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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

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

@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

@writersreview 📚 @writersreview.bsky.social · Sep 15

This week's guest, regular contributor @cindyjefferies.bsky.social, finds much to enjoy in THE HUMMINGBIRD by Sandro Veronesi. reviewsbywriters.blogspot.com/2025/09/gues... #translation #literatureintranslation #Italianfiction #greatreads

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

@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

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

@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

Guest review by Sheena Wilkinson: LOVE FORMS by Claire Adam

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@writersreview 📚 @writersreview.bsky.social · Aug 18

'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

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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

SUMMER ROUND-UP by Adèle, Celia and Linda

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@writersreview 📚 @writersreview.bsky.social · Aug 6

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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Linda Newbery 📚✍️🌳🐝 🦊🦋📷Ⓥ @lindanewbery.bsky.social · Aug 4

Q: what do these lovely authors have in common? A: they've all been birthday guests at @writersreview.bsky.social! Helping us mark our 9th birthday is the wonderful #MichèleRoberts. #JoanneHarris #DianneSetterfield #AnthonyHorowitz
reviewsbywriters.blogspot.com/2025/08/nint... Happy birthday to us!

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@writersreview 📚 @writersreview.bsky.social · Aug 4

It's our 9th birthday! We're honoured to welcome special guest Michèle 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

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@writersreview 📚 @writersreview.bsky.social · Aug 2

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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Celia Rees @celiarees.bsky.social · Jul 28

Check out our summer reads. We'd love to know what your choices would be!

@writersreview 📚 @writersreview.bsky.social · Jul 28

Summer round-up: what have we loved recently? What's on our reading piles? Lovely range chosen by @celiarees.bsky.social @lindanewbery.bsky.social and #AdeleGeras. reviewsbywriters.blogspot.com/2025/07/summ... @guyshrubsole.bsky.social @merlinsheldrake.bsky.social @judithallnatt.bsky.social

SUMMER ROUND-UP by Adèle, Celia and Linda

@writersreview 📚 @writersreview.bsky.social · Jul 28

Summer round-up: what have we loved recently? What's on our reading piles? Lovely range chosen by @celiarees.bsky.social @lindanewbery.bsky.social and #AdeleGeras. reviewsbywriters.blogspot.com/2025/07/summ... @guyshrubsole.bsky.social @merlinsheldrake.bsky.social @judithallnatt.bsky.social

Guest review by Jane Rogers: STONE YARD DEVOTIONAL by Charlotte Wood

@writersreview 📚 @writersreview.bsky.social · Jul 21

Regular contributor Jane Rogers admires Charlotte Wood's Booker-shortlisted exploration of climate activism, faith, retreat and resilience. reviewsbywriters.blogspot.com/2025/07/gues... @sceptrebooks.bsky.social #greatreads #BookerPrize #climateactivism #Australia

Q&A: Alison Layland talks to Linda Newbery about her new novel AFTER THE CLEARANCES

@writersreview 📚 @writersreview.bsky.social · Jul 19

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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Alison Layland 💚🌳🏞️💙📚 @ecow0rrier.bsky.social · Jul 14

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.

@writersreview 📚 @writersreview.bsky.social · Jul 14

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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@writersreview 📚 @writersreview.bsky.social · Jul 14

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

Guest review by Nick Hodges: THIS BIRDING LIFE by Stephen Moss

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@writersreview 📚 @writersreview.bsky.social · Jul 7

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

Talking Location With ....Linda Newbery: NORTHAMPTONSHIRE - TripFiction

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@writersreview 📚 @writersreview.bsky.social · Jul 4

On TripFiction: how #TheOneTrueThing's big house is the setting for #swifts, #Artweeks and growing awareness of social injustice, privilege, climate emergency & the need for change. www.tripfiction.com/talking-loca... #SwiftAwarenessWeek #LiteraryWanderlust #travelbybook @tripfiction.bsky.social

#TalkingLocationWith … Linda Newbery, author of The One True Thing – Northamptonshire (and Mumbai) At the centre of my novel is a large Edwardian house,

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LOST ANIMALS, DISAPPEARING WORLDS - STORIES OF EXTINCTIONS by Barbara Allen, reviewed by Linda Newbery

@writersreview 📚 @writersreview.bsky.social · Jun 30

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

Guest review by Dennis Hamley: THE PROOF OF MY INNOCENCE by Jonathan Coe

@writersreview 📚 @writersreview.bsky.social · Jun 23

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 Cindy Jefferies: ORBITAL by Samantha Harvey

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@writersreview 📚 @writersreview.bsky.social · Jun 16

"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