The Classics Club Spin Result – BooksPlease
The spin number in The Classics Club Spin is number … which for me is Fire from Heaven by Mary Renault The rules of the Spin are that this is the book for me to read by 21 December …| BooksPlease
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
It’s the first week of Nonfiction November and this week (27th October – 2nd November) we are hosted by Heather at Based on a True Story. The challenge is as follows: Celebrate your year of… 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
Every Friday Book Beginnings on Friday is hosted by Gillion at Rose City Reader where you can share the first sentence (or so) of the book you are reading. You can also share from a book you want to highlight… More| BooksPlease
The summary on Goodreads: A wickedly clever satire uses comic inversions to offer telling insights into the nature of man and society. Nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s The Great American Read.… More| BooksPlease
The spin number in The Classics Club Spin is number … which for me is Fire from Heaven by Mary Renault The rules of the Spin are that this is the book for me to read by 21 December …| BooksPlease
Before next Sunday, 15 June 2025 create a post that lists twenty books of your choice that remain “to be read” on your Classics Club list. On that day the Classics Club will post a number from 1 th…| BooksPlease
It’s almost time for Novellas in November, hosted by Cathy of 746 Books and Rebecca of Bookish Beck. I’ve already listed some novellas from my physical TBR shelves and today here are some from my TBR Kindle shelves:… More| BooksPlease
Before next Sunday, 19th October, 2025 create a post that lists twenty books of your choice that remain on your Classics Club list. On that day the Classics Club will post the winning number. The challenge is to read… More| BooksPlease
It’s almost time for Novellas in November, hosted by Cathy of 746 Books and Rebecca of Bookish Beck. It’s now in it’s sixth year. I took part in 2020, 2021 and 2022. There are no categories this year,… More| BooksPlease
WWW Wednesday is run by Taking on a World of Words. The Three Ws are: What are you currently reading?What did you recently finish reading?What do you think you’ll read next? I haven’t done a WWW Wednesday… More| BooksPlease
Viking| 4 September 2025| 272 pages| e-book| Review copy| 3* Gabriel Dax, travel writer and accidental spy, is back in the shadows. Unable to resist the allure of his MI6 handler, Faith Green, he has… More| BooksPlease
This is a monthly link-up hosted by Kate at Books Are My Favourite and Best. On the first Saturday of every month, a book is chosen as a starting point and linked to six other books to fo…| BooksPlease
Spell the Month in Books is a linkup hosted by Jana on Reviews From the Stacks on the first Saturday of each month. The goal is to spell the current month with the first letter of book titles, excl…| BooksPlease
Stacking the Shelves is hosted by Marlene at Reading Reality and the details are on her blog, as well as a huge amount of book reviews. Why not visit her blog if you haven’t already found…| BooksPlease
Canongate Books| 5 Jun. 2025| 427 pages| e-book| Review copy| 5* Description: 1854, Edinburgh.Respectable public faces hide sordid private sins.Apprentice Sarah Fisher is helping to fund Dr Will Ra…| BooksPlease
Jo who used to blog The Book Jotter is not running Six in Six again this year. The idea is to summarise the first six months of reading, sorting the books into six ca…| BooksPlease
I’m still catching up with writing about books I read in November. First published in 1931 Mystery in the Channel by Freeman Wills Crofts is a classic crime fiction novel written during the G…| BooksPlease
