Mainly books but also travel and art, viewing rather than creating
I blog at http://alifeinbooks.co.uk and live in beautiful Bath, UK.
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Carney: The new world order will be built from Europe. Canada is the most European of non-European countries, and we are transforming our cooperation with the EU ... In a more dangerous and divided world, Canada has chosen to build and work in partnership with Europe.
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For the weekend - Goodbye Chinatown by Kit Fan: Identity, belonging and food alifeinbooks.co.uk/2026/06/good... #BookSky
For the weekend - Goodbye Chinatown by Kit Fan: Identity, belonging and food alifeinbooks.co.uk/2026/06/good... #BookSky
Closing soon: We are looking for a Marketing Manager to work on campaigns across our list. We’re looking for a creative and capable marketer who is excited by the idea of working on a diverse list of literary and commercial publishing.
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The 10 hours of erecting scaffolding wasn’t to strip the letters (something that 30 minutes in a boom lift could accomplish), it was to conceal the view with a curtain because Trump couldn’t handle the optics of the letters of his name being plucked off the building.
Goodbye Chinatown by Kit Fan: Identity, belonging and food via @alifeinbooks.bsky.social alifeinbooks.co.uk/2026/06/good... #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
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Book reviews, snippets of book news, and alerts about books outside the glare of the publicity spotlight.
Every day of our holiday so far, rain has been promised. And it hasn’t rained. Until today. Suddenly, from mid-morning, it deluged. And how. We abandoned our plans, in favour of a tour of Got…
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 …
Six on Saturday is a weekly meme originally hosted by The Propagator but now in the tender care of Jim at Garden Ruminations. I should think we’re all pretty bored by now of talking about the…