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I am sure it will be a film (starring Paul Mescal) in a few years..!

Yeeees! It’s brilliant!

Best series I’ve ever read, still read them religiously to this day, an absolute triumph of the YA genre!

Stunning cover too, Rih!! Sounds amazing!

Mine’s coming tomorrow! And I may also have the @illumicrate.bsky.social version coming too… 😅

I’m currently reading this too!!

Can’t wait to welcome to you to Cheltenham Waterstones, Maggie! (I’m a Bookseller there!)

I love how NLMG (and all Ishiguro novels) show us at our simplest!

THE RAGPICKER KING by Cassandra Clare. Wow. What a sequel to SWORD CATCHER. Fast paced, electronic read with brilliant characters, intriguing world building and logical, pleasing twists!

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@panmacmillan.bsky.social
@cassandraclare.bsky.social

My lecturer’s second poetry collection is out today! Flock to it, Richard is an eloquent teacher and his poetry is very special. 💎

The President of the United States welcome a leader wanted by the ICC and officially endorsed ethnic cleansing.

Now would be a good time for our government to defend international law.

If they won’t say it, we will: Palestinians aren’t going anywhere.

Razed to dust, this is what Israel's apocalyptic erasure of Northern Gaza looks like. Palestinians are "returning" to nuclear-scale desolation.

The best book!! Enjoy!

3. The Cautious Travellers Guide to the Wastelands by Sarah Brooks
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Speculative, uncanny Professor Layton-esque mystery about an unknown land and a train. Great characterisation and compelling plot.

2. The Dream Thieves by Maggie Stiefvater
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These books are never not anything but perfect. Looking forward to Maggie’s adult debut later this year!

1. The Message by Ta-Nehisi Coates
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Three essays about place, writing, craft and the power of words. Incredibly written and a book everyone should read.

Out Feb 2025!

Books I’ve read in 2025!
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Loved Death and the King’s Horseman, Great Gatsby, Handmaid’s Tale. Hated Blood Brothers, Heart of Darkness.

StoryGraph wrap up page. First book of the year: Wandering Souls. Last book: Forest of Noise. Longest book: God of the Woods. Shortest book: So Late in the Day. Top genre: Fantasy. Top author: Holly Black. 5 star reads: Wandering Souls, Entangled Life, The Cruel Prince.

StoryGraph 2024 wrap up!

The cover of Mongrel by Hanako Footman; three Asian women’s faces broken up with red, blue lines of art. A yellow square border surrounds them.

Book of the Year 2024🌸🌼🩵

Mongrel by Hanako Footman is my Book of the Year. A beautiful, tender story about three women, queer identity, family and heritage. I had the pleasure of meeting Hanako at Cheltenham Literature Festival and it was lovely to speak to her!

My Books of the Year 2024 photographed in a stack on a table with a white background. Books are: Mongrel by Hanako Footman Playground by Richard Powers The Raven Scholar by Antonia Hodgson Intermezzo by Sally Rooney Annihilation, Authority and Acceptance by Jeff VanderMeer The Bee Sting by Paul Murray Lady Macbeth by Ava Reid

Pictures of The Folk of the Air trilogy by Holly Black, also my books of the year 2024. The Cruel Prince The Wicked King The Queen of Nothing

My books of the year, 2024!

Some new releases, some new to me, one coming out in 2025. All brilliant and books I would recommend.

#BookSky #BookoftheYear #💙📚 #📚💙

It’s incredible, it’s vegan, it’s Nigella.

Jamaica tables bill to oust King Charles as head of state and become a republic Like other colonies, the Caribbean nation retained the British monarch as head of state after independence in 1962 The Jamaican government has taken its first step toward removing King Charles as head of state, presenting a bill in parliament to abolish…

Jamaica tables bill to oust King Charles as head of state and become a republic

So excited for this book! Maggie Stiefvater is one of the best writers out there 💙

Dan, I am so jealous. I don’t know if you’ve read any of Maggie before but she’s one of the best writers. You’re in for a treat. Can’t wait for your review! 💙

StoryGraph reading wrap up showing 11 books read, 4,461 pages read, 4.23 average rating out of 5. Highest rated reads are: Lady Macbeth by Ava Reid, Daydream by Hannah Grace and The Raven Scholar by Antonia Hodgson.

November reading wrap up by StoryGraph!

Not bad considering I spent the whole month as sick as a dog.

#📚💙 #BookSky

The proof cover of FAITHBREAKER by Hannah Kaner balanced on a ladder in front of a bookshelf. The cover has a rabbit with stag horns and wings rearing on the front, stood on a fallen log in front of the moon. It is coloured with purples, oranges and yellows.

FAITHBREAKER by Hannah Kaner coming March 2025. Thanks @harpercollins.bsky.social for a proof copy!

Thanks @diotcoke.bsky.social for the poster 🐊🐊🐊

A poster of the cover of ABSOLUTION by Jeff VanderMeer. It is an uncanny alligator on a black background with sections of the alligators body removed. Alien textures and plants grow from the holes and in the spaces around it. The words of the title and author are in a shiny blue/purple/pink text.

100 pages of this novel left. I love Area X (is that weird to say? probably. but it’s true)

These look amazing! So excited to have another Maggie book to obsess over soon 💙