7 must-visit independent bookshops in UK, according to Penguin authors
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I Used to Be Mad At My School* margot-kin-berg.com/2026/06/13/i...
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The Cauliflower® by Nicola Barker, #20BOS26, No 3 annabookbel.net/the-cauliflo...
Tono-Bungay (1908-9), by H.G. Wells anzlitlovers.com/2026/06/14/t...
Third Crime is the Charm #21 - classic crime and Greece bookaroundthecorner.com/2026/06/14/t...
New on the blog today, I've written about ANSWER IN THE NEGATIVE by Henrietta Hamilton.
A very enjoyable vintage mystery set in the world of the National Press Archives on London’s Fleet Street. Ideal fans of Agatha Christie's Tommy & Tuppence novels! 💙📚
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An Intellectual Monster... Why Muriel Spark Never Remarried
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Sunday Shelfie with Rachel Mills
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First published in 1959 and recently reissued as part of Penguin’s Mermaid Collection, which focuses on unjustly neglected novels from the mid-to-late 20th century, Answer in the Negative is an enj…
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Sharing some reactions to "Ulysses" for #bloomsday! kaggsysbookishramblings.wordpress.com/2026/06/16/s...
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Ruth Jones, William Rayfet Hunter, J M Dalgliesh, Virginia Evans and more share their favourite independent bookshops in the UK.
Most of us went to what most people think of as a ‘regular’ school. Whether public or private, there were classrooms, teachers, and courses like history and language arts. The fact is, though, that…
As previously stated, one of the aims in my 20 Books of Summer this year was to incorporate a few books by Nicola Barker, a contemporary UK author I very much enjoy into my reading. So much so, I&#…
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High in the Tuscan hills, a light grilling is underway. “Sexually, probably, I could be faithful,” seventy-two-year-old Spark is in the middle of explaining, “though that’s not th…
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My parents always gave us books at Christmas and I was in my teens when my father gave me a set of four books comprising Palgrave’s Golden Treasury, and three books by H G Wells: his first no…
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…
Today is a first for Sunday Shelfie, we have had many friends of White Ink sharing their bookshelves with us, and I do love to support debut authors, but this week we have two rolled into one.
June is a month where two significant works of literature are celebrated, and I’ve already taken part in one of these events with my last post on the genesis of Virginia Woolf’s “…
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These Names Make Clues by E.C.R. Lorac (1937) – Not available in French The Murder of Roger Ackroyd by Agatha Christie (1926) French title: Le meurtre de Roger Ackroyd. Offshore by Petros Markaris …
