Headline Book Publishing| 2004| Hardback edition| 440 pages| 5* Five-year-old Jimmy Rova is the unwanted child of a mother who rejects him, and whose other children bully him. The one thing he can call his… More| BooksPlease
Synopsis Wintering is a poignant and comforting meditation on the fallow periods of life, times when we must retreat to care for and repair ourselves. Katherine May thoughtfully shows us how to come through these times… More| BooksPlease
Happy Weekend everyone.| Selma
Good News Trending It was an unprecedented hot summer.But finally, the much anticipated goodnews came today: Hatsukansetsu: Mt. Fuji’s snowcapped 😘 — All is good in the land of therising sun 😊 Boreas chills my ears happy I absorb the news hatsukansetsu Copyright ©️ Selma And it’s not just the tourists celebrating: I got my scarf and knit hat […]| Selma
Good books are inspiring. Here’s one that inspired today’s poem. … and a little self promo. Thanks for reading.| Selma
Lucy Cooke’s Bitch aims to re-examine things that are taken for biological truths (like the idea that eggs are more costly so female animals evolved to be choosy while sperm is […]| Nicky @ The Bibliophibian
Jóhanna Katrín Friðriksdóttir’s Valkyrie attempts to give us a pretty comprehensive picture of the position of women in Norse society (I don’t say “Viking”, because “Vikings” are the ones who […]| Nicky @ The Bibliophibian
Adkins, Roy & Lesley "Eavesdropping on Jane Austen's England: How our ancestors lived two centuries ago" (aka "Jane Austen's England) - 2013Part of my #Reading Austen project is to read a book by the author in the uneven months and a book about the author and/or her books in the even ones. This is my October read.| Let's read
A memoir that explores being mixed race in Ireland and how we deal with our emotions| Sifa Elizabeth Reads
Nonfiction November kicks off today with My Year in Nonfiction, hosted by Heather at Based on a True Story. Strictly speaking, I should call it Memoir November (Memvember?!) – doesn’t have quite the same ring but it is more accurate in my case, given that the majority of my nonfiction reading is memoir. Specifically, I’ve … Continue reading →| booksaremyfavouriteandbest
Sample Saturday is when I wade through the eleventy billion samples I have downloaded on my Kindle. I’m slowly chipping away and deciding whether it’s buy or bye. Notes to John by Joan Didion Why I have it: Joan Didon on therapy? No brainer. Summary: In November 1999, Joan Didion began seeing a psychiatrist because, … Continue reading →| booksaremyfavouriteandbest
Sample Saturday is when I wade through the eleventy billion samples I have downloaded on my Kindle. I’m slowly chipping away and deciding whether it’s buy or bye.| booksaremyfavouriteandbest
#NonficNov Click on the logo to see the detailed schedule Our hosts for NONFICTION NOVEMBER 2025: Heather – Based on a True Story Frances – Volatile Rune Liz – Adventures in Reading, Running and Working from Home Rebekah – She Seeks Nonfiction Deb … Continue reading →| Words And Peace
Dates: 10/27-11/2 Host: Heather @ Based on a True StoryTitle: Your Year in NonfictionCelebrate your year of nonfiction. What books have you read? What were your favorites? Have you had a favorite topic? Is there a topic you want to read about more? What are you hoping to get out of participating in Nonfiction November? Looking back over … Continue reading Nonfiction November 2025: Your Year in Nonfiction| Book’d Out
Linking to: It’s Monday! What Are You Reading? at BookDate; Sunday Post @ Caffeinated Reviewer; and the Sunday Salon @ ReaderBuzz ==================== Life… Weather is always a hot topic in these posts. It’s mid Spring in Australia but on Wednesday the temperature in my town reached 42C° (that’s 108F), the hottest October day here in 65 years. Thankfully temperatures have dropped to the … Continue reading It’s Monday! What Are You Reading? #SundayPost #SundaySalon| Book’d Out
Every third Sunday of the month (or so) I share my Bookshelf Bounty – what’s been added to my TBR tile recently for review from publishers, purchases or gifts. Click on the cover images to view at Goodreads For Review (My thanks to the respective publishers) Every third Sunday of the month (or so) I … Continue reading Bookshelf Bounty| Book’d Out
Linking to: It’s Monday! What Are You Reading? at BookDate; Sunday Post @ Caffeinated Reviewer; and the Sunday Salon @ ReaderBuzz ==================== Life… The week has just slipped away from me, between the late night/early morning rides to work for my son, and a particularly bad bout of insomnia coupled with peri-menopausal night sweats, I’m exhausted. I used to be able … Continue reading It’s Monday! What Are You Reading? #SundayPost #Sunday Salon| Book’d Out
Click the cover to learn more at Goodreads. The Walkley Awards Longlist Winner announced 27th November 2025 The National Book Awards for Non-Fiction 2025 Winner announced 19th November 2025 Have you read, or are you planning to read, any of these titles? Who do you think should win? More Prize Non-Fiction 2025. The Walkleys The National … Continue reading More Prize Non-Fiction 2025| Book’d Out
Unfollow Me: A Terrifying True Story of a Sadistic Stalker by Kathryn Caraway SYNOPSIS – What if the man stalking you worked in IT—at the police department?”Think it couldn’t happ…| BookZone
We all have authors whose every book we read. For me, Judith Hermann is one of those authors. She’s best known for her short stories but has also written novels and now, finally, her long awaited first memoir. Or rather a series of lectures on life and writing that reads like a memoir. We Would … … Continue reading →| Beauty is a Sleeping Cat
Reviews of non-fiction are a rarity here – this is only my second this year – but arriving home from holiday, my heart sank at the prospect of winter which is what prompted me to read Kari Leibowitz’s book. How to Winter grew out of her PhD research after an article she wrote for The […] The post How to Winter by Kari Leibowitz: Learning to love it appeared first on A Life in Books.| A Life in Books
“Teagan Riordain Geneviene’s Speak Flowers and Fans: A Dictionary of Floriography and Fanology is just that kind of book — one that enchants, teaches, and lingers.”| Teagan's Books
Image: Ocean of Tears by Rin Yu (from issue 63.2, Spring 2025).| PRISM international
Bingo: I am using my free space for this one, in the “TBR” space (I don’t really maintain a TBR list, so this one would have been difficult to complete). That also makes this my second Bingo! Woo! I am not a Wilco superfan. I’ve listened to and enjoyed their music, but I don’t think I could name a single Wilco song off the top of my head. When I heard about this book though, written by Wilco’s lead singer, the title piqued my interest. […]| Cannonball Read 17
Title: At War with Ourselves Author: H.R. McMaster Publisher: Harper Published Date: August 27th, 2024 Genre: Non-Fiction, Political Source: Library Goodreads Summary: At War with Ourselves is the story of helping a disruptive President drive necessary shifts in U.S. foreign policy at a critical moment in history. McMaster entered an administration beset by conflict and … Continue reading At War With Ourselves by H.R. McMaster | Non-Fiction Book Review| Reading With Wrin
mini reviews looking at my thoughts on Jennifer Ackerman's THE BIRD WAY and Adam Pottle's VOICE… Continue reading Non-Fiction Mini Reviews: The Bird Way & Voice→| BookWyrm Knits
Another Wednesday, another meme!! WWW Wednesday is hosted by Sam over at Taking On A World Of Words with a lovely little community of folks where we talk through the three Ws. What are we reading, …| Lost In The Narrative
Cult Bride by Liz Cameron As I was engrossed in Cameron’s account of how she was lured into the cult, JMS, and anxiously awaiting the bit where she detailed her escape, she states that we ought not watch docos or read books about cults because it sheds no light, provides no better understanding of cult … Continue reading →| booksaremyfavouriteandbest
Imagine a life story as a house clearance – that’s how for many of us it finds shape, as objects are passed on, memories stirred and made. Some objects will be bequests, handed down in the family or between friends; others will be sold. Yet others will make their way into charity shops, to find … Continue reading Jane Austen in 41 Objects | Kathryn Sutherland| This Reading Life
Vaudine England, Fortune’s Bazaar. The Making of Hong Kong: ce livre n’est pas une histoire classique de Hong Kong et ne parle pas des relations entre Britanniques et Chinois, et de la colonisation par les Anglais. Il se penche sur toutes ces autres populations, tous ces immigrants d’origines diverses qui ont contribué au développement de […]| Popup Monster
Nonfiction November Novellas in November I have almost sorted out my reading for the November challenges Nonfiction November (#NonFicNov25) starting 27th October and hosted by Heather, Frances, Liz…| Volatile Rune
The story of my life is wide and deep Yet when I write of it, it’s narrow and steep My past was daughter, student, wife, and mom Well, now my present includes writing wom(an)| roughwighting
Apprendre à faire ses graines et semences de Dimitris Karakousis Date de parution: 23 janvier 2025Nombre de pages: 190Édition: Puits FleuriFormat: BrochéPrix: 24.00 eurosGenre: …| passionlivresblogblog.wordpress.com
a blog post about turning a kindle into a dashboard for useful information (1,000 words)| FlamingSpork's Website
Sky Above Kharkiv by Serhiy Zhadan - Dispatches from the Ukrainian Front - is a fantastic book, well worth reading. 5 stars| Coffee and Books
I am often asked the question: ‘What do you feel when you sentence a man to death?’ Thus begins this book written by legal luminary, G.D. Khosla, who served in various capacities as mag…| a hot cup of pleasure
Hi, all: I bring you a non-fiction book by one of my favourite authors (and people). Speak Flowers and Fans: A Dictionary of Floriography and Fanology (Author Tool Chest) by Teagan Ríordáin Geneviene How could flowers or hand-held fans be used as a means of covert communications? It sounds odd, maybe extreme, or possibly comical. […]| Just Olga
Eccleshare, Julia "1001 Children's Books You Must Read Before You Grow Up" - 2009| Let's read
A great biography of France’s greatest Medieval King| Sifa Elizabeth Reads
Book reviews, snippets of book news, and alerts about books outside the glare of the publicity spotlight.| A Life in Books
Less Is More by Jason Hickel - How Degrowth Will Save the World - it is a book not worth reading. I highly recommend avoiding it.| Coffee and Books
Another year; another menopause book. Menopause is certainly having its moment. After decades of little to no research, study and funding, it is finally getting some much needed attention. Which is…| This Reading Life
Saturday, September 13, 2025 Hello, everyone. It’s good to see you here. Today I have floriography trivia for the month of September. This month is represented by two different flowers: …| Teagan's Books
Title: The Scandalous Hamiltons Author: Bill Shaffer Publisher: Kensington Published Date: July 26, 2022 Genre: Non-Fiction, History Source: Library Goodreads Summary: An Alexander Hamilton heir, a beautiful female con artist, an abandoned baby, and the shocking courtroom drama that was splashed across front pages from coast to coast—this is the fascinating true story behind one … Continue reading The Scandalous Hamiltons by Bill Shaffer | Non-Fiction Book Review| Reading With Wrin
The Secrets of Consulting A Guide to Giving and Getting Advice Successfully| GeraldMWeinberg.com
Are Your Lights On? How to Figure Out What the Problem Really Is| GeraldMWeinberg.com
An Introduction to General Systems Thinking| GeraldMWeinberg.com
Hi, all: This is a non-fiction book by a well-known, although new to me, writer. I had to check it out when I read the title. Stupid Things I Won’t Do When I Get Old: A Highly Judgmental, Unapologetically Honest Accounting of All the Things Our Elders Are Doing Wrong by Steven Petrow For fans […]| Just Olga
20 Books of Summer 2025 is over, and I read all of my 20 books! What did I think of the books I read? [Links are to my reviews]. I’ll group them in the same way as I did in 2024. This time, the absolute standouts were The Bombshell, The Echo Maker and Basilisk. All will … Continue reading 20 Books of Summer 2025: A Retrospective| Laura Tisdall
A book blog focusing on all kinds of literature, great book club selections, award books, and more.| headfullofbooks.blogspot.com
Jeremy & Amy by Jeremy Keelings – The Extraordinary Story of One Man and His Orang-utan was an impulse purchase on my visit to Monkey World, while we were on holiday in Dorset. He was one of the co-founders of the sanctuary and Amy, the… The post Jeremy & Amy by Jeremy Keelings appeared first on Coffee and Books.| Coffee and Books
The Art of Coercion by Reid Pauly is a newly published book on the success or failures of coercion in relation to nuclear proliferation. This is an academic book, on the dry side, but that I found really interesting and that I would recommend. The… The post The Art of Coercion by Reid Pauly appeared first on Coffee and Books.| Coffee and Books
Crossings by Ben Goldfarb – How Road Ecology Is Shaping the Future of Our Planet – is another book picked for the book club. I wouldn’t have read this book otherwise and that would have meant I would have lost out. It’s an interesting concept,… The post Crossings by Ben Goldfarb appeared first on Coffee and Books.| Coffee and Books
“A guided journal to embrace chaos with humor, healing, and creative reflection.” I have no shame in admitting that the title of this appealed to me a great deal – ‘mildly u…| LittleFrogScribbles
Saturday, August 23, 2025 Follow me: Carry fan in right hand in front of face. Welcome, all. I hope you’re having a wonderful weekend. I didn’t have much to report, but I still wante…| Teagan's Books
Rushdie, Salman "Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder" - 2024 This was my third book by Salman Rushdie. I have enjoyed them all but ...| momobookblog.blogspot.com
Sullivan, Margaret C. "The Jane Austen Handbook. A Sensible Yet Elegant Guide to Her World" - 2007 Part of my #Reading Austen project is to...| momobookblog.blogspot.com
Unit 29: Writing from Parchman PrisonVOX Books. Interview by P.B. Jernigan I don’t remember the first time I heard about Parchman Prison. It has always existed in my memory, the heavy history looming over the entirety of Mississippi. Parchman has long influenced the creative culture of Mississippi, serving as a motif in iconic works of […]| PRISM international
A funny, irreverent look at canonisation| Sifa Elizabeth Reads
I researched a lot before I began writing about psychic dreams and found out that I already knew more than most. Many don’t believe that dreams tell us the future, but I was just a 12-year-old when…| roughwighting
“Maybe nectarines are just peaches in drag. Smooth. Magnificent.” This book has stuck with me far more than I’d expected and was an enjoyable reading experience. Some parts resonated more than others of course. I was looking to learn more about sensory issues and there was plenty about that, though not all of the stories/essays focus on that. This is a very readable memoir of an American childhood, taking the senses as inspiration for many of the stories. It would be a useful introducti...| Market Garden Reader
Several of my friends were enthusiastic about this book, as was a Guardian review. Then I saw Raynor Winn interviewed by Kate Humble as she walked a section of the South West Coast Path. The scenery is stunning, though the section with Ray was simply walking through some trees. She spoke of healing through walking and as a walker, I knew this was a book I really wanted to read. I was delighted to find it in a secondhand shop in Nijmegen. I wasn’t disappointed.| Market Garden Reader
The government’s Basic Income for the Arts (BIA) pilot scheme reaches three years in operation this month. The scheme was originally set to finish after this period, however an extension until February 2026 was recently granted by government.| The Stinging Fly
As an attempt to branch out with my writing, I've taken to working on various fiction and non-fiction pieces...| Send More Paramedics
Voldemar Veedam & Carl B. Wall, Cap sur la liberté: la fin de la Seconde Guerre mondiale marque la disparition de l’Estonie comme pays indépendant; elle passe sous le pouvoir de l’U…| Popup Monster
Hi friends, happy Monday! I hope you’re all doing well. Today I’m posting my review of Wayne Johnston’s memoir, Jennie’s Boy.| Meghan's Whimsical Explorations & Reviews
Historian and popular TV presenter Ruth Goodman offers up a history of offensive language, insulting gestures, insolent behaviour, brawling and scandal in the 16th and 17th centuries – with practical tips on just how to horrify the neighbours. From royalty to peasantry, every age has its bad eggs, those who break all the rules and… Continue reading How to Behave Badly in Renaissance Britain by Ruth Goodman| Swords & Spectres
The history of assassinations, as Simon Ball points out in his book Death to Order, is one of myth-making, bungled plans and unintended consequences.| New Statesman
‘There are no aliens or portals here; there is, perhaps, a time/space slippage, but the reality of that is up to each reader to decide. A speculative audience will hum along to the book’s eerie tune.’ // Val Nolan looks thirteen ways at Christopher Priest’s AIRSIDE| IZ Digital
‘conservation is vital and without it our planet is doomed’ // Gary Couzens on JUPITER’S GHOST, a play written, directed and choreographed by Tani Gill| IZ Digital
‘[...] there are many clever and beautiful details. The visual representation of sound waves is perfect. In a clever throwaway gag, it is revealed that buskers are considered an urban myth. We learn that music is the fundamental building block of the universe (an idea reminiscent of the “Decreator” storyline in Grant Morrison’s run on Doom Patrol [...]’ // Alexander Glass on PETE TOWNSHEND’S LIFE HOUSE, an original graphic novel adaptation of an unproduced follow-up to The Who’s...| IZ Digital
‘the world of ALIEN [has] always been about workers suffering under extreme capitalism’ // Kat Clay on ALIENS: BISHOP, a novel by T.R. Napper| IZ Digital
‘Russell draws on both, and on copious other sources, ranging from Aickman’s fiction itself to conversations with people who knew him. He can thus compensate for Aickman’s idiosyncrasies, odd omissions, and even odder inclusions; but Aickman’s life is peppered throughout with little unexplained details that would not have been out of place in his own eerie fiction, hinting – but only hinting – at some dark and sinister force operating just beyond the edge of perception.’ // Alex...| IZ Digital
‘[...] a fantastic book that marries minimalist prose, simple but wonderfully rhythmic, with a compelling Bildungsromanand and an uncanny atmosphere to create a moving tale of grief and assimilation.’ // Zachary Gillan on WE’RE SAFE WHEN WE’RE ALONE, a novella by Nghiem Tran| IZ Digital
‘That the name has been appropriated for the end point of the Anthropocene suggests that our species was wiped out in fire. And the story that this novel is really about, the substrate of this fictional future hinted at rather than told, is what happened beyond the burn line.’ // Paul Kincaid on BEYOND THE BURN LINE, a novel by Paul McAuley| IZ Digital
‘[...] an often chewy, if still stimulating read.’ // Gary Couzens on CHILDREN OF THE NEW FLESH, a book about David Cronenberg edited by Chris Kelso & David Leo Rice| IZ Digital
Ariel Marken Jack talked to Tiffany Morris about a poet’s-eye view, creative torture, and sharing your suffering.| IZ Digital
‘[...] a searing indictment of capitalism and incisive questioning of development, in both urban and personal senses.’ // Zachary Gillan on THE DEVIL OF THE PROVINCES, a novel by Juan Cárdenas| IZ Digital
‘The speculative story is a story of concept. [...] It is often hard to pin down what makes a concept take off or linger in the mind, but the stories in KALEIDOTROPE Summer 2023 may give us a clearer idea.’ // Yee Heng Yeh on the Summer 2023 issue of KALEIDOTROPE| IZ Digital
‘Origin Complex is a space opera with a heart; a brilliant, ballistic science fiction epic of dystopian corporations and enduring friendships […]’ // Gemma Church on ORIGIN COMPLEX, a new novel by Andrew Skinner| IZ Digital
Kelly Jennings talked to Martha Wells about creating Murderbot, engendering empathy, and the after-effects of trauma…| IZ Digital
‘The epigraph to Samuel R. Delany’s Dhalgren quotes poet George Stanley in conversation: “You have confused the true and the real.” It could stand at the head of the SFF fictions that form one of the core strands of the genre, from Philip K. Dick’s novels to the Matrix series of films and beyond.’ // Paul McAuley on OTHER MINDS, a pair of novellas by Eliane Boey| IZ Digital
‘I have lost track of the number of books on how to write science fiction that are on my shelves. However many it is, it is a pitifully small percentage of the number of books of this type that are out there. Why is there a need for so many?’ // Paul Kincaid on WRITING THE FUTURE, a collection of essays edited by Dan Coxon & Richard V. Hirst| IZ Digital
‘It would probably be wrong to label this collection as horror, too simplistic, avoiding something of the weird beauty of the stories. But at the same time they are stories designed to discomfort, to unsettle our notions about who we are and what we might become.’ // Paul Kincaid on PROMISE, a short story collection by Christi Nogle| IZ Digital
‘Gibson has created a believable, sometimes terrifying story of society’s struggling relationship with technology, and a story that ends on a poignant, optimistic note.’ // Gemma Church on EUROPA DEEP, a new novel by Gary Gibson| IZ Digital
‘The long and short of it is this: this is a world of duality. Good and evil are the same save for the level of vibration.’ // Kasimma on new novels by Diane Marie Brown and Veronica G. Henry| IZ Digital
‘Lebbon, both honouring and twisting this theme, hints at a kind of Eden after we are gone – perhaps, at least partly, because we are gone.’ // Alexander Glass on THE LAST DAY AND THE FIRST, a novella by Tim Lebbon| IZ Digital
‘This issue strikes me not only as a collection of excellent stories but a lesson, for those who care to take it, in some of the finer points of curation – an art form in its own right.’ // Ariel Marken Jack on THREE-LOBED BURNING EYE #39| IZ Digital
‘accessible, erudite, sometimes amusingly understated’ // Alexander Glass on the HISTORICAL DICTIONARY OF FANTASY LITERATURE, a new reference book edited by Allen Stroud| IZ Digital
An essay by Alexander Glass examining the many facets of Bryan Talbot’s ARKWRIGHT sequence| IZ Digital
Alexander Glass in conversation with Bryan Talbot| IZ Digital
‘Besides common themes such as community and grief, what underlies each work is also a preoccupation with language – both how it fails us and how we fail it. Like paradoxical little puzzles, they explore the limits of linguistic systems’ // Yee Heng Yeh on KHŌRÉŌ 3.1| IZ Digital
Ariel Marken Jack talked to E.G. Condé about the power of language, survival through art, and what it means to help found a new literary genre…| IZ Digital
‘[...] a city can be lifted from a novel, a Wikipedia entry, a child’s daydream. It can be a protest, a social media storm, an expanding darkness, a sentient land with its own tricks up its streets.’ // Yee Heng Yeh on EITA! #3, the latest issue of the English-language magazine of Brazilian SFF| IZ Digital
‘The author is the diviner of destiny, tasked with building an architecture of words, a sacred text for the reader. That or they’re a desiccated corpse. Or both.’ // Kat Clay on PEST, a novel by Michael Cisco| IZ Digital
‘The overwhelming pleasure to be found in FIFTY FORGOTTEN BOOKS lies not so much in anything Russell has to say about any of the titles he includes, as in the way his evocations of particular bookshops, their owners and clientele, as well as his descriptions of the habits and peculiar practices of book collectors in pursuit of long sought-after novels or collections, will resonate with a certain kind of reader.’ // Mike O’Driscoll on FIFTY FORGOTTEN BOOKS, a new book by R.B. Russell| IZ Digital
‘The fears of the post-nuclear era and the optimism of man in space are present in his earliest work [...] The astronaut becomes a symbol for the expansion of consciousness’ // Kat Clay on the COMPLETE POEMS of Michael Butterworth| IZ Digital
‘The blurb describes [CAGED OCEAN DUB] as “Nigerian Weird”, but to simply label these stories “Weird Fiction” feels like a taxonomic hatchet job. A sense of the uncanny runs through the warp and weft of the collection, but the fabric is woven together with elements of fantasy, of science fiction, of slipstream, and of the frankly unclassifiable [...]’ // Gautam Bhatia on CAGED OCEAN DUB, a new collection of stories by Dare Segun Falowo| IZ Digital
Alexander Glass in conversation with the legendary Michael Moorcock| IZ Digital
