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Charles Maxwell posted an update 4 months, 3 weeks ago
Hulk Hogan has died 🙁
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Matthew Brown posted an update in the group
Author Buzz HQ 4 months, 3 weeks agoI’m just running a backup, and then there will be a few moments of essential maintenance. If all goes according to plan, no one will notice anything.
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jeffjohns posted an update 4 months, 3 weeks ago
Feeling uninspired
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A conceptual gold star for some amazing people in the group Thanet Creative: Writers: 4 months, 3 weeks agoA conceptual gold star for some amazing people
Yesterday at our writers’ night, a bit of an emergency developed. I want to thank everyone whose response no doubt made a big difference in the […] -
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Word gangs, clones, and pacing, on the groupblog Thanet Creative 4 months, 3 weeks agoThe pain is real
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Matthew Brown posted an update in the group
Author Buzz HQ 4 months, 3 weeks ago…and bang! The spam is gone.
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Matthew Brown posted an update in the group
Author Buzz HQ 4 months, 3 weeks agoWe’ve been hammered by a big spam run. I’m cleaning it up as fast as I can.
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Blog: I’ve already read 30 books this year, but this is my standout favourite from
The Independent Books in the group The Independent book reviews 4 months, 3 weeks agoThis could be the best debut of the year
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Blog: Children and teens roundup – the best new picture books and novels from
Books | The Guardian in the group The Guardian book reviews 4 months, 3 weeks agoA picture of patience; first days at school; a cruise ship detective; a terrible storm; time travellers; rebels in love and morePut Your Shoes On by Polly Dunbar, Wa […]
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Blog: Gurnaik Johal: ‘I had no idea Zadie Smith was such a big deal!’ from
Books | The Guardian in the group The Guardian book reviews 4 months, 3 weeks agoThe author on a brilliant biography of Buster Keaton, coming round to Joseph Conrad, and marathon training with Karl Ove KnausgårdMy earliest reading memory
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Blog: Fair by Jen Calleja review – on the magic of translation from
Books | The Guardian in the group The Guardian book reviews 4 months, 3 weeks agoA highly original book from the author of Goblinhood explores the art and work of translating fictionJen Calleja is used to making things happen for herself, by […]
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Blog: Sounds Wasps Make from
Punning in the group Dad Jokes and Funny Memes 4 months, 3 weeks agoI bought a vinyl record yesterday called “Sounds Wasps Make”. When I got home and played the record, it didn’t sound anything like wasps. Then I realised I was […]
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Blog: ‘A novel to be swept away by’: Lucy Steeds wins Waterstones debut fiction prize for The Artist from
Books | The Guardian in the group The Guardian book reviews 4 months, 3 weeks agoJudges praised the novel, set in 1920s Provence, for its ‘atmospheric, sensory prose’ and described Steeds as ‘an exciting new voice’Lucy Steeds has won the 2025 Wa […]
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Blog: Fundamentally by Nussaibah Younis audiobook review – a sharp comedy about Islamic State brides from
Books | The Guardian in the group The Guardian book reviews 4 months, 3 weeks agoSarah Slimani’s droll delivery is the perfect fit for this hilarious Women’s prize-shortlisted debut, in which an academic embarks on a UN mission in IraqNadia Ami […]
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Blog: Drayton and Mackenzie by Alexander Starritt review – a warmly comic saga of male friendship from
Books | The Guardian in the group The Guardian book reviews 4 months, 3 weeks agoThis tale of two entrepreneurs dips into the perspectives of real-life tech moguls, with thrilling resultsScottish-German author Alexander Starritt’s debut, The Beas […]
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Blog: The Benefits of Wearing All Your Hats at Once (Emotionally and Physically) from
Matrix Dreams in the group Matrix Dreams 4 months, 4 weeks agoBy Jane Sillybottom, Expert in Everything (Especially the Impractical) My dearest dandelions of destiny, People often stop me in the street, or rather, they stop […]
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Blog: My dogs… from
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Blog: Delicious Air Fryer by Mob – Sainsbury’s from
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Blog: Poem of the week: Salt, Snow, Earth by Naomi Foyle from
Books | The Guardian in the group The Guardian book reviews 4 months, 4 weeks agoThe relentless cycle of human violence plays out as a brutal symbolic gameSalt, Snow, EarthSalt bites Snow.
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Blog: ‘Coupledom is very oppressing’: Swedish author Gun-Britt Sundström on the revival of her cult anti-marriage novel from
Books | The Guardian in the group The Guardian book reviews 5 months agoAs her million-selling 70s novel, Engagement, is translated into English for the first time, the Swedish author talks about life at 80, finding the ideal love, and […]
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Blog: Should we ban opinion polls? from
Books | The Guardian in the group The Guardian book reviews 5 months agoThey claim to reflect public sentiment. But they’re better thought of as just another species of misinformationAhead of the 2016 US presidential election, opinion p […]
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Blog: Cool Like a Cucumber in a Woollen Waistcoat: Surviving Heatwaves the Sillybottom Way from
Matrix Dreams in the group Matrix Dreams 5 months agoBy Lady Jane Sillybottom, Unaccredited Thermologist and Hat-Based Survival Expert Darlings, do you feel the sun breathing down your neck like a sweaty tax collector […]
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Blog: Books I Read in June 2025 from
A Little Blog of Books in the group Book bloggers 5 months agoQuestion 7 by Richard Flanagan won last year’s Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction and is a seamless combination of memoir, history, science and ethics. It c […]
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Blog: Abeer Ameer shortlisted for Forward Prize for Best Single Poem from
Seren in the group Seren Books 5 months agoWe’re delighted to see that Abeer Ameer, author of Inhale/Exile, is shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Best Single Poem – Written for her poem ‘At Least’ first p […]
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Blog: The UK army does not accept applicants aged six and under from
Punning in the group Dad Jokes and Funny Memes 5 months ago
