Rachel Delahaye

Just checked it out, and ooh that looks lovely. Thank you x

After a hectic World Book Day week, I need to get horizontal and watch something brilliant. Please give me film recs - something I will not regret watching. No war or dystopia please. Clever drama or comedy. Ta.

A yellow book cover for The Emptying by Mimi Thebo and Rachel Delahaye with figures and a tree symbol, mounted on a pale blue background with a blurb - After too many human errors, AI is taking care of things. But in the city and on the farms, people begin to sense that something is very wrong. Why won't anyone explain what's going on? Two teenagers searching for answers appear to be the only ones willing to face up to reality...What's left of it. This is a hope-filled dystopian novel about AI, human connection and collective responsibility for age 12+.

Countdown to publication of #TheEmptying by me and fabulous @mimithebo.bsky.social. Available to pre-order! Please do so! @troikabooks.bsky.social
#AI #Singularity #teendystopia #YAdystopianbooks #YAnovels #YAreading

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Ah, no. Sorry. It's the scrapings of a public-drain fatberg. But if you squint, it *looks* like butter. Best I can do.

I can sell you Buttered Gravel if you're looking for an end of the world snack?

oh god. stupid humans. stupid stupid humans. Given this incredible planet, all of us here beating the unfavourable odds of even being born... and we destroy all of it.

Please tell me that intelligent people are doing something behind the scenes. Right now. Right this very moment. Or is everyone just sitting with popcorn and watching the world slide down the plughole?

It's a great read - fact-rich but really accessible. 😊

Red cover with a statue of Lenin, without its head, for After The Fall by Michael Delahaye

It won't arrive until after Christmas, but if you need a fascinating read, I can thoroughly recommend this, written by my father - an account of his years as a journalist and media trainer in Russia. Out now! #AfterTheFall

This year we're doing Whamutopia. Every time you hear Last Christmas you have to have a mulled wine at your earliest convenience and toast George Michael, because he was a lad

Three books covers for the Mort The Meek series on a green background with pictures of a raven, rat and octopus.

It looks fun, smells funny, definitely tastes unusual... It's #MortTheMeek! Perfect for quick reads, reluctant readers and weird kids. If an absurd cocktail of #Pratchet - #MontyPython - #HowToTrainYourDragon appeals, the series is available at W'stones online rb.gy/dy8wip @littletigeruk.bsky.social

Amazing, amazing. Thank you, @writeblendbookshop.bsky.social This has made my week. 🙏

😍🤩😍 Thank you for reading, @scoobiesue2.bsky.social !

I'm appearing at Clifton Lit Festival next month with a talky workshop on writing for YA, exploring themes, voice and the absolute privilege of publishing fiction for this readership. Come and join me, Bristol people! Open to everyone. Tickets at cliftonlitfest.com/litfest-even... #cliftonlitfest

It's here and available to order! #ElectricLifeSurge is the sequel to the award-winning #ElectricLife by @racheldelahaye.bsky.social. What happens to Alara next? Does she feel at home in Under, or are the walls closing in? Sacrifices, dreams and fears, and, as always, a current of hope.

OOOH! Thank you! xxx

Thanks, Stu!

Yeah this is true for me, too.

Would any senior schools in the West London (Richmond/Kingston/M4 corridor) be interested in a discounted KS3 author talk/workshop on Friday 3rd October on author life/creativity/world building/ futuristic and dystopian stories? Please get in touch!

Lovely day today! I met @racheldelahaye.bsky.social in Wells and then visited the Cathedral, followed by a trip to King John's Hunting Lodge on the way home before having cuddles with baby Esme! Perfection!

Red and blue cover of Electric Life with a skyscraper city with wires coming out of it.

two potatoes next to a bowl of mashed potato.

It's #NationalPotatoDay and we couldn't let that go by without saying that potato is a unlikely but very real hero in #ElectricLife by @racheldelahaye.bsky.social - if you know, you know. If you don't know, maybe you should find out...

Thank you for reading, Tia ❤️ so glad you liked it.

Yes! But not until he was 90 I think! 😊

Lyrics from Tom Lehrer's song, College Days: Soon we'll be out amid the cold world's strife Soon we'll be sliding down the razor blade of life But as we go our sordid separate ways We shall ne'er forget thee Thou golden college days Hearts full of youth Hearts full of truth Six parts gin to one part vermouth

Goodbye, great man. Funny, was only thinking of him last week at @timminchin.bsky.social show, thinking how Tim is in the new Tom. Razor sharp and raucously comedic, with lyrical hangovers and brilliant preamble. #RIP #TomLehrer

Cover of Ghost with a blue tinted forest scene with the silhouettes of three girls and a stone tower.

I was trapped in its spell, pinned by beautiful storytelling and the fate of three girls, joined across time by their Wicca ways and ghostly fates. With whispers of mythology yet totally fresh, and woven with haunting gossamer prose... #ghost by @finbarhawkins.bsky.social @zephyrbooks.bsky.social

Bright book cover with the title again at a sea backdrop with a whale drawn into the sand at the bottom

It's #NationalMarineWeek so what better time to pick up a copy of the acclaimed children's book #DayOfTheWhale by @racheldelahaye.bsky.social which is a love letter to nature and a plea to conserve our oceans, wrapped up in an island thriller!

Everything you need to know about "STORY" in one cartoon, thanks to Grant Snider. He created this back in 2013 for the New York Times Book Review ❤️😁📚
#books #love #grantsnider

Does anyone else find it crazy that you can walk into a bookshop and be charged £9.99 for a paperback novel that took the author a year to complete, but £17.99 for a completely blank notebook?

Me, approximately ten minutes after saying 'right, let's get this show on the road'.