Author Buzz | Toni McHadden | Group Activity https://authorbuzz.co.uk/members/tonimchadden/activity/groups/ Public group activity feed of which Toni McHadden is a member. Wed, 29 Apr 2026 16:32:40 +0100 https://buddypress.org/?v= en-GB 30 hourly 2 ac366924808aa41e3c5e6966f1868e70 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 https://news.authorbuzz.co.uk/bookish-news/2026/04/28/independent-bookstore-day-bookshop-org-founder-on-how-small-retailers-are-taking-on-amazon/#comment-132 Tue, 28 Apr 2026 12:49:03 +0100 How am I only now learning about this?

]]> 0f8ad2c5fe78a0996f2376c8ddcd9210 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 https://news.authorbuzz.co.uk/bookish-news/2026/04/28/independent-bookstore-day-bookshop-org-founder-on-how-small-retailers-are-taking-on-amazon/ 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 […]

]]> 5e484b63e86d5855a5037ff2b17d1418 Blog: Danger Point, Patricia Wentworth from RogerBW's Blog: reading in the group Book Reviews by RogerBW feed https://blog.firedrake.org/archive/2026/04/Danger_Point__Patricia_Wentworth.html 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 […]

]]> 0 c15e15a7473af15ffef10ea7e616ef2e 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 https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2026/apr/28/having-spent-life-seeking-by-kae-tempest-review-painfully-earnest-tale-of-trauma-and-transition 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 […]

]]> 0 5d129ac5dced1a9e5d535c539b553c9e Blog: This Dark Night by Deborah Lutz review – Emily Brontë’s world from Books | The Guardian in the group The Guardian book reviews https://www.theguardian.com/books/2026/apr/28/this-dark-night-by-deborah-lutz-review-an-illuminating-window-on-emily-brontes-world 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 […]

]]> 0 29790c980d1de4309d44819cf298cee8 Blog: Zadie Smith: ‘I don’t know when I read men any more’ from Books | The Guardian in the group The Guardian book reviews https://www.theguardian.com/books/2026/apr/27/zadie-smith-says-rarely-reads-male-authors 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 […]

]]> 0 046d5aef841b7a0dc8a51d0eca0ad369 Blog: Famesick by Lena Dunham review – when celebrity causes side-effects from Books | The Guardian in the group The Guardian book reviews https://www.theguardian.com/books/2026/apr/27/famesick-by-lena-dunham-review-when-celebrity-causes-side-effects 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 […]

]]> 0 d140e8cdcf57a21c73971c92949a2489 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 https://www.theguardian.com/books/2026/apr/27/the-things-we-never-say-by-elizabeth-strout-review-readers-will-delight-in-these-new-characters 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 […]

]]> 0 d31bef45b6db4181507095b98e60ac73 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 https://www.theguardian.com/books/2026/apr/26/its-still-a-no-go-area-german-author-matthias-jugler-on-the-trauma-surrounding-the-gdrs-stolen-children 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 […]

]]> 0 dcbff94bea80de8ceb9048b50470538e Blog: Do stronger borders ever work? from Books | The Guardian in the group The Guardian book reviews https://www.theguardian.com/books/2026/apr/26/do-stronger-borders-ever-work 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 […]

]]> 0 b952e3b70c73be41fabc874792eebc32 Blog: The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler from Dogwood Tales in the group Book Reviews by Dogwood Tales feed https://dogwoodtales.blogspot.com/2026/04/the-big-sleep-by-raymond-chandler.html 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 […]

]]> 0 3014e2a76fae5cfe07f7cfdf7e78f644 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 https://www.theguardian.com/books/2026/apr/24/joe-dunthorne-growing-up-in-swansea-i-developed-an-allergy-to-dylan-thomas 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 […]

]]> 0 3f91fae717e4904450cbf9d00366f04e Blog: The Flying Legion, George Allen England from RogerBW's Blog: reading in the group Book Reviews by RogerBW feed https://blog.firedrake.org/archive/2026/04/The_Flying_Legion__George_Allen_England.html 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!

]]> 0 04859cc62b7ddd645556dce4ea86b80e 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 https://www.theguardian.com/books/2026/apr/23/a-family-matter-by-claire-lynch-audiobook-review-an-award-winning-story-of-homophobia-and-divorce 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 […]

]]> 0 50ff3b4d58b9d65e63f2c87e921ac282 Blog: The Lady With the Gun Asks the Questions, Kerry Greenwood from RogerBW's Blog: reading in the group Book Reviews by RogerBW feed https://blog.firedrake.org/archive/2026/04/The_Lady_With_the_Gun_Asks_the_Questions__Kerry_Greenwood.html Thu, 23 Apr 2026 08:02:00 +0100 2021 historical detection short stories, in Greenwood’s Phryne Fisher
series (1920s flapper detective in Australia).

]]> 0 169023d21ac09fbf18da4f370822189e Blog: Collision Course, Michelle Diener from RogerBW's Blog: reading in the group Book Reviews by RogerBW feed https://blog.firedrake.org/archive/2026/04/Collision_Course__Michelle_Diener.html 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 […]

]]> 0 32c32257ac9aa1534713b247ae8f5dc9 Blog: Deep Wizardry, Diane Duane from RogerBW's Blog: reading in the group Book Reviews by RogerBW feed https://blog.firedrake.org/archive/2026/04/Deep_Wizardry__Diane_Duane.html 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 […]

]]> 0 b6e424ee588954845d8afb2e30c8fdff Blog: Brigands & Breadknives, Travis Baldree from RogerBW's Blog: reading in the group Book Reviews by RogerBW feed https://blog.firedrake.org/archive/2026/04/Brigands___Breadknives__Travis_Baldree.html Fri, 17 Apr 2026 08:00:00 +0100 2025 fantasy. Fern the bookseller, whom we met in Bookshops &
Bonedust, sells up and moves to the city of Thune to set up again
next to Viv’s coffee shop. But it […]

]]> 0 88cb2f3d20b7a48a50d5f38d283f49d6 Blog: Communion by Jon Doyle review – a charged debut about sin and solace from Books | The Guardian in the group The Guardian book reviews https://www.theguardian.com/books/2026/apr/15/communion-by-jon-doyle-review-a-charged-debut-about-sin-and-solace Wed, 15 Apr 2026 08:01:02 +0100 A man who meant to be a priest is faced with a moral crossroads in this ambitious and affecting first novelJon Doyle’s debut novel tells the story of Mack O […]

]]> 0 01fd07738c5b7efc18e59ccdcafdcbde Blog: The Fallen by Louise Brangan review – an enraging account of Ireland’s Magdalene laundries from Books | The Guardian in the group The Guardian book reviews https://www.theguardian.com/books/2026/apr/15/the-fallen-by-louise-brangan-review-an-enraging-account-of-irelands-magdalene-laundries Wed, 15 Apr 2026 06:00:01 +0100 The horrifying story of the Catholic-run institutions that incarcerated thousands of women and girlsMany readers, and surely most Irish readers, will finish this […]

]]> 0 193594dd6d3cce75daccdbc7683ebe35 Blog: When an author says she had to decline a $175,000 prize, what does it say about the publishing world? | Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett from Books | The Guardian in the group The Guardian book reviews https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/apr/15/helen-dewitt-author-turn-down-prize-publishing-fiction Wed, 15 Apr 2026 05:00:02 +0100 Helen DeWitt turning down the Windham-Campbell literary award caused controversy. But her bold act highlights that such prizes aren’t always as meritocratic as t […]

]]> 0 c9474efe3aed886e01790087e5c186c0 Acorn Boi joined the group Brandon Sanderson Fans https://authorbuzz.co.uk/activity/p/18019/ Tue, 14 Apr 2026 18:05:48 +0100 0 12c352343e3a24376f077bc6b14626d1 Matthew Brown edited the blog post Stuart Murdoch to be awarded an honorary degree in the group Outside News https://news.authorbuzz.co.uk/bookish-news/author-news/2026/04/14/stuart-murdoch-to-be-awarded-an-honorary-degree/ Tue, 14 Apr 2026 15:35:17 +0100 Stuart Murdoch to be awarded an honorary degreeMusician, author and filmmaker Stuart Murdoch is to be awarded an honorary degree by The University of Glasgow on the Commemoration Day of 17th June this year (2026). Read the announcement here.

]]> 967ce5ba32572d32e480687c20d07c61 Blog: Michael Rosen wins Hans Christian Andersen award from Books | The Guardian in the group The Guardian book reviews https://www.theguardian.com/books/2026/apr/14/michael-rosen-wins-hans-christian-andersen-award-cai-gao Tue, 14 Apr 2026 15:24:58 +0100 The former children’s laureate missed the announcement of the award in Bologna due to post-Brexit passport rule changesMichael Rosen, the poet and author known f […]

]]> 0 c16705d4ea96c62b0b0ad1b5bdd4fc6d Toni McHadden joined the group General Chat https://authorbuzz.co.uk/activity/p/18012/ Tue, 14 Apr 2026 08:12:13 +0100 0 5291c35157c67f6891db90ac6dbae0b7 Blog: On Memoir by Blake Morrison review – lessons in life writing from a master from Books | The Guardian in the group The Guardian book reviews https://www.theguardian.com/books/2026/apr/14/on-memoir-by-blake-morrison-review-lessons-in-life-writing-from-a-master Tue, 14 Apr 2026 08:00:04 +0100 Don’t be fooled by the A-Z treatment – this thoroughgoing guide asks deep questions about the art of autobiography“I’ve had a life and I’ve also had a life as a […]

]]> 0 9b5df90e04cfe3aa029c6bd61a6c9cd8 Bob Bobson replied to the topic Which of life's side quests are you doing RN? in the forum General Chat https://authorbuzz.co.uk/groups/general-chat/forum/topic/which-of-lifes-side-quests-are-you-doing-rn/#post-5236 Tue, 14 Apr 2026 06:30:39 +0100 Today I am doing the “get the cat to the vet” side-quest.

]]> 0 591ef3166ccc0d1fc4f8df4335d813b4 jeffjohns joined the group Book Reviews by RogerBW feed https://authorbuzz.co.uk/activity/p/18006/ Tue, 14 Apr 2026 06:23:31 +0100 0 ea51b087e50ea241a6838f8f7e29fda9 Blog: My Year in Paris With Gertrude Stein by Deborah Levy review – wonderfully entertaining from Books | The Guardian in the group The Guardian book reviews https://www.theguardian.com/books/2026/apr/14/my-year-in-paris-with-gertrude-stein-by-deborah-levy-review-wonderfully-entertaining Tue, 14 Apr 2026 06:01:02 +0100 Biography mingles with fiction as Levy explores the avant-garde writer through the story of three female friends in ParisThe narrator of Deborah Levy’s witty s […]

]]> 0 1b78bd009f747691ab1ac3cc89ceb07d Blog: Tucker Carlson to launch publishing imprint with books by Russell Brand and Milo Yiannopoulos from Books | The Guardian in the group The Guardian book reviews https://www.theguardian.com/books/2026/apr/13/tucker-carlson-publishing-imprint-books-russell-brand-milo-yiannopoulos Mon, 13 Apr 2026 15:05:26 +0100 Former Fox News host says publishing house Skyhorse ‘looking for books that nobody else will publish’Former Fox News host Tucker Carlson is set to launch his own […]

]]> 0 140ee24e663099a75cfe0019529b8c9b Blog: The Romance Edit: April from Mills & Boon Blog in the group Mills and Boon fans https://s28434.pcdn.co/2026/04/13/the-romance-edit-april-2/ Mon, 13 Apr 2026 13:10:25 +0100 Welcome to the April issue of The Romance Edit. Spring is finally in session, and from historical romances, to medical … Continued

]]> 0 06d9c49c6c13d58ec007e422fb2209d2 Blog: Ghost-Eye by Amitav Ghosh review – a climate-crisis novel let down by its prose from Books | The Guardian in the group The Guardian book reviews https://www.theguardian.com/books/2026/apr/13/ghost-eye-by-amitav-ghosh-review-a-climate-crisis-novel-let-down-by-its-prose Mon, 13 Apr 2026 11:00:39 +0100 A reincarnation mystery drives this exploration of spiritual interconnectedness in a globalised worldWhat happens when a novelist cares more about their plot, or […]

]]> 0 ff151b3ccd556091815bdda89ec5b2ea Blog: Walking Shadow by Greg Doran review – Shakespeare’s healing power from Books | The Guardian in the group The Guardian book reviews https://www.theguardian.com/books/2026/apr/13/walking-shadow-by-greg-doran-review-love-loss-shakespeare Mon, 13 Apr 2026 06:00:38 +0100 After the death of his husband, Antony Sher, the former RSC director embarks on a quest to see every First FolioThis is really two books in one. The first part […]

]]> 0 f1057310b35a2948979e4319c77aeb0d Blog: Is AI the greatest art heist in history? from Books | The Guardian in the group The Guardian book reviews https://www.theguardian.com/books/2026/apr/12/is-ai-the-greatest-art-heist-in-history Sun, 12 Apr 2026 11:00:17 +0100 New technologies of reproduction are plundering the art world – and getting away with itIn 2026, its easy to see why generative AI is bad. The internet has n […]

]]> 0 9d85ff4b5392466964fc8a62559fefd2 Blog: A Wicked Conceit, Anna Lee Huber from RogerBW's Blog: reading in the group Book Reviews by RogerBW feed https://blog.firedrake.org/archive/2026/04/A_Wicked_Conceit__Anna_Lee_Huber.html Sat, 11 Apr 2026 08:03:00 +0100 2021 historical mystery; ninth in Huber’s Lady Darby series
(post-Regency amateur detection). As the cholera epidemic is starting
to fade in Edinburgh and Lady […]

]]> 0 91b9b78266f7758f72ef4fceb17049be Blog: The Missing and the Dead, Stuart MacBride from RogerBW's Blog: reading in the group Book Reviews by RogerBW feed https://blog.firedrake.org/archive/2026/04/The_Missing_and_the_Dead__Stuart_MacBride.html Fri, 10 Apr 2026 08:01:00 +0100 2015 police procedural mystery, tartan noir, ninth in the Logan
McRae series. As the rescue of a serial killer’s victim involves
enough procedural irregularity to […]

]]> 0 71f4e01c449155f490851fbe91170d39 Acorn Boi started the topic I found this and had to share in the forum Aspiring Authors https://authorbuzz.co.uk/groups/aspiring-authors/forum/topic/i-found-this-and-had-to-share/ Tue, 07 Apr 2026 17:08:39 +0100 I found this and had to share

]]> 0 a519925d5b8814ea2116feea13fd3177 Blog: Shadow of Mars, Glynn Stewart from RogerBW's Blog: reading in the group Book Reviews by RogerBW feed https://blog.firedrake.org/archive/2026/04/Shadow_of_Mars__Glynn_Stewart.html Tue, 07 Apr 2026 08:03:00 +0100 2026 SF, eighteenth of its series. Chimera is still occupied, and the
force that’s hiding to conserve its strength for the day of liberation
is having to watch as […]

]]> 0 385a272cd6277bdb845e1dfcddbdc36f Blog: Enchanting the Fae Queen, Stephanie Burgis from RogerBW's Blog: reading in the group Book Reviews by RogerBW feed https://blog.firedrake.org/archive/2026/04/Enchanting_the_Fae_Queen__Stephanie_Burgis.html Thu, 02 Apr 2026 08:01:00 +0100 2026 romantic fantasy, second of its series. Gerard de Moireul is the
Golden Beacon, the Empire’s most popular and successful general. He’s
clearly going to lead […]

]]> 0 b5e2b529c9bf3bf8e5e77a9c5aa38269 Matthew Brown wrote a new blog post She fell in love with the man who had murdered her in the group Writing prompts and insperations https://muse.authorbuzz.co.uk/prompts/she-fell-in-love-with-the-man-who-had-murdered-her/ Thu, 02 Apr 2026 08:00:00 +0100 ba23db81a6577ea91d585d3a7422193a Jason Latnar commented on the post, The old man's parrot, on the groupblog The Muse of Last Resort https://muse.authorbuzz.co.uk/prompts/the-old-mans-parrot/#comment-1307 Wed, 01 Apr 2026 12:07:04 +0100 Oh man, I have to do this when I get old!!

]]> 45384e2609bbf88e475e8d8caf829d8d Matthew Brown wrote a new blog post The old man's parrot in the group Writing prompts and insperations https://muse.authorbuzz.co.uk/prompts/the-old-mans-parrot/ Tue, 31 Mar 2026 08:00:00 +0100 The old man's parrot Ever the prankster, just before he died, the man trained his parrot to say phrases like, “help me, I’ve turned into a parrot” and “don’t tell anyone about the gold”. What happened next?

]]> 0666279a5d2cc228a89f1aaa7742ac1f Matthew Brown wrote a new blog post Try these restrictions to challenge your writing in the group Writing prompts and insperations https://muse.authorbuzz.co.uk/prompts/try-these-restrictions-to-challenge-your-writing/ Mon, 30 Mar 2026 08:00:00 +0100 Try these restrictions to challenge your writing When you describe the colour of things, never name the colour directly. The narrator is a total liar; the reader should be able to tell. The […]

]]> f4fa964f9dbbfbc5f86f3dfac131af1c Burty Burtman replied to the topic What's the opposite of a plothole? in the forum General Chat https://authorbuzz.co.uk/groups/general-chat/forum/topic/whats-the-opposite-of-a-plothole/#post-5233 Mon, 30 Mar 2026 07:20:09 +0100 Checkov’s gun – something that the reader thinks the characters/author overlooked, only for it to spring up as a defining moment.

]]> 0 a305144b0a722161627fad359bc99419 Matthew Brown posted an update in the group Help and Support: I'm about to live-test something. Possible disruption should […] https://authorbuzz.co.uk/activity/p/17972/ Mon, 30 Mar 2026 06:08:45 +0100 I’m about to live-test something. Possible disruption should last about 5 minutes.

]]> 1 d610a3ad1b992aa0c7c4d362913887a6 Matthew Brown edited the blog post Website improvements in the group Help and Support https://dev.authorbuzz.co.uk/2026/03/29/website-improvements/ Sun, 29 Mar 2026 08:40:52 +0100 Website improvements A big old feature update today. The activity feed for the site now runs from the same dynamic system as the rest of the site. Which means: You […]

]]> 58ec8c8728e1072fb744c43b85f7b86e Blog: Look Who It Is by Alan Carr from Dogwood Tales in the group Book Reviews by Dogwood Tales feed https://dogwoodtales.blogspot.com/2026/03/look-who-it-is-by-alan-carr.html Sat, 28 Mar 2026 19:02:00 +0000 Alan Carr is now well on the way to the rarefied status of a national treasure, but this autobiography goes back to his roots as an awkward teenager and fledgling […]

]]> 0 be72faec93af71206a165f67802b569b Jason Latnar replied to the topic Which of life's side quests are you doing RN? in the forum General Chat https://authorbuzz.co.uk/groups/general-chat/forum/topic/which-of-lifes-side-quests-are-you-doing-rn/#post-5212 Fri, 27 Mar 2026 10:19:55 +0000 Many luck; such support

 

]]> 0 0e18a89152e5898f84d90fb70574ef0d Acorn Boi replied to the topic Which of life's side quests are you doing RN? in the forum General Chat https://authorbuzz.co.uk/groups/general-chat/forum/topic/which-of-lifes-side-quests-are-you-doing-rn/#post-5211 Fri, 27 Mar 2026 10:18:43 +0000 I’m now on the try and win a writing competition quest.

Wish me all the lucks.

]]> 1 814a804634a7d68e3bdd3109c296f27a Blog: Half Dead, Annabel Chase from RogerBW's Blog: reading in the group Book Reviews by RogerBW feed https://blog.firedrake.org/archive/2026/03/Half_Dead__Annabel_Chase.html Fri, 27 Mar 2026 09:02:00 +0000 2025 paranormal fantasy, eighth of a nine-book series. We’re gearing
up for the Big Confrontation! Time for a distraction.

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