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Blog: What's Going On and The Leopard in My House by Mark Steel from Dogwood Tales in the group Book Reviews by Dogwood Tales feed

Sat, 11 Jul 2026 17:05:59 +0100

I picked up two autobiographical books by Mark Steel as I’ve always enjoyed his standup and various radio shows. What’s Going On details his experiences of being on […]

Blog: Dooneen by Keith Ridgway review – uncanny visions of dark times in Dublin from Books | The Guardian in the group The Guardian book reviews

Thu, 25 Jun 2026 06:00:07 +0100

Ireland is trembling with nascent social unrest in this labyrinthine tale of one man’s homecomingIrish author Keith Ridgway’s latest novel deals, both mis […]

Blog: Short story prize clears winners of AI allegations after month-long review from The Independent Books in the group The Independent book reviews

Wed, 24 Jun 2026 13:01:28 +0100

Three of five regional winners had been accused of using AI to write their short stories

Blog: ‘Beautiful and terrifying’: the best American LGBTQ+ books, chosen by Samuel R Delany, Kaveh Akbar, Eileen Myles and more from Books | The Guardian in the group The Guardian book reviews

Wed, 24 Jun 2026 08:00:40 +0100

From 20th-century classics to little-known treasures, queer authors share their favorite books about LGBTQ+ life‘Sheer outrageousness’: writers on their fav […]

Blog: The Family Man by James Lasdun review – the killings that shocked America from Books | The Guardian in the group The Guardian book reviews

Wed, 24 Jun 2026 06:00:38 +0100

Alex Murdaugh’s conviction for the murder of his wife and son was recently overturned. Where does the truth lie?In March 2023, 54-year-old Alex Murdaugh received t […]

Burty Burtman edited the blog post 5 SciFi prompts in the group Writing prompts and inspirations

Tue, 23 Jun 2026 14:42:52 +0100

5 SciFi promptsRob Bignell shared these five sci-fi what-if style prompts.

Blog: Reader, I married him: couples tell us how books brought them together from Books | The Guardian in the group The Guardian book reviews

Tue, 23 Jun 2026 09:00:36 +0100

From book club meet-cutes to shared English Literature lectures, romance has blossomed beyond the page for these bibliophilesDua Lipa and Callum Turner have been […]

Blog: Fantastic Kingdom by Helene von Bismarck review – an outsider’s guide to British politics from Books | The Guardian in the group The Guardian book reviews

Tue, 23 Jun 2026 08:00:34 +0100

This stranger’s-eye-view of an eccentric nation promises insight but delivers only conventional wisdom‘Continental people have sex lives; the English have hot […]

Blog: Awake Awake by Fiona Mozley review – in pursuit of false memories from Books | The Guardian in the group The Guardian book reviews

Tue, 23 Jun 2026 06:00:33 +0100

From the Booker-shortlisted author, a tantalisingly unreliable account of childhood, history and mental uncertaintyThe historian and novelist Fiona Mozley […]

Blog: The Leveret By Anna Goldreich review – a hare mends the pain of baby loss from Books | The Guardian in the group The Guardian book reviews

Mon, 22 Jun 2026 08:00:50 +0100

This bold debut about a woman finding healing after a late miscarriage is written with utter convictionBirth. “A detaching, a loosening of something, then the p […]

Blog: The Reverse Centaur’s Guide to Life After AI by Cory Doctorow review – the real price of artificial intelligence from Books | The Guardian in the group The Guardian book reviews

Mon, 22 Jun 2026 06:00:52 +0100

A vivid and entertaining polemic on the economics of the tech revolution, filled with righteous ireAs former Google CEO Eric Schmidt could tell you, AI is a hard […]

Blog: M John Harrison: ‘If we met a real alien we’d have no clue what they thought’ from Books | The Guardian in the group The Guardian book reviews

Sun, 21 Jun 2026 11:00:29 +0100

At 80, SF author M John Harrison is producing some of his best work. He talks about finding his voice, alien intelligence and the advice from Iain Banks that still […]

Matthew Brown edited the blog post Let's invent words: Glimfleeble in the group Matthew D. Brown (Author)

Mon, 15 Jun 2026 10:34:33 +0100

Let's invent words: Glimfleeble Glimfleeble is now a word, I decided. Glimfleeble adj. Something that looks or sounds impressive and/or important because you have no idea what it is or how it works.

Blog: The Summer Book by Tove Jansson from Dogwood Tales in the group Book Reviews by Dogwood Tales feed

Sun, 14 Jun 2026 15:58:00 +0100

Tove Jansson was an artist and writer, best known for her Moomin stories concerning charming creatures living in an idyllic valley. Unusually for books written for […]

Matthew Brown wrote a new blog post The humans were not intimidated in the group Writing prompts and inspirations

Sat, 13 Jun 2026 20:00:00 +0100

The humans were not intimidatedTo: Admiral Zazizch;By: Encrypted Proxy 92a-256;Re: Your plan failedThe humans were not intimidated at all. Send reinforcements. Encounter log attached. (first blogged here)

Matthew Brown wrote a new blog post Humans always wore encounter suits with mirrored visors, but on day two-hundred and six of the thirteenth-hundred cycle of Vark by the Baralian reckoning, Tharg learned exactly why. It all started when… in the group Writing prompts and inspirations

Mon, 08 Jun 2026 20:00:00 +0100

Humans always wore encounter suits with mirrored visors, but on day two-hundred and six of the thirteenth-hundred cycle of Vark by the Baralian reckoning, Tharg learned exactly why. It all started when…(first blogged here)

Arves Corral joined the group Thanet Creative: Writers

Sun, 07 Jun 2026 23:32:35 +0100

Toni McHadden started the topic Just do a little in the forum Self care and motivation

Sun, 07 Jun 2026 16:00:56 +0100

When doing the thing feels too much, give yourself permission to do a tiny bit. If that is all you do, you have done infinitly more than if you did nothing.

Jane Smith joined the group Thanet Creative: Writers

Fri, 05 Jun 2026 11:38:48 +0100

Blog: Hidden for more than 100 years, this Edith Wharton story is finally being published from The Independent Books in the group The Independent book reviews

Fri, 05 Jun 2026 10:02:58 +0100

Titled ‘The Men Who Saved the World’, the previously unpublished work will appear in The Strand’s new issue

Adam Bassman joined the group Self care and motivation

Fri, 05 Jun 2026 00:36:49 +0100

Blog: Ambivalence by Brian Dillon review – an odd man out from Books | The Guardian in the group The Guardian book reviews

Wed, 03 Jun 2026 08:00:46 +0100

The critic’s memoir’s is a portrait in determination to go against the grain and ‘pursue a life in words and ideas’Brian Dillon lost his parents early, his mother […]

Blog: Wimmy Road Boyz by Sufiyaan Salam review – an electric debut set on Manchester’s Curry Mile from Books | The Guardian in the group The Guardian book reviews

Wed, 03 Jun 2026 06:00:44 +0100

Written in breathless multilingual prose, this coming-of-age meets state-of-the-nation novel is an incredible literary performanceThree twentysomethings “drive a […]

Blog: What we’re reading: writers and readers on the books they enjoyed in May from Books | The Guardian in the group The Guardian book reviews

Tue, 02 Jun 2026 10:39:16 +0100

Madeleine Thien, Sufiyaan Salam and Guardian readers discuss the titles they have read over the last month. Join the conversation in the commentsLately I have loved […]

Blog: My Only Boy by Rosa Rankin-Gee review – a darkly funny near-future dystopia from Books | The Guardian in the group The Guardian book reviews

Tue, 02 Jun 2026 08:00:42 +0100

A surprising romance is set against a backdrop of climate crisis, political instability and corporate corruption in this bleak but witty novelRosa Rankin-Gee […]

Blog: Tonight the Music Seems So Loud by Sathnam Sanghera review – a heartbreaking portrait of George Michael from Books | The Guardian in the group The Guardian book reviews

Tue, 02 Jun 2026 06:00:40 +0100

This affecting exploration of the troubled genius’s impact is packed with anecdote, sharp analysis and social contextIn 1998, George Michael was arrested for p […]

Blog: I devoured classic novels as a teenager. In a world of distractions, can I relearn how to read them? from Books | The Guardian in the group The Guardian book reviews

Tue, 02 Jun 2026 04:00:38 +0100

In less than a decade, surrounded by screens, I lost my ability to read some of the best books ever written. But, inspired by the Guardian’s 100 best novels list, I […]

Blog: Land by Maggie O’Farrell review – an ambitious story of mapmaking in Ireland from Books | The Guardian in the group The Guardian book reviews

Mon, 01 Jun 2026 06:00:09 +0100

Set in the aftermath of the famine, the Hamnet author’s family saga folds in myth and folklore‘His father was ever a man of few words,” begins Maggie O’Far […]

Blog: Are ‘mind children’ the future of reproduction? from Books | The Guardian in the group The Guardian book reviews

Sun, 31 May 2026 11:00:47 +0100

Forget dirty nappies. In Silicon Valley, there’s increasing chatter about virtual offspringA few months ago, an AI researcher from Europe attended a dinner party i […]

Matthew Brown wrote a new blog post The sewer elves are causing trouble again in the group Writing prompts and inspirations

Sat, 30 May 2026 19:00:00 +0100

Blog: Virginia Evans: ‘I loved books about things that can’t exist’ from Books | The Guardian in the group The Guardian book reviews

Fri, 29 May 2026 09:00:46 +0100

The Women’s prize-shortlisted novelist on taking inspiration from John Steinbeck, Joan Didion and Jhumpa Lahiri, and weeping through Little Women in her 30sMy e […]

Blog: The best recent translated fiction – review roundup from Books | The Guardian in the group The Guardian book reviews

Fri, 29 May 2026 08:00:45 +0100

Sisters in Yellow by Mieko Kawakami; All Flesh by Ananda Devi; The White Desert by Luis López Carrasco; The Home of the Drowned by Elin Anna LabbaSisters in Yellow […]

Blog: The Invention of Morel by Adolfo Bioy Casares from Dogwood Tales in the group Book Reviews by Dogwood Tales feed

Sun, 24 May 2026 17:27:30 +0100

This is a remarkable short science fiction novel written in 1940 by Argentinian author Adolfo Bioy Casares, originally published in Spanish and translated into […]

Matthew Brown wrote a new blog post Your new house has a series pixie infestation in the group Writing prompts and inspirations

Sat, 23 May 2026 19:00:00 +0100

Acorn Boi joined the group Writing prompts and inspirations

Thu, 21 May 2026 16:14:33 +0100

Jason Latnar replied to the topic Added a STP podcast to the group in the forum Fans of Sir Terry Pratchett

Thu, 21 May 2026 16:09:57 +0100

Approved!!

Matthew Brown started the topic Added a STP podcast to the group in the forum Fans of Sir Terry Pratchett

Thu, 21 May 2026 16:07:59 +0100

I found a STP podcast on Mastodon. I’ve added it as an external blog feed so new episodes should show up for subscribers to STP’s group.

Matthew Brown wrote a new blog post Something just escaped from your computer game in the group Writing prompts and insperations

Tue, 19 May 2026 20:00:00 +0100

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

Mon, 18 May 2026 11:00:00 +0100

You work as a process server. You must deliver subpoenas to everyone in this photo.

Blog: Faceless Killers by Henning Mankell from Dogwood Tales in the group Book Reviews by Dogwood Tales feed

Sun, 17 May 2026 19:12:57 +0100

A classic Nordic noir thriller, featuring the archetypal hangdog detective. Kurt Wallander is middle aged, recently divorced, overweight and suffering from an […]

Matthew Brown wrote a new blog post You work as an investigator. Your job is to find ghosts that do not want to be found. in the group Writing prompts and insperations

Sun, 17 May 2026 19:00:00 +0100

Matthew Brown wrote a new blog post You work as a process server. You must deliver an injunction to one specific cat. You have until midnight. in the group Writing prompts and insperations

Sat, 16 May 2026 17:00:00 +0100

Jason Latnar wrote a new blog post A story told purely in radio transmissions in the group Writing prompts and insperations

Fri, 15 May 2026 08:00:00 +0100

Jason Latnar wrote a new blog post Can you tell us the story that ties these images together? in the group Writing prompts and insperations

Thu, 14 May 2026 09:00:00 +0100

Can you tell us the story that ties these images together?

Matthew Brown wrote a new blog post Everywherre you go, you see the same pair of eyes watching you in the group Writing prompts and insperations

Wed, 13 May 2026 20:00:00 +0100

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

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.

Blog: The Folklore of Announcements from Pratchat in the group Fans of Sir Terry Pratchett

Fri, 08 May 2026 03:20:47 +0100

Another brief announcement from Ben that our Folklore of Discworld episode has been delayed for a third month! We’re very sorry about this. Hopefully we’ll be bac […]