Tindermass by Mark Patrick Lynch A teenage boy, Hackle takes on a dare. Life isn’t kind to Hackle. He’s poor and his mother is seriously ill. But he is tempestuous and proud so once he decided, he won’t back out. The dare is to fi…

A cautionary folktale with blinding flashes of primal horror - my thoughts on Tindermass by @markpatricklynch.bsky.social

#BookRecommendation #horror #folklore #fantasy
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A picture of a rather dilapidated copy of "The picture of Dorian Gray" There is visible water damage to the cover and the plastic cover is yellowing. Obviously, not evident from the picture but there is a truly foul musty smell emanating from it!

Last week, a gentleman returned this rather dilapidated copy of this famous book to us after 50 years. He had found it in his attic!
Presumably this means there is a pristine copy somewhere in our libraries....

Trainspotting The Musical Thirty years on from the film that changed everything, the world premiere production of Trainspotting The Musical storms the West End stage.

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Obviously I’ve got skin in the game so can’t be trusted, but this is shaping up to be the most absolutely epic event I’ve been involved with.

Tindermass: A Dark Fantasy Tindermass: A Dark Fantasy eBook : Lynch, Mark Patrick: Amazon.co.uk: Kindle Store

"...I spotted an untended loaf on the back of a handcart and I’d seen it under my shirt before any other thief could claim it for his own" Hackle, a youth with prospects as bad as Oliver Twist's goes for a blood-curdling dare in
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The Queen's Sister: A vivid and imaginative historical novel of a life among the wives of King Henry VIII Read it now

Available for pre order. The Queen’s Sister about Elizabeth Seymour and Gregory Cromwell.

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Dean Crow - Gyotaku — Brown Hound Press My father papered the walls of his studio in crisp white washi, covered in schools of Gyotaku: ink prints of fish he’d caught throughout his career. I probe the paper like I’m noodling for a bite until I fumble on the light switch. The LEDs mimic natural light–my father would accept no less. He dema

New story of the week is up today. This is the author’s first publication, and the writing is excellent.

#debutauthor #shortstories #mystery #fiction

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Against a dark green background with autumnal leaves and branches, a 3D hardback of THE GODS MUST BURN by T. R. Moore. Below, white text: “There are stories that stay with you forever and The Gods Must Burn is one of them. The mythology is so layered and rich, the romance is angsty and soaring and epic, and T.R. Moore’s prose is gorgeous and lyrical, yet unflinching—the result is a true masterpiece. This book tore my heart out and put it back together again and it was an honor.” — Thea Guanzon, New York Times and #1 international bestselling author The Hurricane Wars

"This book tore my heart out and put it back together again and it was an honour"

A stunning endorsement from @theagwrites.bsky.social for @authortrmoore.bsky.social 's debut fantasy novel THE GODS MUST BURN.

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Solid from Zack Polanski

Rejects the idea of pitting pensioners against students

Says the real divide is between the 99% and the 1%

And that we should tax the rich more

My very pleasure, Fiona. Thank you for choosing Ovid for your protagonist and bringing him to life.

Louisa, the cat. Only a cat would be able to impose their superiority on a hive of equals.

A rare feast of a thoroughly entertaining whodunnit matured to perfection in Ancient Rome. My thoughts on Written in Blood by @fionawriter.bsky.social

#historicalfiction #bookrecommendation #Ovid #AncientRome

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The first miracle of Easter:
Under an old oak in the fields where Dog chases squirrels, Husband made a Winnie the Poohesque sign to show the postman where the squirrels live.
Two days later the sign was stolen.
Yesterday it was returned. A miracle or what?

Book Review: The Austen Girls: The Story of Jane & Cassandra Austen, the Closest of Sisters, by Helen Amy Available from Amazon UK and Amazon US Jane and Cassandra Austen were the closest of sisters from early childhood. Cassandra was the most i...

The Austen Girls: The Story of Jane & Cassandra Austen, the Closest of Sisters, by Helen Amy tonyriches.blogspot.com/2026/03/book... #writers #JaneAusten #History #BookReview

Brilliant book. Thanks for writing it!

The Many by Sylvain Neuvel It starts with a tic. One of them falls down to Earth from outer space and bites into Carole. In turn Carole bites into Booker, who in his turn gets his teeth into Carole’s husband, Shivansh. He do…

The Many by Sylvain Neuvel - original, entertaining and poignant at the same time with echoes of The Childhood's end - my review.
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It's a dog's life.

Book Review: “Lady of Lincoln” by Rachel Elwiss Joyce "a well-written novel about one of the most important women in 12th century England." adventuresofatudornerd.com/2026/03/07/b... @rachelelwjoyce.bsky.social @hmalagisi.bsky.social #Medieval #HistoricalFiction #BookReview

When grandchildren visited in summer, I read to them Peter Rabbit. At first they found it hard to get to grips with the antiquated language, but soon they got the rhythm and rhyme of it, and loved it. Because language isn't just a sum total of words and stories transcend time.
#WorldBookDay

Cover Story by R.N. Morris This isn’t the pensive and masculine R.N. Morris as we know him, and yet it is inimitably he in all his psychologically twisted complexity. Cover Story is a contemporary spy thriller with an ingeni…

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#mustread
Cover Story
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Children of Strife @aptshadow.bsky.social
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The Expansion Project
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Diamond Boulevard
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Circe by Madeline Miller In her second foray into Ancient Greece, Madeline Miller brings to life Circe: the enchantress from The Odyssey who turned Odysseus’s men into pigs. She was an immortal descendant of ancient titans…

Happy #WorldBookDay2026
#mustread
Circe
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Served Cold
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The Misheard World
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The Cameo Keeper
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Jennifer Buckley. Periodicals, Fiction and the Novel, 1700–1760: Ecologies of Print Jennifer Buckley’s exciting monograph seeks to develop a study of the eighteenth-century periodical, particularly what she defines as the ‘essay-periodical

New Publication Alert

Amy Wilcockson, Jennifer Buckley. Periodicals, Fiction and the Novel, 1700–1760: Ecologies of Print, The Review of English Studies, 2026;, hgag003, doi.org/10.1093/res/...

#danieldefoe #defoe #18thCentury #C18th #18thC

Essie Fox: Catherine Today I’m joining the blog tour for Catherine. My review is written with thanks to Anne Cater for inviting me on the tour and to Orenda Books for my copy of the book. Blurb: With a nature as …

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#TopTenTuesday | 3rd March 2026: Ten Dark Historical Fiction Novels #Top10Tuesday #bookblogger #bookish #amreading #TTT #BookTwitter #booktwt #BookSky #damppebbles Hello and a very warm welcome to damppebbles. It’s Tuesday which means it’s time for this week’s Top Ten Tuesday post. I’ve decided to take part in That Artsy Reader Girl&#8…

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Two young men caught in the horror of WW2: too young not to cry - old enough to take lives, and to sacrifice their own.
A young woman thirty years later uncovering the truth.

99p / 99c for a limited time.

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#histfic #99p #99c

The terror of N@zi occupation, the spirit of Resistance, the cost of Liberation and the unwavering will to live.
Buried in the Past is a story of survival in body and spirit, inspired by true events.
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Circe by Madeline Miller In her second foray into Ancient Greece, Madeline Miller brings to life Circe: the enchantress from The Odyssey who turned Odysseus’s men into pigs. She was an immortal descendant of ancient titans…

Beautiful, inside and out - my thoughts of Circe by Madeline Miller
#bookrecommendation #Circe #AncientGreece #mythology

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I love this particularly because it highlights Joe Wilson’s amazing cover art.

#Greens

My weekend's folly
The Bishop's Palace, Wells/ Wells Cathedral