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

Great novel. Thank you for the reminder Dennis Hamley on @writersreview.bsky.social

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

'The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there.' Regular contributor Graeme Fife comes to THE GO BETWEEN for the first time. 'At the end, I cried.' Who else loves this, and/or the film versions? reviewsbywriters.blogspot.com/2025/08/gues... #LPHartley #TheGoBetween #heatwave #1900

"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

Check out our summer reads. We'd love to know what your choices would be!

Summer round-up: what have we loved recently? What's on our reading piles? Lovely range chosen by @celiarees.bsky.social @lindanewbery.bsky.social and #AdeleGeras. reviewsbywriters.blogspot.com/2025/07/summ... @guyshrubsole.bsky.social @merlinsheldrake.bsky.social @judithallnatt.bsky.social

Fabulous and so well deserved!

A lovely review for THE ONE TRUE THING, one of our three launch titles. "Linda Newbery is a writer of great experience and skill ... understanding of people and the power of words." Thank you @seasidereader.bsky.social! picturesandconversations.co.uk/2025/04/29/t... #WritersReviewPublishing

A must read!

"What I like best for historical fiction - lots of facts to draw on but a great big gap where you can create the story." Mary Hoffman on DAVID, out with #WritersReviewPublishing - and she gives 6 great tips for writers too! reviewsbywriters.blogspot.com/2025/05/spec... @maryhoffman.bsky.social

'Lillian charmed me into her life" - guest Cindy Jefferies enjoys the 1930s Manhattan wanderings of #KatherineRooney's Lillian Boxfish. reviewsbywriters.blogspot.com/2025/04/gues... @dauntbookspub.bsky.social @cindyjefferies.bsky.social #greatreads #1930s #NewYork #flaneuse #advertising

Hope for all #halfarses ffrom the wonderful @leenanorms.bsky.social

On the blog today: Leena Norms answers questions from Celia Rees and daughter Catrin on how to make 'half arsing' work for you in all areas of your life! reviewsbywriters.blogspot.com/2025/03/spec... #selfhelp #LeenaNorms #lifehacks @celiarees.bsky.social @leenanorms.bsky.social #lifecoach

Proud to be part of this! Excellent writers. Quality Fiction. Writers doing it for themselves...

Introducing WRITERS REVIEW PUBLISHING! Our launch books: great reissues by @maryhoffman.bsky.social (David: the Unauthorised Autobiography) and Judith Allnatt (The Poet's Wife & a new novel from @lindanewbery.bsky.social (The One True Thing). More here! reviewsbywriters.blogspot.com/2025/03/spec...

We welcome Alison Layland, who praises Tom Bullough's SARN HELEN, Welsh Book of the Year 2024. "What a journey he takes us on! A cry from the heart.https://reviewsbywriters.blogspot.com/2025/02/guest-review-by-alison-layland-sarn.html @ecoworrier.bsky.social @grantabooks.bsky.social #climatecrisis

Big congratulations to Judith Allnatt, who's shortlisted for the Flash Fiction award! As well as being a contributor to the blog, Judith is one of the 3 authors launching #WritersReviewPublishing in April, with her beautiful novel The Poet's Wife. More soon! www.scottishartstrust.org/results-story

We are in the Bookseller today - talking about the launch of #WritersReviewPublishing! Watch this space for more details ... www.thebookseller.com/author-inter... @maryhoffmann.bsky.social #JudithAllnatt @lindanewbery.bsky.social

Today, regular contributor Graeme Fife delves into his favourite subject: the meanings & origins of words! reviewsbywriters.blogspot.com/2025/02/gues... #words #language #etymology

"I was hooked. Before I’d read the first half a page I knew I was going to enjoy the ride." Regular guest @cindyjefferies.bsky.social enjoys BUDDHA DA by Anne Donovan. reviewsbywriters.blogspot.com/2025/03/gues... @canongate.co.uk #greatreads #Glasgow

Sounds fascinating - must read!

Wonderful! Well done Judith!

Coming soon! April 24th -my new adult novel, with beautiful cover art and design by @owengent.bsky.social. When the ground shifts, where can one true thing be found? www.writersreviewpublishing.co.uk/our-books/th... #newbooks #newfiction #bookgroups #readinggroups #art #protest #purpose

Am looking forward to reading. Love his books!

'Terrific ... buy all four books at once.' Adele Geras praises the 4th in Simon Mason's #DIWilkins Oxford crime series. reviewsbywriters.blogspot.com/2025/02/a-vo... #crime #crimefiction #mystery #greatreads

Thank you for your this @lindanewbery.bsky.social - made me want to read - as a good review should!

Have you seen or are you planning to see Nickel Boys, nominated for #BestPicture and #BestAdaptedScreenplay in the #Oscars? Here's our review of Colson Whitehead's brilliant novel! "Packs a powerful punch..." reviewsbywriters.blogspot.com/2022/08/the-... @colsonwhitehead.com #RaMellRoss #greatreads

This week: a fascinating Q&A with #Edinburgh author Màiri Kidd on her gripping novel about the #BurkeandHare murders and the women involved. How to create suspense in a story that's so notorious? And much more. reviewsbywriters.blogspot.com/2025/01/spec... #MairiKidd #historicalfiction #greatreads

Today: regular guest Graeme Fife admires Dr Benji Waterhouse's moving, funny account of working in psychiatry. reviewsbywriters.blogspot.com/2025/01/gues... @penguinbooksusa.bsky.social #DrBenjiWaterhouse #mentalillness #hospitallife

Welcome to new guest Laura Parker, who praises James Rebanks' account life on a remote Norwegian island where he 'sheds his modern existence' ... an experience which made him 'dig much deeper as a writer'. reviewsbywriters.blogspot.com/2025/01/gues... @herdyshepherd.bsky.social #Norway #wildlife

I found this book astonishing and beautiful in many ways. Most of all for being a thoughtful testament to the courage and resilience of older women in continuing a gentle, respectful and meagre living in the toughest of environments. Pleased to review for @writersreview.bsky.social

We love #naturewriting on our blog and so do several of our contributors! Here are some of the books we've reviewed - follow us for great reading recommendations, all by #authors or #booksellers. #nature #wildlife #biodiversity #greatreads

Our first guest of the year is Caroline Pitcher, praising Rose Tremain's 'mesmerising coming-of-age story' Absolutely & Forever: 'both amusing and piercing.' reviewsbywriters.blogspot.com/2025/01/gues... #greatreads #RoseTremain #comingofage @lineynell.bsky.social

It was great fun looking back on our reviews for 2024. I wonder what we will be reading in 2025?

Here's the final batch of #AdventBooks. Hope you've enjoyed revisiting, and Christmas greetings to all our contributors and followers! Happy reading in 2025. reviewsbywriters.blogspot.com/2024/12/adve... #greatreads #reviewsbywriters #Christmas #HappyChristmas

A fitting end to our @writersreview.bsky.social Advent Calendar.

We finish #AdventBooks with a writer and her many books: our joint tribute to the great #HelenDunmore. "A poet as well as a novelist - it showed in everything she wrote, the precision and sensuousness of her language, the seductiveness of her rhythms." reviewsbywriters.blogspot.com/2017/06/our-...

Excellent choice.

Today's #AdventCalendar book, chosen by Jane Rogers, is Louise Erdrich's THE SENTENCE: "Tookie is a one off; tough, funny, sarcastic, prickly, thoroughly off the rails ... The Sentence of the title has multiple meanings." reviewsbywriters.blogspot.com/2022/07/gues... #greatreads #LouiseErdrich

Love Alan Garner - such a superb writer and such reach...

Today brings us the timeless, multilayered RED SHIFT by #AlanGarner. Reviewer @celiarees.bsky.social wonders "if Red Shift would even be published now, for Young Adults anyway, or would it be seen as too 'difficult'?" reviewsbywriters.blogspot.com/2017/05/red-... #greatreads #YAfiction #AdventBooks

Today's #AdventCalendar reveals A VISIT FROM THE GOON SQUAD by Jennifer Egan, chosen by @saracollinsauthor.bsky.social: "held captive by that rare thing: a novel of breathtaking ambition that actually achieves its aims." reviewsbywriters.blogspot.com/2019/06/gues... #AdventBooks #greatreads #Advent

A must read for authors!

For #AdventBooks #Day18 - plain cover but a deliciously funny book by Paul Ewen, @philipwomack.bsky.social's choice, set in the world of writing and publishing. A must for our author followers & anyone who enjoys clever comic fiction! reviewsbywriters.blogspot.com/2022/01/gues... #Advent

Some brilliant titles here.

Here's a roundup of #AdventBooks week 2 - great recommendations here from our excellent reviewers! Which have you read? Tell us in the blog comments! reviewsbywriters.blogspot.com/2024/12/adve... #Advent #greatreads

So important- a must read.

Advent Books Day 16 brings us THE GREAT DERANGEMENT by Amitav Ghosh, in which he asks why (at the time of writing) the climate emergency wasn't treated seriously in fiction other than in #scifi or #clifi. Why won't we engage with it? reviewsbywriters.blogspot.com/2021/01/gues... #AdventBooks

Excellent recommendation. Love good crime writing. On my tbr list.