Keith Roberts

Edward Stanford Travel Writing Awards

If you love Travel Writing as much as me, what better way to shout about it than entering your favourite books for the @stanfordstravel.bsky.social Travel Writing Awards 2026 🙌📢📚

Submissions are … OPEN !!

Follow the link and get your books in !! Closes 24 Nov 📖

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Meanwhile, deep in the heart of the Northumbria, it's Mari Hannah's fast-paced police procedural, The Insider. Pages turning; quickly...

Next up, bar set high for this one

Caro Giles, Twelve Moons

Hildur and Jakob are back!

Just finished this one. Another gem from Tesson. He's quite a character.

Our fabulous @liljawriter.bsky.social and Antti Tuomainen are coming to Aye Write on Sunday 9th November – 12.45pm – chatting to Neil McKay!

They'll be discussing their new books #BlackAsDeath & #TheWinterJob

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Next up, really looking forward to this one

Where Ravens Roost - Karin Nordin. Slow burn. Building and building, and...

Medusa; Torkil Damhaug. New author for me - think I'll be in for more.

Really looking forward to this one

Client journalists- been that way for decades now. So few able to speak independently. Should wear their sponsor's jackets and ties these days.

Skiffs and Ketches, Drakes and Chichesters. Families. On a voyage of discovery Linda Cracknell replaces her walking rhythms with tidal. And she finds herself. And her forebears. She gives us a treasure chest, leaving us longing for more from whatever flotsam and jetsam may follow. #booksky

For a second week one man popped up in the pages of a book. Firstly, in Kirsten MacQuarrie's Remember the Rowan, when he met Kathleen Raine later in life. And now he's popped up in Olivier Norken's The Winter Warriors, as part of the 1940 French Govt. Step fwd Alexis Leger/Saint-John Perse. #Booksky

Approaching the half way stage, and wondering if the film rights have been snapped up...

The other Mutiny on the Bounty. John Boyne in cracking form.

Escaping the urge to delve deeper into Maxwell and Camusfearna, after Kirsten MacQuarrie's engrossing telling of Kathleen Raine's story, so it's light relief with Mari Jungstedt's The Dead of Summer. Pages turning.

Coming down gently from Kirsten MacQuarrie's wonderful Remember the Rowan. More Raine later, but for now it's Mari Jungstedt and The Dead of Summer.

The Missing Link When I read A Reed Shaken by the Wind for the first time, more than 25 years ago, I knew little of Gavin Maxwell , other than otters and a...

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One of my Reads of the Year. More Raine coming.

And finished Rowan earlier today. A huge addition to the Maxwell collection. So beautifully crafted. Some Raine poetry coming soon.

Next up, a bit more @johnboynewriter.bsky.social with The Boy at the Top of the Mountain. Big thanks to the good folks at the Polari Prize. Again.

On Reading It is something I do, reading.  Have done for as long as I can remember.  Those early days when Kandy Meets the Bunny Babes was the tale o...

Books, and reading, and a little bit more. Might spark a nod of the head or two #Booksky

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Final chapters. Of the whole series. All those years, the twists and the turns. Those characters the rest of world has been finding on Netflix. There will be tears...

watching cranes?

and meantime just finished this beautifully crafted tale, from a story teller of the highest order.

Another week deep in the dark days of March 1917

The final instalment. The Final Solution. I may be some time.

Yellowhammer?