Novel of the year: The Benefactors by @wednesdayerskin.bsky.social As I Lay Dying via Svetlana Alexievich and the Greek Chorus, with shades of Annie Ernaux and some cheeky Joycean hints for good measure. Exemplary writing and deserves to be garlanded with awards.

The Sex Lives of Cannibals Contrary to the title it is not about sex or cannibals but a hilarious tale of living in the furthest remote sliver of an island where nothing and everything happens. Literally laugh out loud funny in sections. Bought for the title. Kept for the content.

Also loved The Other Valley by Scott Alexander Howard And The Incandescent by Emily Tesh

That would be Pagans by @jamesbluecat.bsky.social #booksky

I really loved @hallierubenhold.bsky.social latest. Story of a Murder.

I have an #ImportantFridayQuestion What's your favourite book of the year so far? (Your answer may be noted and influence the Berties, so choose carefully)

Pedro sold a book in the shop. It was Wonky Donkey! Always a fun start to the day!

Looks like we're all working now. Who wants to buy a book and test it out?

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We're about to start upgrading the website. I say we. A very clever man called Pete is. All I know is that we're going to have to turn the website off for a few hours this afternoon, at 3pm So if you want a book, you'd best get ordering it now.

It's a nice end of the day to find a delivery from @bertsbooks.bsky.social Can't wait to start reading. 💙📘

Our first book through the till this morning was A Case of the Claws, a fun little book about cats.

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Our first book off the starting blocks today was The Accidentals by Guadalupe Nettel!

We’ll done Berts Books, Royal Mail and Australia Post, ordered on the 28th and arrived today😄

Put my order in today! How exciting!

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Books! There are some new ones released today! Including this lovely edition of Sunrise on the Reaping by Suzanne Collins - the second prequel in the Hunger Games series Order it here: bertsbooks.co.uk/product/sunr...

There are signed copies of ⁦‪Cally Beaton’s Namaste Mother F*ckers now available at bertsbooks.co.uk/namaste-motherfckers The perfect gift for… well, yourself.

100 people signed up so far... I might need more wrapping paper.

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Lovely parcel from @bertsbooks.bsky.social today Featuring the beast of a book that is King of Sorrow by @joe-hill.bsky.social Also @mossmontmomery.bsky.social and @stephenking.bsky.social 📚💙

Oh @bertsbooks.bsky.social never change

It’s my mum’s birthday today. She got a copy of The Hawk is Dead by Peter James and The House of Wolf by Tony Robinson. And a bunch of flowers. And the continued joy of being my mum.

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Ian McEwan

Book of Dust 3! Philip Pullman

Colm Tóibín's Long Island

The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah

The Paris Apartment by Lucy Foley

I'm in the final pages of The Morgue Keeper by Ruyan Meng and will then be digging into the ultra-twisty None of This Is True by Lisa Jewell—a November pick for the Librarian's Husband's Book Club.

Found The Answer Is Yes at the library book sale. Good so far.

The End of the World as We Know it The House of Leaves Hyperion The Gate of Time

A Gentleman in Moscow. Amor Towles.

Terry Pratchett's Hogfather

Andrew Miller's The Land in Winter

The Traitors Circle by @jonathanfreedland.bsky.social Big thumbs up from me!

The Second Sleep by Robert Harris. 😊

The Howling Mountain by Anna Kemp, third Goblyn Wood book. I got the first book in this series at Bert's a while ago and have really enjoyed the whole trilogy!

The brand new Green Man's Holiday by @julietemckenna.bsky.social After that it'll be The Cornish Christmas Pantomime Murder by Fiona Leitch. (Newest Jodie Parker novel out just yesterday!) #BookSky 💙📚

The Healing Hippo of Hinode Park (which the lovely @chrishunter2820.bsky.social got for me this week from the best bookshop in Swindon) A nice heartwarming and undemanding book for a busy week!

For the interests of narcissism... Emma

What's everyone reading this weekend?

I got so excited about Secret Santa, I forgot to tell you what the first book of November was... It was The Appeal by Janice Hallett

It’s time! The Bert's Books Secret Santa. Sign up by 30th November, and pick a book you'd like to gift to someone else. I'll work out the best person to send that book to - and in return you'll get a book to unwrap too! bertsbooks.co.uk/secret-santa

I love this quote because I don’t really understand it, but at the same time, it makes complete sense. Anyway, we’re open. Pop in.

Quick, get back home and find a book to read before the werewolves and the ghosts and the vampires get you! Bookshops are safe spaces... or are they?

Our first book of the day was Willie, Willie, Harry, Stee by Charlie Higson and Jim Moir The illustrations are... 😍Wi