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Honestly, here mostly to shout about my #resist middlegrade trilogy about a #1930s girlgang rescuing kids from the fiendish plots of the Blackshirts, the British far right of the 20s and 30s.
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Really happy to see that #Newbury library has copies! Thank you West Berkshire Librarians!
My #library list is growing!
#libraries #LibraryLove
#thewondergirls
#booksky
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Photo of three paperbacks - The Wonder Girls Trilogy by J.M. Carr
February 22, 2025 at 1:40 PM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers!
#BookSky
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#Books
#BookChallenge
Day 16
Book, ‘Bereft’ by Chris Womersely, cover showing a girl running through a wheat field under a stormy sky.
February 13, 2025 at 11:21 PM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers!
#BookSky
💙📚
#Books
#BookChallenge
Day 15
Front cover of ‘Standing in the Rainbow’ by Fannie Flagg showing the corner of a house with a US flag in the window on a small town street
February 7, 2025 at 8:06 AM
jmcarr.bsky.social
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers!
#BookSky
💙📚
#Books
#BookChallenge
Day 14
Front cover of ‘Klara and the Sun’ by Kazuo Ishiguro - a blue square with the sun peeping in. All against a solid red orange background with title and author name.
February 6, 2025 at 9:17 AM
jmcarr.bsky.social
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers!
#BookSky
💙📚
#Books
#BookChallenge
Day 13
Cover for Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro shoeing a sundial a long drive and a large country house in the distance.
February 1, 2025 at 9:30 AM
jmcarr.bsky.social
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers!
#BookSky
💙📚
#Books
#BookChallenge
Day 12
Cover of book ‘Liar and Spy’ by Rebecca and Stead, showing a pair of binollculars dangling in a night sky, hooked on the s of the title over an apartment block.
January 31, 2025 at 5:26 PM
jmcarr.bsky.social
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers!
#BookSky
💙📚
#Books
#BookChallenge
Day 11
Book cover for Bereft by Chris Womersley showing a girlrunning through long, dry grass under a stormy sky.
January 30, 2025 at 10:15 AM
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“A swashbuckling, anti-fascist, inclusive and girl-empowering page turner!”
“I really loved this book. It's funny, charming, heart wrenching and a perfect read for anyone looking for something to make you feel good about the world.”
www.jmcarr.com/twg1
#1930s #antifascist #kindle #BookSky #Books
Wonder Girls book cover as a ebook - 2 girls running away from a car on a london street at night - with quote ‘a glorious life affirming read’ and price 99p/99c
January 30, 2025 at 8:02 AM
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“A swashbuckling, anti-fascist, inclusive and girl-empowering page turner!”
“I really loved this book. It's funny, charming, heart wrenching and a perfect read for anyone looking for something to make you feel good about the world.”
www.jmcarr.com/twg1
#1930s #antifascist #kindle #BookSky #Books
Section of The Wonder Girls book cover with quote ‘a glorious life affirming read’ showing 2 girls running away from a car on a night time London street. A gyrocopter flies overhead.
January 29, 2025 at 12:50 PM
jmcarr.bsky.social
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers!
#BookSky
💙📚
#Books
#BookChallenge
Day 10
Book ‘Threads of Life’ - the History of the world through the eye of a needle
January 29, 2025 at 8:59 AM
jmcarr.bsky.social
“A swashbuckling, anti-fascist, inclusive and girl-empowering page turner!”
“I really loved this book. It's funny, charming, heart wrenching and a perfect read for anyone looking for something to make you feel good about the world.”
www.jmcarr.com/twg1
#1930s #antifascist #kindle #BookSky #Books
Vintage (1930s) sepia photo of a gang if girls surrounding a kindle mockup of book cover for The Wonder Girls -2 girls being chased thru a london street at night by a car. A gyrocopter in the background.
January 29, 2025 at 8:56 AM
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Girls taking down fascist as5h0les in 1930s small town England for 99c/99p…. #TheWonderGirls 1/3 #antifascist #antinazi #Middlegrade #feelgood
Get HERE: www.amazon.co.uk/Wonder-Girls...
Two girls running away from a car in a London street at night. Caption on image reads ‘ a glorious life-affirming read’ image also shows the kindle price- 99c/ 99p
January 29, 2025 at 1:07 AM
jmcarr.bsky.social
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers!
#BookSky
💙📚
#Books
#BookChallenge
Day 9
Cover of The Legend of Dally Jones by Jacob Wegelius showing an illustration of two boats ( one a life boat )being tossed about in a stormy sea. Also in the two bottom corners of the cover under the author name, a hunter with a pistol and a safebreaking gorilla.
December 16, 2024 at 8:43 AM
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Bookselling in The Marlands today! #southampton #southamptonevents #books #shoplocalthischristmas
Photo of my bookstall tiday in The Malands shopping mall in Southampton
December 14, 2024 at 9:28 AM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers!
#BookSky
💙📚
#Books
#BookChallenge
Day 8
The Penguin English Library cover of Persuasion by Jane Austen, showing an early victorian perhaps painting of the sea crashing against the cobb (esplanade) at Lyme Regis.
November 29, 2024 at 11:02 PM
jmcarr.bsky.social
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers!
#BookSky
💙📚
#Books
#BookChallenge
Day 7
Photo of front cover of a well read paperback copy from 1960s of Anne of Green Gables by LM Montgomery. Showing an illustration of Anne with long red plaits in a black and white check dress carrying a book and using her other hand to keep her flower decorated straw hat on her head.
November 26, 2024 at 9:38 PM
jmcarr.bsky.social
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers!
#BookSky
💙📚
#Books
#BookChallenge
Day 6
Front cover of ‘Q and A’ by Vikas Swarup showing a young indian boy carrying a tray as a waiter.
November 25, 2024 at 9:54 AM
jmcarr.bsky.social
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers!
#BookSky
💙📚
#Books
#BookChallenge
Day 5
Cover of *The Book Thief’ by Markus Zuak an illustration of the narrator ‘Death’ dancing with a young girl presumably the MC Liesel
November 24, 2024 at 12:10 PM
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I talk to so many people who say they don’t have time to read…
#booksky
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Pic of text from @sketchesbyBoz - ‘we lose the habit of reading because we’re afraid of wasting our time. We think we need to be productive and “on the go” at all times. But people are not machines, and you are nourished by naps and fiction and basking in sunlight, no less than by food and drink.
November 24, 2024 at 11:52 AM
jmcarr.bsky.social
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers!
#BookSky
💙📚
#Books
#BookChallenge
Day 4
Cover of Travellers in the Third Reich showing a red car driving under a bridge presumably in Germany in 1930s
November 23, 2024 at 5:52 PM
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Selling books this evening in the design chapel in #Southampton’s old cemetery #SouthamptonCommon. I’ve got my own little shop!
My bookstall at a local vintage market.
November 23, 2024 at 5:26 PM
jmcarr.bsky.social
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers!
#BookSky
💙📚
#Books
#BookChallenge
Day 3
Front cover of Flora and Ulysses by Kate di Camillo showing a drawing of a girl about 11yrs and a flying squirrel
November 22, 2024 at 3:24 PM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers!
#BookSky
💙📚
#Books
#BookChallenge
Day 2
Paperback cover, showing a curious fox, for Kate Atkinson’s *Life after Life*
November 21, 2024 at 11:35 AM
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I mostly sell my books at local markets because I love talking to readers. And it so pays off by waking up to lovely messages like these…
#Booksky
#amreading
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Picture of a message that reads- Hello, I bought your book "The wonder girls" in Chichester. I've just read the first chapter this morning and I'm in! I already adore Baby. Excited to read more.
November 20, 2024 at 11:27 AM
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#bookmarks
#books
#amreading
#booksky
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Fan of bookmarks
November 20, 2024 at 9:08 AM