Jacky Colliss Harvey

@fugitiveink I think you need to leave a bottle of SPF at the door and see if it disappears.

Either my gun-mad neighbour has set up a hide, or the Scarecrow has decided he needs a tiny summer house

@fugitiveink Oh Lord…. My cat Freddie had one of those. It burst in my brother’s bedroom. The room looked like the field hospital at Scutari, as a result. Poor Toby! And him becoming such a handsome fella too!

Toby the tomcat update: Toby had to go to the vet last week, as he had what seems to have been a burst abscess on his cheek — possibly the relic of a long-ago fight. (Classic tomcat issue, apparently.) He is now on antibiotics and doing very well. He also looks much more relaxed, if still quite scruffy. He's booked in to be neutered and microchipped on Monday 11 May.

@robertashton1 And very happy she is to be there, too!

As we prepare to launch the 2026 Leiston Book Festival leistonbookfestival.co.uk, one of our featured authors @JCollissHarvey pops through my letterbox!

@fugitiveink Well, he fell on his wee stray paws, didn’t he?

Just a quick update on this grumpy-looking stray tomcat. He's now been to the vet. As expected, he's an entire tom, perhaps five years old, with no microchip. He has ticks, fleas and possibly worms, but is otherwise in decent shape. If no one comes forward to claim him in the next week, we can move forward with neutering him. His name is Toby the Tabby.

@AldeBooks @HausPublishing A very special bookshop indeed - and such a wonderful evening! Thank you both, and all those good souls who turned out to give #Thoughtlands its Suffolk launch.

Thank you to all @HausPublishing

@neetschapman So lovely to see you, Anita! Great to share the evening!

Went to a lovely book launch last night in Chelsea at the most charming bookshop ever for Thoughtlands by @JCollissHarvey and I saw my writing teacher, Sara Bailey from a class 22 years ago too

@AldeBooks This is so meta in the very best way - the bookshop I describe from my childhood in my book has my book!

It’s arrived. #Thoughtlands by ⁦@JCollissHarvey⁩ published by Haus Books #Suffolk #Writers #walking event on Friday 10th April ⁦@AldeBooks⁩

@robertashton1 Writing a book (if you are one of those poor damned souls, a writer) is a wonderful thing. But even better is to see it find a place in the world beyond your desk!

These will fly off the shelves @JCollissHarvey! #GreatRead

@HistoriaHWA Thank you so much!!! I loved writing this book - I hope that shows. And of course that other writers will love it too!

Congratulations to HWA member Jacky Colliss Harvey on the release of Thoughtlands, out today! A walk through Suffolk in the footsteps of writers including Defoe, Stevenson, Highsmith and Orwell, exploring the connection between mind, feet and landscape. amazon.co.uk/dp/1914982185

@robertashton1 @BrittenPears @auroraorchestra @AldeBooks We will raise a glass to you, @robertashton1, and thank you!

Sadly I'll be at @BrittenPears to see @auroraorchestra or I'd be there @JCollissHarvey, @AldeBooks . Your book is a 'must read' book for anyone who loves East #Suffolk

@neetschapman @flicadams Notebooks are so important!!!

Lovely afternoon in Guildford in the sunshine. Treated self to this GORGEOUS but pricey huge notebook for journalling but got £10 off with my Waterstones points 💪. Has taken a while to find one worthy of replacing my one from Paperchase, almost finished... so found just in time

@robertashton1 @HausPublishing Proud…. And very grateful. Also, the loveliest and most poetic endorsement I think I have ever reviewed.

I don't often agree to endorse a book @JCollissHarvey @HausPublishing, but this one is a must for anyone who loves #Suffolk.

@TheScribblerCMB Our Mutual Friend. Every word of it.

Happy birthday, Charlie Boy! 🥳 🎂 🎈 Dickens was born on this day 214 years ago. What is your favourite of his works? #CharlesDickens

@fugitiveink Well done that wee kitty!

Good morning, little Spoon. Some of your online admirers, of whom you are possibly unaware, wonder about the progress of your immunotherapy, intended to sort out your dust mite allergy. Happily, two months on, it seems to be a success, with much less over-grooming. Thrive, much-loved little Spoon!

Twitter at 3am…. All the crazies coming out to swim!

@fugitiveink That was my thinking too - I wanted something in keeping with the character of the book - a bit personal, a little quirky, as human as I could make it.

@JCollissHarvey The great thing about drawing architectural details is that one has to really look at them, engage with how they actually work — and also, at the moment, with so much AI slop about, I increasingly cherish something that looks deeply felt and also very human. So, yes, wonderful.

Books were better when they regularly had whimsical little images like this marking, in effect, section breaks. (This beauty is from a 1725 volume making various rather technical proposals for better drainage and river navigation for the Great Ouse.)

@fugitiveink Thank you! I am no great artist - I think she inspired me.

@JCollissHarvey Wonderful!