Catherine Balavage Yardley
@Balavage
Author Ember and Where The Light is Hottest. ✍️ Words in Sunday Times, Mslexia, The Bookseller, Stylist, Writers and Artists, Metro. Agent @aforauthors
My novel, Where The Light is Hottest, is out now. It is based on my real-life acting experience. It has a lot of great, five star reviews. Available on ebook and paperback. It is also free on Kindle Unlimited. Get your copy now! amzn.eu/d/jdfo3kf
Yes, I once filmed a scene in a Martin Scorsese film for six months, ended up in the film and the companion book. You can buy my book, Where The Light is Hottest, for an unputdownable insight into being an actor and working in the film industry. #acting #actingbooks #Books
Today I interviewed @alisonbarrow for The Honest Editor. She gave amazing insights into life as a PR Director at @TransworldBooks and you can read for free here: honesteditor.substack.com
Shoes 😍 Pulled a muscle in my calf so bought these blingy sandles. Love @kurtgeiger #shoes #sandles
Harry Potter is sort of crazy. I would have never fought a war for my high school
A baby born after 21 weeks has become the world’s most premature baby Nash was born 133 days early and celebrated his first birthday in July to earn the record
Lovely review of The CIA Book Club in @washingtonpost. Tremendous thanks to @isberryauthor. #theciabookclub
The "best kept secret" of the Cold War is what one historian called the @CIA's covert book-smuggling program behind the Iron Curtain. What a pleasure to review @CharlieEnglish1's terrific new nonfiction, THE CIA BOOK CLUB, for @washingtonpost. washingtonpost.com/books/2025/07/…
River of Stars, my brand new novel, featured in The Times, The Guardian, The Express & on BBC Radio 4’s Woman’s Hour is in the Amazon Summer books sale, £10.45 for a short time. ‘A completely transporting summer read’ says @StylistMagazine. Buy it here: amzn.eu/d/fnJjdEB
Can we please talk about the bag? 😍 @kurtgeiger #fashion #bags
11 years ago today. 15 years together. Most of our lives so far. How to put it in anything other than the eloquent words of David Nichols in One Day, ‘We grew up together.’ #love #weddinganniversary❤️
Want to be a successful author? I have an idea for you. open.substack.com/pub/catherineb…
4yo insisted I cut him up precisely 8 strawberries when we got home. Okay, tiny tyrant.
I had the honour of interviewing @gregmosse today. As well as being an incredibly talented author who has written nine books in five years, he’s also a lovely person and huge champion of other writers. It was a brilliant interview which will be up soon. The Coming Fire is out now
Is anything more stressful then when your kids come home after the cleaner has been, and they dismantle their good work. Oh well, it was nice while it lasted 😂
Major Harrogate FOMO. It’s not a whine, only an observation, but you miss out on so much when you’re a writer with caring responsibilities. I hope it doesn’t affect my career. #harrogate #WritingCommunity
third wheeling with two girls who are best friends is so much worse than third wheeling a couple
Generational wealth is when your children don’t have to heal from having you as their parent.
New podcast alert —Torture, terror and Trump. A fantastic interview with @Folly_and_Glory about his brilliant new book The Mission: The CIA in the 21st Century. Search Spymasters wherever you get your podcasts…
any man that says kids are easy has a wife that is doing all the work
Kids are actually easy and anyone who says otherwise is lying.
Photographic memory is a myth. But some people have HSAM, they recall life events with insane detail. Others, like savants, have rare memory "superpowers". Mnemonists/memory athletes (myself included) use techniques (like memory palaces) to recall massive amounts of info.
I wonder if a photographic memory is something people are born with or if it develops over time.