Frances Hamilton

This is on my list. How is it on audio?

It was gorgeous, Felicity. I rarely miss Sunday Miscellany 😊

I think I remember it being on your list of favourite books. Happy New Year, Peter xx

Revisiting a much loved novel on audible. Can think of worse ways to ring in the New Year.
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Susannah Clarke’s Piranesi

What an enchanting way to finish the year’s reading. I think I will always love this book. #books
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Bereft to have finished Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell on audio. Everything one could wish for to turn dark winter drives into gothic deliciousness. One of my favourite books this year. Saving Piranesi for Christmas: will fit Banville’s Venetian Vespers in between.

Best of luck Peter! Xx

Content to sleep on arm if lap is not on offer 😂

Patrick Kavanagh - well loved poet and writer died #OTD 30 November 1967
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Couldn’t cope with the lack of punctuation really! So I put it on audio and finished it that way. Just not my kind of dystopia, for whatever reason. Maybe because I’m Irish 😂

Interested to hear what you think of this one. I wasn’t crazy about it.

Yes, it does feel like a winter book. Hope you’re doing ok under that heated blanket 😊 xx

It’s one I’ve been meaning to read for a long time, Peter. Hoping the audio version does it justice, but Richard Armitage always does a great job narrating.

Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell, Susanna Clarke

In the search for a long and atmospheric audiobook I came upon this. I’m a bit excited for it.
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Well if anybody deserves a heated throw/ blanket at the moment, it’s you Peter. Do you have a suitably cosy murder mystery to read under it? 😊

Waking up to Gordon Lightfoot on a dark November morning. Nice. #risingtime #speirgorm

Can’t resist the return of Jimmy Perez. If Cleeves applies the same evocation of place for Orkney as she did for Shetland, I’ll be a happy reader 😊
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I remember reading Atonement years ago, but don’t think I’ve read any others. You’d like this one, I think.

Ian McEwan’s What We Can Know

An academic from a climate-ravaged 2119 searches for poet Francis Blundy’s lost masterpiece, trawling through century-old emails and social media. What’s not to love?
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Kate Atkinson’s Human Croquet

Well, this was mental. Mental in a good way… sensuous and dark and thrilling, and possibly my favourite of all the Kate Atkinson novels I’ve been devouring over the last couple of months.
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Certainly seems like they’re taking you in hand a bit 😊

All’s well here Peter. Finished my masters and back to reading whatever the hell I want to read. Sounds like you’ll be a new man by 2026 😊

Mick Herron’s Joe Country

Wouldn’t usually watch the tv series before reading the books and worry that the books won’t live up to the series, but I think it’s time to risk it.
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Glad to hear the recovery is progressing well, Peter 😊

Kate Atkinson’s A God in Ruins

I’m going to miss the Todds, in all their iterations.
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One more sleep…
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I have yet to come across a dud 😊

Think I’ll dive straight into A God in Ruins.

Kate Atkinson, Life After Life

Everything hangs by a thread. I loved this novel. Off now to ponder my life choices 😉
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Can’t tell a lie, I too was drawn in by the cover art 😊