life behind the deaths - confessions of an obituaries editor by Nigel Farndale @TimesObits thetimes.com/culture/tv-radi…
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Anna Temkin@AnnaTemkin28 May 2024
🚨 The first episode of 'Your History', a new weekly podcast from @thetimes, is out now 🚨 We look back on the lives of President Ebrahim Raisi and Commander 'Sharkey' Ward. You can listen to/follow the podcast here: podfollow.com/your-history
Your History

Your History

Your History is a podcast based on the life stories of people who have shaped the times we live in. These are fascinating stories based on the daily obituaries in The Times offering remarkable...

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Congratulations @RebekahPierre92 you absolute star!
Rebekah Pierre (@RebekahPierre92) profile pictureRebekah Pierre@RebekahPierre9217 May 2024
After 4 years at BASW, I start a new role as Deputy Director at Article 39 in June! As a teenager I spent time in unregulated care & mental health wards. To work for a charity which fights for the rights of children in these settings, who are so overlooked, means everything.
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Looking forward to the Launch of #FiveLoavesOnFridays on Friday at @foundlingmuseum in Bloomsbury. I will be the MC with the editor! Proud to have my story in this anthology of care experienced authors. 2 years in the making 1 book 1 editor. @rebekahPierre92 100 authors
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Happy publication day to @RebekahPierre92 and all the writers who have contributed to the brilliant anthology Free Loaves on Fridays: The Care System As Told By People Who Actually Get It, with contributions from @lemnsissay @SallyBayley1 @kirstycapes and many more
Rebekah Pierre (@RebekahPierre92) profile pictureRebekah Pierre@RebekahPierre9218 Apr 2024
Oh how the tables turn! When I was 16, I came home to a letter on the kitchen table from my foster carer. It said I had four days to find somewhere else to live. Today, the book in which I write about this experience is pictured here on my own kitchen table. And it is OUT TODAY.
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So proud of @deathtospinach for this fabulous review of Keanu Reeves Is Not In Love With You in @washingtonpost @jounwin washingtonpost.com/books/202…
Review | A scammer pretending to be Keanu Reeves hit her up. She hit back.

Review | A scammer pretending to be Keanu Reeves hit her up. She hit back.

In “Keanu Reeves Reeves Is Not in Love With You,” Becky Holmes takes readers on a guided tour of the world of romance fraud.

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"Quant dreamt of yet shorter hemlines..." a wonderful, fun obit of Mary Quant, "the high priestess of the Sixties" @TimesObits thetimes.co.uk/article/dame-…

Dame Mary Quant, fashion designer, dies aged 93

On the morning in 1955 that Mary Quant opened the door of Bazaar, her new fashion shop on the Kings Road, City gentlemen in bowler hats banged on the window wit

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@BBCArchive17 Mar 2023
An Irish literary archive treat for #StPatricksDay Nobel laureate Seamus Heaney encounters an ancient and mysterious pagan statue on Boa Island in Lough Erne and imagines what the old gods in Ireland were like, before the arrival of St Patrick.

Ulster in Focus: The Loughsiders, 1972

Irish poet Seamus Heaney explores the islands of Lough Erne in Northern Ireland. The enigmatic two-faced stone statue on Boa Island offers a glimpse into the pre-Christian world of ancient Ireland.

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Merope@meropemills14 Mar 2023
I am extremely pleased to announce the Martha Mills prize: an award for young writers launched by London Review Bookshop. **Please retweet** - as a new prize we are keen to spread the word. theguardian.com/books/2023/m…
Martha Mills prize: new award for young writers launched by London Review Bookshop

Martha Mills prize: new award for young writers launched by London Review Bookshop

Prize for writing by 11-14-year-olds inspired by ‘imagination and curiosity’ of Martha, who died in 2021 aged 13

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In 1951, Adelbert Ames created the mind-boggling ‘Ames Window’
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Jen and I cannot wait to interview Juno Dawson by reading her tarot cards live on stage at @TheBathFestival this May! You can book here: bathfestivals.org.uk/the-bat… @litwitchure
Bath Literature Festival (@BathLitFest) profile pictureBath Literature Festival@BathLitFest8 Mar 2023
FULL LINEUP REVEALED! 📢 50+ Venues 🏦 130+ Events 💥 200+ Writers and Artists 📚🎶 It makes us SO happy to share with you the programme for #TheBathFestival 2023! 🤩 General booking opens 17 March, in the meantime check out the FULL lineup here ➡bit.ly/3kPbbiH
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"I never did, & never will, meet an undeserving child. But today, the state has proved itself an undeserving parent" One last share in case you missed it. My thoughts on the #carereview in this week's @guardian. theguardian.com/commentisfre…
You can’t raise children on the cheap, so why is this government set on doing so? | Rebekah Pierre

You can’t raise children on the cheap, so why is this government set on doing so? | Rebekah Pierre

As a care leaver-turned-social worker I’m appalled by the Tories paltry plans for the care sector, says social worker Rebekah Pierre

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For the @guardian, I wrote about the government's stingy response to the care review. Since when did 'love' become a euphemism for cheap? Children deserve so much better than this paltry offering. theguardian.com/commentisfre…
You can’t raise children on the cheap, so why is this government set on doing so? | Rebekah Pierre

You can’t raise children on the cheap, so why is this government set on doing so? | Rebekah Pierre

As a care leaver-turned-social worker I’m appalled by the Tories paltry plans for the care sector, says social worker Rebekah Pierre

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The news everyone needed in January… even if this isn’t quite the way they expected it to arrive
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I’ve admired @jenniferagg’s writing for a long time - here she is in @TimesMagazine on pregnancy after multiple miscarriages: thetimes.co.uk/article/im-pr… and her book Life, Almost: Miscarriage, Misconceptions and a Search for Answers from the Brink of Motherhood is out next month
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My dream evening: books, cats and @rhiannonlucyc at @WaterstonesCamb (and what a display on the signing table - the work of Dr Amy Crawford 🐈)
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@cox_tom I think you might like this book…
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I reviewed @MichaelRosenYes’s Getting Better for @GuardianBooks, a book about living and surviving. Rosen talks about many things, including confronting his mortality in 2020 when he contracted Covid, and the death of his son Eddie, aged 18, from meningitis @EburyPublishing
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