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Paula Bardell-Hedley @bookjotter.bsky.social · 14h

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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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alifeinbooks @alifeinbooks.bsky.social · 1d

New review on my blog - The Two Roberts by Damian Barr: ‘The Golden Boys of Bond Street’ alifeinbooks.co.uk/2025/10/the-... #BookSky

The Two Roberts by Damian Barr: ‘The Golden Boys of Bond Street’ - 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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alifeinbooks @alifeinbooks.bsky.social · 3d

New on my blog: Eight Days in Austria, Two Days in Switzerland, Five Days in France and Three Books alifeinbooks.co.uk/2025/10/eigh...

Eight Days in Austria, Two Days in Switzerland, Five Days in France and Three Books - 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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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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JacquiWine @jacquiwine.bsky.social · 5d

"It’s commonplace for what is correct in one community to have precisely the opposite significance in another. There are some that attack without warning to drive me out as soon as I approach, while others greet me with astonishing curiosity." #BookSky 💙📚

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Under the Eye of the Big Bird by Hiromi Kawakami (tr. Asa Yoneda)

The award-winning Japanese writer Hiromi Kawakami first came to prominence with her beautiful, meditative novella Strange Weather in Tokyo (tr. Allison Markin Powell), which was shortlisted for the…

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Kaggsy's Bookish Ramblings @kaggsy59.bsky.social · 1d

On the blog today - my thoughts on the marvellous "Ring the Hill" by @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social More here: kaggsysbookishramblings.wordpress.com/2025/10/10/t...

“There is nothing like climbing hills for perspective.” #ringthehill

Books can arrive in your line of sight and at your house in so many unusual ways, and that’s certainly the case of “Ring the Hill” by Tom Cox (first published in 2019). I was awar…

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JacquiWine @jacquiwine.bsky.social · 12d

"It was as if by getting Rosamund to tell him where the fork was, he was in some way bringing her into this plan for re-designing Lindy’s garden: making the whole project into a threesome, not just him and Lindy.”

Trouble in suburbia in this gem by Fremlin!

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The Jealous One by Celia Fremlin

Like her namesake, Celia Dale, Celia Fremlin is fast becoming one of my favourite writers from the mid-20th century. She wrote wonderfully suspenseful domestic noirs, slowly building tension by lev…

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Salt Books @saltpublishing.com · 4d

Help Salt take its publishing to the next level!

Donate to Keep Independent Publishing Alive – Support Salt Books 2026, organized by Christopher Hamilton-Emery

Help Salt Publish Brilliant New Books in 2026 For twenty-… Christopher Hamilton-Emery needs your support for Keep Independent Publishing Alive – Support Salt Books 2026

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Kath @kathyburke.bsky.social · 4d

Yes, yes I know I keep banging on about my fucking book! However, if you want one repost this and I’ll do a random winner pick thing by the end of the week because I’m great like that. ♥️📚
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Caroline @beautyandthecat.bsky.social · 10d

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Announcing German Literature Month XV – November 2025

November isn’t far away, and you all know what that means – German Literature Month is just around the corner! For the 15th (!) time, we’ll be reading German, Austrian, or Swiss books, …

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Emma @bookaround.bsky.social · 6d

New billet: Some billets about books published in 1925 - #1925Club bookaroundthecorner.com/2025/10/05/s...

Some billets about books published in 1925 – #1925Club

This month is the 10th anniversary of the Year Club Reading Week hosted by Karen and Simon. The next one is October 20-26 and they picked the year 1925. This is one of my favorite blogging event, i…

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Kaggsy's Bookish Ramblings @kaggsy59.bsky.social · 14d

My final read for #shortstoryseptember is a remarkable collection by Rosalind Brackenbury, reissued by Michael Walmer - No Such Thing as a Free Lunch. Why she’s not better known is beyond me! kaggsysbookishramblings.wordpress.com/2025/09/27/f...

“Fiction is an attack in the night…” #shortstoryseptember #rosalindbrackenbury

My final read for Short Story September is a collection which only arrived recently at the Ramblings, but which I was very excited to receive – “No Such Thing as a Free Lunch” by …

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Paula Bardell-Hedley @bookjotter.bsky.social · 14d

bookjotter.com/2025/09/27/winding-up-the-week-440/ #AmReading #Books #BookReview #HispanicHeritageMonth25 @consumedbyink.bsky.social

Winding Up the Week #440

This week I look at books read and reviewed, discover some of the best writing about literature on the blogosphere, keep up with literary anniversaries, focus on a past post deserving to be read an…

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Association for Scottish Literature @asls.org.uk · 13d

On BBC Sounds: Jackie Kay talks to John Wilson about her childhood in Glasgow as the mixed-race, adopted daughter of a loving couple, & her formative creative influences.
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BBC Radio 4 - This Cultural Life, Jackie Kay

Poet, writer and former Makar Jackie Kay reveals her formative creative influences.

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Association for Scottish Literature @asls.org.uk · 13d

My seventy-seven-year-old father
put his reading glasses on
to help my mother do the buttons
on the back of her dress…

—Jackie Kay, “George Square”
from LIFE MASK, @bloodaxebooks.bsky.social 2005

Listen to Jackie Kay read the poem on @thepoetryarchive.bsky.social
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George Square
by Jackie Kay

My seventy-seven-year-old father
put his reading glasses on
to help my mother do the buttons
on the back of her dress.
‘What a pair the two of us are!’
my mother said, ‘Me with my sore wrist,
you with your bad eyes, your soft thumbs!’

And off they went, my two parents
to march against the war in Iraq,
him with his plastic hips, her with her arthritis
to congregate at George Square where the banners
waved at each other like old friends, flapping,
where they’d met for so many marches over their years,
for peace on earth, for pity’s sake, for peace, for peace.

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JacquiWine @jacquiwine.bsky.social · 13d

New on the blog today, I've written about THE JEALOUS ONE by Celia Fremlin.

A deliciously compelling novel in which a seemingly happy marriage – a picture of suburban bliss – is upended by the arrival of a flighty single woman. Wonderful stuff! #BookSky 💙📚

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The Jealous One by Celia Fremlin

Like her namesake, Celia Dale, Celia Fremlin is fast becoming one of my favourite writers from the mid-20th century. She wrote wonderfully suspenseful domestic noirs, slowly building tension by lev…

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Northodox Press 📖 @northodoxpress.bsky.social · 14d

All set up and ready to go at the Northern Publishers' Fair in Manchester Central Library!

Come and say hello and grab a copy of The Mare for the last time!

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Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan @london.gov.uk · 15d

I’m deeply concerned about recent racist attacks in our capital city.

From the TfL workers being punched and racially abused to women who were chased down the street - I’m deeply concerned about the alarming rise of racist attacks in our capital city.

We are also seeing appalling incidents elsewhere in the country - some of which have included abhorrent violence towards children.

These incidents illustrate the dangers of allowing racism to be normalised and mainstreamed. Real lives and personal safety are under threat.

I will continue to speak out against racial inequalities and injustices, as well as providing support to organisations working to support our communities and bring people together.

London is a successful, liberal and multicultural city. The greatest in the world. It will always be for everyone and I promise you: that will never change.

MAYOR OF LONDON, SADIQ KHAN

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Simon Thomas @stuckinabook.bsky.social · 16d

Are there any good secondhand bookshops left in London?

I know that’s a bold opening, but a commenter recently asked for suggestions for secondhand bookshops in London, and… I struggled. I would have some eager recommendations a few years ag…

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Marie Phillips @mariephillips.bsky.social · 16d

The people they are talking about deporting include, to pluck one example from the air, my 59-year-old sister who has lived here since the age of six and is on a low income due to being a nursery school teacher. These plans are utterly scandalous and anyone who supports them is a disgrace.

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Kaggsy's Bookish Ramblings @kaggsy59.bsky.social · 16d

On the blog today - a new book from @bodleian.ox.ac.uk Publishing which is perfect for any booklover - Looking After Your Books! More here: kaggsysbookishramblings.wordpress.com/2025/09/25/i...

“…it is acceptable to have more than one edition of a series of books that you really like.” @BodPublishing

It’s patently obvious to anyone with even only a nodding acquaintance with me that I love books – I mean, I’ve devoted a whole blog to them!! So obviously, as well as loving books…

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JacquiWine @jacquiwine.bsky.social · 18d

New on the blog today, I've written about THE ICE HOUSE by Nina Bawden.

A subtle, insightful story of the tangled nature of love, friendship, marriage and the deceptions we are sometimes too blinkered to see. #BookSky 💙📚

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The Ice House by Nina Bawden

While the English writer Nina Bawden is probably best known for her children’s books, especially Carrie’s War and The Witch’s Daughter, she also wrote many novels for adults, mostly focusing on the…

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Kaggsy's Bookish Ramblings @kaggsy59.bsky.social · 19d

For #spinsterseptember I return to the wonderful writing of #AnitaBrookner with her third novel, Look At Me - more here! kaggsysbookishramblings.wordpress.com/2025/09/22/i...

“I wanted an end to shabbiness, to pretence, to anxiety, to dissembling.” #lookatme #spinsterseptember

It’s been a while since I read the first two novels by Anita Brookner, “A Start in Life” and “Providence”, although I’m intending to gradually read my way throug…

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Kaggsy's Bookish Ramblings @kaggsy59.bsky.social · 22d

On the blog today, a stunning book from @bodleian.ox.ac.uk Publishing - "Mapping the North" - if you love maps, you've love this!! kaggsysbookishramblings.wordpress.com/2025/09/19/m...

“…maps both reflect and reinforce power relations…” #mappingthenorth @BodPublishing

There are times when you spot a book and think instantly that it’s going to be one for you, and that happened recently for me. The title in question is “Mapping the North” by Char…

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