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On the blog today, I do a little flaneusing around Paris in the company of #gerarddenerval! 🤣 More here: kaggsysbookishramblings.wordpress.com/2025/03/28/t...

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New review on my blog today - The Rest of Our Lives by Benjamin Markovits: A mid-life odyssey alifeinbooks.co.uk/2025/03/the-... #Booksky 📚

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New on the blog today, I've written about JERUSALEM THE GOLDEN by Margaret Drabble. A slow-burning rites-of-passage novel about an intelligent young woman desperate to escape her stifling provincial upbringing in the north of England. #BookSky 💙📚 jacquiwine.wordpress.com/2025/03/27/j...

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A little late sharing today, but here is my post for #ReadingIrelandMonth2025 - a gem of a novel from #ElizabethBowen - more here! kaggsysbookishramblings.wordpress.com/2025/03/26/s...

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Thoughts on the excellent novella Clear by #CarysDavies A story of remote island living, lost language, forced change, rebellion and unexpected connection, while navigating Scottish history mid 1800's. Loved it! #readingwales #Scotland #thegreatdisruption clairemcalpine.com/2025/03/25/c...

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Today on the blog, my final post for #readingirelandmonth25 hosted by @cathybrown746.bsky.social “Admit that you deserve forgiveness.” (Niamh Mulvey, The Amendments) madamebibilophilerecommends.co.uk/2025/03/25/a...

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On the Ramblings today, for #ReadingWales25, a wonderful GA crime poison pen mystery - more here! kaggsysbookishramblings.wordpress.com/2025/03/24/l...

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New on my blog today - Paperbacks to Look Out For in April 2025: Part Two alifeinbooks.co.uk/2025/03/pape... #Booksky 📚

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New on the blog today, I've written about THERE'S NO TURNING BACK by Alba de Céspedes (tr. Ann Goldstein). A prescient, transgressive story of 8 young women seeking independence and autonomy in a boarding house in 1930s Rome. Just superb! #BookSky 💙📚 jacquiwine.wordpress.com/2025/03/23/t...

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Hello. If you like books and talking about books with readers and writers then you’ll probably like my tv show devoted to books and talking about books with readers and writers. Guests inc @colsonwhitehead.com @naomialderman.bsky.social @rfkuang.bsky.social Watch: www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...

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bookjotter.com/2025/03/22/winding-up-the-week-417/ #EarthHour #Books #AmReading @stuckinabook.bsky.social

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On my blog today, continuing with my revisits to the wonderful Claudine novels of #Colette - more here! kaggsysbookishramblings.wordpress.com/2025/03/21/m...

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New review my blog today - Theft by Abdulrazak Gurnah: A multi-layered exploration of postcolonialism alifeinbooks.co.uk/2025/03/thef... #Booksky 📚

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On the Ramblings today, I share my thoughts about a wonderful new collection of essays by Julian Barnes from @nottinghilleds.bsky.social - more here! kaggsysbookishramblings.wordpress.com/2025/03/19/r...

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On the blog now, thoughts on the captivating hybrid memoir, #FierceAppetites by medieval historian #ElizabethBoyle. A year navigating loss, grief & relationships while reflecting on stories encountered in medieval literature. Life is complicated. History repeats. clairemcalpine.com/2025/03/19/f...

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This will be a third outing for #StellaBlomkvist in English - and she is as tough, uncompromising and funny as ever, a 'force of nature' #MurderTide www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B...

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On the blog yesterday, I went, I bought the hardback, I read, I reviewed - Chimamanda Ngozi Adiche's "Dream Count" librofulltime.wordpress.com/2025/03/17/b... 💙📚

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Another from the 2025 Women’s Prize longlist, Rosanna Pike’s boisterous A Little Trickerie is a fine example of historical fiction being used to explore injustices of the past. anzlitlovers.com/2025/03/18/a...

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Today on the blog, a post for #readingirelandmonth hosted by @cathybrown746.bsky.social “People were capable of being many things at once.” (Sarah Gilmartin, Service) madamebibilophilerecommends.co.uk/2025/03/18/p...

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New on my blog today - Paperbacks to Look Out For in April 2025: Part One alifeinbooks.co.uk/2025/03/pape... #Booksky 📚

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New on the blog today, I've written about BOX OFFICE POISON by Tim Robey. A hugely enjoyable catalogue of cinematic catastrophes from the past hundred years - featuring Sorcerer, Cats, The Magnificent Ambersons and many more! #BookSky 💙📚 #FilmSky #Films jacquiwine.wordpress.com/2025/03/16/b...

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On the blog today, for #Moomins80 I revisit Comet in Moominland - more here! kaggsysbookishramblings.wordpress.com/2025/03/15/d...

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bookjotter.com/2025/03/15/winding-up-the-week-416/ #readingirelandmonth25 @whisperinggums.bsky.social @ahsweetmystery.bsky.social @cathybrown746.bsky.social #books #amreading

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We are delighted to announce the winner of this year's Galley Beggar Press Short Story Prize competition. A wonderful story! Details in the newsletter below: www.galleybeggar.co.uk/campaigns/vi...

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New review on my blog today- Elegy, Southwest by Madeleine Watts: ‘Our time, perhaps, is shorter than we think’ alifeinbooks.co.uk/2025/03/eleg... #Booksky 📚

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I finished Academy Street last night. It's a lovely novel, beautifully evocative, spanning six decades. Costello packs so much into a fairly short novel. #ReadingIrelandmonth25 💙📚

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Today for #readingirelandmonth25 I review Though The Bodies Fall by Noel O'Regan. A fantastic debut.

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I reviewed The Old Jest by the great Jennifer Johnston for #readingirelandmonth25

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New on my blog today - A Snapshot of My Reading #2 alifeinbooks.co.uk/2025/03/a-sn...

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Today on the blog, a post for #readingirelandmonth25 hosted by @cathybrown746.bsky.social “We cannot know from whose mouths the echoes of our lives will chime.” (Doireann Ní Ghríofa, A Ghost in the Throat) madamebibilophilerecommends.co.uk/2025/03/12/w...

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Kit being amazing, as usual.

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New on the blog today, I've written about ANTARCTICA by Claire Keegan. An accomplished collection of stories from one of our best contemporary writers. Definitely recommended, especially for fans of Keegan's later work. #BookSky 💙📚 #ReadingIreland jacquiwine.wordpress.com/2025/03/11/a...

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These prints by Gail are one of my favourite things about the Smithery office - please do have a look at her wonderful shop.

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Hi all First of all, all of us at Team Tony want to thank everyone for the support and love. Mark really wants the Rambling Club to carry on. Tony loved recording episodes and we want to do more. So please share so we can attract some guest Acting Presidents!

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New review on my blog - This is a Love Story by Jessica Soffer: ‘Don’t go’ alifeinbooks.co.uk/2025/03/this... #Booksky

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On the blog today I have a review of I Hear You, the great new collection from Paul McVeigh published by @saltpublishing.com #readingirelandmonth25

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Third Crime Is the Charm #12 : England, Wyoming and Saint-Pierre-et-Miquelon Local Gone Missing by Fiona Barton (2022) French title: L’eau qui dort. Translated by Séverine Quelet. The Serpent’s Tooth by Craig Johnson (2013) French title: La dent du serpent. Translated by Sophie Aslanides Any Other…

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On the Ramblings today, my thoughts on a timely reissue of a book which shows just how easy it is for forces of control to take over normal life - more here: kaggsysbookishramblings.wordpress.com/2025/03/07/d...

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I have a new review up on @shinynewbooks.bsky.social today, of a moving and powerful book about the man who saved Primo Levi's life in Auschwitz - my full review is here: shinynewbooks.co.uk/a-man-of-few...

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Quais du Polar is next month! My imagination runs wild The 21st edition of our local crime fiction festival Quais du Polar, opens its doors in less than a month, April 4-6, 2025. The theme is about borders and frontiers, it should be interesting. Let’s hope the weather cooperates since the panels…

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bookjotter.com/2025/03/08/winding-up-the-week-for-women-415/ #InternationalWomensDay25 #IWD2025 #ReadingWales25 @bookertalk.bsky.social @wyrdandwonder.bsky.social @jacquiwine.bsky.social @booksbonesbuffy.bsky.social

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Last #InternationalWomensDay I ranked my favourite British Library Women Writers titles, so here it is again! The only change I'd make is the forthcoming The Spring Begins by Katherine Dunning would go in at #4

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With #IWD2025 on the horizon, I’ve written about some of my favourite books by WOMEN WRITERS IN TRANSLATION, highlighting titles from across the globe. Featuring books by Natalia Ginzburg, Mariana Enriquez, Yūko Tsushima, Annie Ernaux & many more. Enjoy! 💙📚 jacquiwine.wordpress.com/2025/03/06/w...

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New on my blog today - Woman in Blue by Douglas Bruton: ‘He loves me, he loves me not’ alifeinbooks.co.uk/2025/03/woma... #Booksky 📚

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On the blog today, I share my thoughts about a fascinating essay collection by #ceesnooteboom from MacLehose Press - more here! kaggsysbookishramblings.wordpress.com/2025/03/05/w...

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It's #readingirelandmonth25 and I have kicked off proceedings with a review of The City Changes It's Face by Eimear McBride

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