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alexcristie.bsky.social
book blogger, short fiction writer, (armchair) traveler, migratory bird 📚 📍Edinburgh, Scotland 📖 https://alexandracristie.com
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In the mail today: ✨ Chilco ✨ by Daniela Catrileo, translated by Jacob Edelstein A novel in which 'the wounds of capitalism and empire inflict themselves on the person and on the land, but linger most devastatingly in language and memory'. Thanks @charcopress.com ! 🧡 #bookSky #WomenInTranslation

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🎉Happy publication day to MISINTERPRETATION by Albanian-American writer Ledia Xhoga. 🎉 🗽A story interrogating legacies of family and country, the boundary between compassion and self-preservation, and the power of language.🗨️ ‘A heart-stopping, emotional thriller. I loved it.’ Rita Bullwinkel

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Summer study plans 🧡 #bookSky

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My current reads; enjoying both at the moment 🧡 Coincidentally arboreal covers 🌴 @penguinbooksusa.bsky.social @saqibooks.bsky.social #bookSky #currentlyReading

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I spent my weekend inhaling this collection of interconnected short stories. Thoroughly enjoyed it, review coming soon ✨ (now that I'm off from Uni & I can read & write whatever I want) @tiltedaxispress.bsky.social #bookSky #bookRec #WomenInTranslation

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In the mail today: Babylon, Albion by Dalia Al-Dujaili: A Personal History of Myth and Migration Described as capturing 'the tension of belonging and exile, the quiet grief of in-between-ness'. Can't wait to read! Thanks @saqibooks.bsky.social for my copy! 🧡 #booksky

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Happy publication day to Elisa Levi's THAT'S ALL I KNOW (tr. Christina MacSweeney)! A mesmerising, spellbinding novel, one 'capabale of lethal shocks and bold transfigurations' (Kirkus), praised as 'elegant, sly and enrapturing' by Catherine Lacey.

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Congratulations to Deepa Bhasthi and Banu Mushtaq, winners of this year’s International Booker Prize. We’re hugely honoured to publish HEART LAMP. Our deepest thanks to the judges and, indeed, to all of you who have read and loved this extraordinary collection.

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Went on a trip to Farne Islands this weekend. We saw loads of puffins, seals, guillemots, and other birds I didn't know existed! Highly, highly recommend! @nationaltrust.org.uk

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Glorious! I can go back to reading now, a little less anxious. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...

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"Lucrezia is deceiving herself about Ignazio Fegiz. She imagines that this is her great love and that he is the one man in her life. Like hell he is. He hasn’t gone to live with her and I don’t believe he ever will. He wouldn’t dream of it." #BookSky 💙📚 jacquiwine.wordpress.com/2025/05/18/t...

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Proofs incoming...

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It's that time of the year again - my penultimate one! I decided to write my final essay on The Country Wife and Pride and Prejudice. I expect this will be fun! #bookSky #studySky

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Today is the 100th anniversary of the stupendously wonderful #mrsdalloway, and so I have celebrated this on the Ramblings! kaggsysbookishramblings.wordpress.com/2025/05/14/c...

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Dear everyone! Do please lend a hand and share our offer – times are extremely tough and we desperately need to raise some cash to keep things moving. Simply use TheBigSaltSale in our checkout or click on the link below— www.saltpublishing.com/discount/The... Happy reading!

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If you love the work small indie presses are doing, here's your chance to find out about their upcoming releases, all free, all virtual @indiepressnetwork.bsky.social www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/indie-pres...

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I went to the big charity book sale in Edinburgh. It was disappointing, but I still managed to take home a book of Dickens's journalism & I'm quite chuffed about it. I wish 12yo me would know I bought this, she would've been very happy. #bookSky

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From the archive for Goliarda Sapienza, #BornOnThisDay in 1924, my thoughts on MEETING IN POSITANO (tr @brianrobmoore.bsky.social). This is such a gorgeous novel of female friendship, as luminous as a hazy summer’s day. #BOTD #BookSky 💙📚 jacquiwine.wordpress.com/2021/08/04/m...

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#NYRBWomen25 #CurrentlyReading #bookSky

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