Image shows the 122 Dean Street Press books the poster has read in left-to-right chronological reading order.

Image shows the 52 Dean Street Press books in his Calibre library the poster has yet to read

After #DeanStreetDecember 2025, an update on the state of my @deanstpress.bsky.social library. It's in 3 tags: dsp-read, dsptbr, and dsp-dnf. On the left, dsp-read. On the right, dsptbr (atm) I did not screenshot dsp-dnf, because there are only five. 😁
#Reading #Mystery #middlebrow #Booksky

Review by robinwalter - Mrs. Lorimer's Quiet Summer Having read and really enjoyed four of Molly Clavering’s books, I was intrigued by comments ab...

3.75/5 for "Mrs Lorimer's Quiet Summer" book 8/10 for my #DeanStreetDecember and another curate's egg of a book from one of the Borders duo @deanstpress.bsky.social has helped me read a score of
#Booksky #Reading #middlebrow
app.thestorygraph.com/reviews/9377...

a passage of text on a Kobo Sage e-reader, from "Four Gardens" by Margery Sharp. Text as follows: Within so complicated a system the inhabitants of Morton had naturally to tread with care; but so practiced were their steps, so keen their social noses, that no gaffe of any magnitude had occurred since 1879. In that disorderly year, indeed, there had been two: the seduction of a Major’s daughter by a chemist, and the engagement of a grocer’s daughter to a gentleman’s son.

Char Bagh Indian garden at Hamilton Public Gardens in Kirikiriroa, Aotearoa

VERY early into "Four Gardens" my 4th @deanstpress.bsky.social for #DeanStreetDecember this passage suggesting I'm REALLY going to like it. Me being me, the title of the book automatically made me think of the place on the right. 😀 #Reading #middlebrow #Booksky

Photo of a white hand holding the LP cover for Great Performances #6, which is Leonard Bernstein conducting NY phil in Beethoven Symphony No. 5 and Schubert’s 8th. This info is conveyed newspaper headline style, with a black and white photo of Bernstein.

Photo of the back cover of Great Performances #6 LP. Liner notes and program listing is complemented with short liner notes and images of Beethoven and Schubert.

Saturday listening. When I saw this in a thrift I immediately placed that my Dad had this in his collection when I was a kid.

I was wondering how the sound would be with all 45mins of the Fifth on one side, but it’s quite acceptable! And some notes taboot.

#vinyl #beethoven #middlebrow #thrifting

Cover of a book called British Women's Writing 1930 to 1960, edited by Sue Kennedy and Jane Thomas, featuring a 1940s portrait of a white woman with a fabulous hairdo, in a blue dress and scarf.

I know Sue Kennedy is on bsky somewhere, and hope she's still happy with such a stunning cover for a very good book. #middlebrow #women #scholarship 💙📚

Cover of the ebook of "Fanfare for Tin Trumpets" by Margery Sharp. Between title and author's name a scned depicting cats rummaging through rubbish tins in front of a row of terraced houses

stats @thestorygraph.com say I've read only 2 @deanstpress.bsky.social books this yr. Ouch! Nr 3 is showing why Margery Sharp may be my favourite DSP #middlebrow "he ... began seriously to examine the Laws governing Male Incidence at Female Tea-fights"😀 My DSP-TBR down to 44 now. FOR now😱 #booksky

40 books published by Dean Street Press in the user's "To Be Read" list The Case of the Amateur Actor Bush, Christopher The Case of the Prodigal Daughter Bush, Christopher The Case of the Extra Grave Bush, Christopher The Case of the Benevolent Bookie Bush, Christopher The Case of the Seven Bells Bush, Christopher The Case of the Purloined Picture Bush, Christopher The Case of the Treble Twist Bush, Christopher The Case of the Fourth Detective Bush, Christopher The Case of the Jumbo Sandwich Bush, Christopher Near Neighbours Clavering, Molly The Case of the Happy Warrior Bush, Christopher The Case of the Three Lost Letters Bush, Christopher There's a Reason for Everything Punshon, E. R. The Bath Mysteries Punshon, E. R. Mystery of Mr. Jessop Punshon, E. R. Death Comes to Cambers Punshon, E. R. Death of A Beauty Queen Punshon, E. R. The Dusky Hour Punshon, E. R. Dictator's Way Punshon, E. R. Danger Calling: A Benbow Smith Mystery Wentworth, Patricia Charters and Caldicott Bingham, Stella Flying Blind Campbell, Alice Apricot Sky Ferguson, Ruby Denis Compton Heald, Tim Fanfare for Tin Trumpets Sharp, Margery Four Strange Women Punshon, E. R. Mrs. Lorimer's Quiet Summer Clavering, Molly Murder at Monk's Barn Waye, Cecil The Bungalow Mystery: A Golden Age Mystery Haynes, Annie Arrest the Bishop?: A Golden Age Mystery Peck, Winifred Bleeding Hooks Rutland, Harriet Dead Man's Music Bush, Christopher Knock, Murderer, Knock! Rutland, Harriet Let Him Lie Jerrold, Ianthe The Crime at Tattenham Corner Haynes, Annie The League of Matthias Flynn, Brian The Man with The Dark Beard Haynes, Annie There May Be Danger Jerrold, Ianthe The Studio Crime Jerrold, Ianthe Missing or Murdered Forsythe, Robin

I ended up having absolutely no choice - I simply HAD TO buy one more book from @deanstpress.bsky.social to take my DSP TBR out to a nice, neat, even 40! #booksky #middlebrow #mystery #ebooks #Kobo

Pleased to have found The Middlebrow Network @middlebrownetwork.bsky.social on this here butterfly site -- which reminds me that I have a ton of manuscript images from my visit to Dorothy Whipple's archive that still need going through and transcribing.

#middlebrow #literaryarchives #whipple

Review by robinwalter - The Stone of Chastity In the opening paragraph of her introduction to the Dean Street Press edition of Marjorie Shar...

4.5/5 @thestorygraph.com for "The Stone of Chastity"

Laugh out loud #MiddleBrow fun from @deanstpress.bsky.social . Ms Sharp really, really was. #Humour #Reading

app.thestorygraph.com/reviews/cb56...

Kobo Sage ereader with the following text highlighted: She did not stop to enquire why her fiancé had not let her know of his return, it was enough that he was there, at hand, obviously willing and competent to take all responsibility from her shoulders. It was an attitude which Mr. Partridge highly approved: he liked women to be feminine, and it pleased him to discover that Miss Campion’s true character, now revealed, was that of a clinging vine.

Intent is everything: Reading "Harlequin House" for #DeanStreetDecember24 I came across the attached passage. I've read the very same sentiment expressed IN EARNEST, in other #middlebrow books and raged at it. Because I know Ms Sharp definitely did NOT mean it, I laughed at this

text from an ebook, as follows: The refining influence of natural beauty, particularly upon members of the Anglo-Saxon race, is a fact universally admitted, particularly by Anglo-Saxons.

The fact that I very literally laughed out loud at the opening SENTENCE of "Harlequin House", my 15th and final book for #DeanStreetDecember24 , fills me with hope & dread:

Hope that the book stays this funny, dread that it might not.
#middlebrow #humour

TFW you think "huh?!" then remember the author lived in the bottom Hemisphere, with wrong-way-round winds
"I was quite relieved when one night the wind swung round to the south and blew a milder blast, melting the snow"
#DeanStreetDecember #DearHugo #middlebrow

Image shows 83 ebook covers, all mystery novels published by Dean Street Press. In the centre of the image, books by three authors are underlined in green Alice Campbell Joan Cowdroy Moray Dalton

Many posts about @deanstpress.bsky.social great collection of #middlebrow books so here's 83 (iow, A FEW) of their #mystery books. This is my set, with some especially interesting female authors highlighted. And yes, I know I risk the wrath of @puzzledoctor.bsky.social for having so few Flynns😂

Yep, the stats @thestorygraph.com help in being able to see which genres and authors work for me, and which not so much. That #middlebrow is averaging over 4/5 for nearly 30 books shows it resonates well. Just a shame that Stevenson's Tall Stranger, a favourite, was one I couldn't buy from DSP

For me, enjoying #middlebrow and @deanstpress.bsky.social books goes hand in hand with the amazing stats available @thestorygraph.com - here are the stats for the books I've tagged there as middlebrow

middlebrow by robinwalter

Here's my full list of #middlebrow books started. A few were not available to me in @deanstpress.bsky.social editions, sadly. If you see any missing that have a strong romance focus, I'm all ears! 😀
app.thestorygraph.com/tags/9ef8f07...

Y'all head over to Blackburn Library on the 9th to learn about Dorothy Whipple from the fantastic Cynthia Johnston.

#whipple #blackburn #literature #women #middlebrow

www.lancashiretelegraph.co.uk/news/24681135.discussion...

Discussion of Blackburn's 'Jane Austen' coming to Blackburn Library An expert panel will be heading to Blackburn to discuss the works of the “Jane Austen of the 20th Century” – Dorothy Whipple.

Y'all head over to Blackburn Library on the 9th to learn about Dorothy Whipple from the fantastic Cynthia Johnston.

#whipple #blackburn #literature #women #middlebrow

www.lancashiretelegraph.co.uk/news/2468113...

Noah Nelson on Instagram: "They sat me by the smoker, and now it's open. Mmmmm. #nofilter #bbq #middlebrow" 1 likes, 0 comments - areyouthatguy on August 29, 2015: "They sat me by the smoker, and now it's open. Mmmmm. #nofilter #bbq #middlebrow".

They sat me by the smoker, and now it's open. Mmmmm. #nofilter #bbq #middlebrow @ Lucille's Smokehouse… http://instagram.com/p/cnCoHaEmXw/