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Linda Newbery 📚✍️🌳🐝 🦊🦋📷Ⓥ @lindanewbery.bsky.social · 6d

I'm supporting this: "We, the undersigned, join the global call for our governments to end the world's biggest form of food waste by cutting the use of grain – such as wheat, barley and oats – to feed factory farmed animals ...". Read the full letter via the link & please sign & share!

Compassion in World Farming UK @ciwf.org.uk · 7d

NEW ACTION: Sign our open letter calling on the Prime Minister to fix the biggest source of food waste ➡️ bit.ly/4hc5yDO

So far, 20 public figures & experts have signed.

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20 public figures and experts call on the UK Prime Minister to feed people not factory farms. Read our open letter and add your name.

ALBION by Anna Hope, reviewed by Linda Newbery

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@writersreview 📚 @writersreview.bsky.social · 10d

"Asks deep questions about individual responsibility, whether past wrongs can be righted, how we adapt to climate change & nature loss, & what kind of future we can shape." reviewsbywriters.blogspot.com/2025/10/albi... @lindanewbery.bsky.social @penguinrandomhouse.bsky.social #AnnaHope #greatreads

Guest review by Sarah LeFanu: UNDER THE NET by Iris Murdoch

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@writersreview 📚 @writersreview.bsky.social · 17d

Welcome to new guest Sarah LeFanu, who praises Iris Murdoch's Under the Net: "Joy in thinking & observing, in the pleasures of friendship and pursuit of love, all vividly present in her first, utterly delightful novel." reviewsbywriters.blogspot.com/2025/10/gues... @vintagebooks.bsky.social

Dr. Jane Goodall, legendary animal rights advocate, dies at 91

Linda Newbery 📚✍️🌳🐝 🦊🦋📷Ⓥ @lindanewbery.bsky.social · 20d

Same.

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plantbasedfuture 🌿🌿🌿 @plantbasedfuture.bsky.social · 22d

Very sad news. Dr Jane Goodall was such an influential voice for animals and the natural world.

NBC News @nbcnews.com · 22d

BREAKING: Dr. Jane Goodall, an animal rights advocate, has died of natural causes at age 91, the Jane Goodall Institute says in a statement.

"Dr. Goodall's discoveries as an ethologist revolutionized science, and she was a tireless advocate for the protection and restoration of our natural world," the Jane Goodall Institute said in a Wednesday statement.

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Linda Newbery 📚✍️🌳🐝 🦊🦋📷Ⓥ @lindanewbery.bsky.social · 22d

Unaccustomed glamour! I'm here at Blenheim Palace for #RipplesOfChange, Cherwell Collective's sustainable fashion show. Fashion shouldn't cost the Earth ... Never been to a catwalk show before! #SustainableFashionWeek

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@writersreview 📚 @writersreview.bsky.social · 24d

New bookseller guest! Richard Hayden of The Rye Bookshop chooses James Fox's excellent CRAFTLAND: "Craft, it is implied, is for hobbyists at home; instead, this tiny and shrinking minority do work. Hard work ... "
reviewsbywriters.blogspot.com/2025/09/book... #Rye #bookshops #JamesFox #crafts

Bookseller feature: Richard Hayden of THE RYE BOOKSHOP chooses CRAFTLAND by James Fox

Guest review by Catherine Butler: THE TALE OF GENJI by Murasaki Shikibu, translated by Kencho Suematsu

Linda Newbery 📚✍️🌳🐝 🦊🦋📷Ⓥ @lindanewbery.bsky.social · Sep 22

"Gradually you're training yourself to see and think your way into a radically different world. And that is a rich reward." At @writersreview.bsky.social, guest @catherine-butler.bsky.social on THE TALE OF GENJI, believed to be the world's first novel. reviewsbywriters.blogspot.com/2025/09/gues...

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Linda Newbery 📚✍️🌳🐝 🦊🦋📷Ⓥ @lindanewbery.bsky.social · Sep 21

Brilliant talk by @tessaboase.bsky.social today for Rye Arts Festival: social history, animal rights, campaigning, feminism, misogyny. I couldn't resist buying a copy and will post @writersreview.bsky.social when I've read it. @rspb.bsky.social

Animal Advocate no.10: Mark Wakeling of Amberwood Animals

Linda Newbery 📚✍️🌳🐝 🦊🦋📷Ⓥ @lindanewbery.bsky.social · Sep 16

The One True Thing is out now: “A beautifully complex tapestry of lives and relationships ... a novel to immerse yourself in." Jane Rogers, author of Mr Wroe's Virgins. Available as paperback, ebook and audiobook. Gorgeous cover art by
@owengent.bsky.social.

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plantbasedfuture 🌿🌿🌿 @plantbasedfuture.bsky.social · Sep 12

Mark Wakeling of Amberwood Animals talks to @lindanewbery.bsky.social about his Oxfordshire animal sanctuary, his aims and concerns, and how he arrived at this stage of his life. www.lindanewbery.co.uk/2025/09/12/a... #animalsanctuary #animals #farmanimal #veganism #compassion #Oxfordshire

Mark Wakeling of Amberwood Animals talks about how his sanctuary was formed, his daily life there and how he sees the potential to change attitudes towards farmed animals.

www.lindanewbery.co.uk

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Linda Newbery 📚✍️🌳🐝 🦊🦋📷Ⓥ @lindanewbery.bsky.social · Sep 12

In my website Animal Advocate series: guest no 10 is Mark Wakeling of Amberwood Animals. Lovely to chat to Mark about his Oxfordshire sanctuary and how he arrived at this stage of his life. www.lindanewbery.co.uk/2025/09/12/a... #animalsanctuary #animaladvocate #veganism #farmanimals #compassion

Animal Advocate no.10: Mark Wakeling of Amberwood Animals

Mark Wakeling of Amberwood Animals talks about how his sanctuary was formed, his daily life there and how he sees the potential to change attitudes towards farmed animals.

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Linda Newbery 📚✍️🌳🐝 🦊🦋📷Ⓥ @lindanewbery.bsky.social · Sep 8

Thanks for the share, Laura! 💚

Buy The One True Thing: Read Kindle Store Reviews - Amazon.com

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@writersreview 📚 @writersreview.bsky.social · Sep 8

Guest Dennis Hamley explains why A S Byatt's POSSESSION is hi 'favourite-ever' novel. "I re-read it once every three years and each time I find even more in it." reviewsbywriters.blogspot.com/2025/09/gues... #BookerPrize #ASByatt #greatreads #literarymystery #poetry
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Linda Newbery 📚✍️🌳🐝 🦊🦋📷Ⓥ @lindanewbery.bsky.social · Sep 7

If you'd like to read my new novel, THE ONE TRUE THING, it's available in Kindle form for just 99p for a limited period. amzn.to/4oSs7AZ #TheOneTrueThing #WritersReviewPublishing #newbooks #newfiction

The One True Thing

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BOOKSHOP FEATURE: Inside an Indian Indie bookstore, by Venkatesh Swamy

Linda Newbery 📚✍️🌳🐝 🦊🦋📷Ⓥ @lindanewbery.bsky.social · Sep 1

My first Substack post! How this beautiful photograph by my late mother led to the writing of three (or even four) very different books ... lindanewbery.substack.com/p/one-photog... #stonecarving #stone #CoppedHall #caryatid #writinglife #TheOneTrueThing #TheShellHouse #SetinStone #Lob

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@writersreview 📚 @writersreview.bsky.social · Sep 1

"Just like its customers, a bookstore has its own personality..." A new kind of bookshop feature today - guided by Venkatesh Swamy, we visit the thriving Eureka! in #Delhi to sample the rewards & irritations of daily bookshop life. reviewsbywriters.blogspot.com/2025/09/book... #India #indiebookshop

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Linda Newbery 📚✍️🌳🐝 🦊🦋📷Ⓥ @lindanewbery.bsky.social · Aug 28

Truly sickening. Thank you for an excellent article.

Linda Newbery 📚✍️🌳🐝 🦊🦋📷Ⓥ @lindanewbery.bsky.social · Aug 22

Thank you! Must look up those other titles but here's another recommendation for Tosh's Island!

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Linda Newbery 📚✍️🌳🐝 🦊🦋📷Ⓥ @lindanewbery.bsky.social · Aug 18

Makes me want to re-read this ...

Guest review by Sheena Wilkinson: LOVE FORMS by Claire Adam

Linda Newbery 📚✍️🌳🐝 🦊🦋📷Ⓥ @lindanewbery.bsky.social · Aug 15

Oh thanks, Pam! Quiet birthday because getting ready for a Devon trip, with friends Peter, Saira and 10-year-old Jude. Have visited Hartland Abbey, Tintagel Castle, St Nectan's Glen and Bude. Hot! 🌞

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@writersreview 📚 @writersreview.bsky.social · Aug 11

This week's guest @sheenawriter.bsky.social praises Claire Adam's Booker-longlisted LOVE FORMS: "huge in scope, with action moving over decades & continents, but also a deeply personal, private story." reviewsbywriters.blogspot.com/2025/08/gues... #BookerPrize #greatreads #Caribbean #adoption

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Linda Newbery 📚✍️🌳🐝 🦊🦋📷Ⓥ @lindanewbery.bsky.social · Aug 9

I'm at the Green Fair in Banbury today, with my books - come to Lock 29 for stalls, talks, information, samba band & more. Organised by Nothing But Footprints, our excellent zero-waste shop. #GreenFair #booksigning #Banbury #zero-waste