Writer and researcher of home, memory, conflict & Ireland. The Spinster Cookbook: Culture, Politics & Pleasure in the Single Woman’s Kitchen, Indigo Press OUT NOW 📧 elidavies.ed@gmail.com There’s enough for everyone 🍹 ✊ She/ Herhttps://bsky.app/profile/elidavies.bsky.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/elidavies.bsky.social/post/3msndbmn7cc2bIn love with the pics used in this lovely review of The Spinster Cookbook - in the paper today! [contains quote post or other embedded content]09 Aug 2026 10:00 +0000at://did:plc:fbijvjxvsqnlarmm6wtirt52/app.bsky.feed.post/3msndbmn7cc2bhttps://bsky.app/profile/elidavies.bsky.social/post/3mixxdes6ss2w🥹🥹🥹 [contains quote post or other embedded content]08 Apr 2026 09:14 +0000at://did:plc:fbijvjxvsqnlarmm6wtirt52/app.bsky.feed.post/3mixxdes6ss2whttps://bsky.app/profile/elidavies.bsky.social/post/3ltymctiwpc2hLatest newsletter! It’s sort of about watching The Wire for the first time but also about how good absorbing art can make you feel calm and at home https://open.substack.com/pub/elidavies/p/good-art-and-homemaking?r=1um20&utm_medium=ios15 Jul 2025 09:40 +0000at://did:plc:fbijvjxvsqnlarmm6wtirt52/app.bsky.feed.post/3ltymctiwpc2hhttps://bsky.app/profile/elidavies.bsky.social/post/3liwj46nvdc25Latest newsletter, on couples, capitalism and cultural discussions of ‘different types of love’ https://open.substack.com/pub/elidavies/p/why-two?r=1um20&utm_medium=ios24 Feb 2025 14:00 +0000at://did:plc:fbijvjxvsqnlarmm6wtirt52/app.bsky.feed.post/3liwj46nvdc25https://bsky.app/profile/elidavies.bsky.social/post/3lh4w6ylgys2iThis is lovely! (And includes an account of myself and Jo being rendered speechless by The Years at the Almeida) [contains quote post or other embedded content]01 Feb 2025 16:20 +0000at://did:plc:fbijvjxvsqnlarmm6wtirt52/app.bsky.feed.post/3lh4w6ylgys2ihttps://bsky.app/profile/elidavies.bsky.social/post/3lelw6xwsns25I read 27 books in 2024 with the final one being this jewel from Ocean Vuong and the others listed in the screenshots. A very energising and nourishing year for reading! (Watch out for hot new author Jill’s Cooper)31 Dec 2024 11:14 +0000at://did:plc:fbijvjxvsqnlarmm6wtirt52/app.bsky.feed.post/3lelw6xwsns25https://bsky.app/profile/elidavies.bsky.social/post/3ldspj6ancc2r“‘i’d a notion to sail by night, to enter into the dark, for the love of its textures and wild intimacy.’ … I find calm and companionship in Jamie’s reading of those dark days and her craving for the ‘wild intimacy’ of the outside world.” Happy Solstice! https://open.substack.com/pub/elidavies/p/the-light-and-the-dark?r=1um20&utm_medium=ios21 Dec 2024 10:38 +0000at://did:plc:fbijvjxvsqnlarmm6wtirt52/app.bsky.feed.post/3ldspj6ancc2rhttps://bsky.app/profile/elidavies.bsky.social/post/3ldspj6ancc2r“‘i’d a notion to sail by night, to enter into the dark, for the love of its textures and wild intimacy.’ … I find calm and companionship in Jamie’s reading of those dark days and her craving for the ‘wild intimacy’ of the outside world.” Happy Solstice! https://open.substack.com/pub/elidavies/p/the-light-and-the-dark?r=1um20&utm_medium=ios21 Dec 2024 10:38 +0000at://did:plc:fbijvjxvsqnlarmm6wtirt52/app.bsky.feed.post/3ldspj6ancc2r