On #Substack, Linda Newbery writers about how WR started, what's happened in the nearly 10 years since, and where we are now. substack.com/@lindanewber... @lindanewbery.bsky.social #bookreviews #reviewsbywriters #readingrecommendations #WritersReview #Q&Afeatures #authorinterviews #roundups

Today's post: Adele Geras praises Sarah Perry's memoir about her father-in-law's death. "I was knocked sideways ... have often thought about it since & agree with the rave reviews it's received." reviewsbywriters.blogspot.com/2025/11/deat... @vintagebooks.bsky.social #SarahPerry #death #bereavement

Returning guest Susan Elkin recommends Alexander Starritt's tale of close male friendship, & wonders why it wasn't a Booker Prize choice: "Intelligent & compelling ... I loved it." reviewsbywriters.blogspot.com/2025/10/gues... @swiftpress.bsky.social #greatreads #malefriendship #friendship

I'm so pleased that the brilliant @bookshop.org now offers ebooks - it's great to be able to divert potential readers away from Amazon. Here's The One True Thing - for a limited period, just 99p. uk.bookshop.org/p/books/the-... #TheOneTrueThing #ebooks #Bookshop.org #specialoffer

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

I'm supporting this: "We, the undersigned, join the global call for our governments to end the world's biggest form of food waste by cutting the use of grain – such as wheat, barley and oats – to feed factory farmed animals ...". Read the full letter via the link & please sign & share!

"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

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

Very sad news. Dr Jane Goodall was such an influential voice for animals and the natural world.

Unaccustomed glamour! I'm here at Blenheim Palace for #RipplesOfChange, Cherwell Collective's sustainable fashion show. Fashion shouldn't cost the Earth ... Never been to a catwalk show before! #SustainableFashionWeek

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

"Gradually you're training yourself to see and think your way into a radically different world. And that is a rich reward." At @writersreview.bsky.social, guest @catherine-butler.bsky.social on THE TALE OF GENJI, believed to be the world's first novel. reviewsbywriters.blogspot.com/2025/09/gues...

Brilliant talk by @tessaboase.bsky.social today for Rye Arts Festival: social history, animal rights, campaigning, feminism, misogyny. I couldn't resist buying a copy and will post @writersreview.bsky.social when I've read it. @rspb.bsky.social

The One True Thing is out now: “A beautifully complex tapestry of lives and relationships ... a novel to immerse yourself in." Jane Rogers, author of Mr Wroe's Virgins. Available as paperback, ebook and audiobook. Gorgeous cover art by @owengent.bsky.social.

Mark Wakeling of Amberwood Animals talks to @lindanewbery.bsky.social about his Oxfordshire animal sanctuary, his aims and concerns, and how he arrived at this stage of his life. www.lindanewbery.co.uk/2025/09/12/a... #animalsanctuary #animals #farmanimal #veganism #compassion #Oxfordshire

In my website Animal Advocate series: guest no 10 is Mark Wakeling of Amberwood Animals. Lovely to chat to Mark about his Oxfordshire sanctuary and how he arrived at this stage of his life. www.lindanewbery.co.uk/2025/09/12/a... #animalsanctuary #animaladvocate #veganism #farmanimals #compassion

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 @vintagebooks.bsky.social

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

My first Substack post! How this beautiful photograph by my late mother led to the writing of three (or even four) very different books ... lindanewbery.substack.com/p/one-photog... #stonecarving #stone #CoppedHall #caryatid #writinglife #TheOneTrueThing #TheShellHouse #SetinStone #Lob

"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

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

I'm at the Green Fair in Banbury today, with my books - come to Lock 29 for stalls, talks, information, samba band & more. Organised by Nothing But Footprints, our excellent zero-waste shop. #GreenFair #booksigning #Banbury #zero-waste

Hurrrah! It's taken a while, but the audiobook of THE ONE TRUE THING is now available on Audible, beautifully read by Katie Villa. The lovely cover design is by @owengent.bsky.social. 'A novel to immerse yourself in' - Jane Rogers. #TheOneTrueThing #WritersReviewPublishing #newbooks #newfiction

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!

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

Just some of the titles in our summer round-up! Great picks by #AdeleGeras, @celiarees.bsky.social and me. What's on our reading piles? What's on yours? reviewsbywriters.blogspot.com/2025/07/summ... #summerreading #greatreads #readingpile #fiction #naturewriting #thrillers #cats #prizewinners

Lovely choices in this summer roundup at @writersreview.bsky.social - I join @celiarees.bsky.social and #AdeleGeras. What have we loved recently? What's on our reading piles? reviewsbywriters.blogspot.com/2025/07/summ... @stephenking.bsky.social #annpatchett @judithallnatt.bsky.social #annahope

New study from Oxford University confirms links between meat consumption and a range of diseases. How much more evidence is required before meat-eating ceases to be the norm? www.ox.ac.uk/news/2021-03... #health #nutrition #meatconsumption

Article on affordable superfoods in @theguardian.com today - and not one of them is animal-derived! Plant-based food is better for nature, better for climate, better for human health and certainly better for animals ... www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle... #food #nutrition #plantbased #superfood

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

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

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.

🧡 BREAKING: Historic win 🧡 The High Court of Justice of Galicia has ruled for the first time that authorities failing to properly address water pollution from industrial livestock are violating people's fundamental rights – and should be held accountable 🧵

I loved Alison Layland's RIVERFLOW so was delighted to be an early reader of her powerful new novel, set on a remote Welsh island. Community; survival; treachery; climate emergency; adaptation - a riveting read. reviewsbywriters.blogspot.com/2025/07/q-al... @honnopress.bsky.social #clifi #greatreads

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

BREAKING: New polling from @yougov.co.uk shows 75% of Brits support taxing extreme wealth. But today Keir Starmer once again brushed off calls for higher taxes on the super-rich. When will the PM stop siding with billionaires and listen to the British public instead? 350.org/tax-their-bi...

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

Pleased to be @tripfiction.bsky.social talking about #TheOneTrueThing and how its big house provides the setting for #swifts, Artweeks, & considerations of privilege, social injustice, #ClimateEmergency and the need for change. www.tripfiction.com/talking-loca... #travelbybook #SwiftAwarenessWeek

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

On @writersreview.bsky.social - today's guest, Dennis Hamley, praises @jonathancoe.bsky.social's latest novel. "Superb ... You’ll have to work hard at it, but the rewards are intensely satisfying." reviewsbywriters.blogspot.com/2025/06/gues... @vikingbooks.bsky.social #greatreads #stateofthenation

Coming up in the second hour of the #TREBookshow, with Hannah Murray from 20.00CET - Nelson Aspen, @lindanewbery.bsky.social, and Frank Hurst #TuneIn on http://tre.radio or TRE Radio App

So pleased with this lovely and insightful review of THE ONE TRUE THING by author Sue Purkiss! Praise for @owengent.bsky.social's lovely cover, too. suepurkiss.blogspot.com/2025/06/the-... @suepur.bsky.social #writersreviewpublishing #bookblog #newfiction #readinggroups #bookgroups

"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

Brilliantly put by George Monbiot. Fish are not 'seafood' or 'stocks'. They are not 'our' fish. Protection of marine habitats should be the default position. #Ocean #SirDavidAttenborough #MPAs #UNOceanConference

Have you seen / are you planning to see THE SALT PATH film? Here's Sue Purkiss's review of Raynor Winn's book: 'They were living right on the edge in more ways than one.' @suepur.bsky.social reviewsbywriters.blogspot.com/2018/10/gues... #TheSaltPath @raynorwinn.bsky.social #SouthWestCoastalPath

At @writersreview.bsky.social we welcome a new guest, novelist @emmapassauthor.bsky.social praises THE MIDNIGHT HOUR: "I adore immersive stories that allow you time to get to know the characters and settings ..." reviewsbywriters.blogspot.com/2025/06/gues... @evepollychase.bsky.social #mystery

I'm deep in this riveting book by @stuartgillespie.bsky.social - engaging, informative, illuminating, horrifying. How Big Food's greed exploits & destroys people & planet. Haven't got to the hopeful bit yet ... @canongate.co.uk #foodsystems #climateemergency #obesity #ultraprocessedfood

Millions of Palestinians are starving. Now a humanitarian ship en route to Gaza is being targeted by Israel. On board: food, medicine & 12 activists. The EU must act now to stop the aid blockade on Gaza! action.wemove.eu/sign/2025-6-... #Gaza #Palestine

On @writersreview.bsky.social: returning guest @lauraparker.bsky.social finds much to enjoy & admire in @nicwilson.bsky.social's memoir of nature, chronic illness, family & parenthood. "She turns to landscape as her salvation ... " reviewsbywriters.blogspot.com/2025/06/gues... #Nature #naturewriting