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Sarah Dent
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Reader, blogger and book hoarder | MA Literature of the Romantic Period 1775-1832 from @york.ac.uk 📚

Lives in #Manchester 🐝

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Sarah Dent @thebookhide.bsky.social · Mar 24
New to #booksky 👋 I love the Romantics, Jane Austen, the Brontës, poetry and historical fiction 📚 I write about these and other things on my blog thebookhide.wordpress.com
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Review: 'The Painters Daughters' by Emily Howes #booksky

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Review: ‘The Painter’s Daughters’ by Emily Howes
A haunting historical novel about art, family and illness that lingers in the memory. ‘The Painter’s Daughters’ is set in eighteenth-century England and is based on the true story of the portrait a…
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October 27, 2025 at 8:11 PM
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Book review 📚 ✨

'With Love, from Cold World' by Alicia Thompson, a sweet seasonal romance that really packed an emotional punch
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October 9, 2025 at 5:17 PM
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Incredible list of poetry recommendations from @holliemcnish.bsky.social @nationalbooktokens.bsky.social 📚 #poetry #booksky

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11 poetry books to read if you don't know where to start
Hollie McNish is an award-winning poet, writer and performer. In Virgin, her highly anticipated new collection, Hollie unpicks the role this word has played in her own life, as well as others, with he...
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October 8, 2025 at 9:59 AM
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Thank you to @devoney.bsky.social and @chawtonhouse.bsky.social for a great talk on Jane Austen's wildness! Looking forward to reading the book 📚☺️ #WildforAusten #reading #booksky
September 29, 2025 at 7:16 PM
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Found this in #Knutsford this morning whilst I was on my way for a filling! 📚🧚‍♂️ #ibelieveinbookfairies #reading #thetimehopcoffeeshop #booksky @headofzeus.bsky.social
September 25, 2025 at 2:30 PM
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Thankyou to the lovely bookworms at House of Books and Friends and @littletigeruk.bsky.social for this goody bag which brightened up a rainy lunchtime! 📚🍂☔#Manchester #reading #booksky
September 3, 2025 at 1:20 PM
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You had me at Lord Byron murder mystery set in Venice 🌹💀 🇮🇹 #romanticism #byron #reading #booksky
August 28, 2025 at 7:15 PM
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I adored The Way of All Flesh, must catch up with the rest of this series! 📚
surgeonshall.bsky.social Surgeons' Hall Museums @surgeonshall.bsky.social · Jun 3
We had a great evening with ‪@ambroseparry.bsky.social‬ last night for the launch of their latest book 'The Death of Shame'.
Writing duo Ambrose Parry sitting on a stage with a photo of their book 'The Death of Shame' projected behind them. There is a large audience sitting in front of them. Husband and wife duo Ambrose Parry sitting behind a table with piles of their new book 'The Death of Shame' in front of them.
June 3, 2025 at 11:08 AM
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thebookseller.com The Bookseller @thebookseller.com · Jun 2
ICYMI: HQ has pre-empted the debut novel from actor Colin Morgan, The Ballad of Ronan McCoy. The novel will be published on 18th June 2026 👇 #BookSky
HQ pre-empts debut novel The Ballad of Ronan McCoy from actor Colin Morgan
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June 3, 2025 at 9:18 AM
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I recently finished Jenni Fagan's extraordinary memoir 'Ootlin' which was unlike anything else I've read. Full review on my blog -

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Review: ‘Ootlin’ by Jenni Fagan
I recently finished Scottish poet and novelist Jenni Fagan’s extraordinary memoir Ootlin which was unlike anything I’ve read before. Jenni spent the first 16 years of her life in care, being passed…
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June 2, 2025 at 5:16 PM
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This was waiting for me when I got home today ☺️ happy publication day @jeansthoughts.bsky.social !
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May 15, 2025 at 6:34 PM
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A reminder of a pretty etymology to brighten the day. The ‘daisy’ takes its name from the Old English ‘dæges ēage’, ‘day’s eye’, because it opens its petals at dawn, and closes them again at dusk.
April 18, 2025 at 8:40 AM
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Currently listening to Helen Castor's 'The Eagle and the Hart' #audiobook, perfectly read by the author #booksky #history #nonfiction
March 26, 2025 at 2:23 PM
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Hello #Booksky and everyone else who's trying to find a new platform for all things writing and literature in this corner of the internet!

We're in the same boat, and as an attempt to help Northern #Booksky grow, we made a list of folx to follow. Check it out👇

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March 25, 2025 at 2:58 PM
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#OTD in 1811 #Shelley was expelled from Oxford for refusing to deny his authorship of 'The Necessity of Atheism', which argued that "every reflecting mind must allow that there is no proof of the existence of a Deity. QED"
March 25, 2025 at 12:41 PM
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"Greatness, Shelley taught, lies not in the power a person may snatch for personal glory. It lies rather in caring for one another and for nature, from which alone a universal quality of life can spring. That message is as true for our times as it was for his."

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humanists.uk Humanists UK @humanists.uk · Mar 25
#OnThisDay 1811, humanist and poet Percy Bysshe Shelley was expelled from Oxford University for publishing his pamphlet, The Necessity of Atheism, which argued 'If the knowledge of a God is the most necessary, why is it not the most evident and the clearest?' heritage.humanists.uk/percy-bysshe...
Humanist Heritage: Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822)
Percy Bysshe Shelley was a major poet of the Romantic period, and remains one of England’s best loved and most […]
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March 25, 2025 at 12:38 PM
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New to #booksky 👋 I love the Romantics, Jane Austen, the Brontës, poetry and historical fiction 📚 I write about these and other things on my blog thebookhide.wordpress.com
March 24, 2025 at 11:49 AM
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Currently reading 'The Painter's Daughters' by Emily Howes which I'm enjoying so far 😊📚 #reading #historicalfiction #booksky
March 23, 2025 at 6:50 PM