Blurring the boundaries between prose and poetry, THE BOAT IN THE EVENING by Tarjei Vesaas explores the mysteries of the natural world and man's relationship with landscape. Translated by Elizabeth Rokkan. My new post here: readersretreat2017.wordpress.com/2025/11/12/t...

I reviewed Small Boat by Vincent Delecroix tr. Helen Stevenson but mostly just noticed that I interpreted it a little differently that most reading-in-bed.com/2025/11/12/s... #NovNov

Make your voice heard! This is your chance to speak up, be heard, and make real change happen. The Euan’s Guide Access Survey is the UK’s largest disabled access survey and your voice will help shape a more accessible future. buff.ly/t338120

Here’s my review of Frankie and Stankie by Barbara Trapido, her excellent 2003 Booker Prize longlisted novel based on her childhood in Apartheid era South Africa 💙📚 #BookSky #BookReview #audiobook https://app.thestorygraph.com/reviews/00cfe17d-ddc2-4750-a8ed-37d51d6dd483

‘We had never read anything quite like it. It is, in many ways, a dark book but it is a joy to read’ We're delighted to announce Flesh by David Szalay as the winner of the #BookerPrize2025.

Here’s my review of Frankie and Stankie by Barbara Trapido, her excellent 2003 Booker Prize longlisted novel based on her childhood in Apartheid era South Africa 💙📚 #BookSky #BookReview #audiobook https://app.thestorygraph.com/reviews/00cfe17d-ddc2-4750-a8ed-37d51d6dd483

New episode up now. Transit by Rachel Cusk, and the Outline trilogy as a whole, discussed by Andy, Una and Nicky. @iammilliam.bsky.social @unamccormack.bsky.social @birchos.bsky.social open.spotify.com/episode/1c43...

'Nature's bounty' by contemporary UK printmaker Sarah Bays #WomensArt

The Barbellion Prize celebrates and promotes writing that represents the experience of chronic illness and disability. Since the re-launch laste week we've raised 10% of our target, so there's still a way to go. Pllease support this unique literary award barbellionprize.org Thank you!

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...