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Blog: November Reflections from
Becky's Book Reviews in the group Book bloggers 3 weeks, 1 day agoThis month I read 18 books. Several of them were audio books.Books reviewed at Becky’s Book Reviews114. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. (Harry Potter #7) J.K. […]
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Blog: Century of Viewing, Month 11 from
Becky's Book Reviews in the group Book bloggers 3 weeks, 1 day agoThis month I watched 43 things! Twenty I rated five stars! 5 Star MoviesThe Day the Earth Stood Still (1951)The Belle of New YorkGarfield ThanksgivingPlanes, […]
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Blog: From Dylan Thomas’ shopping list to a note from Sylvia Plath’s doctor: newly uncovered case files reveal the hidden lives of famous writers from
Books | The Guardian in the group The Guardian book reviews 3 weeks, 1 day agoExclusive: Hardship grant applications to the Royal Literary Fund, including unseen letters by Doris Lessing and a note from James Joyce saying that he ‘gets n […]
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Blog: The best recent translated fiction – review roundup from
Books | The Guardian in the group The Guardian book reviews 3 weeks, 1 day agoThe Ferryman and His Wife by Frode Grytten; Woman in the Pillory by Brigitte Reimann; Iran+100, edited by various; Sea Now by Eva MeijerThe Ferryman and His Wife by […]
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Blog: Tessa Hadley: ‘Uneasy books are good in uneasy times’ from
Books | The Guardian in the group The Guardian book reviews 3 weeks, 1 day agoThe author on Anna Karenina, the brilliance of Anita Brookner and finally getting NabokovMy earliest reading memory
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Matthew Brown wrote a new blog post
The best way to sell books is to sell books in the group Author Platforms: 3 weeks, 1 day agoThe best way to sell books is to sell booksNothing sells a book to a reader like selling another book to the reader and them loving it. Fiction authors can platform build just by finishing more books.
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Blog: Bog People: A Working-Class Anthology of Folk Horror review – dark tales with a sting from
Books | The Guardian in the group The Guardian book reviews 3 weeks, 1 day agoThis collection of macabre stories set across England explores class, hierarchy and the enduring nature of inequalityFolk horror may have had a dramatic resurgence […]
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Blog: Singing? from
Punning in the group Dad Jokes and Funny Memes 3 weeks, 2 days agoDid you know that at any given moment, the urge to sing, “The Lion Sleeps Tonight” is just a whim away, a whim away, a whim away…
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Blog: Sally Rooney says she will be unable to publish books in UK while Palestine Action banned from
Books | The Guardian in the group The Guardian book reviews 3 weeks, 2 days agoAuthor tells high court her public support for group means her books could disappear from UK stores altogetherThe Irish author Sally Rooney has told the high court […]
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Blog: A Particularly Nasty Case by Adam Kay audiobook review – a wayward doctor turns detective from
Books | The Guardian in the group The Guardian book reviews 3 weeks, 2 days agoAndy Serkis revels in his narration of the first murder mystery from the author of This Is Going to Hurt, which showcases Kay’s signature pitch-black humourDr E […]
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Blog: The London Book Fair announces first line-up of industry speakers for LBF 2026 from
The Hub by The London Book Fair | Publishing News in the group The London Bookfair Hub Blog 3 weeks, 2 days agoLondon, Wednesday 26 November 2025. The London Book Fair (LBF) has today announced the first industry names who will be speaking at next year’s Fair (10-12 March […]
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Matthew Brown wrote a new blog post
The reader onboarding problem in the group Author Platforms: 3 weeks, 2 days agoThe reader onboarding problemWe authors have but one problem – reader onboarding. Once a reader loves one of your books, they are on board to read the rest. The […]
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Blog: Only Rogue Actions, Jennifer Estep from
RogerBW's Blog: reading in the group Book Reviews by RogerBW feed 3 weeks, 3 days ago2025 romantic SF, fifth of an ongoing series. Vesper Quill and Kyrion
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Matthew Brown wrote a new blog post
Your author platform is not marketing it is reputation in the group Author Platforms: 3 weeks, 3 days agoYour author platform is not marketing it is reputationAn author platform is not (just) marketing. In fact, it is mostly anything but marketing. Marketing is what you use to grow your platform. […]
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Blog: Books I Read in October 2025 from
A Little Blog of Books in the group Book bloggers 3 weeks, 4 days agoMoveable Feasts: Paris in Twenty Meals by Chris Newens sees the expat Englishman tour the 20 arrondissements of the French capital, sampling the local cuisine of […]
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Blog: 120. A Time Traveler's Masquerade from
Becky's Book Reviews in the group Book bloggers 3 weeks, 4 days ago120. A Time Traveler’s Masquerade. (McQuivey’s Costume Shop Romance). Sian Ann Bessey. 2025. 296 pages. [Source: Library] [3 stars, historical romance, time […]
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Matthew Brown wrote a new blog post
You were never selling books in the group Author Platforms: 3 weeks, 4 days agoYou were never selling booksAs an author, your job has never been to sell books. Readers don’t buy books; they buy trust in an author. That’s what you are selling – […]
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Blog: Poem of the week: Missing You by Miles Burrows from
Books | The Guardian in the group The Guardian book reviews 3 weeks, 5 days agoThe moon becomes the witty image of an isolated and contemptuously neglected elderly relationMissing YouSlow Puncture by Miles Burrows (Carcanet Press, £12.99). To […]
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Blog: Burning Bright, Melissa Scott from
RogerBW's Blog: reading in the group Book Reviews by RogerBW feed 3 weeks, 5 days ago1993 sf. Quinn Lioe is a pilot and a Gamer, and a layover on the world
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Matthew Brown wrote a new blog post
What an author platform is not in the group Author Platforms: 3 weeks, 5 days agoWhat an author platform is notThere can be some confusion around what exactly an author platform is or is not. Here are a few things an author platform definitely is […]
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Blog: Has Britain become an economic colony? from
Books | The Guardian in the group The Guardian book reviews 3 weeks, 6 days agoThe UK could’ve been a true tech leader – but it has cheerfully submitted to US dominance in a way that may cost it dearTwo and a half centuries ago, the Ame […]
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Blog: What a Carve Up by Jonathan Coe from
Dogwood Tales in the group Book Reviews by Dogwood Tales feed 3 weeks, 6 days agoAnother entry in the humour strand of our book club and one that I’m a bit ambivalent about to be honest. The story starts with a potted history of the Winshaws of […]
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Blog: Jokes about German sausage are the wurst from
Punning in the group Dad Jokes and Funny Memes 4 weeks, 1 day ago
