3.5 of 5 stars to The Catholic by David Plante www.goodreads.com/book/show/64...

Friday Reads: A satisfyingly triggering novel - and another that made me want to get my hair done youtu.be/qEbKFzcPS7w.

I had a great time chatting to the inimitable @shawnthebookmaniac.bsky.social about my novel Blurred Faces. Head over to his YouTube channel for a look, and find a trove of literary conversations and recommendations! www.youtube.com/watch?v=P9zQ... 😍 📚

A conversation with queer Scottish novelist Allan Radcliffe on his new novel, Blurred Faces youtu.be/P9zQRcGy5bY

5 of 5 stars to Blurred Faces by Allan Radcliffe www.goodreads.com/book/show/23...

Just three weeks to the release of Sarah Campion's Makeshift, the next title in @bhousepress.bsky.social's Recovered Books series. Makeshift follows Charlotte Herz, a young Jewish woman from Berlin in 1919 to New Zealand in 1937, via England, South Africa, and Australia. 🧵

Friday Reads: Hanging out on the edges we've been shoved to, reading, and talking to each other youtu.be/bOG95rQ_dh4

Here's hoping: A chat with Douglas Bruton about his novel Hope Never Knew Horizon With Lindy of Lindy's Magpie Reads youtu.be/sAIQmTfuEAg

Marked as did-not-finish: Jollof Rice and Other Revolutions: A Novel in Interlocking Stories by Omolola Ijeoma Ogunyemi www.goodreads.com/review/show/...

5 of 5 stars to Set My Hand Upon the Plough by E. M. Barraud www.goodreads.com/book/show/51...

5 of 5 stars to Gaza Weddings: A Novel by Ibrahim Nasrallah, Nancy Roberts (Translation) www.goodreads.com/book/show/34...

4.5 of 5 stars to Full House M.J. Farrell (Molly Keane) www.goodreads.com/book/show/15...

A big thank you to @shawnthebookmaniac.bsky.social for featuring Nadia Ragbar (The Pugilist and the Sailor) as their Mystery Guest! www.youtube.com/watch?v=HIsK...

Friday Reads: Up to my ears in books youtu.be/nr4hicApH_I

Marked as did-not-finish: Heart Lamp: Selected Stories by Banu Mushtaq, Deepa Bhasthi (Translator) www.goodreads.com/book/show/23...

Friday Reads: Let us now praise omnivorous reading youtu.be/HIsKZQ7lvj0?... #ShortySeptember

Ibrahim Nasrallah Wins the 2026 Neustadt Prize www.accessnewswire.com/newsroom/en/...

4 of 5 stars to About Uncle by Rebecca Gisler, Jordan Stump (Translator) www.goodreads.com/book/show/14...

5 of 5 stars to Though the Bodies Fall by Noel O'Regan www.goodreads.com/book/show/12...

#SundaySentence from About Uncle by Rebecca Gisler, Jordan Stump (Translator)

Friday Reads: Men and their unmoorings www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZDWZ...

Writing the self home: A chat with Virginia Evans about her stirring novel, The Correspondent Spoiler-free youtu.be/0mmCsJzCdnA?...

3 of 5 stars to Old Rendering Plant by Wolfgang Hilbig, Isabel Fargo Cole (Translation) www.goodreads.com/book/show/34...

Chris, Dorian, James, and Shawn chat about Edith Wharton’s Old New York youtu.be/F9_GzrqKVYQ #edithwharton

5 of 5 stars to We Are All of Us Left Behind by Bradley Somer www.goodreads.com/book/show/22...

Friday Reads: Eastern European-ish, transnational, and oh-so-queer youtu.be/YNwP77fTZFk?...

5 of 5 stars to Cool Water by Dianne Warren www.goodreads.com/book/show/78...

Marked as did-not-finish: Dominion by Addie E. Citchens www.goodreads.com/review/show/...

Queer Canadian novelist Bradley Somer’s new novel, We Are All Of Us Left Behind – the Saskatoon Book Launch at McNally Robinson's youtu.be/wR2fNiGm52M

Marked as did-not-finish: Cat Brushing by Jane Campbell www.goodreads.com/review/show/...

5 of 5 stars to Mr. Wrong by Elizabeth Jane Howard www.goodreads.com/book/show/29...

Friday Reads: Love and Money youtu.be/muA0hpZg7-k

#SundaySentence from 'Child's Play' in the short story collection Mr Wrong by Elizabeth Jane Howard #ElizabethJaneHoward

A chat with Saskatchewan novelist Karin Melberg Schwier about her stunning novel, Small Reckonings youtu.be/3c_xeWOJ0A0

3 of 5 stars to A Bad Decade for Good People by Joe Bedford www.goodreads.com/book/show/12...

Marked as did-not-finish: Embers of the Hands: Hidden Histories of the Viking Age by Eleanor Rosamund Barraclough www.goodreads.com/review/show/...

5 of 5 stars to Galatea by Madeline Miller www.goodreads.com/book/show/18...

Friday Reads: Some sucked, some weren’t for me, and some sucked me right in youtu.be/4BYjN-XR4gQ #SpinsterSeptember #Victober

Nuanced spinsters and other fickle folk: A review of E.H. Young's 1922 novel, The Misses Mallett #SpinsterSeptember youtu.be/8oBWAfSCbHo

4 of 5 stars to Ghosts by Edith Wharton www.goodreads.com/book/show/58...

Friday Reads: 'The world is full of wonder – pay attention' youtu.be/hU9PLgad0ww #ShortySeptember #SpinsterSeptember

3 of 5 stars to Hunchback by Saou Ichikawa, Polly Barton (Translator) www.goodreads.com/book/show/21...

5 of 5 stars to The Misses Mallett by E.H. Young www.goodreads.com/book/show/38...

‘A living, breathing thing as much as a memoir’: A chat with Sharon Butala on How to Breathe Water youtu.be/N9KR2Q-oCFU #SharonButala

4 of 5 stars to Lori & Joe by Amy Arnold www.goodreads.com/book/show/12...

5 of 5 stars to The Correspondent by Virginia Evans www.goodreads.com/book/show/22...

Friday Reads: A transformative read—oh, and a novel about sexy black Baptists youtu.be/a10C5Uijyng #ShortySeptember #SpinsterSeptember

Friday Reads: Scarlett, Read youtu.be/cAfx7cA7Low #ShortySeptember #SpinsterSeptember

Shawn and Helen chat with Irish writer Gráinne Murphy about her novel, Greener youtu.be/Lu2mlLcEs8o

3 of 5 stars to The Whale Tattoo by Jon Ransom www.goodreads.com/book/show/60...