Stephen Baird

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Polishing off Jesus Christ Kinski by Benjamin Myers, having mightily enjoyed.

I am enjoying _ The Thursday Murder Club_ by Richard Osman. It is witty and surprising.

The Brass Verdict by Michael Connelly

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It's Monday again and today I'm reading "Monk and Robot" by Becky Chambers

What book(s) are you reading this week?

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Skeletons in the Closet The December 2023 selection of the NYRB Classics Book Club Private eye Eugéne Tarpon is back to sleeping in his office, waiting for a paying job to turn up. Then he gets a call from a sometime contact...

Skeletons in the Closet by Jean-Patrick Manchette

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Book cover for "Discretion" by Faïza Guène (2020)

Book cover for "Fela: Music Is The Weapon" by Jibola Fagbamiye and Conor McCreery (2025)

Discretion by Faïza Guène (2020)
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Fela: Music Is The Weapon by Jibola Fagbamiye & Conor McCreery (2025)
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I've just finished The Christmas Clue by Nicola Upson and started rereading You Are Here by David Nicholls.

I’m about halfway through Mark Haddon’s latest, Leaving Home. I just finished Sarah Perry’s beautiful Death of an Ordinary Man. The memoirs describe complicated & familiar parent-child relationships & elder care situations, both (so far) are achingly honest & compassionate.

The cover for Feeding the Monster, why Horror has a hold on us. By Anna Bogutskaya. The cover is plain white with the text in black and red.

Aside from catching up on my comics I'm reading Feeding The Monster. Why horror has a hold on us. By Anna Bogutskaya.

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My first Agatha Christie read.

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I have one big ask for all American authors, publicists and publishers.

Either stop using your silly way of writing dates or at least publish all of your books on the 13th or later of each month so I don’t miss the publication week by months.

Ooo a good pick! I'm currently reading Graft by @monstersandmaidens.bsky.social

I really enjoyed Monk and Robot - I hope it feeds your soul. I'm currently reading Legends and Lattes by Travis Baldree.

Yeah I asked for a review copy as it tickled my curiosity but straight away I’m shook

Seemingly room temperature is 21 celcius

Not in our frugal Scot’s who lived in Yorkshire for 25 years house

Cover of the book “Butcher's Folly” (The Wrecking Squad Book 2) by Nick Snape

Happy Monday ☕️ I’ve just started reading - “Butcher's Folly” by Nick Snape. And it’s so good to be back, in this book nr 2.

Just a little ways into Suzanne Palmer's The Scavenger Door, the third book in her Finder series. Really fun SF adventure series.

Blue book on a wooden table - The Science of Baking by DK

@bookpost from DK today

Looking forward to getting into this tonight

A paperback copy of Blood Child by Octavia Butler. Sadly, her only short story collection.

Audiobook edition of Doctor Sleep By Stephen King.

The Cold House by A.G. Slatter.

Good morning! I’m halfway through Blood Child by Octavia Butler, and at the very end of my reread of Doctor Sleep on audio by Stephen King. About to start The Cold House by Angela Slatter as soon as I finish typing this! Happy Monday!

A hardback copy of ‘How to Fall in Love with the Future by Rob Hopkins’ by Rob Hopkins

How to Fall in Love with the Future by Rob Hopkins

Cover for book Great Eastern Hotel each word backgrounded by a different colour Pink, Olive and Blue The text is yellow

I finished King Sorrow and it is a hard act to follow, after starting two books I think I have settled on Great Eastern Hotel which seems substantial

A silhouette figure walking under archways - Title in orange “spies & other gods” - author “James Wolff”

Female figure hanging or climbing a rope up a cliff edge with a bird at the summit. “The Impossible Thing” by Belinda Bauer additional text “she’ll risk it all to steal”

'A funny, moving and beautifully written tale Guardian A summer's evening in 1926, and six-year-old Celie Shepherd is hungry, desperate and dangling from a cliff, as she stretches out to steal something impossible. The bold theft will change Celie's life, and the lives of many others. One hundred years later, a remote home is ransacked by masked men. The only thing taken: a dusty box containing that same impossible thing. What could be so unique - and so valuable -that it is stolen again and again... and again?

Finished “spies & other gods” last night. Good but not great, the office politics of spying was fun. A book subscription choice next (my first from @bertsbooks.bsky.social) - “The impossible thing” by Belinda Bauer. I know no more, so blurb on the back for reference - but looks interesting

Cover of book Dracula by Bram Stoker

In a bit of a gothic phase these days. About half through Dracula.

Neuromancer by William Gibson

Good morning & happy Monday! I'm bouncing between Caitlin Breeze's The Fox Hunt, Henry James's In the Cage, and AK Faulkner's Blind Man's Wolf, with the odd dip into Tender is the Night. I don't really know what I want right now so I'll see what sticks...

Covers for the books: Paul McAuley, Fairyland (SF, UK, 1995) Ben Kane, Rome (Historical fiction, UK, 2025) M.J. Robotham, Mrs Spy (Historical spy thriller, UK, 2025)

Good morning Stephen. I'm currently finishing Paul McAuley's excellent SF thriller Fairyland and Ben Kane's Rome. I've just started something I'm hoping will be a bit of relaxing escapism, Mrs Spy by M.J. Robotham.

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Now listening to book six in the After It Happened series.

Each book is only about 8 hours long so perfect for when you’re just pottering around or doing a short commute

Highly recommended if you like post apocalyptic shenanigans

American Ending, by Mary Kay Zuravleff

Reading The Last Sane Woman by Hannah Regel, endeared to me by the fact that the main character has graduated from North Staffordshire Polytechnic 😁 (class of 1985 myself)