🇨🇦 Janet Somerville

@janetsomerville

#Gellhorn enthusiast. Dog lover. Anti-fascist. Writer for hire. HOW MIDSUMMER NIGHT (2024) YOURS, FOR PROBABLY ALWAYS: MARTHA GELLHORN'S LETTERS OF LOVE & WAR (2019) Contributor to Toronto Star #book pages.

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🇨🇦 Janet Somerville@janetsomerville· 12d

In her element.

yellow lab swims through a dark blue lake toward unseen shore, having retrieved a yellow ball

🇨🇦 Janet Somerville@janetsomerville· 20d

Celebrating the centenary of THE SUN ALSO RISES with fellow scholars & #Hemingway enthusiasts from around the world. Isn’t it pretty to think so. #HemingwayinToronto

🇨🇦 Janet Somerville@janetsomerville· 22d

Looking forward to presenting on two panels & meeting with other #Hemingway enthusiasts.

sepia poster featuring a young Ernest Hemingway with conference title Hemingway in Toronto 2026

🇨🇦 Janet Somerville@janetsomerville· 25d

Martha, wondering what Puck is doing NOW. #dogs

black lab leaps off wooden dock into a dark blue lake after a tossed ball while yellow lab stands nearby looking incredulous

🇨🇦 Janet Somerville@janetsomerville· 29d

The purple dusk of twilight. #Muskoka

barely rippling lake water framed in the distance by two silhouetted islands, a gap between them and peach clouds scudding by

🇨🇦 Janet Somerville@janetsomerville· Jul 13

Puck decided today to become a dock jumper. #dogs

black lab is airborne all four paws tucked for speed as he leaps from a wooden dock into a dark blue lake

🇨🇦 Janet Somerville@janetsomerville· Jul 11

Martha, moving sticks with her mind.

🇨🇦 Janet Somerville@janetsomerville· Jul 11

I spoke with the sublime Maggie O’Farrell for the Toronto Star. Add her brilliant new novel LAND to your TBR list. #books #writers #booksky

🇨🇦 Janet Somerville@janetsomerville· Jul 11

#LetterADay for @miraclecharlie.bsky.social

card featuring a hot pink magazine cover from Palm Springs Life in 1968 with blonde-haired Nancy Sinatra putting on an earring

🇨🇦 Janet Somerville@janetsomerville· Jul 8

Keeping cool with #PuckandMartha in #Toronto.

yellow lab & black lab bound towards the camera in a shallow creek

🇨🇦 Janet Somerville@janetsomerville· Jul 4

It’s good to be Martha in #Muskoka

🇨🇦 Janet Somerville@janetsomerville· Jul 3

Remembering #Hemingway (d. 2 July 1961), pictured here circa 1939 with his younger brother & Martha #Gellhorn. #writers

black and white photo of three white people on a sailboat, one young man wearing wire rimmed glasses standing & holding a beer bottle, one blonde woman seated, her legs crossed & middle aged man with dark moustache seated and smiling

🇨🇦 Janet Somerville@janetsomerville· Jul 2

It’s good to be Puck & Martha on a steamy #CanadaDay

yellow lab & black lab chew small sticks on a wooden dock by a lake

🇨🇦 Janet Somerville@janetsomerville· Jun 30

Every day I envy Martha. 🐾

upside down yellow lab on a blue loveseat, ears flapped open, grinning

🇨🇦 Janet Somerville@janetsomerville· Jun 30

Before the punishing heat with Puck at #CherryBeachDogPark

black lab on rocky shore bounds into large lake

🇨🇦 Janet Somerville@janetsomerville· Jun 24

#LetterADay for @damianbarr.bsky.social

image of a single story red brick flat roofed house with two palm trees in background with blue swimming pool in foreground with white splash by David Hockney

🇨🇦 Janet Somerville@janetsomerville· Jun 21

Puck, on #MidsummerNight’s Day.

black lab leaps into lake water after a tossed ball

🇨🇦 Janet Somerville@janetsomerville· Jun 16

My #HistoricalFiction round up ran in Saturday’s Toronto Star & features lives in the #arts by @damianbarr.bsky.social, Genevieve Graham, Priya Parmar & Robert Seethaler:

🇨🇦 Janet Somerville@janetsomerville· Jun 14

For @miraclecharlie.bsky.social. #LetterADay

$blue background with several examples of fractals in nature including shells and blossoms$

🇨🇦 Janet Somerville@janetsomerville· Jun 13

#LetterADay for @lilymarswrites.bsky.social.

three martini glasses full of orange and pale green cocktails stand in front of a large palm tree

🇨🇦 Janet Somerville@janetsomerville· Jun 13

It’s good to be Puck. #Muskoka

black lab leaps from stony shore into lake, tossing up wake

🇨🇦 Janet Somerville@janetsomerville· Jun 12

#ThrowbackThursday to 5-wk-old Puck who has his mother’s milk drying on his face.

little black lab puppy is held by a person in a red shirt

🇨🇦 Janet Somerville@janetsomerville· Jun 9

Good morning from #Toronto.

black lab and yellow lab stand on large stones beside a shallow creek, waiting for a tossed ball

🇨🇦 Janet Somerville@janetsomerville· Jun 6

Had a wonderful time moderating the conversation between bestselling & award-winning writers Nicholas Shakespeare & Olivier Norek tonight. Their novels FRAME 37 & THE WINTER WARRIORS are gripping & propulsive. #Toronto #writinglife

🇨🇦 Janet Somerville@janetsomerville· Jun 5

Martha found this sunken treasure & then had to show it off to every human we met on our walk. #dogs

yellow lab retrieves a pink frisbee from shallow lake water

🇨🇦 Janet Somerville@janetsomerville· Jun 2

Good morning from #Toronto & bounding Puck.

black lab bounds into lake dappled with sun under pale blue sky

🇨🇦 Janet Somerville@janetsomerville· May 31

The dogs insisted we get up before the sun. #Muskoka

still lake at daybreak, island conifers reflected in the water; sky blushing pale peach and grey

🇨🇦 Janet Somerville@janetsomerville· May 29

Lilac season, finally.

three lilac blossoms with deciduous trees in the background

🇨🇦 Janet Somerville@janetsomerville· May 26

It’s good to be #PuckAndMartha

black lab and yellow lab run across sand under tall deciduous trees beginning to leaf

🇨🇦 Janet Somerville@janetsomerville· May 23

For the Toronto Star I spoke with the remarkable PATRICIA CORNWELL about her truth bomb of a #memoir. @grandcentralpub.bsky.social