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Blog: Week in Review #48 from
Becky's Book Reviews in the group Book bloggers 3 weeks, 5 days agoThis week I read three books.119. Anne of the Island. L.M. Montgomery. 1915. 272 pages. [Source: Bought] [5 stars, classics, romance, friendship]120. A Time […]
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Blog: Quentin Tarantino blasts The Hunger Games for being a PG ‘rip-off’ of cult classic from
The Independent Books in the group The Independent book reviews 3 weeks, 5 days ago‘The Hunger Games’ author Suzanne Collins has previously denied the claim
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Blog: ‘If I was American, I’d be worried about my country’: Margaret Atwood answers questions from Ai Weiwei, Rebecca Solnit and more from
Books | The Guardian in the group The Guardian book reviews 3 weeks, 5 days agoDemocracy, birds and hangover cures – famous fans put their questions to the visionary authorAfter the phenomenal global success, not to mention timeliness, of th […]
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Blog: November Reflections from
Becky's Book Reviews in the group Book bloggers 3 weeks, 6 days 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, 6 days 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, 6 days 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, 6 days 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, 6 days 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, 6 days 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, 6 days 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 4 weeks 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 4 weeks 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 4 weeks 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 4 weeks 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: 4 weeks 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 4 weeks, 1 day ago2025 romantic SF, fifth of an ongoing series. Vesper Quill and Kyrion
Caldaren are about to go into an automated arena to test and
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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: 4 weeks, 1 day 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 1 month 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 1 month 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: 1 month 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 1 month 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 1 month 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: 1 month 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 […]
