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@gavreads @gavreads.co.uk · 6h

Brilliant!

@gavreads @gavreads.co.uk · 7h

This is an example of why publishers should list the publisher, as I thought the only version of the Gregory Hays translation was the US Modern Library one (978-0812968255). I would have bought this mini edition earlier if I'd known.

@gavreads @gavreads.co.uk · 7h

I went into HMV today because they have a 2 for £9 offer, and I wanted to add Hell House by Richard Matheson to my collection of haunted house books to read. But I also found Meditations by Marcus Aurelius as a mini book, as trans. by Gregory Hays (ISBN 978-1474620949).

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@gavreads @gavreads.co.uk · 7h

It's your raison d'être...

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@gavreads @gavreads.co.uk · 9h

Congratulations 🙌🏻

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🌈 Hailey Piper 🌈 @haileypiperfights.bsky.social · 13h

Today marks 2 years since A LIGHT MOST HATEFUL said "run from that small town, girl, they're going to kill you"

Normally I don't post 2-year marks for my books, but I just found out this one has earned out on its advance! 🎉🎉 so an ENORMOUS THANK YOU to everyone who's chosen to escape Chapel Hill ⚡

2 Years on the Run, above the cover of A Light Most Hateful by Hailey Piper, art by Julia Lloyd, showing a red cover with lightning striking a dark silhouette. Around it are the following quotes about the book:
Gemma Amor: "will leave you breathless"
Nat Cassidy: "phantasmagoric, unpredictable"
Publishers Weekly in a starred review: "ambitious, genre-shredding"
Rachel Harrison: "a writhing-in-your-seat nightmare"
Clay McLeod Chapman: "awe-inspiring"
Eric LaRocca: "imaginative and chilling"
I Jiang: "mesmerizing"
Library Journal in a starred review: "stunning, terrifying"

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@gavreads @gavreads.co.uk · 9h

Sold

Runalong Womble @runalongwomble.bsky.social · 11h

New #Bookpost many thanks to @orbitbooksuk.bsky.social for a copy of Aicha by Soraya Bouazzaoui for strip into Morocco’s history and myth! Look at the art - coming March 2026 - I do like temptation!

Cover for Aicha by Soraya Bouzzaoui shows a woman holding a sword with golden tear down her face

TEMPTRESS
MONSTER
WARRIOR
Presenting the powerful tale of Aicha - Morocco's warrior goddess. This is a story of female rage and lesser-known myths of strange magic, vicious rebellions and a fearless love affair.
The Portuguese flag has been planted across Morocco, its empire ruling with an iron fist. But eventually, all empires must fall.
Aicha, the daughter of a Moroccan freedom fighter, was born for battle.
She has witnessed the death of her people, their starvation and torture at the hands of the occupiers, and it has awakened an anger within her.
An anger that burns hot and bright, and speaks to Aicha's soul.
Only Aicha's secret lover, Rachid, a rebellion leader, knows how to soothe her. But as the fight for Morocco's freedom reaches it violent climax, the creature that simmers beneath Aicha's skin begs to be unleashed. It hungers for the screams of those who have caused her pain, and it will not be ignored.
A major launch for Orbit: Aicha is perfect for fans of romantic epic fantasy and myth retellings such as She Who Became the Sun, The Jasmine Throne and Circe.

A red tinged pic of Aicha looking vampiric

A vampiric figure surrounded by shadowy figures

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@gavreads @gavreads.co.uk · 9h

I was like nicer cover art, blurb, fangs and awesome art, and then MORE FANGS AND FANTASTIC ART!!

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@gavreads @gavreads.co.uk · 11h

That’s not helping! 🤣

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@gavreads @gavreads.co.uk · 11h

Robin Hobb is someone I’m scared to approach as that series is 100 books long

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Damian Barr @damianbarr.bsky.social · 1d

I’ve been curating an exhibition about the Two Roberts and it opens next week at Charleston in Lewes. Over 100 works, including some that have never been shown before! Big gay Scottish working-class art lov and joy FOR YOU! Book now:

www.charleston.org.uk/exhibition/r...

Charleston — Robert MacBryde and Robert Colquhoun: Artists, Lovers, Outsiders

Explore the lives and work of the 'Two Roberts'

www.charleston.org.uk

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Cheryl Morgan @cherylmorgan.bsky.social · 1d

Now only £22! 🤞

Wizard's Tower Press @wtpress.bsky.social · 1d

Excitingly we are only £42 away from being 50% funded. Hopefully we will get there before I wake up tomorrow morning.
www.kickstarter.com/...

The cover of They Are Still Here (Mae Nhw Yma O Hyd).

The image is of the sorceror, Gwydion, surrounded by wild animals (wolf, boar, deer) in a Celtic knotwork frame. Gwydion's hat is crowned with antlers. He carries an axe in his right hand and an oak twig in his left.

Art by Josh Arklin.

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@gavreads @gavreads.co.uk · 1d

Look, this temptation has to stop. Today it’s this and When There Are Wolves Again. Can authors pause on their brilliance. I haven’t got the time. *any bets how long I’ll resist getting copies?

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Niall Harrison @niallharrison.bsky.social · 1d

Very upset, I did not need another entry on the list of things I really want to read before the end of the year

Abigail Nussbaum @abigailnussbaum.bsky.social · 1d

New blog post: on Jordan Prosser's delightfully gonzo debut novel Big Time, which crosses Almost Famous with 1984 and a drug that can make you see the future, and asks: what power does art have during times of fascism? wrongquestions.blogspot.com/2025/10/rece...

Recent Reading: <i>Big Time</i> by Jordan Prosser

There's something almost irresistibly appealing about the musical biopic. It combines melodrama and genuine accomplishment. It conveys profo...

wrongquestions.blogspot.com

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@gavreads @gavreads.co.uk · 1d

I’ve read this twice. Cried more than twice (not sure why I keep telling you that some books make me cry). I am so happy to see this in the world.

A story of queer love, video games, a creepy village, toxic friends, and a lot of hope.

Trick or Treat Coveney🎃 @nmjcoveney.bsky.social · 1d

Still not over this a week on! Limited signed copies available @gaystheword.bsky.social get them while you can www.gaystheword.co.uk/product-page...

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Trick or Treat Coveney🎃 @nmjcoveney.bsky.social · 1d

Still not over this a week on! Limited signed copies available @gaystheword.bsky.social get them while you can www.gaystheword.co.uk/product-page...

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@gavreads @gavreads.co.uk · 1d

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Caitlin G. @realmsofmymind.bsky.social · 1d

Read Becky's review for what will likely be one of my top reads of the year!

Becky’s Books @beckysbooks.bsky.social · 1d

Today’s review is for ‘Red City’ by Marie Lu.

A dark story of divided loyalties & love that brings two people together against a backdrop of gang violence in an Alt Los Angeles. crooksbooks.blog/2025/10/09/r...

Red City by Marie Lu – ARC Review!

Alchemy is the hidden art of transformation, an exclusive power wielded by crime syndicates who market it to the world’s elite in the form of sand – a drug that enhances those who take it into a mo…

crooksbooks.blog

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@gavreads @gavreads.co.uk · 1d

What would you list comprise of? Do we share any favourites?

@gavreads @gavreads.co.uk · 2d

I’m gonna share some of my favourite books from 2022 to now for absolutely no reason:

- Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead by Olga Tokarczuk trans. Antonia Lloyd-Jones
- Auntie Mame by Patrick Dennis trans. by Anne Milano Appel
- Babel-17 by Samuel R. Delany
- ‘salem’s Lot by Stephen King

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Bookstore Romance Day @handle.invalid · 1d

It's only taken a week for 60% of tickets to be claimed. Don't miss out on @oliviawaite.com @clpolk.blacksky.app @kitrocha.com @jessiemihalik.com @evaleigh.bsky.social @stephanieburgis.bsky.social & #LeslyePenelope talking magic lost & found on 11/1 @ 3 PM EDT. www.eventbrite.com/e/1762356127...

Pale blue background. At the top left is the black silhouette of a hand facing downward with golden sparkles spilling from it. At the lower right is a black silhouette of a hand facing upward with golden sparkles rising from it. Gold text at top reads "Lost & Found Magic" Dark blue text below reads "A Virtual Conversation With Olivia Waite, CL Polk, Leslye Penelope, Jessie Mihalik, Eva Leigh, Kit Rocha, Stephanie Burgis" Lighter blue text reads "Sat. Nov. 1 at 3 PM Eastern on Zoom"

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@gavreads @gavreads.co.uk · 1d

Happy Publication Day.

Gemma Amor @manylittlewords.bsky.social · 1d

My hands are shaking a little as I type this but...ITCH! IS OUT TODAY!!

I'm finally a big 5 published author!

Feminist, formication folk horror with creepy crawlies, ancient traditions, unsolved murders, weird processions, masks, an old pub and an excellent dog.

www.hachette.co.uk/titles/gemma...

Gemma Amor dressed in pink holding a copy of ITCH!

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@gavreads @gavreads.co.uk · 1d

I’ve been hearing so many good things about this.

Wild Hunt Books @wildhuntbooks.bsky.social · 1d

HAPPY PUBLICATION DAY TO GOOD BOY BY @talkscaredpod.bsky.social

Order from our bookshop or your favourite retailer.

After a boy vanishes on the outskirts of a small town, a woman spies a mysterious man digging a grave in the exact spot of the disappearance.

www.wildhuntbooks.co.uk/books/p/good...

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@gavreads @gavreads.co.uk · 1d

Serious FOMO - @chloroformtea.bsky.social has also given this high praise.

Runalong Womble @runalongwomble.bsky.social · 1d

New Review - happy publication day to the excellent When There Are Wolves Again by EJ Swift - a science fiction novel for the 21st century that gives us hope. Run and get it I think we all need this. One of the best reads of my year! www.runalongtheshelves.net/blog/2025/10...

When There Are Wolves Again by EJ Swift — Runalong The Shelves

I would like to thank Arcadia for an advance copy of this novel in exchange for a fair and valid review Publisher – Arcadia Published – Out Now Price – £20 hardback £9.99 ebook   Dec...

www.runalongtheshelves.net

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Bookish Scifi & Fantasy @bookishsff.bsky.social · 1d

When There Are Wolves Again is released today!

@catamaroon.bsky.social's new novel is a hopeful but believable dystopia, tackling speculative themes of biodiversity and environmental disaster, pandemic, justice, and our possible future, all explored in a deeply human & affecting way.

💙📚🪐

A hand holds a copy of the book in a bookshop. On the cover a wolf in greens and blues fades into sapling trees reaching up to surround the letters of the title with delicate leaves.

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E. J. Swift @catamaroon.bsky.social · 1d

When There Are Wolves Again is out in the UK today! I wrote something about the book, and keeping going, and some personal stuff I dithered over but, well, it's been A Year.

I'm so glad the book is out there and thank you so much to everyone who has supported it 🐺🤍

ejswift.co.uk/2025/10/09/w...

Hardback edition of When There Are Wolves Again by E. J. Swift, with cover featuring a wolf and branch/leaf/flower design, photographed in the garden with the author's cat in the background being dramatic

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