Today on the blog, my first contribution to #NovNov25 “Small and growing businesses are the beating heart of our economy and the soul of our communities.” (Mary Portas) madamebibilophilerecommends.co.uk/2025/11/09/s...

I’ve got an unexpectedly quiet afternoon as the boys got last minute tickets to see Crystal Palace…so I’m starting on Loitering With Intent by Muriel Spark for #NovellasInNovember and it’s very amusing so far! #NovNov25 #bookSky

Just watched the final episode of the Girlbands Forever doc on #BBC - what an excellent series! I was a pop fan from All Saints onwards (along with Britpop bands) & didn’t quite appreciate what a brutal industry it was when I was dancing around to their brilliant music on nights out with my mates!

Spent the morning fiddling with a book review and at one point did a typo on my #Braille display and discovered that letter “a” followed by the dollar sign is Australian dollars! Fairly useless but it made me smile haha!

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Yay the Guyliner blind date review is back - great for a giggle, and with excellent image descriptions!

"May I tempt you?” My review of Transcription by Kate Atkinson #books #bookreviews #historicalfiction #booksky

I’ve just had a book coincidence… I’m reading a novel set in South Africa that references the Boer war of 1899-1902 several times, and another book set in England in 1900 with a character in it who’s returned injured from the same war #Booksky

NEW We spoke to Ayọ̀bámi Adébáyọ̀, the novelist and judge on this year's Booker Prize panel, about the six books on their 2025 shortlist fivebooks.com/best-books/t...

Join Sana and Beth, for a sensory workshop at Wellcome Collection exploring food, healing and shared memory. When - 13 Nov Where - London Cost - Free disabilityarts.online/events/heali...

I took part in this campaign to save the personal Braille transcription service and resulting RNIB consultation and eagerly await the outcome #Braille #transcription #music #literacy #Accessibility #UK https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m002ld6b?partner=uk.co.bbc&origin=share-mobile

I ❤️ NYC #USPol #Hope

Nearly went flying when I got on the bus today (which was being driven like a go kart) & was saved by my leg brace giving me balance, my walking stick, & my PA being in front of me. The outcry from the other passengers helped to halt the bus so I could find a seat, but that was scary! #Disability

*NEW BLOG POST* A Complicated Woman by Rebecca Lucy Taylor aka Self Esteem lotuswritingtherapy.com/2025/11/04/a... #booksky @octopusbooks.ca @selfesteem.music-social.com #randomthingstours

I’ve written a few thoughts on The Flight of the Maidens by Jane Gardem, 2000, an excellent coming of age story about three girls growing up in post war Yorkshire 💙📚 #BookSky #BookReview #Braille https://app.thestorygraph.com/reviews/5d03df95-31e0-4daf-b26d-f5db4b4a59de

Chuffed to have updated my Braille Sense 6 today without any mishaps! 🙌 I was nervous to do it as I haven’t done a big update on it before but all went well and I’ve been enjoying playing around with the new #Braille Practice app which I think will be very useful to use with my learners

If you're thinking of doing #NovellasInNovember, you're in luck - here is an A-Z of brilliant novella suggestions! www.stuckinabook.com/an-a-z-of-br...

With #NovellasInNovember in mind, I’ve written about ten excellent novellas I highly recommend. Featuring books by Nella Larsen, Alfred Hayes, Anne de Marcken, Irmgard Keun (tr. Kathie von Ankum) & more! #NovNov #Novella #BookSky #Books #Novellas 📚💙 jacquiwine.wordpress.com/2025/10/30/t...

I’ve written a few thoughts on The Flight of the Maidens by Jane Gardem, 2000, an excellent coming of age story about three girls growing up in post war Yorkshire 💙📚 #BookSky #BookReview #Braille https://app.thestorygraph.com/reviews/5d03df95-31e0-4daf-b26d-f5db4b4a59de

Yesterday's launch post for Dean Street December, coming soon! librofulltime.wordpress.com/2025/10/31/c... #booksky @deanstpress.bsky.social 📚💙 #deanstreetdecember25

Hallowe'en special up now. Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë, with guests Andrew Male and Laura Varnam in conversation with Una McCormack and Andy Miller. 🌬️🎃🧟 @andrewmale.bsky.social @drlauravarnam.bsky.social @unamccormack.bsky.social @iammilliam.bsky.social open.spotify.com/episode/0Zde...

The next club is announced! Next April, we are reading from 1961 #1961Club

#CoverReveal : We're obviously always delighted to celebrate one of our (very!) local literary stars, Muriel Spark, and Hodder has James Bailey's Like a Cat Loves a Bird, "a spiky and delicious new literary biography", coming next April. #books #livres #MurielSpark #Edinburgh #Edimbourg

I had a wonderful experience today at an artist’s studio. I got to feel all kinds of ceramic artwork, mostly abstract & reminiscent of coral or under water creatures. There were glazed pieces & others with rough clay & some with a mixture of both so lots of tactile elements, & a variety of forms…

Another first-time read of a brilliant author: Celia Fremlin's The Jealous One is incisive, suspenseful, and very funny. ahsweetmystery.com/2025/09/15/a...

"So Mr Eisman gave me quite a nice string of pearls and he gave Dorothy a diamond pin and we all went to the Colony for dinner and we all went to a show and supper at the Trocadero and we all spent quite a pleasant evening." #1925Club #BookSky 💙📚 jacquiwine.wordpress.com/2025/10/26/g...

New billet: Two books for the 1925 Club & Hundred Years Hence #1925Club and #HYH25 bookaroundthecorner.com/2025/10/26/t...

My contribution to the #1925Club is a post on the wonderful Love by Elizabeth von Arnim, which had a lot to say about double standards in society & the pressures on women as they age 💙📚 #BookSky #BookReview https://app.thestorygraph.com/reviews/3589831a-2956-408e-a6dc-19397cf94635

1/2 Margarete ‘Grete’ Marks b1899 Cologne, modernist ceramist lived 40+ years Auckland Hill, Upper Norwood. Goebbels derided her work & featured in the notorious Degenerate Art exhibition, 1937. As a Jew she was forced to sell her factory at a knock down price under the Nazi aryanisation programme.

Any L.M. Montgomery fans? My review of Emily Climbs for the #1925Club - tinyurl.com/3b32vde8 (And I think I want this woman's hairstyle, not to mention her attitude!)

For the #1925club today, something a little different - travelling across Europe on a motorbike and sidecar!! More here: kaggsysbookishramblings.wordpress.com/2025/10/25/w...

Next stop on the #1925Club world tour is Venice, and L.P. Hartley's early novella SIMONETTA PERKINS, another book I loved.

My contribution to the #1925Club is a post on the wonderful Love by Elizabeth von Arnim, which had a lot to say about double standards in society & the pressures on women as they age 💙📚 #BookSky #BookReview https://app.thestorygraph.com/reviews/3589831a-2956-408e-a6dc-19397cf94635

My new blog post on Sally Carson's superb, prescient novel, CROOKED CROSS. Another excellent title from Persephone. readersretreat2017.wordpress.com/2025/10/23/c...

'Mrs Dalloway' by Virginia Woolf, reviewed for the #1925Club. #Booksky wp.me/sezD85-mrs

A really brilliant Elizabeth von Arnim novel for the #1925Club: www.stuckinabook.com/love-by-eliz...

Molly Egan, US artist and illustrator known for colourful drawings and #upcycling by creating artworks in old books #WomensArt

From a great Russian novel to a great American novel for the #1925Club - John Dos Passos' Manhattan Transfer: 1streading.wordpress.com/2025/10/22/m...

Proofs are in! A huge thank you to @sceptrebooks.bsky.social for sending these my way. LIKE A CAT LOVES A BIRD: THE NINE LIVES OF MURIEL SPARK will be out in April, and these proofs will be going out into the world imminently. Terrifying! Exciting! Mostly terrifying!

New on the blog today, I've written about THE JUNIPER TREE by Barbara Comyns. A clever, dreamlike reimagining of the classic Grimms’ fairy tale, weaving together the innocence & savagery Comyns is well known for. Naturally, I loved it! #NYRBWomen25 #BookSky jacquiwine.wordpress.com/2025/10/21/t...

On the Ramblings today! My first post for the #1925club - my thoughts on some GA crime here! kaggsysbookishramblings.wordpress.com/2025/10/20/l...

The Counterfeiters by André Gide - the #1925Club and #HYH25 bookaroundthecorner.com/2025/10/20/t... @kaggsy59.bsky.social @stuckinabook.bsky.social

Do you use Access to Work? Please fill in our Easy Read survey. This survey is run by the Disability Poverty Campaign Group as part of our campaign to protect support for Disabled people. @DisRightsUK @Peoplefirst111 Click here to complete the survey: buff.ly/JyicWKe

Tove Jansson’s mother, illustrator Signe Hammarsten-Jansson's self portrait, 1910 had a huge influence on her daughter’s career, showing her the often underrated work of women. She also taught Tove how to draw #WomensArt

'Sally Carson’s Bavaria-set Crooked Cross was republished in April by Persephone Books, which specialises in reviving neglected works. Since then, it has been a surprise hit, a word-of-mouth jaw-dropper, passed from hand to hand.' www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

One way sighted people can determine what to put in alt text: Imagine you sent the post or article to a friend, and the image didn't load. What would someone need to know to get the equivalent experience and context? This will help you identify the important details.

“It was one of the last autumn days when the leaves were falling in little gusts. They fell on the children who were thankful for this excuse to wriggle and for the allowable movements in brushing the leaves from their hair and laps.” —Muriel Spark, THE PRIME OF MISS JEAN BRODIE #BookWormSat 💙📚

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

The RA cut audio description tours when reopening after Covid so this is the 2nd time they’ve cut access opportunities in recent years. I just hope they’ll come up with something new to offer disabled people who want to stay connected to art. Most other art institutions have some kind of programme

Very disappointed to get an email from the Royal Academy of Arts today in response to my query about upcoming community art workshops to say they’ve stopped doing them, with nothing similar on offer. Those sessions were always so well attended when I joined them, it’s such a shame #disability