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Lionel Grossman has translated her 1929 memoir about her break from her noble upbringing. It's available free in electronic format on Open Book Publishers. An abridged version was published in the UK as Red Countess and the US as Runaway Countess. (3/8)

Overdue for rediscovery: Hermynia zur Mühlen (1883-1951), Austrian countess, author of Marxist fairy tales, translator, and expat novelist. 🧵

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My review of #TheOutback by Sara Ochs is live on #damppebbles!

Definitely one of those 'just one more chapter' books. Tense, immersive and nigh-on impossible to put down.

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For those in the area, pack a bag - for everyone else, close your windows, turn on HEPA filters if you have them, and stay off the roads in and around Bayer's Lake/Mainland north.

Let the first responders respond.

If you have not already, sign up for HFX Alert.

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A Woman by Sibilla Aleramo (tr. Erica Segre and Simon Carnell) What a phenomenal book this is, an autobiographical feminist novel first published in Italian in 1906, under a pseudonym due to its radical content. Touching on similar themes to Charlotte Perkins …

"So this was to be my life, to be used as an object of pleasure while feeling deeply violated – and to see night follow day, and day night, with no change or end in sight."

A WOMAN by Sibilla Aleramo (tr. Erica Segre & Simon Carnell)

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In The Spotlight: Tom Mead’s Death and the Conjuror Visit the post for more.

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Unnatural Death (Scarpetta series) by Patricia Cornwell #20BooksOfSummer2025 @1pcornwell @GrandCentralPub Two mauled bodies in the woods. Two top secret autopsies. The most chilling case of Scarpetta’s career . . . Book blurb Chief medical examiner Dr Kay Scarpetta finds herself in a Northern Vir…

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Thank you, Margot, for sharing this. Janet 😊💚📚

Unnatural Death (Scarpetta series) by Patricia Cornwell #20BooksOfSummer2025 @1pcornwell @GrandCentralPub Two mauled bodies in the woods. Two top secret autopsies. The most chilling case of Scarpetta’s career . . . Book blurb Chief medical examiner Dr Kay Scarpetta finds herself in a Northern Vir…

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Are You Ready For a Brand-New Beat?* Are you ready? On 15 November, LAXtras: Los Angeles-Style Crime Stories, launches in Kindle and paperback formats! Nineteen authors have joined with me to create this charity anthology of crime sto…

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Thanks, @pjbraley.bsky.social for sharing. Janet😀💚📚

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Always a pleasure, Margot, to share your thoughts. 😊

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Wonderful series, the tiger scene still lives with me (in my head). Terrific books.
Happy Pride week!

Happy to share some queer crime fiction from my own books in celebration of Pride week in Iceland. Love and danger make for the best stories! 🏳️‍🌈 #rainbowreads
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Pick up the addictive, award-winning Reykjavik Noir Trilogy by the Queen of Iceland Noir.

Queer & translated crime fiction at its VERY best!

More Quick-Fire Reviews of Some Non-Summer Reads Quick-fire reviews of some more books that are not included in my 20 Books of Summer challenge! Antonia Hodgson, The Raven Scholar. In the walled capital city of Orrun, seven contenders arrive to c…

An eclectic range of reviews on the blog today: from a high fantasy kingdom to 1970s El Salvador to 1989 East Germany drlauratisdall.wordpress.com/2025/08/11/m... #amreading #booksky

#NationalBookLoversDay

🏁 Last book: Girls Who Lie by Eva Bjorg Aegisdottir (book 2 of Forbidden Iceland series).
🏁 Current: book 3.
🏁 Next 2: books 4 & 5.
Another terrific series from @orendabooks.bsky.social !

🏁 Next series: the Skelfs by @dougjohnstone.bsky.social.

(Bingeing on the beach!)

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'"The Burning Stones" is a great crime story elevated by Tuomainen's skill creating quirky, memorable characters.... Everyone in the book is portrayed in a distinctive way and their interactions are sometimes comical, sometimes threatening, and often, both at once.'

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Untitled configuration (2025) by Emma Bolland: a display of pastel discs in the middle of a former Wilko, discs painted onto taped-up cardboard boxes, discs propped up on the rungs of ladders, discs scattered on the scuffed tiles.

"It’s strange to see anyone here, the shelves stripped out, the aisles a faint afterimage. It’s strange to be reading lyric essays in an ex-shop less than five minutes’ walk from my house."

'Urban Village': on new shops, old shops, and local connections.
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#BlogBlitz | #BookReview: Keep Her Safe by Richard Parker (@Bookwalter) @bookouture “How far would you go to protect your child? Maggie’s daughter Penny is her whole world… and she’d do anything to protect her. So when Maggie wakes one night to find a strange woman in her ho…

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For anyone else who might need it today, a story from #OldFox'sCottage by @annelouiseavery.bsky.social.

Like Wolf, we can lose sight of it all too easily, and every day is a good day to be reminded,

SUBMISSIONS | Little Thoughts

From famous activists fighting for civil rights, to children organizing book drives and bake sales, give us writing and artwork that highlight all the ways, big and small, that people work to build a better world.

Review our submissions guidelines here:
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⭐⭐THEME ANNOUNCEMENT⭐⭐

Submissions for Issue 12 will open on Monday, August 18th - September 22nd. The theme for this issue will be...

Better Together: A Celebration of Community & Collective Action

For this issue, we want to showcase the ways we make the world better by working together.

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Cultural infrastructure at a crossroads📢

📅16 Sept
📍Samuel Alexander Building

10 years on from the Greater Manchester devolution deal this event explores cultural policy & planning in the city-region w/ Prof Abi Gilmore, Hallsworth Visiting Prof Justin O’Connor & Dave Moutrey.

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Boston Public Library aims to increase access to a vast historic archive using AI The library is launching a project in collaboration with Harvard Law School and OpenAI this summer to digitize the materials and make them more fully searchable.

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Fahrenheit Pocket Noir Everyone is loving these pocket sized classics.

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Text: DIARIES OF NOTE, 'Must I from day to day sit chained to this chair prisoned with in these four bare-walls, while these glorious summer suns are burning in heaven & the year is revolving in its richest glow & declaring at the close of every summer day the time I am losing will never come again?' Charlotte Brontë, 11 August

On this day in 1836, Charlotte Brontë wished she writing rather than teaching.

Featured in Diaries of Note: 366 Lives, One Day at a Time by Shaun Usher, out 9 October in hardback ✍️

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Cami Sitting Shiva embraced my heart with its tender exploration of family ties and friendship. The audiobook felt like a warm hug, even from afar. A true gem that reminds us to cherish what truly matters. #booksky #books

'Astonishingly rare' edition of The Hobbit sells for £43,000 at auction

An "astonishingly rare" edition of JRR Tolkien’s The Hobbit has sold for £43,000 at auction 👇 #BookSky