On the Ramblings today, another book which counts for two reading events - #NovNov25 and #NonFictionNovember. The book tells of Mary and Percy Shelley's travels in post-Revolutionary Europe - more here! kaggsysbookishramblings.wordpress.com/2025/11/24/a...

New on the blog today, I've written about LADY L. by Romain Gary. A charming, hugely enjoyable story of love, long-held secrets & railing against the establishment, in which personal desires are pitted against political principles & beliefs. I loved it! 💙📚 jacquiwine.wordpress.com/2025/11/23/l...

“But we are émigrés, and for émigrés all countries are dangerous. Lots of ministers make speeches against us and no one wants to have us in their country, even though we’re not at all harmful and in fact just like other people." #BookSky 💙📚 jacquiwine.wordpress.com/2025/11/18/c...

On the blog today I revisit “The Trial” for the first time in decades - what a book! #Novnov25 #GLM2025 More here kaggsysbookishramblings.wordpress.com/2025/11/22/t...

It's November 20th #Tokarczuk25 #Flights #OlgaTokarczuk starts today! readinganactofsharedsolitude.wordpress.com/2025/11/06/i...

On the Ramblings today - I'm pleased to kick off the blog tour for The Future of Travel from @melvillehouse.bsky.social - a thought-provoking read on the effects travel is having on our planet. More here: kaggsysbookishramblings.wordpress.com/2025/11/20/i...

New on the blog this week, I've written about CHILD OF ALL NATIONS by Irmgard Keun (tr. Michael Hofmann). A striking coming-of-age story of exile in 1930s Europe, told through an engaging narrative voice. #GermanLitMonth #BookSky 💙📚 jacquiwine.wordpress.com/2025/11/18/c...

In The Spotlight: LAXtras: Los Angeles-Style Crime Stories margot-kin-berg.com/2025/11/18/i...

New on the blog today, I've written about CHILD OF ALL NATIONS by Irmgard Keun (tr. Michael Hofmann). An eye-opening window into the uncertain existence of a family of German refugees, forced to leave their homeland for political reasons. #GermanLitMonth 💙📚 jacquiwine.wordpress.com/2025/11/18/c...

New on my blog: Five Scottish Novels I’ve Read alifeinbooks.co.uk/2025/11/five... #BookSky

On the blog today for #GLM2025 and #NovNov25, my thoughts on Thomas Mann's Death In Venice (and other stories) - more here! kaggsysbookishramblings.wordpress.com/2025/11/17/t...

Splendid new review of the Brackenbury, this time by Helen Parry, on Shiny New Books. Grateful to all. shinynewbooks.co.uk/no-such-thin... @hejparry.bsky.social @kaggsy59.bsky.social @shinynewbooks.bsky.social

“Her distinctive style – observant, often comic, faintly uncanny – was in full bloom from the start, in her intense, scale-blind studies of snails, wasps and spiders, flowers and fungi, and spiky rendering of schoolgirls walking down a street…” #BookSky 💙📚 jacquiwine.wordpress.com/2025/11/14/t...

J. G. Ballard (1930-2009) was born on this day. Bibliography: www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.c... L, Chris Foss, 1978; R, James Marsh, 1985 #scifi #sciencefiction #books

On the Ramblings today, my second book from @twistedspoon.bsky.social this week - a stunning poetry collection from Gerhard Ruhm, in a wonderful translation by Alexander Booth @wordkunst.bsky.social. And it fits for #GLM2025! More here: kaggsysbookishramblings.wordpress.com/2025/11/15/i...

My review of 'Another Part of the Wood' (1968/79) by Beryl Bainbridge, for #NovNov25 #Booksky wp.me/sezD85-apw

In 2026 I will once again joining forces with Kim at Reading Matters to host 'A Year with Iris Murdoch' We kick off with The Sea, The Sea in January. I've never read her before so looking forward to this one!

Today is #RLSDay which marks the birthday of the Scottish writer Robert Louis Stevenson who would have been 175 today. It's also a good day to remember that it is NOT actually his birthday because in 1891 he gave it away to a young girl because she didn't like her birthday. 🧵

Happy #RLSDay! Today is the 175th birthday of the great Robert Louis Stevenson, and I celebrate by revisiting his classic Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde! kaggsysbookishramblings.wordpress.com/2025/11/13/i...

"Fec and Bichette move around in the underbelly of Paris, a place where all is not what it seems and where money seems to be the main motivator."

A new instalment of INVENTORY is available now via the @backlisted.bsky.social Patreon. Sign up as a Locklistener today, learn about the greatest song you’ve probably never heard of, support the podcast. This week: Clearlake, ‘I Want to Live in a Dream’. www.patreon.com/backlisted

- they're unique, handmade from felt, around 13cm tall. I can also give quotes for custom designs but I'll now be asking for payment up front after being let on payment down by a customer (tbf, first one in 8 years 😞) Please show anyone who may be interested in my #StarTrek boys? #Kirk #Spock 3/3

Mitch Abidor joined the Marxist Education Project to discuss his new book, Victor Serge: Unruly Revolutionary. Watch the recorded conversation here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=8d07...

Get the book for 30% off on our website with code MEPABIDOR30: www.plutobooks.com/product/vict...

"The vague, half-formed fears, the persistent muddle into which her thoughts, actions and whole plan of life had been thrown so abruptly in the New Year, had now suddenly crystallised into an open-eyed realisation of what Moritz, and she...were facing." 💙📚 jacquiwine.wordpress.com/2025/11/09/c...

For #GermanLitMonth - a fascinating piece of modernist literature from @twistedspoon.bsky.social - more on the blog!

On the Ramblings today - a remarkable new book from @twistedspoon.bsky.social which also works for #GLM2025 and #NovNov25! More here: kaggsysbookishramblings.wordpress.com/2025/11/11/h...

Sighting at Islington cafe of @serpents-tail.bsky.social edition of The Course of the Heart @mjohnharrison.bsky.social

... in which I am slightly underwhelmed by Patrick Modiano... #novnov2025🫤 kaggsysbookishramblings.wordpress.com/2025/11/07/h...

Today on the blog, for #MARM2025, I take a look at two different sides of the marvellous @margaretatwood.bsky.social - more here! kaggsysbookishramblings.wordpress.com/2025/11/05/t...

New on the blog today, I've written about SLANTING TOWARDS THE SEA by Lidija Hilje. A sultry, sun-drenched, emotionally involving story of first love, the ongoing yearning that follows and the agonising sacrifices we sometimes make for those around us. 💙📚 jacquiwine.wordpress.com/2025/11/04/s...

For the afternoon crowd... Whilst in @dauntbooks.bsky.social last month I stumbled across an amazing little book about Proust from @lesfugitivespress.bsky.social - more here! kaggsysbookishramblings.wordpress.com/2025/11/03/h...

On the Ramblings today, I share my thoughts about 'Zombie Proust', a random find at @dauntbooks.bsky.social which turned out to be an incredible read! More here! kaggsysbookishramblings.wordpress.com/2025/11/03/h... @lesfugitivespress.bsky.social

Back at the Michael Werner Gallery in Mayfair today for another look at the POSTURES: JEAN RHYS IN THE MODERN WORLD exhibition, which includes various artworks in conversation with Rhys’ books. Some interesting Brontë content here, for fans of their work! (Artworks by Celia Paul.) #art #BookSky 💙📚

@backlisted.bsky.social @iammilliam.bsky.social @unamccormack.bsky.social @andrewmale.bsky.social @drlauravarnam.bsky.social Charlotte is the main focus here, but this might be of interest to #Backlisted fans. (It runs through to 22 Nov.) bsky.app/profile/jacq...

Dust off your German, Swiss and Austrian books and join us for #GermanLitMonth. beautyisasleepingcat.com/2025/11/01/w...

Don't think it's possible for @memorialdevice.bsky.social to name themselves as an Alternative National Treasure so I'm hijacking the levers of power and bestowing the title on 'em myself 🤘 #MDANT 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟

bookjotter.com/2025/11/01/winding-up-the-week-445/ #1961Club #books #amreading #bookblogger @ahsweetmystery.bsky.social @stuckinabook.bsky.social @kaggsy59.bsky.social @rohanmaitzen.bsky.social

This is wonderful. Brilliant guests and discussion. Have always thought the novel is so much about medium/s: narrators as mediums, the voicing and summoning of others, including the dead. A perfect Halloween listen

On the blog today is my book list of all the books that I read in October 💙📚 #booksky #authors @nansjar23.bsky.social @simonmason.bsky.social @victoriagoldman.bsky.social @alicegmay.bsky.social @anncleeves.bsky.social and more

For the afternoon/evening crowd, here's an image of what I read in October - more info on the blog plus thoughts about November's reading! 😀

Looking back at October reading - It was a cracking month! kaggsysbookishramblings.wordpress.com/2025/10/31/l...

A review of 'Northanger Abbey' by #JaneAusten after a second visit for #ReadingAusten2025 and #RIPxx. wp.me/sezD85-nabbey

@heavenalibooks.bsky.social @kaggsy59.bsky.social @pear-jelly.bsky.social @maxcairnduff.bsky.social Just in case you haven’t seen this programme…it’s all kinds of wonderful! #BarbaraPym #BookSky 💙📚

Treat yourself to a spooky @backlisted.bsky.social Hallowe’en special in which we summon the spirits of Brontës past 🎃 👻

‘Independent publishing is facing an existential crisis’: illustrated.