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2020 historical mystery anthology, a crossover between four authors.
The pocket watch known as La Sirène has always been said to be
cursed. But is it really?

2022 fantasy-romance, second of its loose series. Poppy got drunk
after a bad breakup, and thinks she put some real cursing magic into
one of the crystal trinkets […]

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Madeleine Gray has followed her hit debut with a sharp take on complicated parenting. She discusses love, sex and famous fansMadeleine Gray remembers the first time […]

Allowing payments to organ donors would undoubtedly save lives. So what are the psychological – and political – impediments?Right now, about 7,000 people are awa […]

Here is some recent AI spam. This comment actually talks about the topic of the post, which is a step up from the generic one-size-fits-all comments. Not shown are […]

Boss Level came out four years ago. Still looks good. Pretty sure I’ve seen it already, even though I’ve never had a Hulu account. I’d watch it again, though.
The […]

I wasn’t impressed by the Princess Bride when I first saw clips of it. It looked like a cheap and corny fantasy film, on a par with something like Hawk the Slayer. […]

As a bookish child with a distant father and a disapproving mother, the Curious Incident author retreated into a world of his own. Looking back, he asks what it […]

From handbags to drug gangs to central banks – one of Britain’s finest investigative reporters reveals the surprising links in a global chain of crimeQuestion: why […]

Caring canines; daring donuts; a golden monkey; a boy from another planet; a dark take on Little Women and moreThe Good Deed Dogs by Emma Chichester Clark, Walker, […]

The Scottish author on a masterclass from Toni Morrison, the brilliance of Simone de Beauvoir and the trim novel by Tove Jansson containing everything that really […]

Inspired by a conversation with Russ
Allbery, I found myself
thinking that while I know a lot of the standard science fiction terms
(FTL, big dumb object, […]

I set out to learn which of the many map plugins available to WordPress users were good enough for a project that was pitched to me recently. I will need something […]

To mark the publication of Jean, Madeleine Dunnigan will be speaking at the following events. Wednesday 11 February – Goldsmith’s College, London Wednesday 18 […]

Once more, I am testing mapping stuff out and need posts with geo-tags. This is the second post with something that passes as a geo-tag.
The post More map play […]

Alex Jennings’s performance hums with buried rage in Christopher Isherwood’s landmark exploration of griefAt the start of A Single Man, George Falconer wakes up at […]

The Canadian poet, whose winning collection explores environmental and personal loss, discusses making art in existential timesEarly on in her latest collection, […]

2008 romance/SF/mystery; fifth of its series but effectively
stand-alone. Sierra McIntyre may be working for a trashy tabloid, but
she’s still going after the big […]

The ghosts of Lincoln in the Bardo return to confront a dying oil man’s destructive legacy – but this time they feel like a gimmickGeorge Saunders is back in the […]

I’m currently playing with map and geo-tag location data for putting my posts on maps. This post has pseudo-random geo data. 51° 12 N 1° 30 E
The post Mapping my p […]

2021 historical thriller, sixth of its series. Veronica and Stoker are
specifically not asked to look into the suspicious death of an
English female climber in a […]

Welcome to the January issue of The Romance Edit. It’s a new year, and we’ve got the perfect books to … Continued