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Book lover, artist, author of Pippo's War
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alifeinbooks
10 months ago
#BookReview
of
#Fundamentally
by Nussaibah Younis
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#BookReview of #Fundamentally by Nussaibah Younis - Swirl and Thread
‘Arriving for the first time, tucked into a UN car, I watched as the city lights refracted through the bulletproof glass. Floodlights hovered over a pickup football game, square lamps uplit the Nation...
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10 months ago
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Book Review: The Language of Remembering
“To be in a moment completely, you think, like this, now, is the essence of living, and if only it could be taught, or if only you could learn it, like an alphabet, and repeat it over and ove…
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alifeinbooks
10 months ago
Spring treats on the way - Paperbacks to Look Out For in March 2025: Part Two
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Paperbacks to Look Out For in March 2025: Part Two - A life in books
Book reviews, snippets of book news, and alerts about books outside the glare of the publicity spotlight.
https://alifeinbooks.co.uk/2025/02/paperbacks-to-look-out-for-in-march-2025-part-two/
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RatherBeReading
10 months ago
Wow what a book! I’ve absolutely adored this. Feeling bereft it’s over 😭
#OurEvenings
#AlanHollinghurst
@picadorbooks.bsky.social
#booksky
#reading
#booklovers
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Cauvery Madhavan
10 months ago
Congratulations
@markabowles.bsky.social
and
@galleybeggars.bsky.social
!!! I loved this book so really delighted for you!🍾👏🏽🍾👏🏽
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Ian Dunt
10 months ago
Been a good day today. From morning to evening, European leaders standing up, all around the world, one after another, and speaking clearly against the Trump/Putin agenda.
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Kit de Waal
10 months ago
Two great writers in conversation
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Frances Evangelista
10 months ago
Some group predictions from our shadow group. IBP longlist tomorrow!
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@fulcherkim.bsky.social
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@marinasofia.bsky.social
@jeremykoenig.bsky.social
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Some predictions...
On the eve of the longlist
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jen sometimes aph 🌻
10 months ago
this week's cover is on point ht:
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Tony Riches
10 months ago
New Audiobook in the Elizabethan Series: Frances – Tudor Countess, “A thrilling portrait of a remarkable woman who witnessed the key events of Elizabethan England.” 🇬🇧
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#Tudors
#HistoricalFiction
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Emma | 𝚍𝚊𝚖𝚙𝚙𝚎𝚋𝚋𝚕𝚎𝚜.𝚌𝚘𝚖
10 months ago
Small Fires by Ronnie Turner @OrendaBooks
#fiction
#gothic
#mystery
#bookreview
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Small Fires by Ronnie Turner @OrendaBooks #fiction #gothic #mystery #bookreview
I am delighted to share my review today for Small Fires by Ronnie Turner. This is the third book by this author and it is amazing 😍 My huge thanks to Orenda Books for getting in touch to see if I w…
https://vonnibee.com/2025/02/25/small-fires-by-ronnie-turner-orendabooks-fiction-gothic-mystery-bookreview/
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John Mitchinson
10 months ago
In which we welcome one of
@backlisted.bsky.social
's heroes, the writer and critic, John Lahr. Join me,
@iammilliam.bsky.social
, and Nicky Birch as we explore the huge (in every sense) A Life by Elia Kazan, a book as gutsy, bruising & brilliant as the man himself.
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234. A Life by Elia Kazan — Backlisted
We explore Elia Kazan 's memoir A Life (1988) with veteran biographer and critic John Lahr, author of Notes on a Cowardly Lion , Prick Up Your Ears: The Biography of Joe ...
https://www.backlisted.fm/episodes/234-a-life-by-elia-kazan
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JacquiWine
10 months ago
“An ex-wife’s a woman who’s always prattling at parties about the joy of being independent, while she’s sober…and beginning on either the virtues or the villainies of her departed husband on one drink too many.”
#ReadIndies
#BookSky
💙📚
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Ex-Wife by Ursula Parrott
When Ex-Wife was published anonymously in 1929, it quickly became a literary sensation, selling 100,000 copies in its first year. Its author, Ursula Parrott, worked as a newspaper reporter in New Y…
https://jacquiwine.wordpress.com/2025/02/25/ex-wife-by-ursula-parrott/
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Radz Pandit
10 months ago
Today's
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Kate Leader
10 months ago
John Lahr! Very excited about this, but also sad guests can't do their own books I want Backlisted to do The Joe Orton Diaries.
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Emma
11 months ago
N3w billet: The English Teacher by R.K. Narayan - Sad, beautiful and very modern.
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The English Teacher by R.K. Narayan – Sad, beautiful and very modern.
The English Teacher by R.Y. Narayan. (1945) French title: Le professeur d’anglais. The English Teacher by R.K. Narayan is the last volume of three books based upon the author’s life and set in fict…
https://bookaroundthecorner.com/2025/02/11/the-english-teacher-by-r-k-narayan-sad-beautiful-and-very-modern/
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Emma
11 months ago
Old billet relevant at the moment, especially for US readers. Ubu King by Alfred Jarry.
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Merdre or Shrit! Ubu Roi is a lot more sensible than expected
Ubu Roi by Alfred Jarry. 1896. Written circa 1888. English Title: Ubu Rex. I’m going to watch the play Ubu Enchaîné (Ubu Bound) by Alfred Jarry in a couple of days. So I thought I might as we…
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Emma
11 months ago
Another billet about Ubu.
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Cornegibouille! Ubu is a slave now.
Ubu Enchainé by Alfred Jarry. 1899. Ubu Bound. In case you’ve missed the first episode, here is my chronicle of Ubu Roi. Ubu Enchainé is the sequel of Ubu Roi. The first scene sums up what happened…
https://bookaroundthecorner.com/2012/02/18/cornegibouille-ubu-is-a-slave-now/
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Marina Sofia
11 months ago
There's something otherworldly about Tirzah Garwood's work. Another outstanding exhibition at
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The Society of Authors
11 months ago
Congratulations to the winner of the 2024 Great Britain Sasakawa Foundation Translation Prize, for translations into English of full-length Japanese language works. Masaya Saito for The Kobe Hotel: Memoirs by Sanki Saitō (Isobar Press)
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Bristol Translates
11 months ago
📢We are enormously excited to announce that the keynote speaker for Bristol Translates 2025 will be Damion Searls, translator of Nobel laureate Jon Fosse and seven other Nobel prize-winners.
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Kaggsy's Bookish Ramblings
11 months ago
On the Ramblings today, for
#readindies
and
#moomins80
, the first book in the Moomin series!
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“…behind the horizon threatening black clouds were gathering.” #Moomins80
Back in August last year, I took part in a lovely event called Moominweek, hosted by Paula at Book Jotter. I read all the Moomin books by Tove Jansson in the early years of the blog (mainly) so I c…
https://kaggsysbookishramblings.wordpress.com/2025/02/15/behind-the-horizon-threatening-black-clouds-were-gathering-moomins/
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Chris Lovegrove 💙📚
11 months ago
Review of 'The Moomins and the Great Flood' by
#ToveJansson
, read for
@bookjotter.bsky.social
's
#ToveTrove
and
@kaggsy59.bsky.social
and
@lizzysiddal.bsky.social
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#ReadIndies
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The quest for home: #ReadIndies
Cover illustration by Tove Jansson, showing Moomins spotting Sniff for the first time. The Moomins and the Great Flood by Tove Jansson. Småtrollen och den stora övervämningen (1945) translated by D…
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Debbie Ridpath Ohi
11 months ago
Calling agents seeking (human)
#KidLitArt
talent! Do browse this thread of art samples from
#KidLit
illustrators who are actively seeking representation:
debbieohi.link/illustrators...
To others: Pls help boost, esp if you have agents following you? It's a tough time for freelance illustrators.
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Emma
11 months ago
New billet : Mafalda, a BD and a graphic novel
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Mafalda, a BD and a graphic novel
Mafalda, mon héroïne (2024) by Florence Cestac, Maële Reat, Emilie Gleason, Anne Simon, Aude Picault, Maud Begon, Véro Cazot, Soledad Bravi, Agathe de Lastic, Gally, Marie Bardiaux-Vaïente and Flor…
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Cathy J
11 months ago
Sharing to the
#gardening
feed 🌱
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Cathy J
11 months ago
My Week in Books - Books read, reviewed & acquired this week
#books
#bookreviews
#amreading
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My Week in Books – 16th February 2025
On the blog last week Monday - I published my review of The Ghosts of Rome by Joseph O'Connor. Tuesday - This week's Top Ten Tuesday topic was a freebie on the theme of love. My list consisted on book whose titles relate to aspects of love. Wednesday – As always WWW Wednesday is a weekly opportunity to share what I've just read, what I'm currently reading and what I plan to read next...
http://whatcathyreadnext.co.uk/2025/02/16/my-week-in-books-16th-february-2025/
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JacquiWine
11 months ago
New on the blog today, I've written about A LITTLE LUCK by Claudia Piñeiro (tr. Frances Riddle). I loved this quietly gripping exploration of motherhood, split-second decisions and their devastating consequences. A 5-star knockout read for me!
#BlueSky
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A Little Luck by Claudia Piñeiro (tr. Frances Riddle)
For many years, the award-winning novelist and screenwriter Claudia Piñeiro has enjoyed considerable success in her native Argentina with her crime novels and mysteries. More recently, however, Piñ…
https://jacquiwine.wordpress.com/2025/02/16/a-little-luck-by-claudia-pineiro-tr-frances-riddle/
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alifeinbooks
11 months ago
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A Little Luck by Claudia Piñeiro (tr. Frances Riddle)
For many years, the award-winning novelist and screenwriter Claudia Piñeiro has enjoyed considerable success in her native Argentina with her crime novels and mysteries. More recently, however, Piñ…
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11 months ago
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Book review - Helen Gordon - "The Meteorites: Encounters with Outer Space & Deep Time"
Meteorites, space, geology, social justice, science, women in science
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alifeinbooks
11 months ago
Something for the weekend - Three Days in June by Anne Tyler: ‘Another chance to get it right’
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Three Days in June by Anne Tyler: ‘Another chance to get it right’ - A life in books
Book reviews, snippets of book news, and alerts about books outside the glare of the publicity spotlight.
https://alifeinbooks.co.uk/2025/02/three-days-in-june-by-anne-tyler-another-chance-to-get-it-right/
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Irish Literary Times
11 months ago
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Rick O’Shea on running the happiest place on the internet — his book club
The DJ has weathered storms, he tells Erin McCafferty, and found refuge in the joy of reading
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Molly Jong-Fast
11 months ago
Why is the richest man in the world cutting cancer research?
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Joanne Harris
11 months ago
Unsolicited writing advice, no. #271: Have the courage to be yourself. Everyone else has already been done.
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Eric Karl Anderson
11 months ago
New video discussing the 16 books which have been long listed for the 2025
#WomensPrize
for Non-Fiction:
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Timothy Snyder
11 months ago
It’s a good time to follow
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Sarah Murden
11 months ago
New on All Things Georgian - Guest post by Rosalind Freeborn - 'Prince George and Master Frederick'' -
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alifeinbooks
11 months ago
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Book Review – The Ghosts of Rome by Joseph O’Connor @vintagebooks
About the Book February 1944. Six months since Nazi forces occupied Rome. Inside the beleaguered city, the Contessa Giovanna Landini is a member of the band of Escape Line activists known as ‘The C…
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Mairéad Hearne (Swirl and Thread Book Blog)
11 months ago
#BookReview
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#TheBishopsVilla
by Sacha Naspini (trs. from the Italian by Clarissa Botsford) Tuscany, Nov 1943. One man's journey to champion the hero within Based on a true story - Challenging & provoking tale PB Feb 13th w/ Europa Editions UK
#booksky
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alifeinbooks
11 months ago
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“‘Hope’ is the thing with feathers.” (Emily Dickinson)
This week as part of Kaggsy and Lizzy’s #ReadIndies event I’m looking at book published by Taproot Press, “an Edinburgh-based publisher committed to presenting challenging, contemporary voices from…
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Short stories from the New Yorker, IV: Egan, Bolaño, Kapur, Ong, Heti
“Safari”, by Jennifer Egan (first published 2010; chosen by Greg Jackson). This is a chapter of what would become Egan’s Pulitzer-Prize winning novel A Visit From the Goon Squad (…
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Kaggsy's Bookish Ramblings
11 months ago
On the Ramblings today, for
#ReadIndies
, a pair of wonderful Crime Classics from
@britishlibrary.bsky.social
Publishing by Christianna Brand - more here!
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“These writer people never get their police procedure right.” #christiannabrand @BL_Publishing #readindie @medwardsbooks
As is fairly obvious from my posts over the last couple of months, I have been playing catch-up with some wonderful review copies sent by British Library Publishing. I’m a huge of their Crime…
https://kaggsysbookishramblings.wordpress.com/2025/02/10/these-writer-people-never-get-their-police-procedure-right-christiannabrand-bl_publishing-readindie-medwardsbooks/
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11 months ago
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Book Review: The Slightly Spooky Tale of Fox and Mole (2025) By Cecilia Heikkila (trans. Polly Lawson)
I received a review copy of this book from Floris Books via Edelweiss for which my thanks. Beautifully illustrated with an autumn palette, Swedish author Cecelia Heikkila’s The Slightly Spooky Tale…
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11 months ago
A new review for
#ReadIndies
, The Cemetery of Untold Stories by Julia Alvarez from
@charcopress.com
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The Cemetery of Untold Stories
The Cemetery of Untold Stories is Julia Alvarez’s seventh novel, her first – How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents – having been published in 1991. Born in the US, Alvarez spent the first ten yea…
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MadameBibiLophile
11 months ago
Today on the blog, a wonderful novella for
#ReadIndies
hosted by
@kaggsy59.bsky.social
&
@lizzysiddal.bsky.social
:
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“‘Hope’ is the thing with feathers.” (Emily Dickinson)
This week as part of Kaggsy and Lizzy’s #ReadIndies event I’m looking at book published by Taproot Press, “an Edinburgh-based publisher committed to presenting challenging, contemporary voices from…
https://madamebibilophilerecommends.co.uk/2025/02/11/hope-is-the-thing-with-feathers-emily-dickinson/
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WHO
11 months ago
Today is International Day of Women & Girls in Science. Marie Curie, the first woman to win a Nobel Prize. Her contributions have left an indelible mark on the world of science & health & continue to inspire generations of scientists & innovators. 🔬
#WomenInScience
#WomenInSTEM
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alifeinbooks
11 months ago
Future treats to cheer up a gloomy day - Books to Look Out For in March 2025: Part Two
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Books to Look Out For in March 2025: Part Two - A life in books
Book reviews, snippets of book news, and alerts about books outside the glare of the publicity spotlight.
https://alifeinbooks.co.uk/2025/02/books-to-look-out-for-in-march-2025-part-two/
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Bluemoose Books
11 months ago
Many thanks to Sarah, Mark, Kate & Simon The Bookcase, Hebden Bridge. The Accidental Immigrants by
@jomcmillan.bsky.social
Front and Centre!
@thebookseller.bsky.social
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Bluemoose Books
11 months ago
Many thanks to Indy bookshops Especially Bookshop Hebden Bridge.
@thebookseller.bsky.social
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