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Harare Review of Books @hararereview.bsky.social · 11d
Harare Review of Books, August 2025

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Harare Review of Books, August 2025
Hiya! Where did September go??
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Ugh grammar
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Strange Horizons @strangehorizons.bsky.social · 3h
When There Are Wolves Again by E.J. Swift
reviewed by Paul March-Russell

The Witch Roads by Kate Elliott
reviewed by Electra Pritchett

It’s Not a Cult by Joey Batey
reviewed by Hana Carolina

Link to the latest issue in our bio!

#fantasy #sciencefiction #scifi #horror #sff #bookreviews
Left cover of When There are Wolves Again by E.J. Swift featuring a wolf with young sparse trees growing in front of it. Right REVIEWS Quote "In the current context of ultra-right-wing politics masquerading as patriotism and social media-fuelled conspiracy theories parading as truth, Swift’s liberal, democratic, multicultural, and inclusive politics strike this reader as radical." reviewer: Paul March-Russell 6 October 2025 Strange Horizons Left cover of The Witch Roads by Kate Elliott featuring two small figures walking down a road lined with large humanoid animal stature on each side leading to a large fortress with three huge spires. Right REVIEWS Quote "Dense but never overwhelming, compact but never too brief, richly detailed and imaginatively constructed, queer-inclusive and sensitive to the ways in which society masks and justifies injustices along other lines, this novel makes a thrilling read..." reviewer: Electra Pritchett 6 October 2025 Strange Horizons Left cover of It’s Not a Cult by Joey Batey featuring a red double keyboard piano on fire with solid yellow smoke rising from it with strange symbols and markings at the edges. Right REVIEWS Quote "Readers expecting a traditional genre experience may be thrown off—but for those attuned to its wavelength, it’s a striking, generous, and at times exhilarating act of cultural resistance." reviewer: Hana Carolina 6 October 2025 Strange Horizons
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Dr Sam Hirst @romgothsam.bsky.social · 4h
Today I'm doing a talk about Women and the (early) Gothic and it might be time for a list!

So here are ten early women writers of the Gothic to give an idea of the range of things that women were creating in the period!
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ExpendableMudge (he/him) @expendablemudge.bsky.social · 16h
THE REMEMBERED SOLDIER, Flemish writer explores the Great War's breakage in intimate detail via @newvesselpress.bsky.social #Booksky
FINALIST FOR THE 2025 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR TRANSLATED LITERATURE! Winner announced 19 November 2025.
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THE REMEMBERED SOLDIER, Flemish writer explores the Great War's breakage in intimate detail
THE REMEMBERED SOLDIER ANJET DAANJE (tr. David McKay) New Vessel Press ( non-affiliate Bookshop.org link) $22.95 all editions, avail...
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Runalong Womble @runalongwomble.bsky.social · 6h
An amazing read awaits in the awesome When There Are Wolves Again by EJ Swift 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...
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Runalong Womble @runalongwomble.bsky.social · 6h
Smart science fiction awaits in the thriller and more that is All That We See Or Seem by Ken Liu www.runalongtheshelves.net/blog/2025/10...
All That We See or Seem by Ken Liu — Runalong The Shelves
I would like to thank Head of Zeus for an advance copy of this novel in exchange for a fair and honest review Publisher – Head of Zeus Published – Out Now Price – £20 hardback £6.02 ebook ...
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The Bookseller @thebookseller.com · 3h
ICYMI: Bookshop.org has launched a new e-book platform, enabling indie bookshops to access the growing e-book market in the UK 👇 #BookSky
Bookshop.org launches new e-book platform for indie bookshops
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Harare Review of Books @hararereview.bsky.social · 9h
Shamiso x Brian Chikwava

155 pp. August 28, 2025, Canongate. Fiction/Zimbabwe “Obese with grief, I discovered that ‘I love you’ was the best sentence ever.” I’m one of the vanishingly few Zimbabweans who’s never been to Harare North (what we call the UK in local—Zimbabwean—parlance), but…
Shamiso x Brian Chikwava
155 pp. August 28, 2025, Canongate. Fiction/Zimbabwe “Obese with grief, I discovered that ‘I love you’ was the best sentence ever.” I’m one of the vanishingly few Zimbabweans who’s never been to Harare North (what we call the UK in local—Zimbabwean—parlance), but Chikwava’s first novel of that name showed me vividly what that experience was like for many of my compatriots—those who became undocumented migrants there.
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Mary Valante @medievalmaryq.bsky.social · 23h
It's been digitized and available online for over a decade.
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Open Culture @openculture.bsky.social · 1d
The Medieval Masterpiece, the Book of Kells, Is Now Digitized and Available Online
The Medieval Masterpiece, the Book of Kells, Is Now Digitized and Available Online
If you know nothing else about medieval European illuminated manuscripts, you surely know the Book of Kells. “One of Ireland’s greatest cultural treasures” comments Medievalists.net, “it is set apart ...
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Harare Review of Books @hararereview.bsky.social · 15h
All the New SFF Crossover Books Arriving in October 2025 - Reactor reactormag.com/new-sff-cros...
All the New SFF Crossover Books Arriving in October 2025 - Reactor
Shanghai, Long Island, Hong Kong, and Cape Cod are just some of the places visited in October's new crossover releases.
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Harare Review of Books @hararereview.bsky.social · 15h
All the New Science Fiction Books Arriving in October 2025 - Reactor reactormag.com/new-science-...
All the New Science Fiction Books Arriving in October 2025 - Reactor
In October's new SF releases, you'll find murder and sabotage, billionaire hackers and federal agents, and the Olympic Games… in… spaaaace!
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Harare Review of Books @hararereview.bsky.social · Nov 30
Grateful to The Continent for letting me go on and on about one of my favourite subjects this year: those museums.

This time, I talked about Noah Angell's book, Ghosts of the British Museum: A True Story of Colonial Loot and Restless Objects.
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Harare Review of Books @hararereview.bsky.social · 1d
Definitely one of my books of the year
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Harare Review of Books @hararereview.bsky.social · Feb 8
One of my fascinating reads this weekend: The Two Princes of Mpfumo: An Early Eighteenth Century Journey Into and Out of Slavery, x Lindsay O'Neill.

Out next week from the University of Pennsylvania Press.

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Harare Review of Books @hararereview.bsky.social · 1d
Why does Demerzel have a belly button?
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Tombmas Spooks @thomasfuchs.at · 5d
How many trillions of dollars have been invested into this technology so far?
Google search for "austria hungary in space" Google excitedly tells you about the 1889 orbital flight, and that by 1908 there was a Mars research output with 30 people.
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Ursula K. Le Guin @ursulakleguin.com · 1d
Today, The Word for World: The Maps of Ursula K. Le Guin opens at AA Gallery in London! Curated by Sarah Shin and Harriet Jennings, the exhibition presents a selection of Ursula's maps, including some that have never been exhibited before.
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Harare Review of Books @hararereview.bsky.social · 2d
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Harare Review of Books @hararereview.bsky.social · 2d
Whereas I, being only a routine visitor, think they're so special
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Nosferatu Joseph 🧛🏻‍♀️ @tashjoeza.bsky.social · 2d
Do you even live in South Africa if you've never yelled "shut up" at a hadeda?
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MIT Press @mitpress.bsky.social · 2d
The fields of psychiatry and psychology have come a long way to get to what they are today. For World Mental Health Day, we’re highlighting books that offer insight into the rich & complex history of these evolving disciplines: mitpress.mit.edu/a-reading-li...
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Martin Shaw @thebooksdesk.bsky.social · 2d
“Devices are not dangerous for literature.
People can be dangerous for literature.
People, for example, who do not read.”
— László Krasznahorkai

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Jewell @jewellislate.bsky.social · 2d
This is 99p today - might be of interest - www.amazon.co.uk/Flesh-spine-...
Of the Flesh: A spine-chilling new collection of short horror stories from bestselling authors including Lucy Rose, Emilia Hart and Bridget Collins eBook : Barker, Susan, Chukwu, J K, Collins, Bridget...
Of the Flesh: A spine-chilling new collection of short horror stories from bestselling authors including Lucy Rose, Emilia Hart and Bridget Collins eBook : Barker, Susan, Chukwu, J K, Collins, Bridget...
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Martin Shaw @thebooksdesk.bsky.social · 2d
Emmett Stinson writes just now (on twitter): "So sad to hear about the passing of Australian experimental author Moya Costello—a great writer, a lovely human being, an excellent scholar and teacher, and the inspiration for Coetzee’s Elizabeth Costello."
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Gita Ralleigh @gitaralleigh.bsky.social · 2d
🎉🎉🎉 So thrilled to see this recognition for the wonderful Sita Brahmachari! Her latest ‘Phoenix Brothers’ is a poignant, funny and very timely story of teenage refugees. global.oup.com/education/pr...
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