On @damppebbles.bsky.social WWW Wednesday | 1st April 2026 #WWWWednesday #bookblogger #amreading #BookTwitter #booktwt #BookSky #damppebbles damppebbles.com/2026/04/01/w...

Picked up a copy last night. Very much looking forward to reading it.

ICYMI…

*NEW BLOG POST* My review of #EyeSpy by C.M. Ewan is live on #damppebbles! I could not put this book down! Wow. Tense, utterly gripping and with a delicious sense of building dread. A captivating, high-octane family-driven thriller. My review ➡️ buff.ly/q05zW7u @panmacmillan.bsky.social #BookSky

Today's blog #BeattieCavendishAndTheHighlandHideaway bk 2 in Mary-Jane Riley's Beattie Cavendish Cold War Thrillers. GCHQ send Beattie to investigate a listening station, intercepts have gone missing and so has Uncle [email protected] peterturnsthepage.wordpress.com/2026/03/31/b...

Happy publication day to The People's Republic of Love by @heatherika.bsky.social, out today from @srlpublishing.bsky.social. A very timely book, I think - as well as a gripping and moving one. I'm grateful to both for access to an advance e-copy. bluebookballoon.blogspot.com/2026/03/revi...

Hilarious how for years serious people have said that you can't rely on renewables because they are prone to disruptions in supply www.ft.com/content/19f1...

Released TODAY! 🎆 "A cracking page-turner of a thriller" - @dakegra.bsky.social Get your copy now ⬇️ shorturl.at/G6YL0 #ThePeoplesRepublicOfLove #SeenVsReal @julieacrisp.bsky.social @srlpublishing.bsky.social

Oh, is there discourse about "apolitical" science fiction again? Humans are political animals. There's no apolitical art. There's art that supports/confirms your default assumptions about how the world ought to work - to such a degree that it's invisible - or art that challenges those assumptions.

Happy publication day to The People's Republic of Love by @heatherika.bsky.social, out today from @srlpublishing.bsky.social. A very timely book, I think - as well as a gripping and moving one. I'm grateful to both for access to an advance e-copy. bluebookballoon.blogspot.com/2026/03/revi...

Today I am part of the magical @bbnya.bsky.social / #BBNYA2025 Finalist #BlogTour for Miss Bennet's Dragon @mverant.com! I am shining a spotlight on this 10th place finalist~🐲 #BookBloggers #Blogging #Fantasy #Dragons #BookSky📚💙 @thewritereads.bsky.social twirlingbookprincess.com/2026/03/bbny...

They: Hi! Through our unhallowed ransacking of the world's knowledge, your computer can now talk to the dead. Me: Can it talk to my printer yet? They: haha no

Thank you for sharing my Misheard World review @wsbookclub.bsky.social @gnofhorror.com @scottfjarvie.bsky.social @whatcathyreadnext.bsky.social @solarisbooks.bsky.social @georgesandison.bsky.social @runalongwomble.bsky.social

Someone in the garden behind ours is playing loud counting games with their kids. It’s kind of nice but also a bit like having tuned into a numbers station and unable to switch it off.

If you land on Oxford Street, the only properties you can buy are American candy or vape shops, and you have to give away any rent you collect to another player for money laundering purposes

Enjoy the Sunday caption contest. Give away lots of ❤️s, retweet to encourage more competitors, include #GirlsOwnCC

@rhiannonagrist.bsky.social 's HOME SICK explores what "we are most afraid to face, the self we carry into every new postcode, dress up in new routines, and still cannot lose, and she has done it with psychological precision, folkloric menace, and genuine literary nerve." Thank you @gnofhorror.com!

Invading a country basically for laughs is bad, but weirdly not uncommon. Doing so with such incompetence that you alter the global balance of power against yourself is a new category of ridiculous.

OLDENBURG STATION HAS A COIN-OPERATED MODEL RAILWAY THIS IS NOT A DRILL PEOPLE

You were all as witty and wonderful as ever in last Sunday’s caption contest. 🥇 @erburyoldboy.bsky.social 🥈 @kayess.bsky.social =🥉 @grynneman.bsky.social & @spacexecadet.bsky.social and…..

Was musing about nostalgia. One of the things about being in late 50s is you start to be able to remember things from 50 years ago quite clearly. And cos it’s clear, you don’t really perceive that lapsed time. It’s recent. So you get a sense of all this stuff that seems to have changed…

Visited John Lewis’s today. As I sometimes do, I checked in the household bit that they still sell the cutlery range we use. We don’t need any new ones but I’m anxious that if we ever do, we can still get matching ones. I’m not at all obsessive, no.

‘Tis Saturday, and according to the written edicts laid out in the Author’s Charter, I am beholden to implore you to purchase or borrow one of my books.

Most feral and unhinged death scene has been written, and I am almooost at the end 👀😯🐝⛪️🪓

William Butler Yeats gazing in the direction of Bethlehem:

Mackenzie Crook’s magical suburban folk tale, #SmallProphets published by #PenguinBooks and #PuffinBooks down the years. A 🧵 1/

All eight #SmallProphets covers are available as a pack of postcards. Buy here: colemandesign.co.uk/shop and love them. Forever. 9/

Well, I am not sure what my analysis here is worth, but here is my 7,500 word primal scream of a military historian's take on the War in Iran. My best summary: this war is dumb as hell. acoup.blog/2026/03/25/m...

“THE MISHEARD WORLD is a terrific example of how science fiction – and genre more broadly – can be deployed to shed light on the unique, sometimes paradoxical, character of storytelling.” Ian Mond reviews Aliya Whiteley

New on the blog today, some recommendations of books to read for the forthcoming #1961Club hosted by @kaggsy59.bsky.social & @stuckinabook.bsky.social. Featuring books by Barbara Pym, Natalia Ginzburg, John le Carré & more! #BookSky 💙📚 #TranslationThurs jacquiwine.wordpress.com/2026/03/26/t...

🕯️🥀 SHORT HORROR STORY 🥀🕯️ One night, Jace finds a runaway in his barn. A boy with a horrifying story. ❌ no romance 🕸️ gothic-horror 📔 26 pages 🔖 universal link: mybook.to/b4aB7L 💌 itch.io link: rebecca-crunden.itch.io/someone-else... 📖 goodreads: www.goodreads.com/book/show/12... [ #booksky ]

If you’d like an atmospheric, soul-searching tale set in Southern Appalachia filled with gods old and new, cryptids, liminal spaces, and various mystical spirits, you can now pre-order my novella GODFESTATION! jendiagammon.com/godfestation/

And another vote for not watching the new Potter, and not feeding more monies into anti-trans bigotry, hatred and political manipulation. Ayethangkew.

ICYMI…

My book recommendation for Alfred FM this week is Reaper by @vandasymon.bsky.social thisisalfred.com/podcast/the-... (from approx 47:39) @orendabooks.bsky.social

"Ryan Bridge, whose background is in compensation claims, and Elliott Stanley, who formerly ran a sex doll rental company." Sex. Doll. Rental. Company. 🤢

Hello Lunchtime Crowd the galaxy is at war in today’s review

Today I'm reviewing The Misheard World by Aliya Whiteley, out now from @solarisbooks.bsky.social (to whom many thanks for an advance e-copy). This is a tricksy book, but a brilliant one. bluebookballoon.blogspot.com/2026/03/revi...

My recommendation of books to read instead of books by all our disgraced best selling children's book authors... Honestly it's go to libraries and book shops and spend some time looking at covers and reading bits, even in the tiniest library, wherever they have books, nose around.

Today I'm reviewing The Misheard World by Aliya Whiteley, out now from @solarisbooks.bsky.social (to whom many thanks for an advance e-copy). This is a tricksy book, but a brilliant one. bluebookballoon.blogspot.com/2026/03/revi...

Thank you for sharing my review of First Date @mehsi.bsky.social @wsbookclub.bsky.social @fantasybooknerd.bsky.social @runalongwomble.bsky.social @scotlandchris1.bsky.social @gnofhorror.com

It's such a disconnect for me that some people will throw an entire series they love dearly away for good because of a shitty final episode, season, or book, but they'll cherish a work that stuck the landing but was written by a genocidal, casually racist, bridge troll.

*NEW BLOG POST* Today on #damppebbles I am sharing this week's #WWWWednesday post. Find out what I've recently finished reading, what I'm currently reading and what I plan to read next! Check out my post here... ➡️ buff.ly/a8Lqobj #BookSky #skybrarians #books #bookish #book

I keep seeing this as “An Eagle of the Ninth”. Sorry.

Hello Lunchtime Crowd - I really enjoyed this mix of stories in this edition of Fiyah

No other ancient document holds my interest and affection quite like this one papyrus, written in Egypt in the Armenian alphabet. It's a goldmine of linguistic evidence not for the Egyptian or Armenian language, but for Greek! Here's my enthusiastic introduction to it: dannybate.com/2026/03/24/t...

If anyone who likes Star Trek, Doctor Who, Agatha All Along, Good Omens sees this, can you repost and like? Trying to see something.

New Nightjars now available nightjarpress.weebly.com/news

Fantastic thread on art and media literacy