Shawn Breathes Books

5 of 5 stars to The Slaves of Solitude by Patrick Hamilton
www.goodreads.com/book/show/17...

3.5 of 5 stars to The Catholic by David Plante
www.goodreads.com/book/show/64...

[Image Description: a graphic featuring a photo of Shawn, and the words Friday Reads: A satisfyingly triggering novel - and another that made me want to get my hair done]

Friday Reads: A satisfyingly triggering novel - and another that made me want to get my hair done

youtu.be/qEbKFzcPS7w.

YouTube video by Shawn Breathes Books A conversation with queer Scottish novelist Allan Radcliffe on his new novel, Blurred Faces

I had a great time chatting to the inimitable @shawnthebookmaniac.bsky.social about my novel Blurred Faces. Head over to his YouTube channel for a look, and find a trove of literary conversations and recommendations! www.youtube.com/watch?v=P9zQ... 😍 📚

[Image Description: a graphic featuring a photo of Allan Radcliffe, the cover of his novel Blurred Faces, and the words A conversation with queer Scottish novelist Allan Radcliffe on his new novel, Blurred Faces]

A conversation with queer Scottish novelist Allan Radcliffe on his new novel, Blurred Faces

youtu.be/P9zQRcGy5bY

5 of 5 stars to Blurred Faces by Allan Radcliffe
www.goodreads.com/book/show/23...

Just three weeks to the release of Sarah Campion's Makeshift, the next title in @bhousepress.bsky.social's Recovered Books series. Makeshift follows Charlotte Herz, a young Jewish woman from Berlin in 1919 to New Zealand in 1937, via England, South Africa, and Australia.
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[Image Description: a graphic featuring a photo of Shawn, and the words Friday Reads: Hanging out on the edges we've been shoved to, reading, and talking to each other]

Friday Reads: Hanging out on the edges we've been shoved to, reading, and talking to each other

youtu.be/bOG95rQ_dh4

[Image Description: a graphic featuring a photo of Douglas Bruton, an image of the cover of his novel Hope Never Knew Horizon, and the words Here's hoping: A chat with Douglas Bruton about his novel Hope Never Knew Horizon]

Here's hoping: A chat with Douglas Bruton about his novel Hope Never Knew Horizon

With Lindy of Lindy's Magpie Reads

youtu.be/sAIQmTfuEAg

Marked as did-not-finish: Jollof Rice and Other Revolutions: A Novel in Interlocking Stories
by Omolola Ijeoma Ogunyemi www.goodreads.com/review/show/...

5 of 5 stars to Set My Hand Upon the Plough by E. M. Barraud
www.goodreads.com/book/show/51...

5 of 5 stars to Gaza Weddings: A Novel by Ibrahim Nasrallah, Nancy Roberts (Translation)
www.goodreads.com/book/show/34...

4.5 of 5 stars to Full House M.J. Farrell (Molly Keane)
www.goodreads.com/book/show/15...

YouTube video by Shawn Breathes Books Friday Reads: Let us now praise omnivorous reading

A big thank you to @shawnthebookmaniac.bsky.social for featuring Nadia Ragbar (The Pugilist and the Sailor) as their Mystery Guest!

www.youtube.com/watch?v=HIsK...

[Image Description: a graphic featuring a photo of Shawn, and the words Friday Reads: Up to my ears in books]

Friday Reads: Up to my ears in books

youtu.be/nr4hicApH_I

Marked as did-not-finish: Heart Lamp: Selected Stories by Banu Mushtaq, Deepa Bhasthi (Translator)
www.goodreads.com/book/show/23...

Friday Reads: Let us now praise omnivorous reading

youtu.be/HIsKZQ7lvj0?...

#ShortySeptember

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Ibrahim Nasrallah Wins the 2026 Neustadt Prize

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4 of 5 stars to About Uncle by Rebecca Gisler, Jordan Stump (Translator)
www.goodreads.com/book/show/14...

5 of 5 stars to Though the Bodies Fall by Noel O'Regan
www.goodreads.com/book/show/12...

[Image Description: a graphic featuring a photo of calamari à l'armoricaine and the words Uncle also claims to be the custodian of the time-honored recipe for calamari à l'armoricaine, a recipe that consists of frozen squid rings vaguely cooked in half a gallon of cheap red wine seasoned only with a pinch of pepper, a dish, I should add, reserved for special occasions, for honored guests, for first-time visitors, because Uncle likes to give all newcomers a lavish welcome, at least those who are too polite to refuse what they're so beamingly being offered, and when we suggest to Uncle that he add some garlic, and go a little lighter on the red wine, and have a look at the sell-by date on the squid, and also take a shower, just a little more often, a real shower, not just a swipe with a wet washcloth, no, a real cleaning from top to bottom, Uncle says simply no, he doesn't want to, he's sticking to his father's recipe.]

#SundaySentence from About Uncle by Rebecca Gisler, Jordan Stump (Translator)

[Image Description: a graphic featuring a photo of Shawn, and the words Friday Reads: Men and their unmoorings]

Friday Reads: Men and their unmoorings

www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZDWZ...

[Image Description: a graphic featuring a photo of Virginia Evans, the cover of her novel The Correspondent, and the words Writing the self home: A chat with Virginia Evans about her stirring novel, The Correspondent]

Writing the self home: A chat with Virginia Evans about her stirring novel, The Correspondent

Spoiler-free

youtu.be/0mmCsJzCdnA?...

3 of 5 stars to Old Rendering Plant by Wolfgang Hilbig,
Isabel Fargo Cole (Translation)
www.goodreads.com/book/show/34...

[Image Description: a graphic featuring a photo of Shawn, James, Dorian, and Shawn and the words Chris, Dorian, James, and Shawn chat about Edith Wharton’s Old New York]

Chris, Dorian, James, and Shawn chat about Edith Wharton’s Old New York

youtu.be/F9_GzrqKVYQ

#edithwharton

5 of 5 stars to We Are All of Us Left Behind by Bradley Somer
www.goodreads.com/book/show/22...

Or run screaming....lol

[Image Description: a graphic featuring a photo of Shawn, and the words Friday Reads: Eastern European-ish, transnational, and oh-so-queer]

Friday Reads: Eastern European-ish, transnational, and oh-so-queer

youtu.be/YNwP77fTZFk?...

5 of 5 stars to Cool Water by Dianne Warren
www.goodreads.com/book/show/78...

Marked as did-not-finish: Dominion by Addie E. Citchens
www.goodreads.com/review/show/...