New on the blog today, I've written about more of my favourite London novels.
Including books by Barbara Comyns, Iris Murdoch, Muriel Spark and many more! #BookSky #London 💙📚
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LILI IS CRYING by Hélène Bessette, translated by Kate Briggs, published by New Directions.
LILI IS CRYING by Hélène Bessette, translated by Kate Briggs, published by Fitzcarraldo Editions.
Exciting news: We’ll be starting the next phase of #AContinuation on February 1 & all are welcome to join! Page guide to come soon! @ofbooksandbikes.bsky.social
Huge soft spot for that one 🥰 i tried another kore-eda after (after life) but didnt capture me as much
Our little sister, les 400 coups, perfect days, jeanne dielman, poor things, un beau matin, the florida project, aftersun, mulholland drive
Fanny & Alexander, petite maman, the straight story, caligula the ultimate cut, le bonheur, bringing up baby, the holdovers
Favourite films watched in 2025 🎬 #filmsky
God what a creepy dude! Such great performances all around! And that scene with the broken merry go round 🤯🤯🤯
Planes, trains and automobiles; beaches; mon crime; la captive; early man; strangers on a train
December on my screen 📺 #filmsky
Thank you, queued up the ep for tonight!
Yes definitely!
Yay 🖐️!! Remind me did you read cold nights of childhood?
Ivy, your book kept me up at night, i *had* to know how it ends, it was the perfect read for the spooky season! ❤️🔥
Thank you so much for these recommendations, really appreciate them! Will have a look for the docs in my library
Oh good luck Stephanie, hope you conquer this mountain this year!
Oh yes, it’ll be mine too for sure! 😍
That’s lovely to hear! Happy new year Tom!
Favourites for life! 🙌
Oh i might go for his nonfic next, good idea!
A stack of books on a mantelpiece, a porcelain dog, some pinecones and a vase with branches of holly The books: 📖 Marcel Proust, La prisonnière (EN: The Captive) 📖 Diane Tutton, Guard Your Daughters 📖 Ana Paula Maia, On Earth As It Is Beneath (tr. Padma Viswanathan) 📖 Shirley Jackson, The Haunting of Hill House 📖 Marcel Proust, Albertine disparue (EN: The Fugitive) 📖 Lucía Lijtmaer, Cautery (tr. Maureen Shaughnessy) 📖 Rachel Ingalls, Mrs Caliban 📖 Jonathan Buckley, One Boat 📖 Daniela Catrileo, Chilco (tr. Jacob Edelstein) 📖 Tezer Özlü, Journey to the Edge of Life (tr. Maureen Freely) 📖 Antônio Xerxenesky, An Infinite Sadness (tr. Daniel Hahn) 📖 Marcel Proust, Le Temps retrouvé (EN: Time Regained) 📖 Renato Cisneros, The World We Saw Burning (tr. Fionn Petch)
The books I read in October, November and December (not pictured: 📱 @ivygrimes.bsky.social - The Ghosts of Blaubart Mansion, 🎧 Neville Jason - The Life and Work of Marcel Proust, 🎧 Alain de Botton - How Proust Can Change Your Life) 📚 #booksky
Oh you are right! Lucky cos my library doesnt have it, this is queued for the weekend!! And a very happy new year to you too, may it bring loads of skipping and pirouetting on london bridges 💃 ;)xx
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A lovely book list full of ideas to start 2026 in the best way possible 💫.
#booksky
First time reading these two writers, already obsessed!!
11 books on a rug: Jakuta Alikavazovic, comme un ciel en nous, marlen haushofer, the wall, omar el akkad, one day everyone will have always been against this, nan shepherd, the living mountain, alba de cespedes, de forbidden notebook, Sabahattin Ali, madonna in a fur coat, elizabeth taylor, angel, james baldwin, giovanni’s room, shirley jackson, the haunting of hill house, rachel ingalls, mrs caliban, Tezer Özlü, Journey to the edge of life
Top 12 books I read in 2025 📚 🫠💕 (not pictured: Tove Ditlevsen, The Trouble with Happiness, tr. Michael Favala Goldman) #booksky
Read this book for this year's #SpinsterSeptember and loved it (thanks for the recommendation @pear-jelly.bsky.social )
☹️ i think i missed it, cant see it on the app. Thank you for thinking of me 💕 it looks fantastic, will have a look if my library has it
I thought it looked familiar!
Barbara Comyns and her daughter, Caroline, circa 1937
Barbara Comyns later in life
#NYRBWomen25 I finished THE JUNIPER TREE this morning, Barbara Comyns’s final novel published when she was 77yo. It’s everything I love about her writing. Here are a few rabbit holes I went down while reading this enchanting retelling.
Uh oh - ok off to read those thoughts…
I’d say it’d be worth your time pushing through, been thinking a lot about those 2 unpredictable ladies since finishing it
I really like that Mavor had the balls to write this book, it’s so unexpected but i seem to remember you described the writing as ‘precious’, i agree with you, the writing was too stuffy for my taste and probably loads flew over my head but i’m glad for the experience reading it!
Thank you so much for your kind words and your contributions! So glad the month ended on a high note for you!