Good to hear that you’re doing long walks!

Currently hiding in violets, primroses, old stone walls and the imminent return of the swallows 😊

This one’s next for me, I think.

I might take to my bed and do the same. I prefer my dystopias to be fictional 😉

I’m in the throes of this one at the moment.

…and not one will know of the war, not one
Will care at last when it is done.

Not one would mind, neither bird nor tree,
If mankind perished utterly;

And Spring herself, when she woke at dawn,
Would scarcely know that we were gone.

-Sarah Teasdale
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So happy to see this Peter. Xx

The road less travelled… a very old right of way that leads to my house, unused for 50 years, now opened again. Haven’t driven it yet but it makes for an idyllic morning walk 😊 #speirgorm #springtime

This is on my list. How is it on audio?

It was gorgeous, Felicity. I rarely miss Sunday Miscellany 😊

I think I remember it being on your list of favourite books. Happy New Year, Peter xx

Revisiting a much loved novel on audible. Can think of worse ways to ring in the New Year.
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Susannah Clarke’s Piranesi

What an enchanting way to finish the year’s reading. I think I will always love this book. #books
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Bereft to have finished Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell on audio. Everything one could wish for to turn dark winter drives into gothic deliciousness. One of my favourite books this year. Saving Piranesi for Christmas: will fit Banville’s Venetian Vespers in between.

Best of luck Peter! Xx

Content to sleep on arm if lap is not on offer 😂

Patrick Kavanagh - well loved poet and writer died #OTD 30 November 1967
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Couldn’t cope with the lack of punctuation really! So I put it on audio and finished it that way. Just not my kind of dystopia, for whatever reason. Maybe because I’m Irish 😂

Interested to hear what you think of this one. I wasn’t crazy about it.

Yes, it does feel like a winter book. Hope you’re doing ok under that heated blanket 😊 xx

It’s one I’ve been meaning to read for a long time, Peter. Hoping the audio version does it justice, but Richard Armitage always does a great job narrating.

Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell, Susanna Clarke

In the search for a long and atmospheric audiobook I came upon this. I’m a bit excited for it.
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Well if anybody deserves a heated throw/ blanket at the moment, it’s you Peter. Do you have a suitably cosy murder mystery to read under it? 😊

Waking up to Gordon Lightfoot on a dark November morning. Nice. #risingtime #speirgorm

Can’t resist the return of Jimmy Perez. If Cleeves applies the same evocation of place for Orkney as she did for Shetland, I’ll be a happy reader 😊
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I remember reading Atonement years ago, but don’t think I’ve read any others. You’d like this one, I think.

Ian McEwan’s What We Can Know

An academic from a climate-ravaged 2119 searches for poet Francis Blundy’s lost masterpiece, trawling through century-old emails and social media. What’s not to love?
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Kate Atkinson’s Human Croquet

Well, this was mental. Mental in a good way… sensuous and dark and thrilling, and possibly my favourite of all the Kate Atkinson novels I’ve been devouring over the last couple of months.
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Certainly seems like they’re taking you in hand a bit 😊

All’s well here Peter. Finished my masters and back to reading whatever the hell I want to read. Sounds like you’ll be a new man by 2026 😊