An excerpt from A Knock at the Door by Peter Rowlands @peterrowlands.bsky.social #books #thriller #mystery

'They trusted him with their most guarded, martini-soaked secrets … until he betrayed them.' My review of Swan Song by Kelleigh Greenberg-Jephcott #books #bookreviews #historicalfiction #booksky

John Buchan Fact of the Day (310/365) Buchan described his historical novel The Path of the King as 'my first serious piece of fiction [...] based on the notion that no man knows his ancestry, and that kingly blood may lie dormant for centuries until the appointed time' #JBFactOfTheDay #booksky 💙📚

The Winston Graham Historical Prize 2026 #WinstonGrahamHistoricalPrize #books #historicalfiction #literaryprizes #booksky

John Buchan Fact of the Day (309/365) Buchan on his writing process: "I never consciously invented with a pen in my hand; I waited until the story had told itself and then wrote it down, and, since it was already a finished thing, I wrote it fast." #JBFactOfTheDay #JohnBuchan #books #booksky 💙📚

#WWWWednesday Check out the books I've just read, I'm reading now & I'll be reading next #books #bookreviews #amreading #booksky

WWW Wednesdays (5 November 2025)! What are you reading this week? #WWWWednesdays

A look at what I'm reading this week. This Week in Books (5th November, 2025) noveldeelights.com/2025/11/05/t... - via @noveldeelights.bsky.social 💙📚

John Buchan Fact of the Day (308/365) Buchan on the characters in his adventure novels: "It was huge fun playing with my puppets, and to me they soon became very real flesh and blood" (From Memory Hold-The-Door, published posthumously in August 1940) #JBFactOfTheDay #JohnBuchan #books #booksky 💙📚

Random grabbing from my bookshelves resulted in 5 books I've read and 5 books I haven't. Would your own result be different? How do you decide whether to keep books once you've read them? #books #booksky 💙📚

#TopTenTuesday Ten Random Books From My Bookshelves #TuesdayBookBlog #books #bookreviews #booksky

My Year in Novellas #NovNov25 #books #NovellasInNovember #booksky

John Buchan Fact of the Day (307/365) In his memoir Memory Hold-The-Door, Buchan wrote "To live for a time close to great minds is the best kind of education." #JBFactOfTheDay #JohnBuchan #books #memoir #quotations #booksky 💙📚

John Buchan Fact of the Day (306/365) #OnThisDay in 1935, Buchan (now Lord Tweedsmuir) arrived in Quebec aboard the SS Duchess of Richmond to take up the post of Governor General of Canada. Every ship in the harbour hooted a welcome #JBFactOfTheDay #JohnBuchan #Canada 🇨🇦 #books #booksky 💙📚

The Secret of Secrets by Dan Brown | #RobertLangdon6 #thriller #bookreview Although I'm not generally a big reader of thrillers I have loved all the Dan Brown books featuring the dramatic adventures of religious symbologist Robert Langdon. I reserved a copy of the latest in the series from the…

My Week in Books - Books read, reviewed & acquired this week #books #bookreviews #amreading #booksky

John Buchan Fact of the Day (305/365) In a lecture to the John Buchan Society in March 2025 entitled 'Greenmantle and Me', Professor Sir Niall Ferguson explained why he chose to name his New York-based advisory business after Buchan's novel #JBFactOfTheDay #JohnBuchan #books #booksky 💙📚

#6Degrees of Separation - A book chain from We Have Always Lived in the Castle to The Book of Forgotten Authors #books #bookreviews #booksky

Enjoy @thebookerprizes.com feature on #WalterScottPrize winner #AndrewMiller and his novel THE LAND IN WINTER (@sceptrebooks.bsky.social) which is shortlisted for this year's Booker Prize. https://loom.ly/lxIRkYc#WalterScottPrize#AndrewMiller

Otherwise known as 'My almost none year in nonfiction' 😟 #booksky 💙📚

Nonfiction November - My Year in Nonfiction #books #bookreviews #nonfiction #gardening #history #readingchallenges #booksky

John Buchan Fact of The Day (304/365) 'A Mission is Proposed', chapter one of Buchan's novel Greenmantle, was the first tale in the 1957 anthology The Spy's Bedside Book by Graham Greene and his brother Hugh #JBFactOfTheDay #JohnBuchan #GrahamGreene #spystories #books #booksky 💙📚

The Master 👻 #Halloween #books #ghoststories #MRJames #booksky 💙📚

#BookReview #SilentBones by Val McDermid The return of cold case detective, Karen Pirie (Book 8) An extremely compelling, and intelligent police procedural. A stellar novel, with a very controlled, yet complex, plot www.swirlandthread.com/silent-bones... #booksky

John Buchan Fact of the Day (303/365) Buchan never learned to drive and employed a chauffeur, Amos Webb. Cars Buchan owned included an Overland, a Dodge followed by a succession of Wolseleys 🚗 #JBFactOfTheDay #JohnBuchan #books #booksky 💙📚

“You don’t so much read about the folk of Meonbridge as dwell amongst them for a few precious hours” @whatcathyreadnext.bsky.social CHILDREN’S FATE, the Fourth Meonbridge Chronicle, Silver Medal, the Coffee Pot Book Club Awards 2024 for #Medieval #HistFic mybook.to/F7c6

My bookish chat with Ross Gilfillan, author of In Leicester Fields #books #historicalfiction #authorinterview #booksky

The Meaning of Liff by Douglas Adams and John Lloyd is 42 so as it’s the same age as my marriage I’m reviewing it today! Out from @panmacmillan.bsky.social (the book not my marriage!) lindasbookbag.com/2025/10/30/t...

#BookReview: The Man Who Died Twice by Richard Osman @vikingbooksuk.bsky.social #TheManWhoDiedTwice #BookTwitter #booktwt #BookSky #damppebbles "It's the following Thursday. Elizabeth has received a letter from an old colleague, a man with whom she has a long history. He's made a big mistake, and…

Publishers, you have until 31 October to send us your best historical fiction for consideration for the #WalterScottPrize 2026.The submissions deadline is almost upon us, and the shelves are very nearly full... https://loom.ly/6f5mw0k

Heap Earth Upon It by Chloe Michelle Haworth: Truth will out alifeinbooks.co.uk/2025/10/heap... #HeapEarthUponIt

My review of historical mystery A Pretender's Murder by Christopher Huang, a book very much in the tradition of Golden Age crime novels #books #bookreviews #historicalfiction #historicalcrime #crimefiction #booksky

John Buchan Fact of the Day (302/365) Whilst living at Elsfield Manor in Oxfordshire, Buchan's young sons were often summoned from the woods for meals by a police whistle blown from the nursery window #JBFactOfTheDay #JohnBuchan #books #booksky 💙📚

#WWWWednesday Check out the books I've just read, I'm reading now & I'll be reading next #books #bookreviews #amreading #booksky

A look at what I'm reading this week. #BookSky #TWIB #WWW This Week in Books (29th October, 2025) noveldeelights.com/2025/10/29/t... - via @noveldeelights.bsky.social 💙📚

🥧Book Review🥧 Today it’s my stop on the blog tour for Just A Taste by Anise Starre #JustATaste #AniseStarre #TeamBATC @simonschusteruk.bsky.social 💙📚 #booksky #bookreview #bookblogger #books #blogtour

"The Other Side Of Now" by Paige Harbison - Book Review @stmartinspress.bsky.social @pharbeaux.bsky.social #TheOtherSideOfNow #BookReview #BookSky fictionophile.com/2025/10/28/t...

John Buchan Fact of the Day (301/365) Early visitors to Elsfield Manor, the Buchan family home from 1919 onwards, included the poet John Masefield, Sir Roderick Jones, chairman of Reuters, and Sir Roderick's wife Enid Bagnold, author of National Velvet #JBFactOfTheDay #JohnBuchan #books #booksky 💙📚

#BookReview - Murder at World's End by Ross Montgomery A witty and fun historical crime caper, the first in a new series. @mossmontmomery.bsky.social @vikingbooksuk.bsky.social #MurderAtWorldsEnd shortbookandscribes.uk/reviews/shor...

#TopTenTuesday Hallowe'en Spells Spooky #TuesdayBookBlog #books #ghoststories #Halloween #booksky

My review of For Thy Great Pain Have Mercy On My Little Pain by Victoria MacKenzie #books #bookreviews #historicalfiction #booksky

John Buchan Fact of the Day (300/365) The woods around Elsfield Manor, the Buchan family home in Oxfordshire, were the inspiration for the setting of his historical novel The Blanket of the Dark, set in the reign of Henry VIII #JBFactOfTheDay #JohnBuchan #books #historicalfiction ⏳️📚 #booksky 💙📚

New on my blog - Paperbacks to Look Out For in November 2025  alifeinbooks.co.uk/2025/10/pape... #BookSky

#ThreeTwoOne quickfire questions with Marjorie McGinn #author of The Greek Proposal | @fatgreekodyssey I'm delighted to be joined by Marjory McGinn today, author of The Greek Proposal. The Greek Proposal was published in September and available now in paperback and digital editions: full details…

John Buchan Fact of the Day (299/365) #OnThisDay in 1916, Buchan's novel Greenmantle was published by Hodder & Stoughton. Set in WW1, Richard Hannay's second appearance involves a chase across Europe to Constantinople to defeat a German plot #JBFactOfTheDay #JohnBuchan #books #booksky 💙📚

From Backpacking to Breakthroughs: a #guestpost from Jo Blakeley #author of The Confidence Breakthrough I'm very pleased to be joined by Jo Blakeley today. Jo is the author of The Confidence Breakthrough which was published at the beginning of the month and she is sharing a rather inspiring guest…

My Week in Books - Books read, reviewed & acquired this week #books #bookreviews #amreading #booksky

John Buchan Fact of the Day (298/365) #OnThisDay in 1935 Buchan, now Lord Tweedsmuir of Elsfield, set sail from Liverpool aboard the SS Duchess of Richmond to take up his post as Governor General of Canada 🇨🇦 #JBFactOfTheDay #JohnBuchan #Canada #books #booksky 💙📚

My bookish chat with Zoe Caryl, author of historical novel, Julia Sleeps #books #historicalfiction #authorinterview #booksky

*NEW BLOG POST* My review of #NoSafePlace by Hannah Brennan is live on #damppebbles! A well-written debut with a thought-provoking edge. Gripping, highly intriguing and impossible to put down. Check out my review... ➡️ buff.ly/FXPuTRv @harpercollins.bsky.social #BookSky #skybrarians #bookish