James
@james_j_bailey
Writer from Manchester // LIKE A CAT LOVES A BIRD, my biography of Muriel Spark, out in 2026 // drjamesbailey on instagram and the blue place 🐈⬛
We are completely delighted for TLC friend Dr James Bailey on the forthcoming publication of his biography of Muriel Spark. This promises to be a sparkling, exciting book. Fans of Muriel Spark, take note!
The cat’s out of the bag! 🐈⬛ LIKE A CAT LOVES A BIRD, my weird, slippery biography of Muriel Spark, will be out in April next year. A huge thank you to the team at Sceptre for helping me bring it to life. Please tell your libraries and favourite bookshops!
CALLING ALL MURIEL SPARK LOVERS The very best news, so well deserved @james_j_bailey 🎉🎉🎉
The cat’s out of the bag! 🐈⬛ LIKE A CAT LOVES A BIRD, my weird, slippery biography of Muriel Spark, will be out in April next year. A huge thank you to the team at Sceptre for helping me bring it to life. Please tell your libraries and favourite bookshops!
Well it’s about time! Well done, James!!!
The cat’s out of the bag! 🐈⬛ LIKE A CAT LOVES A BIRD, my weird, slippery biography of Muriel Spark, will be out in April next year. A huge thank you to the team at Sceptre for helping me bring it to life. Please tell your libraries and favourite bookshops!
ICYMI: @SceptreBooks has triumphed in a four-way auction for Like a Cat Loves a Bird: The Nine Lives of Muriel Spark, James Bailey’s biography of Muriel Spark. Sceptre will publish the book in April 2026, to mark the 20th anniversary of Spark’s death 👇 thebookseller.com/rights/sceptre…
.@SceptreBooks has triumphed in a four-way auction for Like a Cat Loves a Bird: The Nine Lives of Muriel Spark, James Bailey’s biography of Muriel Spark. Sceptre will publish the book in April 2026, to mark the 20th anniversary of Spark’s death 👇 thebookseller.com/rights/sceptre…
If you don't love Muriel Spark then we can't be friends...
The cat’s out of the bag! 🐈⬛ LIKE A CAT LOVES A BIRD, my weird, slippery biography of Muriel Spark, will be out in April next year. A huge thank you to the team at Sceptre for helping me bring it to life. Please tell your libraries and favourite bookshops!
Do you know what I’m a big fan of? EXCESSIVE FORMALITY IN POP SONGS. If you’re Erasure singing “oh baby, refrain from breaking my heart” or Diana Ross chirping “respectfully, I say to thee: I’m aware that you’re cheating”, then I’m simply all ears 💛
Spotted in the wilds of @WaterstonesPicc @andothertweets (thanks @james_j_bailey 🍩 🍩 🍩) If it's seething Greek heat, sweaty tents and misaligned stars you're after, WHAT YOU COULD HAVE WON might be your summer read.
I love this so much: Brian Wilson hearing Ronnie Spector’s cover of ‘Don’t Worry Baby’ 💜
The new Reading Well for families booklist is here! Expert-approved and co-produced with families and health partners, these books support parents and carers through pregnancy and early years. 👉 Explore the list: bit.ly/reading-well-f… #ReadingWell
I’m coveting Wallace & Gromit’s entire cheese-centric library 📚
Marking the death of Edmund White by sharing this photo of my secondhand copy of A Boy’s Own Story, which the previous owner has thoughtfully annotated (something tells me White would have approved)
.@SceptreBooks has won a four-way auction for Like a Cat Loves a Bird: The Nine Lives of Muriel Spark, a new biography by James Bailey (@james_j_bailey) bookbrunch.co.uk/page/article-d… (£)