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Dean Street Press @deanstpress.bsky.social · 10d

✨We’re delighted to announce the next five novels in Sara Woods’ classic Antony Maitland mystery series, returning to print this December from Dean Street Press!✨
Sharply plotted, endlessly readable, and perfect for fans of Golden Age-style crime.
#christmascrimefiction #booksky

the next five novels in Sara Woods’ classic Antony Maitland mystery series, returning to print this December from Dean Street Press!

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Clothes in Books @clothesinbooks.bsky.social · 7h

I asked my readers for suggestions of books to match up with pictures I had collected. they came up trumps - of course - and today we have this: A Shilling for Candles by Josephine Tey. And a question - is Tey the anti-Marsh (ie Ngaio)? clothesinbooks.blogspot.com/2025/10/chal...

Challenge Result: A Shilling for Candles

A Shilling for Candles by Josephine Tey pubilshed 1936 When I asked people to look at my file photos and suggest books, the first ans...

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Orkney Library & Archive @orkneylibrary.bsky.social · 7h

okay who did this?

A display of wild swimming books. At the bottom of the display, under all the other books is a copy of JAWS by Peter Benchley.

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Dean Street Press @deanstpress.bsky.social · 2h

Marvellous stuff! Many thanks again. 🙏🥰

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Martin Fone @frimleyblogger.bsky.social · 9h

My thoughts on And Cauldron Bubble by #BrianFlynn, reissued by @deanstpress.bsky.social #CrimeFiction #BookReview #booksky
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And Cauldron Bubble

A review of And Cauldron Bubble by Brian Flynn – 250824 Double, double, toil and trouble. The thirty-ninth in Flynn’s Anthony Bathurst series, originally published in 1951 and the fourth in the bat…

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Dean Street Press @deanstpress.bsky.social · 1d

✨ Coming Spring 2026 ✨
Marilyn Monroe: a perceptive and compelling study by award-winning biographer and theatre critic Sheridan Morley and Ruth Leon, returns to print with Dean Street Press. A fascinating portrait of the star who defined an era. #marilynmonroe #comingsoon

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Dean Street Press @deanstpress.bsky.social · 1d

Fin talks to the son of David Tomlinson who played the father, Mr Banks in Mary Poppins ...
The link to Woodbridge is a great story, so join Fin Brown at 8 this evening. It promises to be supercalifragilisticexpialidocious
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Image from Mary Poppins with children and nanny covered in sooty marks on the stairs and Mr Banks looking startled.

Dean Street Press @deanstpress.bsky.social · 2d

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Wonderful!| 🙏

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Richard Morris @ahistoryinart.bsky.social · 2d

The choice of books in Felix Vallotton’s 'The Bookcase,' (1915) play nicely into the picture's palette: the shelves are filled with the yellow spines of the Bibliothèque Charpentier collection, in a nod to the (then) supposed female preference for thrilling novels.

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Dean Street Press @deanstpress.bsky.social · 3d

“Cats are put on earth to remind us that not everything has a purpose.” Oscar Wilde

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Clothes in Books @clothesinbooks.bsky.social · 3d

Comfort read: Angela Thirkell's social comedies always entertain, and we get hats again. Before Lunch (she was running out of nice lightweight titles) clothesinbooks.blogspot.com/2025/10/befo...

Before Lunch by Angela Thirkell (and hats again)

Before Lunch by Angela Thirkell published 1939 This was, I believe the last of Thirkell’s books to appear before WW2 broke out: she ...

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Clothes in Books @clothesinbooks.bsky.social · 6d

Why did I reread Trent's Last Case by EC Bentley? Because Shedunnit were doing an episode with spoiler zones, so I wanted to make the most of it. The mystique surrounding this 1913 book, and its lasting influence, are fascinating.... clothesinbooks.blogspot.com/2025/10/shed...

Shedunnit, and Trent’s Last Case

Trent’s Last Case by EC Bentley published 1913 Caroline Crampton’s Shedunnit podcast is a great favourite round here, and when she ...

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Dean Street Press @deanstpress.bsky.social · 3d

"The stranger-than-fiction life of Sir Basil Home Thomson (1861-1938) was packed so full of incident that one can understand why his work as a crime novelist has been rather overlooked." Sir Basil Thomson's Richarson Series by Martin Edwards
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Eight colourful covers of Sir Basil Thomson's golden age murder mysteries. New editions available at Dean Street Press.

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Dean Street Press @deanstpress.bsky.social · 4d

How Lethal is your Library?
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How Lethal is Your Library? Find out with Agatha Christie!

It’s actually harder to come across a body in the library than you might expect. Agatha Christie described this trope as one of the ‘cliches’ of ‘the detective story’. Over the course of her career…

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Dean Street Press @deanstpress.bsky.social · 5d

This week's free Kindle
A House on the Rhine by Frances Faviell #freetillfriday
US🔗 bit.ly/4n18Rza
UK🔗 bit.ly/3KWDQPd
#furrowedmiddlebrow #booksky

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The Bookseller @thebookseller.com · 5d

Dame Jilly Cooper has died at the age of 88, her agent Curtis Brown has announced.

Dame Jilly Cooper dies aged 88

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Dean Street Press @deanstpress.bsky.social · 5d

No city names here - our #MurderEveryMonday titles keep it regional, rural, or national. #crimefiction #coverart #Booksky
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Vintage style cover art for the Sussex Cuckoo by Brian Flynn with a red and yellow lino cut image of a bird and a torn letter.

Vintage style cover of Murder on Paradise Island by Robin Forsythe with a black and white tropical island and sinister octopus beneath.

Vintage style cover of The Orange Axe with a couple dancing in 1930's fancy dress.

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Dean Street Press @deanstpress.bsky.social · 5d

Thank you! 🥰🥰🥰

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UncleRobin @unclerobin.bsky.social · 5d

No city names in the TITLES of any of my #MurderEveryMonday entries this week, instead a country, a county and a 'region'. One from a specific house, of course. The publishing house of @deanstpress.bsky.social #Mystery #Booksky
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Cover for "Death in a Shetland Lane" by Marsali Taylor, showing an image of a narrow lane between pasture grounds on an island

Cover for "Death in a Strange Country" by Donna Leon, showing a image of Venice

Cover of the Dean Street Press edition of "The Sussex Cuckoo" by Brian Flynn. The central image shows a bird in flight holding a piece of paper with writing on it

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Helen Bailey @blackbirdsing.bsky.social · 15d

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Clothes in Books @clothesinbooks.bsky.social · 8d

What is it about DE Stevenson? Massive bestselling author of the mid 20th Cent, strange structures, page-turners, and excellent details of life - from ironing nylong to hatshops. This one is The Blue Sapphire, early 1960s. clothesinbooks.blogspot.com/2025/10/iron...

Ironing Nylon & a Hatshop: The Blue Sapphire by DE Stevenson

The Blue Sapphire by DE Stevenson published 1963 [ excerpt ] ‘Miss Julia,’ [the housekeeper] said. ‘Are you sure you’d not lik...

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Dean Street Press @deanstpress.bsky.social · 8d

Thanks! 😊

Dean Street Press @deanstpress.bsky.social · 8d

Oscar Wilde by award-winning biographer and theatre critic, Sheridan Morley to be republished by Dean Street Press, Spring 2026 #OscarWilde #biography #comingsoon

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Dean Street Press @deanstpress.bsky.social · 8d

I like it!

Dean Street Press @deanstpress.bsky.social · 8d

Agreed. ‘Cosy’ doesn’t mean bloodless. It’s more about tone: small-scale settings, amateur sleuths, and violence kept (mostly) offstage. Murder still very much allowed! What alliterative term would you use instead?

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