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2020

Penguin Modern Poets 8 – Edwin Brock, Geoffrey Hill and Stevie Smithoriginal ↗
26 Oct 2020
Classic crime in wartime fog…. @BL_Publishing @medwardsbooks #ecrloracoriginal ↗
23 Oct 2020
Exploring the new Penguin Science Fiction range with some classic Russian authors @ShinyNewBooksoriginal ↗
22 Oct 2020
“I turned to books of all kinds….” @sublunaryedsoriginal ↗
21 Oct 2020
Penguin Moderns 31 and 32 – gigolos and conmen…original ↗
19 Oct 2020
Coming up in six months time – the #1936Club! :Doriginal ↗
16 Oct 2020
“…whatever it is that makes a man follow a beckoning star.” @VersoBooks #FrédéricGrosoriginal ↗
16 Oct 2020
“There is more, but the handwriting is difficult to interpret.” @mjohnharrison @commapressoriginal ↗
14 Oct 2020
Following the #1956Club – what next? :Doriginal ↗
13 Oct 2020
#1956Club – phew, what a week! :Doriginal ↗
12 Oct 2020
#1956Club – High Jinks in the Highlands!original ↗
11 Oct 2020
#1956 – time for a little Beat poetry…original ↗
10 Oct 2020
#1956Club – a great French artist considers his life and work…original ↗
9 Oct 2020
“…space is colourless and life dead…” #1956Club #Camusoriginal ↗
8 Oct 2020
#1956Club – a guest post considers a classic spy thriller!original ↗
7 Oct 2020
#1956Club – a look at some previous reads…original ↗
6 Oct 2020
#1956Club – starting the week with Contrasting Classic Crime!original ↗
5 Oct 2020
Counting down to the #1956Club!original ↗
4 Oct 2020
…in which I skim some books…. =:ooriginal ↗
2 Oct 2020
Gogol, translations and missing fragments – some ramblings… #gogoloriginal ↗
30 Sept 2020
“…at least once in his life he would be a beautiful person…” #gogol @ColumbiaUP #russianlibraryoriginal ↗
28 Sept 2020
Coming soon – the #1956Club!! :Doriginal ↗
27 Sept 2020
On My Book Table… 10 – a variety of external influences!original ↗
25 Sept 2020
“…I seemed always to be on the verge of an important revelation…” @ajlees @NottingHillEdsoriginal ↗
23 Sept 2020
“…a matter of responsibility.” #eastweststreet @philippesandsoriginal ↗
21 Sept 2020
The silence of the past and the madness of the 20th century – introducing V&Q Books! @vqbooksoriginal ↗
18 Sept 2020
“At a time of crisis, loneliness is not good” @TeamRedCircleoriginal ↗
16 Sept 2020
Some thoughts on the @VersoBooks Book Club – plus a little giveaway! :Doriginal ↗
15 Sept 2020
“Once again a terrific hurricane has broken on the world…” #stefanzweig #willstoneoriginal ↗
14 Sept 2020
A life wasted? Discovering the writing of #elizabethberridgeoriginal ↗
11 Sept 2020
A powerful and moving book over @shinynewbooks #rosemacaulay @KateHandheldoriginal ↗
10 Sept 2020
“…no man is allowed a death certificate without first dying for it.” @BL_Publishing @medwardsbooks #margotbennettoriginal ↗
9 Sept 2020
“From dissolution springs forth desire” @LittleToller #RichardSkeltonoriginal ↗
7 Sept 2020
Embarking on a mind-expanding project – exploring Penguin’s Great Ideas with Seneca! :Doriginal ↗
4 Sept 2020
Exploring love, grief and loss with Julian Barnesoriginal ↗
1 Sept 2020
Stories from the Home Front @PersephoneBooks #AllViragoAllAugustoriginal ↗
28 Aug 2020
“…towards an essential flower garden.” @NottingHillEds #jamesfentonoriginal ↗
26 Aug 2020
“…he became scribe and secretary to his mind…” #fleurjaeggy #thesepossiblelivesoriginal ↗
24 Aug 2020
“…in a hot climate I find it agreeable to have smooth cheeks.” #paulhogarth #russia #alaricjacoboriginal ↗
21 Aug 2020
“I am a flame, searching and bold.” #edithsodergran @BloodaxeBooksoriginal ↗
19 Aug 2020
“… funny, learned, vagrant, strange…” @briangdillon @FitzcarraldoEds #supposeasentenceoriginal ↗
17 Aug 2020
“As long as I did not meet him, my dream remained intact.” #WITMonth #AnnieErnaux @FitzcarraldoEdsoriginal ↗
14 Aug 2020
“Metaphors have always been the best way of explaining things” #saramago #spanishlitmonthoriginal ↗
12 Aug 2020
“The mirror reflected his image disinterestedly.” #henryparland #topieces @norvikpressoriginal ↗
10 Aug 2020
On My Book Table…9 – lurkers and newbies!original ↗
9 Aug 2020
Penguin Modern Poets 7 – Richard Murphy, Jon Silkin, Nathaniel Tarnoriginal ↗
7 Aug 2020
“deep and false waters” – exploring the Sunken Land over @ShinyNewBooks #mjohnharrisonoriginal ↗
6 Aug 2020
Penguin Moderns 29 and 30 – Essays, dreams and ‘camp’ culture..original ↗
4 Aug 2020
“Life is but smoke and shadows” #WITMonth #TatyanaTolstaya @DauntBooksPuboriginal ↗
1 Aug 2020
Coming up in August – Women, Spain and Viragos! #WITMonth #AllViragoAllAugust #SpanishLitMonthoriginal ↗
31 Jul 2020
“But I am wandering away from my theme…” #montaigne @NottingHillEdsoriginal ↗
29 Jul 2020
“… the faint clues of a perfect crime…” #thewomaninthewardrobe #petershaffer @BL_Publishing @medwardsbooksoriginal ↗
26 Jul 2020
“… he took up books as if they were people, and welcomed them into his family.” #montaigne @Sarah_Bakewelloriginal ↗
23 Jul 2020
“…death and the photograph as memento mori…” #indexcards #moyradavey @FitzcarraldoEdsoriginal ↗
20 Jul 2020
The Inside and Out Book Tag – let’s talk about bookish habits! :Doriginal ↗
19 Jul 2020
“What I struggle with is scope and intensity.” @sublunaryeds @joshuarothesoriginal ↗
17 Jul 2020
A bumper book of bliss from John Bude! @BL_Publishing @medwardsbooksoriginal ↗
15 Jul 2020
Penguin Moderns 27 and 28 – Provocative and Mind-Expandingoriginal ↗
13 Jul 2020
“There is no war, not bred of wars, that was not nursed on lies!” #hughlofting #victoryfortheslainoriginal ↗
9 Jul 2020
“Can any man remain in Moscow without softening of the brain…” #woefromwit # alexandergriboedov @RusLibraryoriginal ↗
6 Jul 2020
“…I am not quite ready/for them to disappear.” #wendycope #anecdotalevidence @FaberBooksoriginal ↗
3 Jul 2020
“Blanched Sun, – blighted grass, – blinded man.” #whyruskinmatters #johnruskin @QuercusBooksoriginal ↗
1 Jul 2020
Pioneering Modernist women – two wonderful new releases over @ShinyNewBooks @norvikpress #WITmonthoriginal ↗
30 Jun 2020
Reading challenges and me….original ↗
29 Jun 2020
Faber Stories – the Women! #djunabarnes #celiafremlin #mariannemoore @faberbooksoriginal ↗
27 Jun 2020
Faber Stories – the Men! :D #brianaldiss #milankundera @faberbooksoriginal ↗
25 Jun 2020
A unique take on the memoir format – over @ShinyNewBooks @BelgraviaB #georgesperecoriginal ↗
23 Jun 2020
“It begins with barking, monsieur, and finishes with biting.” @nyrbclassics #malaparteoriginal ↗
22 Jun 2020
Dreams, detective stories, long trousers and the Marx Brothers! #jbpriestley #delightoriginal ↗
18 Jun 2020
“We play the fool in this world in order to be free” #victorshklovsky @Dalkey_Archiveoriginal ↗
15 Jun 2020
The struggles of the ‘New Woman’ #SarahGrandoriginal ↗
12 Jun 2020
“Rome seemed an often-shaken kaleidoscope” #ATimeInRome #ElizabethBowenoriginal ↗
9 Jun 2020
“…little pockets of competence always exist much further down the ladder…” #theharpolereport #JLCarroriginal ↗
7 Jun 2020
“To each his own rhythm of suffering.” #rolandbarthes #mourningdiary @NottingHillEdsoriginal ↗
4 Jun 2020
“So ask yourself now: Can you forgive her if she wants you to?” #EcadeQueirósoriginal ↗
1 Jun 2020
On My Book Table… 8 – what next?original ↗
28 May 2020
The eternal conflict of love and art… #myhusbandsimon @BL_Publishingoriginal ↗
25 May 2020
High jinks in the Alps! #carolcarnac #crossedskis @BL_Publishing @medwardsbooksoriginal ↗
21 May 2020
“The leaden heart grew entwined…” @FitzcarraldoEds #estherkinsky #groveoriginal ↗
18 May 2020
“…a community of sentient, expressive beings.” #peterreason #sarahgillespieoriginal ↗
14 May 2020
“Need we be taught to love?” #rsthomasoriginal ↗
11 May 2020
“Vodka is at least as effective as hope. And so much less vulgar.” #Napoleon #Berezina @EuropaEditionsoriginal ↗
8 May 2020
“And I am afraid of the dead” @nyrbclassics #malicroix2020original ↗
6 May 2020
An evocative glimpse of a lost Soviet past #sheilafitzpatrick #sovietrussiaoriginal ↗
4 May 2020
On My Book Table…7 – modest ambitions!original ↗
1 May 2020
Puzzles and conundrums – over @ShinyNewBooks! #oulipo #georgesperec #italocalvinooriginal ↗
30 Apr 2020
Murder? It’s just not cricket! :D @BL_Publishing @medwardsbooksoriginal ↗
27 Apr 2020
Coming up in six months’ time – what year have we chosen? ;Doriginal ↗
26 Apr 2020
Golden Age Crime – Japanese style! @PushkinPress #HonjinMurdersoriginal ↗
24 Apr 2020
#1920Club – the ones that got away! ;Doriginal ↗
20 Apr 2020
#1920Club – “Each of us sees in brighter colours what he sees at a distance, what he sees in other people.” #Proust2020original ↗
19 Apr 2020
#1920club – “Let us wash the roofs of our eyes in colour; let us dive till the deep seas close above our heads.” #virginiawoolforiginal ↗
18 Apr 2020
#1920Club – a great (and neglected!) detective makes his debut! #reggiefortune #hcbaileyoriginal ↗
17 Apr 2020
#1920club “… the human face at the top of the fullest page of print holds more, withholds more…” – Woolf’s short storiesoriginal ↗
16 Apr 2020
#1920Club – exploring Edith Wharton’s masterpieceoriginal ↗
15 Apr 2020
#1920club – looking at some previous readsoriginal ↗
14 Apr 2020
#1920Club – launching the week with the genesis of a great detective #poirot #agathachristieoriginal ↗
13 Apr 2020
“…a tragedy and a personal disaster.” #camus @OxUniPress #veryshortintroductionoriginal ↗
11 Apr 2020
Chilling murder and mayhem on the Rhine! @BL_Publishing #JohnDicksonCarroriginal ↗
9 Apr 2020
#1920Club – coming soon to a blog near you! :Doriginal ↗
7 Apr 2020
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