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Cathy Brown

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Manager at Seamus Heaney HomePlace in Bellaghy. Mother of twins. Reader. Footloose fanatic. Contributor at Dig With It and No More Workhorse Blogs about having too many books at www.746books.com

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Cathy Brown @cathybrown746.bsky.social · 12h

Thanks for including me Paula!

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Rick O'Shea @rickoshea.bsky.social · 1d

Last night was one of the most extraordinary programmes I've ever been part of, celebrating the new 'The Poems of Seamus Heaney' volume.

If you managed to snap up a ticket, thank you so much for coming. All of the credit to the amazing @rte_arena team for bringing it all together.

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Paula Bardell-Hedley @bookjotter.bsky.social · 18h

bookjotter.com/2025/10/11/winding-up-the-week-442/ #AmReading #Books #BookReview #BookshopDay #GermanLitMonth @tonysreadinglist.bsky.social @beautyandthecat.bsky.social @cathybrown746.bsky.social

Winding Up the Week #442

This week I look at books read and reviewed, discover some of the best writing about literature on the blogosphere, announce German Literature Month 2025, keep up with a variety of literary anniver…

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JacquiWine @jacquiwine.bsky.social · 4d

New on the blog today, I've written about A PRIVATE VIEW by Anita Brookner.

A superb novel in which a dull, respectable middle-aged man is tempted to jettison his highly ordered life for a volatile, vampish young woman. I loved it! #BookSky 💙📚

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A Private View by Anita Brookner

I’ve been making my way through Anita Brookner’s exquisitely written novels slowly but steadily over the past eight years. As a long-term reading project, I’m finding it fascinating to see how Broo…

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June Caldwell @junec.bsky.social · 1d

Exciting news, such a brilliant writer and woman! www.irishtimes.com/culture/book...

New Louise Kennedy novel out next year

Books newsletter: a wrap of the latest news and preview of tomorrow’s pages

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Cathy Brown @cathybrown746.bsky.social · 1d

Oh marvellous!

Cathy Brown @cathybrown746.bsky.social · 1d

67. Hallow Road. A fab two-hander - mostly set in a car - which is way more tense and way more effective than it should be.

Cathy Brown @cathybrown746.bsky.social · 3d

Excellent news!

John Rain🥇 @johnrain.co.uk · 3d

Moonlighting is streaming. Important player.stv.tv/summary/disn...

Watch Moonlighting | Stream Free on STV Player

Maddie Hayes and David Addison run Blue Moon Detective Agency.

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Cathy Brown @cathybrown746.bsky.social · 3d

Oh I haven't. I loved The Fight and Of a Fire on the Moon though. I'll check that one out.

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🅢🅗🅔🅔🅝🅐 @sheena-mck.bsky.social · 3d

This made me laugh more than it probably should 😂
#funny

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Cathy Brown @cathybrown746.bsky.social · 3d

Blood Will Out by Walter Kirn and The Stranger Beside Me by Ann Rule (which I wasn't fussed on but is fascinating for the way she used their relationship for her own ends).

Cathy Brown @cathybrown746.bsky.social · 3d

I second The Executioner's Song. It is an amazing book

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Cathy Brown @cathybrown746.bsky.social · 3d

66. The Surfer. Look, I will genuinely watch Nicholas Cage in anything but this is a terrible, terrible movie.

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alifeinbooks @alifeinbooks.bsky.social · 5d

Books to Look Out For in November 2025: Part One alifeinbooks.co.uk/2025/10/book... #MondayBlogs

Books to Look Out For in November 2025: Part One - A life in books

Book reviews, snippets of book news, and alerts about books outside the glare of the publicity spotlight.

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T. S. Eliot Prize @tseliotprize.bsky.social · 5d

We are thrilled to be able to reveal this year's T.S. Eliot Prize shortlist!
Our judges have chosen ten books "of great range, suggestiveness and power; from Entebbe to Manitoba... there is something here for everyone."

Find out more now: tseliot.com/prize/news/

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Laurent Peraldi @tintamarre.bsky.social · 4d

Lisa Larsen

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alifeinbooks @alifeinbooks.bsky.social · 5d

New on my blog - Books to Look Out For in November 2025: Part One alifeinbooks.co.uk/2025/10/book... #BookSky

Books to Look Out For in November 2025: Part One - A life in books

Book reviews, snippets of book news, and alerts about books outside the glare of the publicity spotlight.

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Irish Literary Times @irishlittimes.bsky.social · 7d

“The past beats inside me like a second heart.” – John Banville, The Sea

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Cathy Brown @cathybrown746.bsky.social · 7d

Anatomy of a Fall, The Beast, Past Lives, Aftersun, La Chimera, Late Night with the Devil, Limbo, I'm Still Here, Decision to Leave and Another Round.

Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · 8d

One Battle After Another has been getting a lot of “best movie of the decade” talk, and I’m inclined to agree but I’m curious — what’s the competition?