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New on the blog today, I've written about some of my favourite COMING-OF-AGE NOVELS from the shelves.
Featuring books by Rumer Godden, Jean Rhys, L. P. Hartley and more! #BookSky 💙📚
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New on my blog - Goodbye Chinatown by Kit Fan: Identity, belonging and food alifeinbooks.co.uk/2026/06/good... #BookSky
This is a post I’ve been meaning to put together for a while, a celebration of some of my favourite novels in which the dark realities of the adult world begin to impinge on the innocence of childh…
No#3 of #20BooksOfWinter, The Birds Fall Down by Rebecca West: anzlitlovers.com/2026/06/12/t... Magnificent!
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I went to Canada and I bought some books
New on the blog today, I've written about THE PASSENGER by Ulrich Alexander Boschwitz (tr Philip Boehm).
A brilliant, gripping novel in which a Jewish man goes on the run to evade the Nazis following the Kristallnacht atrocities. So timely & chilling... 💙📚
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Some fun with early detective stories! #rivalsofsherlockholmes #PickUpAPageTurner kaggsysbookishramblings.wordpress.com/2026/06/08/s...
Gritty stories in a harsh landscape - over @ShinyNewBooks! kaggsysbookishramblings.wordpress.com/2026/06/11/g...
Book reviews, snippets of book news, and alerts about books outside the glare of the publicity spotlight.
Back-to-back haul posts! Though there was quite a gap between the book-buying excursions – and this one was all the way to Canada. I’ve just come back from a couple of weeks visiting Ca…
For a novel written in the immediate aftermath of Kristallnacht, a state-sponsored wave of violence, vandalism and imprisonment of Jews that took place in November 1938, The Passenger feels remarka…
Books CONTINUE to lead to other books!! My reading of Peter Ackroyd’s “London Under” was inspired by Nicholas Royle’s “Finders, Keepers”; and there’s a bit…
Following my two-week hiatus, I look at books recently read and reviewed, discover standout literary writing across the blogosphere, keep pace with a host of anniversaries (including the birthdays …
It’s no secret that I’m a huge fan of Virginia Woolf, and I’ve written before (more than once, no doubt!) about how “Mrs Dalloway” was a pivotal book in my life, as we…
I mentioned in my post on Denis Johnson’s “Train Dreams” that I had also read his collection, “Jesus’ Son” for Shiny New Books and that review is up today. This …
