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Reviews of fiction and non-fiction by an impressive line-up of author and bookseller guests, hosted by Adele Geras, Linda Newbery and Celia Rees. Q&As with authors. Writers Review Publishing launching in 2025. www.reviewsbywriters.blogspot.com
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Follow us for great reading recommendations on alternate Mondays (sometimes more often) - all by authors or independent booksellers. Special features and Q&As with authors. Fab guest list includes Patrick Gale, Jane Rogers, Tracy Chevalier, Anthony Horowitz + more. #reviewsyoucantrust #greatreads
Guest author David Breakell finds much to admire in Robert Harris's PRECIPICE, set in 1914. "Finds something new to say ... a seasoned political observer so the context is expertly handled." reviewsbywriters.blogspot.com/2025/10/gues... #RobertHarris #historicalfiction #FirstWorldWar #greatreads
Guest review by David Breakell: PRECIPICE by Robert Harris
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"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
ALBION by Anna Hope, reviewed by Linda Newbery
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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
Guest review by Sarah LeFanu: UNDER THE NET by Iris Murdoch
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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 ... "
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Bookseller feature: Richard Hayden of THE RYE BOOKSHOP chooses CRAFTLAND by James Fox
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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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"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
BOOKSHOP FEATURE: Inside an Indian Indie bookstore, by Venkatesh Swamy
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'The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there.' Regular contributor Graeme Fife comes to THE GO BETWEEN for the first time. 'At the end, I cried.' Who else loves this, and/or the film versions? reviewsbywriters.blogspot.com/2025/08/gues... #LPHartley #TheGoBetween #heatwave #1900
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
Guest review by Sheena Wilkinson: LOVE FORMS by Claire Adam
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Here's our first audiobook! The One True Thing by @lindanewbery.bsky.social - 'a novel to immerse yourself in', Jane Rogers. Beautifully read by Katie Villa; lovely cover design by @owengent.bsky.social. #TheOneTrueThing #WritersReviewPublishing #newbooks #newfiction #Audible #audiobook #KatieVilla
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It's our 9th birthday! We're honoured to welcome special guest Michรจle Roberts to help us mark the occasion - an author we've long admired and whose distinctive, eloquent style has influenced so many others. reviewsbywriters.blogspot.com/2025/08/nint... #MicheleRoberts #greatwriters
We have a very special post on Monday to mark our 9th birthday. Who's our guest author? Don't forget to check back and find out! #ninthbirthday #anniversary #birthday #specialguest #specialguestauthor #mysteryguest
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We're very proud of the first 3 books from Writers Review Publishing - and more are on the way! Find out more about us, and about each book & author, at www.writersreviewpublishing.co.uk. @judithallnatt.bsky.social @maryhoffman.bsky.social @lindanewbery.bsky.social @sheenawriter.bsky.social
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I love the Writers Review blog, so it's been an honour to share some of the ideas behind my new novel with @lindanewbery.bsky.social on the site this week.
Congratulations to today's guest Alison Layland on her excellent new novel AFTER THE CLEARANCES - a tale of near-future survival in a remote island community. Find out more from our Q&A. reviewsbywriters.blogspot.com/2025/07/q-al... @honnopress.bsky.social #clifi #future #survival #community
Q&A: Alison Layland talks to Linda Newbery about her new novel AFTER THE CLEARANCES
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Congratulations to today's guest Alison Layland on her excellent new novel AFTER THE CLEARANCES - a tale of near-future survival in a remote island community. Find out more from our Q&A. reviewsbywriters.blogspot.com/2025/07/q-al... @honnopress.bsky.social #clifi #future #survival #community
Q&A: Alison Layland talks to Linda Newbery about her new novel AFTER THE CLEARANCES
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Welcome to new contributor Nick Hodges, a nature journalist from Australia, who finds much to enjoy in Stephen Moss's THIS BIRDING LIFE. 'His enthusiasm is catching: boundless.' reviewsbywriters.blogspot.com/2025/07/gues... @stephenmossauthor.bsky.social #birdwatching #birds #naturewriting #nature
Guest review by Nick Hodges: THIS BIRDING LIFE by Stephen Moss
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Today: @lindanewbery.bsky.social finds much to learn, absorb & consider in Barbara Allen's roll-call of extinct animals. "'May we endeavour to add as few names and pages as possible to this book of extinction." Amen to that.' reviewsbywriters.blogspot.com/2025/06/lost... @reaktionbooks.bsky.social
LOST ANIMALS, DISAPPEARING WORLDS - STORIES OF EXTINCTIONS by Barbara Allen, reviewed by Linda Newbery
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Guest Dennis Hamley relishes @jonathancoe.bsky.social's latest novel. "A brilliant author. Acerbic about society and especially its politics, profound understanding of human, especially sexual, relationships, sometimes a bit of cosy crime, very funny..." reviewsbywriters.blogspot.com/2025/06/gues...
Guest review by Dennis Hamley: THE PROOF OF MY INNOCENCE by Jonathan Coe
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"This jewel of a book is out there, like our beautiful planet in space; silent, modest, wonderful, waiting to be found." Guest Cindy Jefferies praises ORBITAL, Samantha Harvey's Booker prizewinner. reviewsbywriters.blogspot.com/2025/06/gues... @vintagebooks.bsky.social @cindyjefferies.bsky.social
Guest review by Cindy Jefferies: ORBITAL by Samantha Harvey
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