Kaggsy's Bookish Ramblings

Books to Look Out For in November 2025: Part One - A life in books Book reviews, snippets of book news, and alerts about books outside the glare of the publicity spotlight.

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“At no time a patient man, the delays drove him to distraction.” #gervase fen #edmundcrispin For some unknown reason, I was recently hit with the desire to read some of Edmund Crispin’s Gervase Fen mysteries (possibly prompted by the delay in the publication of the paperback edition …

...in which I revisit the first #GervaseFen mystery and find it as wonderful as ever! kaggsysbookishramblings.wordpress.com/2025/10/06/a...

Isn't it? My first visit and it's gorgeous!

Don't they?? I love the cover designs!!

Marylebone High Street!

Worth waiting for! 😊

Another Inventory cracker - and what a wonderful record this is!!

Some lovely little @renardpress.com books spotted in the wild yesterday at the equally lovely @dauntbooks.bsky.social ! 😊📚💙

Wonderful stuff!

It certainly is! 😊😊

It's a fabulous book - one of my favourite Brautigans!!! 😊💙📚

I thoroughly enjoyed it! 😊

“What a rogue he is.” #gorky #tolstoy #fitzcarraldoeditions One of the authors who popped up as an option when I was considering what to read for 1925 was the Russian writer, Maxim Gorky. His novel, “The Artamonov Business”, was published in tha…

On the blog today, a fascinating new release from @fitzcarraldoeds.bsky.social in which Gorky shares his memories of Tolstoy, Chekhov and Andreyev - translated by Bryan Karetnyk - more here! kaggsysbookishramblings.wordpress.com/2025/10/03/w...

A Shelf of Promises: My Starter Library A recent episode of The Mookse and the Gripes podcast got me thinking. Hosts Trevor and Paul were joined by John Williams of the Washington Post (mensches one and all). John had proposed a fascinat…

A while back @mookse.bsky.social and @bibliopaul.bsky.social @johnwilliams.bsky.social discussed starter libraries—which inspired me to imagine my own

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I suspect we'll both be reviewing it next month! Yes, a remarkable book - the second of his I've read and he really is quite brilliant!!

September was a brilliant month for reading - here's a picture of what I enjoyed, and you can read more about them, plus plans for October, here! kaggsysbookishramblings.wordpress.com/2025/10/01/s...

The entrance of the stairway.

A view of the stairway from the upper steps. The light at the end is made blue by the sea.

Getting closer to the end, the ceiling disappears, offering a more open view of the sea, the sky and the land.

A glass pane prevents the visitors from going further, but the stairway goes on.

I'm in the town where the author of Das Passagen-Werk, fearing the Spanish authorities would not grant him passage into Spain, requested passage from Charon instead.
The Walter Benjamin memorial monument, aptly titled "Passages" is an underground stairway leading to the sea.

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NEXT BOOK PROJECT.

We could do with a little help. We've gone live with our @crowdfunder.bsky.social today!

Please do help us spread the word, Mr Schwitters is a remarkable book, he was a remarkable man. There are some lovely rewards.

Huge thanks

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Final review of the month on the Ramblings today, and it's another marvellous reissue from @neglectedbooks.com @bhousepress.bsky.social "AndSo Did I" by #malachiwhitaker with a foreword by Catherine Taylor - a wonderful read!! kaggsysbookishramblings.wordpress.com/2025/09/30/t...

September Summary and Settling In Well, it’s been a busy and dramatic month, and here I am with a new flat, a new hometown and lots of new friends and activities too. A quick glimpse into the room I used to consider my favour…

September Summary and Settling In findingtimetowrite.wordpress.com/2025/09/29/s... > via @marinasofia.bsky.social

Getting great feedback for this; a long read that took me a long time to pull together!

Really interesting use of first/third person narrative voice as well as cleverly arranged chronology. Looking forward to volume 2.

I Want to Break Free* Prisons are supposed to be secure facilities that keep prisoners locked away for the length of their sentences. It’s not easy, especially with modern security features, to escape prison but there a…

I Want to Break Free* margot-kin-berg.com/2025/09/25/i...

“Fiction is an attack in the night…” #shortstoryseptember #rosalindbrackenbury My final read for Short Story September is a collection which only arrived recently at the Ramblings, but which I was very excited to receive – “No Such Thing as a Free Lunch” by …

My final read for #shortstoryseptember is a remarkable collection by Rosalind Brackenbury, reissued by Michael Walmer - No Such Thing as a Free Lunch. Why she’s not better known is beyond me! kaggsysbookishramblings.wordpress.com/2025/09/27/f...

Looking After Your Books by @francescagalligan.bsky.social - out now!

Awww, thank you! It *is* a lovely book!

Me too!!!