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Matthew Brown wrote a new blog post Your best friend just confessed that she's not from Earth. in the group Writing prompts and insperations

Tue, 12 May 2026 19:00:00 +0100

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Matthew Brown wrote a new blog post You work as a process server. You must deliver this summons to Death himself. in the group Writing prompts and insperations

Mon, 11 May 2026 11:00:00 +0100

Matthew Brown edited the blog post Next year you will invent time travel in the group Writing prompts and insperations

Sun, 10 May 2026 11:00:00 +0100

Matthew Brown edited the blog post So, it turns out your best friend is a shapeshifter. in the group Writing prompts and insperations

Sat, 09 May 2026 19:30:44 +0100

So, it turns out your best friend is a shapeshifter.They’re missing.

Jason Latnar edited the blog post Is AI here to stay? in the group Shall we talk?

Sat, 09 May 2026 17:22:13 +0100

Is AI here to stay? The replying isBrill crew are discussing if AI is the future (of coding). Is AI the future for books and writing books, too? Do you use AI to […]

Matthew Brown edited the blog post Survival acid indicator in the group Matthew D. Brown (Author)

Thu, 07 May 2026 21:37:55 +0100

Survival acid indicator I needed to have a character test the acidity of the water without any access to modern technology. Fortunately, there are some fairly common foods that can be used. Red cabbage is the best indicator, but cherry, rose petals, and beets alsoContinue reading“Survival acid indicator”

Blog: Mariana 627 from Soft SciFi in the group Soft Sci-Fi is Brill

Thu, 07 May 2026 17:00:00 +0100

Blog: The Romance Edit: May from Mills & Boon Blog in the group Mills and Boon fans

Thu, 07 May 2026 13:59:14 +0100

Welcome to the May issue of The Romance Edit. With summer nearly here, and the days getting warmer, we’ve got … Continued

Blog: Imminent Arrival from Soft SciFi in the group Soft Sci-Fi is Brill

Wed, 06 May 2026 21:00:00 +0100

Blog: The Ex Hex, Erin Sterling from RogerBW's Blog: reading in the group Book Reviews by RogerBW feed

Wed, 06 May 2026 08:03:00 +0100

2021 urban fantasy romance, first of a trilogy. Nine years ago
Vivienne had a summer thing with Rhys, youngest son of the Welsh
family that founded the small and […]

Blog: Lost in the Sky from Soft SciFi in the group Soft Sci-Fi is Brill

Tue, 05 May 2026 14:00:00 +0100

Blog: PLANET from Soft SciFi in the group Soft Sci-Fi is Brill

Mon, 04 May 2026 22:00:00 +0100

Set in the year 2730 IA, Dr. Evren Kon dares to think beyond a United Council request to build an orbital supercomputer and proposes an idea far bolder: a plan to […]

Blog: Summer – Autumn 2026 Preview from Daunt Books Publishing in the group Daunt Books

Mon, 04 May 2026 15:07:34 +0100

JULY Dad Had a Bad Day by Ashton Politanoff | Fiction | £10.99 | 02 July 2026 An exhilarating, disturbing and darkly comic spiral into a sad dad’s increasingly […]

Blog: Why Planes Crash Case Files 2003, Sylvia Wrigley from RogerBW's Blog: reading in the group Book Reviews by RogerBW feed

Mon, 04 May 2026 08:01:00 +0100

2016 non-fiction, aviation history. Wrigley looks into a number of
aircraft incidents.

Blog: The Other Side (indie short) from Soft SciFi in the group Soft Sci-Fi is Brill

Sun, 03 May 2026 10:00:00 +0100

Blog: DUST: Astro Animations Vol. 3 from Soft SciFi in the group Soft Sci-Fi is Brill

Sat, 02 May 2026 22:00:00 +0100

Blog: DUST: Astro-Animations Vol. 2 from Soft SciFi in the group Soft Sci-Fi is Brill

Fri, 01 May 2026 15:00:00 +0100

Jason Latnar commented on the post, Independent Bookstore Day: Bookshop.org founder on how small retailers are taking on Amazon, on the groupblog Outside News

Fri, 01 May 2026 11:59:37 +0100

I know, right.

Blog: Stolen in Death, J. D. Robb from RogerBW's Blog: reading in the group Book Reviews by RogerBW feed

Fri, 01 May 2026 08:01:00 +0100

2026 romance/SF/mystery; 62nd novel of Robb’s In Death series (SF
police procedurals). After a burglary, the multimillionaire is dead,
and his secret vault of […]

Blog: DUST: Astro-Animations Vol. 1 from Soft SciFi in the group Soft Sci-Fi is Brill

Thu, 30 Apr 2026 15:51:28 +0100

Blog: Star Trek or Star Wars? from Soft SciFi in the group Soft Sci-Fi is Brill

Thu, 30 Apr 2026 12:53:03 +0100

Blog: DUST – Crash Site from Soft SciFi in the group Soft Sci-Fi is Brill

Wed, 29 Apr 2026 12:00:00 +0100

Sam Smith commented on the post, Independent Bookstore Day: Bookshop.org founder on how small retailers are taking on Amazon, on the groupblog Outside News

Tue, 28 Apr 2026 12:49:03 +0100

How am I only now learning about this?

Jason Latnar joined the group Book reviews and recommendations

Tue, 28 Apr 2026 12:47:56 +0100

Jason Latnar edited the blog post Independent Bookstore Day: Bookshop.org founder on how small retailers are taking on Amazon in the group Outside News

Tue, 28 Apr 2026 12:21:28 +0100

Independent Bookstore Day: Bookshop.org founder on how small retailers are taking on Amazon Independent bookstores are beacons of hope, offering intangible commodities such as connection, empathy, and knowledge, in addition to physical […]

Blog: Trial 54 from Soft SciFi in the group Soft Sci-Fi is Brill

Tue, 28 Apr 2026 12:00:00 +0100

Blog: Danger Point, Patricia Wentworth from RogerBW's Blog: reading in the group Book Reviews by RogerBW feed

Tue, 28 Apr 2026 08:01:00 +0100

1941 mystery/thriller, fourth in the Miss Silver series. Lisle
Jerningham is newly married, but nervy; someone who knows her
husband’s family has been talking […]

Blog: Having Spent Life Seeking by Kae Tempest review – painfully earnest tale of trauma and transition from Books | The Guardian in the group The Guardian book reviews

Tue, 28 Apr 2026 08:00:45 +0100

An ex-offender searches for meaning and beauty in the second novel from the spoken-word performerKae Tempest’s new novel is dedicated to “you”, the reader. It also […]

Blog: This Dark Night by Deborah Lutz review – Emily Brontë’s world from Books | The Guardian in the group The Guardian book reviews

Tue, 28 Apr 2026 06:00:43 +0100

Tactile details and a no-nonsense approach make this biography a refreshing change from more lurid fareBoth Emily Brontë and her only novel Wuthering Heights […]

Blog: Will Get Starstruck For Consoles from Fully Ramblomatic - the blog of Yahtzee Croshaw in the group Fans of Yahtzee Croshaw

Mon, 27 Apr 2026 20:22:00 +0100

Time for me to once again remember I have a personal blog so I can post announcements for a couple of things. Both of them this time in the form of videos. First […]

Blog: Zadie Smith: ‘I don’t know when I read men any more’ from Books | The Guardian in the group The Guardian book reviews

Mon, 27 Apr 2026 14:30:50 +0100

At a talk on her latest essay collection, Dead and Alive, Smith said she ‘sometimes’ reads male novelists, but more often seeks the wisdom of older female wri […]

Blog: Astronauts land on a planet they think is uninhabited from Soft SciFi in the group Soft Sci-Fi is Brill

Mon, 27 Apr 2026 13:00:00 +0100

Blog: Famesick by Lena Dunham review – when celebrity causes side-effects from Books | The Guardian in the group The Guardian book reviews

Mon, 27 Apr 2026 08:00:38 +0100

The Girls creator has endured brickbats and breakdowns – but she doesn’t always make it easy to feel sorry for herAt the end of last year, Netflix released Too Muc […]

Blog: The Things We Never Say by Elizabeth Strout review – readers will delight in these new characters from Books | The Guardian in the group The Guardian book reviews

Mon, 27 Apr 2026 06:00:37 +0100

The Olive Kitteridge and Lucy Barton author branches out with the tale of a Massachusetts teacher haunted by traumaThe American author Elizabeth Strout famously […]

Blog: ‘It’s still a no-go area’: German author Matthias Jügler on the trauma surrounding the GDR’s ‘stolen children’ from Books | The Guardian in the group The Guardian book reviews

Sun, 26 Apr 2026 11:00:16 +0100

The reaction among officials in Germany to his bestselling novel has been hostile. As Mayfly Season is published in the UK, its author explains whyA few weeks after […]

Blog: Do stronger borders ever work? from Books | The Guardian in the group The Guardian book reviews

Sun, 26 Apr 2026 11:00:15 +0100

Leaders have thrown up walls and barriers throughout history – but their effects are unpredictableFour millennia ago, a Sumerian king, his frontier beset by n […]

Blog: DUST – The Greatest Lie from Soft SciFi in the group Soft Sci-Fi is Brill

Sun, 26 Apr 2026 11:00:00 +0100

Real hints of Fahrenheit 451 in this short film.

Blog: The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler from Dogwood Tales in the group Book Reviews by Dogwood Tales feed

Sun, 26 Apr 2026 09:43:00 +0100

I watched the 1946 adaptation of this a few weeks ago and finished the original novel after getting somewhat bogged down in the plot about halfway through.The film […]

Blog: DUST – The Big Nothing from Soft SciFi in the group Soft Sci-Fi is Brill

Sat, 25 Apr 2026 11:00:46 +0100

Blog: Joe Dunthorne: ‘Growing up in Swansea, I developed an allergy to Dylan Thomas’ from Books | The Guardian in the group The Guardian book reviews

Fri, 24 Apr 2026 09:00:35 +0100

The author on feeling Thomas Hardy’s pain, being duped by Donna Tartt and how reading his sister’s copy of Trainspotting made him want to writeMy earliest rea […]

Blog: DUST – Hard Reset from Soft SciFi in the group Soft Sci-Fi is Brill

Fri, 24 Apr 2026 09:00:00 +0100

Blog: The Flying Legion, George Allen England from RogerBW's Blog: reading in the group Book Reviews by RogerBW feed

Fri, 24 Apr 2026 08:02:00 +0100

1920 adventurous SF novel. Bored after the War, "The Master"
determines to gather some like-minded people and find Adventure!

Blog: A Family Matter by Claire Lynch audiobook review – an award-winning story of homophobia and divorce from Books | The Guardian in the group The Guardian book reviews

Thu, 23 Apr 2026 14:00:15 +0100

Dual timelines reveal the real reason a mother was forced to leave her daughter in the 80s, in this Nero prize-winning novel inspired by real-life eventsThe debut […]

Blog: DUST – Starfisher from Soft SciFi in the group Soft Sci-Fi is Brill

Thu, 23 Apr 2026 08:33:21 +0100

Blog: The Lady With the Gun Asks the Questions, Kerry Greenwood from RogerBW's Blog: reading in the group Book Reviews by RogerBW feed

Thu, 23 Apr 2026 08:02:00 +0100

2021 historical detection short stories, in Greenwood’s Phryne Fisher
series (1920s flapper detective in Australia).

Blog: Collision Course, Michelle Diener from RogerBW's Blog: reading in the group Book Reviews by RogerBW feed

Wed, 22 Apr 2026 08:01:00 +0100

2024 SF/romance, sixth in (and a late addition to) the Class 5 series.
Dav, Sazo and a pregnant Rose are on the expedition to make contact
with the race that built […]

Matthew Brown wrote a new blog post Meet Debbie Young in the group Author appearances and events

Wed, 22 Apr 2026 08:00:00 +0100

Meet Debbie Young Where: Bingham Hall, King Street, Cirencester, Gloucestershire, GL7 1JT When: Saturday 16th May 2026 – doors open at 10:30 Entry: F […]

Matthew Brown wrote a new blog post Meet the Best First Novel Award Shortlisted Authors: Q&A and readings (Authors' Club) in the group Author appearances and events

Tue, 21 Apr 2026 08:00:00 +0100

Meet the Best First Novel Award Shortlisted Authors: Q&A and readings (Authors' Club) Lucy Popescu presents the debut novelists shortlisted for the Authors’ Club’s Best First Novel Award. Come and meet the authors, buy their b […]

Blog: Deep Wizardry, Diane Duane from RogerBW's Blog: reading in the group Book Reviews by RogerBW feed

Mon, 20 Apr 2026 08:02:00 +0100

1985 fantasy for children (and everyone else), second of its series.
Nita and Kit are on a family holiday on Long Island, when a
whale-wizard in distress invites […]