A hand holds the book "It Lasts forever and then it's over" by Anne de Marcken in front of a bokshelf. The cover, like all Fitzcarraldo Éditions fiction books, is solid royal blue with the title and author's name in white, all-caps letters.

Did I buy this book based entirely on its title? Yes. Did I enjoy it? Also yes. Do I feel like I'm being tricked into reading more body horror than I'm comfortable with this year? Hmmm... (see also: Heather Parry's Carrion Crow).
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1. Many here seem bemused by the anger and disappointment this government attracts. Please bear with me while I try to explain it.
Let’s begin with Gaza. Starmer’s complicity is one of the major reasons so many people are disillusioned.
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The book "Childhood, Youth, Dependency" by Tove Ditlevsen (translation by Tiina Nunnally and Michael Favala Goldman) is posed on a bookshelf in front of other translated books. The edition is the Penguin Classic with its white and teal colour scheme, and a drawing of a city with red brick buildings.

It feels like I'm not reading as much translation as I once did. This book is a great reminder to do so more often. #WomenInTranslation #booksky

A hand holds a paperback copy of "Carrion Crow", by Heather Parry, in front of a sun-lit crosshatch window.

I never read gothic fiction/horror, but this was so good! Finished it in two days, very glad that this was put on my radar by the Lecker podcast and that my local #library stocked a copy.
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A hand is holding two books in front of a bookshelf. The first one with an orange cover is "Around India in 80 Trains" (paperback) and the second one is "Moonlight Express: Around the World by Night Train" (ebook), both by Monisha Rajesh.

Can't really afford to buy books or travel at the moment so I've decided the next best thing to do is to borrow books about travel from my local library. Tip top reading to start the year ✨ #booksky @monisharajesh.bsky.social @bloomsburybooksuk.bsky.social

Holding a paperback copy of "How to survive a plague", by David France, in front of a sun-lit window

Damn - the first week of January isn't over yet and I'm pretty sure this will be my best book of 2026. Setting the bar high! #booksky

The 8 billionaires are: Musk, Ellison, Bezos, Page, Brin, Zuckerberg, Huang, Ballmer.

Each one saw their wealth explode as a direct result of the massive and unsustainable AI bubble.

Let's resolve to remember that when their bubble bursts all over working people in 2026.

Happy New Year!

Swifts have declined 70% since 1994.

They fly from Africa to breed here, only to find we've blocked their nest sites.

A £35 swift brick nest box was proposed for all new buildings.

The construction industry lobbied Labour to block it.

Biodiversity sustains life. Labour sustains economic power.

Please save this, read it, feel it.

Shame on all those who do not see our children!!

A shot from above of a red-ish drink in a wine glass sitting next to a red-ish book (poyums, by Len Pennie) on a round beige wooden table. The drink's a negroni sbagliato but with double the prosecco, if you care to know.

Always a good day when my drink matches my book 🥂
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As the predictable calls for “restraint by both sides” are rolled out by Western politicians and officials, let us be clear that Israel’s latest attack against Iran could not, and would not, have happened without the support that those same politicians.

OPINION by Ibrahim Hewitt

The Bread & Roses Award longlist has been launched to mark the start of Independent Bookshop Week!

The award for political writing is presented by the Alliance of Radical Booksellers, so celebrate both by popping into your local indie for one of these beauts:
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The paperback edition of "The White Book" by Han Kang, laid on a crumpled white duvet.

Latest read: a scintillating collection of interwoven meditations on life, death, and white things.
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A hand holds a hardback copy of "Invitation to a banquet; The history of Chinese food" by Fuchsia Dunlop in front of a blooming magnolia tree. The book has a bright yellow cover with a drawing of a white and blue porcelain bowl from which a white cloud of steam arises. Published by Particular Books.

If, like me, you've only ever eaten Chinese food in the West, this book will blow your mind. Fuchsia Dunlop does a brilliant job of explaining the exquisite intricacy of Chinese cuisine and its infinite declinations. An instant favourite, chuffed I could borrow this from my local library.
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Black and white photo of one of the lamassus at the British Museum - huge stone sculptures of a mythical creature with a human head, the body of a bull or a lion, and bird wings. A sign hanging from the ceiling reads "The royal palaces: Ancient Assyria".

Another lamassu in black and white. This one has lion feet.

Obviously the first thing I did after finishing the book was to go brave the crowds at the British Museum to see the lamassu. Worth it.

Black and white e-book cover of "There Are Rivers in the Sky" by Elif Shafak, laid flat on some dark red/brown fabric. (I've had to type this caption twice and both times I misspelled "rivers" as "rovers", which would be a very different type of book 😂)

OMG this book 😭

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The UK Supreme Court basically declared all cis women are essentially just our uteruses today and the foolish bigots who are celebrating this are so far removed from reality that they don’t realise how this will be weaponised against us all.

“When people say this business of ‘she’s the voice of the voiceless’, it makes me crazy. I say, there’s no voiceless, there’s only the deliberately silenced, you know, or the purposely unheard." - Arundhati Roy

The book "Friends of Israel: The Backlash against Palestine Solidarity" by Hil Aked held by a white woman's hand with a pink blooming tree and blue skies in the background

"The Book of Disappearance" by Ibtisam Azem and translated by Sinan Antoon, held by a white woman's hand with the same pink blooming tree and blue skies in the background.

Currently reading & just finished. Both excellent.
#booksky #freepalestine
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From top left, clockwise: Burnout, by Emily and Amelia Nagoski; Feu Mange Forêt, by Clémentine Pons; The Bright Side, bu Sumit Paul-Choudhuri; and Bright Fear, by Mary Jean Chan.

Unintended theme in the last 4 books I read: (too) bright things #booksky
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This is Labour’s poll tax. Its tuition fees. It is - as Iraq was for Blair - the moral stain that will mark Starmer’s government and the party for years to come. Severely disabled people are going to be starved, isolated and degraded. No Labour MP who backs this will be forgiven.

Two poetry books by Mary Jean Chan propped up on a grey/green linen fabric. The one at the front is "Bright Fear", with the author's name in blue and the title in orange on a pale yellow background. The one at the back is "Flèche", with the author's name in yellow and the title in white on a mid-blue background.

Two poetry books propped up on a grey/green linen fabric background. The one on the left is "The tattoo collector" by Tim Tim Cheng, the cover is a drawing of two arms with the hands touching, overlaid by tattoo-like patterns, on a light pink background. The other book is "Blackbird singing at dusk" by Wendy Pratt and the cover is a black, yellow and white lino print of a blackbird singing in a cherry tree.

Recent #poetry #bookpost 😍
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Drastic cuts to PIP will affect as many as 1 million disabled and ill people, pushing them into severe hardship, worsening physical and mental health, and isolation. There is no credible argument for pulling help from people shouldering the high costs of disability. Cruelty dressed up as reform.

Labour MPs saying “the clue is in the name” to justify benefit cuts is wildly disingenuous. It co-opts Labour’s history to imply all those that cannot physically labour are somehow excluded from the cause. Being pro-worker does not require being anti-unemployed or anti-disabled. It never did.

Palestine is a feminist issue. None of us is free until all of us are free.

Israel has chosen to mark the first days of Ramadan by blocking humanitarian aid to Gaza.

Still, our government refuses to implement sanctions and defend international law.

There is no other way of putting it: this is a resumption of genocide — and our government is complicit.

Oh, right, the virtual TBR pile... I guess I *do* have a lot of unread books at home, then 😂

It's not the longest-waiting book on my shelves - I've had Cedric Robinson's Black Marxism (Penguin Modern Classics edition) for longer but in that case I've been put off by the bad printing (awfully tiny font and slightly smudged letters - not a good combo), which makes me very sad.

Paperback cover of "Artificial Islands: Adventures in the Dominions" by Owen Hatherley

So in this spirit I've just started reading Owen Hatherley's Artificial Islands (@repeaterbooks.bsky.social), received as part of the @lighthousebks.bsky.social Beacon (current affairs) subscription in... August 2022 😅
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