A powerful read: I've called "The Spring Begins" by Katherine Dunning "brutal" here, and Simon Thomas calls it "amoral" in his Afterword! It's also lyrical, descriptive and a real page-turner! librofulltime.wordpress.com/2025/09/24/b... @britishlibrary.bsky.social #booksky #SpinsterSeptember 📚💙

Today, I recommend a beautifully illustrated and thoughtfully chosen book on literary gardens. 🌷

Today, I recommend a beautifully illustrated and thoughtfully chosen book on literary gardens. 🌷

Kindle book of the week 😍 Thalia by Frances Faviell #FreeTillFriday #booksky #furrowedmiddlebrow US: bit.ly/3Tzry0f UK: bit.ly/3IyggHL

For #spinsterseptember I return to the wonderful writing of #AnitaBrookner with her third novel, Look At Me - more here! kaggsysbookishramblings.wordpress.com/2025/09/22/i...

My 19th book for #Project24 and a really special A.A. Milne-themed day out!

Our popular and increasingly famous Advent calendars of books are now available to order - seems early, but they involve a bit of work! We are in full wrapping mode. UK shipping only, I am afraid. #BookSky www.treehousebookshop.co.uk/shop/details...

If you have a chance, RUSH to this play! (My thoughts in this www.stuckinabook.com/project-24-b...)

My 19th book for #Project24 and a really special A.A. Milne-themed day out!

Reading resolution for 2026 made early: I'm going to do #ProjectNames again!

I just got an email addressing me as Rose Macaulay, author of Fabled Shore, offering me promotion for my book?

'The prestigious British Parking Awards' isn't a phrase I thought I'd be seeing today

RIP Robert Redford, an actor I only know of because Sweet Valley High constantly mentioned that that one high school teacher looked like him

New Dingle All The Way episode, recapping last couple of weeks of #Emmerdale You can download the ep wherever you get podcasts - it's on Spotify open.spotify.com/episode/7eWZ... and Apple podcasts at podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/e...

Just started Autumn by Ali Smith for book club. Hadn't realised there were no speech marks 😭😭😭 ughhh

Fellow lefties, you can allow people to grieve for someone for *one day* before piling on with your 'actually he wasn't great' takes. Have some humanity. His legacy doesn't need to be determined moments after his murder.

Has anybody seen Gehraiyaan? So well acted, so beautifully shot, so... terribly written? The pacing and the third act were so off.

SO sick of sport disloging #Emmerdale. Especially after yesterday's literal cliffhanger!

My first contribution to @pear-jelly.bsky.social's #SpinsterSeptember is The House By The Sea by Jon Godden - a novel that really wrong-footed me

“You certainly won’t come across anybody quite like Edwina, or any similar situation, in any other novels this #spinsterseptember “

"Come down to the potting-sheds some evening and I’ll show you what I do. Why don’t you?” Maggie sat back on her heels and glanced at him. She knew pretty well what a man of his type was after, but she could take care of herself all right. Or could she? 💙📚 jacquiwine.wordpress.com/2025/09/04/t...

My first contribution to @pear-jelly.bsky.social's #SpinsterSeptember is The House By The Sea by Jon Godden - a novel that really wrong-footed me

Tbh can't imagine getting the most bigoted-against-people-of-faith historian to write a book about any other major world religion

On the same day in the Telegraph:

I adored it and genuinely consider it one of the best books in the @blpublishing.bsky.social Women Writers series - in a very strong field! Loved Dunning’s prose, and the contrasts between the three women were beautifully teased out. I hope I’ve done it justice in my review! #SpinsterSeptember 💙📚

I keep hoping The Spring Begins will truly take off, and a glowing review from @jacquiwine.bsky.social is an excellent way to help that happen!

Our #FurrowedMiddlebrow spinsters are ready for #SpinsterSeptember with @pear-jelly.bsky.social 📚

Who knew an advert could actually be brilliantly written, funny and well-acted?? www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Z7H...

I've just learned that N. Americans call caving 'spelunking', and that doesn't feel like it can be real

A new blog post for #SpinsterSeptember. readersretreat2017.wordpress.com/2025/09/01/s...

BBC Good Food seems to have experimented with using AI to respond to comments, and it's PRETTY aggressive

The i newspaper asked me to make a list of the best cosy crime novels. The dream job. You can find my choices here - so hard to keep it down to nine books. And shoutouts for @britishlibrary.bsky.social and @deanstpress.bsky.social clothesinbooks.blogspot.com/2025/08/cult...

A Baptist minister has been arrested in Oxford for holding a placard reading ‘I oppose genocide. I support Palestine Action’. Rev Grote of New Road Baptist Church said ‘I am doing this because of my faith. I’m doing this because I’m a follower of Jesus Christ, who broke the rules and created peace.’

Some thoughts on Trance By Appointment by Gertrude Trevelyan (a 1930s novel about a young psychic)

Some thoughts on Trance By Appointment by Gertrude Trevelyan (a 1930s novel about a young psychic)

The Rest is Entertainment today talked about how Freida McFadden writes so many books - well, having read one, I'm not super surprised. She is good at paciness, but otherwise it is just churned out dreck. The laziest, most cliche-ridden writing.

My thoughts on The Dry Heart by Natalia Ginzburg #WomenInTranslation #WITMonth

In an ideal world, a secretary would go through my LibraryThing and tell me which unread books are perfect for #SpinsterSeptember www.librarything.com/catalog/Stuc...

D-7 for #spinsterseptember !! Will you be joining next month? (Please find in the ALT Text how to take part + lots of recommendations) #booksky

Kho Gaye Hum Kahan is SUCH a good film. About friendship, and the pitfalls of social media - most impressively, feels like real friendships feel.

My thoughts on The Dry Heart by Natalia Ginzburg #WomenInTranslation #WITMonth

192 journalists.

Books 17 and 18 from my year of only buying 24 books...

Why does Dakota Johnson look like two children trying to get into a movie?

Do we care about weather in novels? And The Spring Begins by Katherine Dunning vs Crooked Cross by Sally Carson - it's ep141 of Tea or Books?!

My wife has been trying to get me to read Nancy Mitford’s The Pursuit of Love for years. It finally happened, and I loved this bittersweet novel. mookseandgripes.com/reviews/2025...

Do we care about weather in novels? And The Spring Begins by Katherine Dunning vs Crooked Cross by Sally Carson - it's ep141 of Tea or Books?!

It's kinda wild that, over the past few years, we've all just had to accept that dentistry is essentially entirely privatised now

This only got a couple of comments, but it's SO good that I want to keep posting about it until everyone reads it 😆

Wow Sally Rooney. Fair play. ‘I feel obliged to state once more that… I too support Palestine Action. … If the British state considers this "terrorism", then perhaps it should investigate the shady organisations that continue to promote my work and fund my activities, such as WH Smith and the BBC.’