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5 Reviews You Need to Read This Week Our feast of fabulous reviews this week includes Dan Pipenbring on Cory Doctorow’s Enshittification, Alexandra Kleeman on Katherine Dunn’s Near Flesh, Becca Rothfeld on Steven Pinker’s When Everyone…

“A masterly polemic, its scope so sweeping that it does, finally, seem to explain every pungent odor wafting from Silicon Valley.” 5 book reviews you need to read this week.
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László Krasznahorkai has won the 2025 Nobel Prize in Literature. Today, the Swedish Academy awarded the 2025 Nobel Prize in Literature to Hungarian author László Krasznahorkai, for “for his compelling and visionary oeuvre that, in the midst of apocalyptic terror…

László Krasznahorkai has won the Nobel Prize for Literature.

The Best Reviewed Books of the Week Featuring Thomas Pynchon, Gertrude Stein, John Banville, and more

Thomas Pynchon’s Shadow Ticket, Francesca Wade’s Gertrude Stein: An Afterlife, and John Banville’s Venetian Vespers all feature among the best reviewed books of the week.

My review of Alien Jeopardy by @january-bell.bsky.social!

A fantastic, laugh-out-loud, wildly entertaining read!

#booksky #romancereader #bookreview #alienromance #scifiromance #MatedandAfraid

Fiona Green’s life was shaped by an unimaginable tragedy. Thirty years later, she's returning to the scene of the crime.

Keep This for Me by Jennifer Fawcett #crimefiction #psychologicalthriller #serial killer

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Heroic Fantasy ARCs You'll Love

Here are some heroic fantasy arcs you'll love. Get them now!
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YouTube video by Fictional Fracas Book Review: Children of Dune by Frank Herbert

Book Review: Children of Dune by Frank Herbert

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The Fahrenheit Thermometer in Gdańsk, in honour of the scale’s inventor, features two important design choices:

- What did Daniel Fahrenheit look like? We don’t know but we’re guessing “ripped”

- look we have to put Celsius on the scale as well or people won’t understand it otherwise

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🧞♀️Genie with an Attitude
Modern day wishes
Action, Adventure, Romance…

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Debris by Daniel Huws: Carcanet Online Book Launch - Carcanet Press Please join us to celebrate the launch of Debris by Daniel Huws. The reading will be hosted by poet, critic and translator Hilary Davies. The event will

Join us online to launch 'Debris' by Daniel Huws on Wednesday 22 October at 7pm BST! 💻📖

The event will be hosted by Hilary Davies and feature reading and discussion, alongside time for audience questions.

More information and tickets here:🎟️
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David Todd · Parable of the Parakeets: Mélenchon’s Ambitions Jean-Luc Mélenchon’s rise to prominence since 2015 has often been compared to the contemporaneous if more ephemeral...

‘Jean-Luc Mélenchon’s prose is stirring if not always convincing. It gives the reader more to think about than the bland defence of neoliberal technocracy by centrist supporters of Macron.’

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A hardback photo of Poyums Annaw by Len Pennie sitting against a yellow background

We're delighted to share the news that @lenniesaurus.bsky.social's second collection poyums annaw is an instant Sunday Times bestseller. Huge congratulations Len! Have you read it yet?

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This Podcast Will Change Your Life, Episode Three Hundred and Sixty-Six - (Still) Always Hustling, starring the Lee Matthew Goldberg. This episode of This Podcast Will Change Your Life stars Lee Matthew Goldberg (Miles in Time, The Great Gimmelmans, The Ancestor & many others). It was recorded over the Zoom betwe

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Four Questions for Kalynn Bayron Horror writer Kalynn Bayron, the bestselling author of 'Cinderella Is Dead,' riffs on Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein in her YA novel 'Make Me a Monster.'

Horror writer Kalynn Bayron riffs on Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein in her YA novel Make Me a Monster. Bayron spoke about challenging herself through her writing, and approaching horror as a reflection of society.

The Keeper of Memories: A Debut Novel on Shared Stories and Resistance - PEN America Yiming Ma discusses writing as resistance, the power of stories and memories, and the ambiguity of censorship

The Keeper of Memories: A Debut Novel on Shared Stories and Resistance

From the Clever Librarians Files.

One island. Two rival triads. Three meddling gods. Fate & her atrocities (NA, Romantasy, 95k) The war may be ending, but the storms are shifting more than the tides. A mind-reading spy will do anything to prove her worth—even kill the one man whose gaze doesn’t reveal his thoughts. She might be immune to his thought-sowing ability, but not to him. And the more she tries to get rid of him, the deeper he roots himself in her head. Poster includes: two snakes interlocked eating their own tails in a color blocking background.

She reads minds. He plants thoughts.

Cursed by fate, one locked gaze is all it takes—unless it’s each other. It should make killing the other and serving their triad easy. But nothing’s easy on storm-wracked Ravamyn: not the gods, nor the storms, and never the people.

#Posterpit #Q #F #NA

Patricia Lockwood · Diary: Back to the Rectory It was our first visit to Kansas City since before the election and the rectory seemed to have grown smaller, darker,...

‘You can put things in an essay that you yourself do not know. There is a library all around you. You take a book off the shelf, find the fact or the sentence and put it where it fits. It never belonged to you, you never really had it.’

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The Second Chance Cinema by Thea Weiss An engaged couple takes stock of their lives with the help of a magical film in the first-rate debut from Weiss. Author Ellie Ma...

An engaged couple takes stock of their lives with the help of a magical film in the first-rate debut from Thea Weiss. She supplements the accomplished plotting with realistic character work, focusing on how the couple is impacted by the film’s revelations.

Fresh Perspectives, Developmentally Pitch-Perfect | Board Books Roundup From silly snouts to social-emotional smarts, this season’s board books are big on charm, heart, and purpose. Along with ABCs and animal antics, these titles foster empathy, celebrate identity, and re...

From @flowerpotpress.bsky.social 7 BEST THINGS ABOUT FRIENDS is a “bright and friendly choice for libraries building social-emotional learning shelves for little ones” says @slj.com in a roundup of #boardbooks www.slj.com/story/review...

The Impossible Fortune

I found an some extra signed copies of The Impossible Fortune by @richardosman1.bsky.social just casually hanging out in my inbox.

They're on the website now, and you can pre-order here: bertsbooks.co.uk/product/the-...

Jacket of book titled Progress

Samuel & Heather at the book launch

I’ve been intrigued by the prospect of a history of the idea of progress ever since I heard @smillermcdonald.bsky.social was writing it, and I was very pleased to be invited to the launch in Oxford last night.

BLOG TOUR COMING IN SEPTEMBER! For the mighty and wonderful THE GREEN FEATHERS - what a line up we have! @davidjarvis.bsky.social #newrelease #blogtour #review

Our readers have spoken. These are the 10 most-viewed books on the site, spanning thrillers, romances, dystopias, and more. If you’re searching for your next great read, start here.
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Patricia Lockwood · Diary: Back to the Rectory It was our first visit to Kansas City since before the election and the rectory seemed to have grown smaller, darker,...

‘I had felt what was going to happen in October 2024, coming down through Connemara, driving through one rainbow after another, drinking hot water and honey for a smoky throat. A swell of dread.’

@tricialockwood.bsky.social goes back to Kansas City: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Documenting My Life So I Don't Forget - Electric Literature If memories warp each time we recall them, is nothing I remember accurate?

"I wonder how many such things I’ve forgotten, mixed up. How much will I never remember again?"

Saachi Gupta explores the fleetingness of memory and the pricelessness of trying to document it.

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Book cover. Chaos Theory by Sylvia Leatham. Coming 5 September 2025.

So happy to be finally able to share the cover - and title - of my debut novel!

‘Chaos Theory’ is a romantic comedy set in the world of Irish tourism, following the story of Maeve McGettigan as she navigates the chaos of love, work and robots!

Will be published by Storm on 5th September.

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Long Beach will open up its e-book library so teens from other states can read banned books It's part of a nationwide push to let young people access reading material that may have been thrown out of their local libraries and schools.

We love to see this: The Long Beach Public Library is offering digital library cards so readers can access banned books to help offset censorship!

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