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✨ Coming Spring 2026 ✨
Marilyn Monroe: a perceptive and compelling study by award-winning biographer and theatre critic Sheridan Morley and Ruth Leon, returns to print with Dean Street Press. A fascinating portrait of the star who defined an era. #marilynmonroe #comingsoon

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Fin talks to the son of David Tomlinson who played the father, Mr Banks in Mary Poppins ...
The link to Woodbridge is a great story, so join Fin Brown at 8 this evening. It promises to be supercalifragilisticexpialidocious
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The choice of books in Felix Vallotton’s 'The Bookcase,' (1915) play nicely into the picture's palette: the shelves are filled with the yellow spines of the Bibliothèque Charpentier collection, in a nod to the (then) supposed female preference for thrilling novels.

The Sleeping Cat by Lucien Freud

“Cats are put on earth to remind us that not everything has a purpose.” Oscar Wilde

Before Lunch by Angela Thirkell (and hats again) Before Lunch by Angela Thirkell published 1939   This was, I believe the last of Thirkell’s books to appear before WW2 broke out: she ...

Comfort read: Angela Thirkell's social comedies always entertain, and we get hats again. Before Lunch (she was running out of nice lightweight titles) clothesinbooks.blogspot.com/2025/10/befo...

Shedunnit, and Trent’s Last Case Trent’s Last Case by EC Bentley published 1913   Caroline Crampton’s Shedunnit podcast is a great favourite round here, and when she ...

Why did I reread Trent's Last Case by EC Bentley? Because Shedunnit were doing an episode with spoiler zones, so I wanted to make the most of it. The mystique surrounding this 1913 book, and its lasting influence, are fascinating.... clothesinbooks.blogspot.com/2025/10/shed...

Eight colourful covers of Sir Basil Thomson's golden age murder mysteries. New editions available at Dean Street Press.

"The stranger-than-fiction life of Sir Basil Home Thomson (1861-1938) was packed so full of incident that one can understand why his work as a crime novelist has been rather overlooked." Sir Basil Thomson's Richarson Series by Martin Edwards
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How Lethal is Your Library? Find out with Agatha Christie! It’s actually harder to come across a body in the library than you might expect. Agatha Christie described this trope as one of the ‘cliches’ of ‘the detective story’. Over the course of her career…

How Lethal is your Library?
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Print of girl's face looking pensive as she clutches an envelope. There is a port with boats and a church behind her.

This week's free Kindle
A House on the Rhine by Frances Faviell #freetillfriday
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#furrowedmiddlebrow #booksky

Dame Jilly Cooper dies aged 88

Dame Jilly Cooper has died at the age of 88, her agent Curtis Brown has announced.

Vintage style cover art for the Sussex Cuckoo by Brian Flynn with a red and yellow lino cut image of a bird and a torn letter.

Vintage style cover of Murder on Paradise Island by Robin Forsythe with a black and white tropical island and sinister octopus beneath.

Vintage style cover of The Orange Axe with a couple dancing in 1930's fancy dress.

No city names here - our #MurderEveryMonday titles keep it regional, rural, or national. #crimefiction #coverart #Booksky
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Thank you! 🥰🥰🥰

Cover for "Death in a Shetland Lane" by Marsali Taylor, showing an image of a narrow lane between pasture grounds on an island

Cover for "Death in a Strange Country" by Donna Leon, showing a image of Venice

Cover of the Dean Street Press edition of "The Sussex Cuckoo" by Brian Flynn. The central image shows a bird in flight holding a piece of paper with writing on it

No city names in the TITLES of any of my #MurderEveryMonday entries this week, instead a country, a county and a 'region'. One from a specific house, of course. The publishing house of @deanstpress.bsky.social #Mystery #Booksky
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Ironing Nylon & a Hatshop: The Blue Sapphire by DE Stevenson The Blue Sapphire by DE Stevenson published 1963       [ excerpt ] ‘Miss Julia,’ [the housekeeper] said. ‘Are you sure you’d not lik...

What is it about DE Stevenson? Massive bestselling author of the mid 20th Cent, strange structures, page-turners, and excellent details of life - from ironing nylong to hatshops. This one is The Blue Sapphire, early 1960s. clothesinbooks.blogspot.com/2025/10/iron...

Thanks! 😊

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Oscar Wilde by award-winning biographer and theatre critic, Sheridan Morley to be republished by Dean Street Press, Spring 2026 #OscarWilde #biography #comingsoon

I like it!

Agreed. ‘Cosy’ doesn’t mean bloodless. It’s more about tone: small-scale settings, amateur sleuths, and violence kept (mostly) offstage. Murder still very much allowed! What alliterative term would you use instead?

YouTube video by Real Vintage Dolls House How Cosy Murder Mysteries Fight Ageism and Being Underestimated 🔍

How Cosy Murder Mysteries Fight Ageism and Being Underestimated
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A Brief History of Modern Art in Poetry 1. Impressionism Roses sway in softened reds, Violets swim in murky blues, Sugar sparkles in the light, Blurring into golden you. 2. Surrealism Roses are melting, Violets are too. Ceci n’est pas le sucre. Keith is a giant crab 3. Social Realism Roses are dead, Violence is rife. Don’t sugar coat This bitter life. 4. Abstract Expressionism Are and. Violets roses so. You sweet blue. Are are red is sugar 5. Pop Art Roses go BLAM! Violets go POW! Sugar is COOL! You are so WOW! 6. Conceptual Art Roses are red, Coated in blood: A deer’s severed head Drips from above

Here’s another poem for National Poetry Day. This one is called ‘A Brief History of Modern Art in Poetry’.

Black and White photo of Dr Jane Goodall, aged 91, with her face resting on her hand.

Who didn’t love Dr Jane Goodall? Nothing to do with this group, but we join the world in mourning the passing of this remarkable woman. #RIP 💔
(Photo from the Jane Goodall Institute UK)

Thank you so much! 🙏🥰

The Case Of The Sapphire Brooch A review of The Case of the Sapphire Brooch by Christopher Bush – 250811 With The Case of the Sapphire Brooch, the fifty-fourth in Bush’s long-running Ludovic Travers series, reissued by Dean Stree…

My thoughts on The Case of the Sapphire Brooch, reissued by @deanstpress.bsky.social #CrimeFiction #BookReview #booksky
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'Street and Railway Bridge.' (1946)
John Minton’s paintings of London during and shortly after the Second World War often include displaced people and the bombed out shells of buildings. A pile of rubble fills the foreground of this picture of a deserted London street.

There appears to be a growing collection of DSP books on your middle shelf! 😍😍😍

Three shelves of books with one double-stacked.

State of the TBR October 2025 - not too bad, actually ... librofulltime.wordpress.com/2025/10/01/s... #booksky 📚💙💡

the next five novels in Sara Woods’ classic Antony Maitland mystery series, returning to print this December from Dean Street Press!

✨We’re delighted to announce the next five novels in Sara Woods’ classic Antony Maitland mystery series, returning to print this December from Dean Street Press!✨
Sharply plotted, endlessly readable, and perfect for fans of Golden Age-style crime.
#christmascrimefiction #booksky