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Frances Hamilton
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Reader, critical thinker, third sector employee, MSc student, mother of boys. Dog walker, hen feeder, cat lover, vegetable grower, jam maker.
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Patrick Kavanagh - well loved poet and writer died #OTD 30 November 1967
#PatrickKavanagh #Advent
#speirgorm
November 30, 2025 at 9:35 AM
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In the search for a long and atmospheric audiobook I came upon this. I’m a bit excited for it.
#books
#audiobooks
#booksky
Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell, Susanna Clarke
November 21, 2025 at 5:57 PM
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Waking up to Gordon Lightfoot on a dark November morning. Nice. #risingtime #speirgorm
November 16, 2025 at 6:46 AM
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Can’t resist the return of Jimmy Perez. If Cleeves applies the same evocation of place for Orkney as she did for Shetland, I’ll be a happy reader 😊
#books
#booksky
November 15, 2025 at 10:10 AM
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An academic from a climate-ravaged 2119 searches for poet Francis Blundy’s lost masterpiece, trawling through century-old emails and social media. What’s not to love?
#books
#booksky
Ian McEwan’s What We Can Know
November 15, 2025 at 8:08 AM
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Well, this was mental. Mental in a good way… sensuous and dark and thrilling, and possibly my favourite of all the Kate Atkinson novels I’ve been devouring over the last couple of months.
#books
#booksky
#KateAtkinson
Kate Atkinson’s Human Croquet
November 8, 2025 at 4:31 PM
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Wouldn’t usually watch the tv series before reading the books and worry that the books won’t live up to the series, but I think it’s time to risk it.
#mickherron
#slowhorses
#books
#booksky
Mick Herron’s Joe Country
November 5, 2025 at 7:32 PM
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I’m going to miss the Todds, in all their iterations.
#kateatkinson
#books
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Kate Atkinson’s A God in Ruins
November 4, 2025 at 4:26 PM
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One more sleep…
#therosefield
#philippullman
#books
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#bookofdust
October 22, 2025 at 4:34 PM
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Everything hangs by a thread. I loved this novel. Off now to ponder my life choices 😉
#books
#booksky
#kateatkinson
Kate Atkinson, Life After Life
October 21, 2025 at 7:37 PM
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Really enjoying Yume Kitasei’s Saltcrop… the author is new to me. #booksky #saltcrop
October 6, 2025 at 8:41 PM
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Tempted to move directly to William Boyd’s The Predicament, having just finished Transcription (everything that I love about a spy novel) but think I’d better intersperse with some sci-fi. Going to try Mason Coile’s Exiles, a Guardian recommendation.
#booksky
October 4, 2025 at 7:20 AM
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Reasons to love September… apples and quince from my uncle’s garden, sunflowers €5 a bunch in the local garden centre 😊 #speirgorm #harvest
September 14, 2025 at 6:25 PM
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Arrived in the post today from Blackwells, nice surprise! Had forgotten I’d ordered it. #TomCox #Booksky
Tom Cox, Everything Will Swallow You
September 11, 2025 at 5:49 PM
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😊
#sunflowers
August 26, 2025 at 9:41 PM
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Making sloe gin is an annual event, crab apple gin is a new departure 😊
#speirgorm
#sloegin
August 23, 2025 at 6:53 PM
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Indulging in a little Jackson Brodie all over again, via audiobook. It’s been ages since I’ve read them.
#booksky
August 23, 2025 at 1:19 PM
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Everything changes and everything stays the same…. so elegantly done by Tracy Chevalier, as always.
#booksky
August 19, 2025 at 7:19 AM
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Just as well we’re nearly home 😊 #thunderstorm #speirgorm
August 16, 2025 at 6:47 PM
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My summer of William Boyd continues, and this is probably the novel I have loved the most, thus far. But then, I’ve thought that about each one, as I go along.
#booksky
William Boyd, Sweet Caress
August 16, 2025 at 4:24 PM
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I don’t think I’ll ever forget Logan Mountstuart.

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August 3, 2025 at 9:01 PM
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Finding it hard to put this down, as always with a Kim Stanley Robinson novel.
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Aurora, Kim Stanley Robinson
July 28, 2025 at 7:54 AM
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Listening to this one, took the longer route home this evening… always a sign of a great audiobook. Samuel West narrating.
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Robert Harris Precipice
July 22, 2025 at 6:09 PM
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I haven’t read David Brooks’ NY Times article, but he has clearly annoyed Ann Patchett… some great recommendations from her here. #Booksky

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New to You: Literature Isn’t Dead
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July 21, 2025 at 8:33 PM
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First William Boyd I’ve read and it was so much fun. Might be the start of a run of William Boyd…
#booksky
July 17, 2025 at 7:37 PM