BooksOf2026 Book number 69 The Compound by Aisling Rawle Reality television as social experiment as horror show, and somehow still fun. Wanted more people to suffer, in a good way. Recommended if you like your dystopias with a tan. #BookSky

May We Feed The King by Rebecca Perry Curator restages medieval feasts; a reluctant king gets quietly deposed by rumour, told sideways through doorways and gaps. Puzzle-box structure, devoured in one sitting. #BookSky

#BooksOf2026 Book number 67 Strange Houses by Uketsu Nope, not for me. Quite liked ‘Strange Pictures’ but this was bizarre and to be honest, ridiculous. I should have listened to @adelemitch.bsky.social , but I’d already bought a copy. #BookSky

#BooksOf2026 Book number 65 When God Was a Rabbit by Sarah Winman Nearly matched Still Life, which is saying something. Family saga, secrets, and a rabbit called God. I’ve just ordered her entire back catalogue. #SarahWinman #WhenGodWasARabbit #StillLife #bookSky

#BooksOf2026 Book number 64 The Trio by Johanna Hedman Sally Rooney with better real estate. Everyone’s too well-bred to say what they mean, which is the whole book. But I like Sally Rooney & I liked this. #BookSky

#BooksOf2026 Book number 63 Lost Lambs by Madeline Cash A family saga about the collapsing Flynn marriage, three chaotically different daughters, a shipping container conspiracy, and a church gnat infestation that literally infects the text… #BookSky

Feel like pure shit Just want England vs France back

#BooksOf2026 Book number 61 Endling by Maria Reva Snails, stolen bachelors, a war crashing the party, and an author who steps into her own novel to remind you it’s real. Endling has B.S. Johnson energy: the fourth wall breaks because some things can’t be told straight. #BookSky

Has Gianni Infantino had his eyebrows done ?

How small are the Argentinians??

Remember to scream loudly out of the window at random moments to keep your iPlayer-watching neighbours on their toes.

Argentina 🇦🇷, you’ve got no currency

#BooksOf2026 Book number 60 My Year Of Rest and Relaxation by Ottessa Moshfegh A year, a LOT of sedatives, and a narrator who couldn’t care less. Her drug regimen was almost as fun to track as her contempt for everyone around her. Bleak. Funny. Brilliant #BookSky

#BooksOf2026 Book number 59 Transcription by Ben Lerner Slim, strange, Kafka-haunted. Liked it more than I fully understood it, feels like a re-read book. #BookSky

#BooksOf2026 Book number 58 Intimacies by Katie Kitamuta Wizzed through this thought provoking book in a day. #BookSky

#BooksOf2026 Book number 57 The Odyssey by Homer It was the E.V. Rieu translation, that managed to turn a riveting story into a slow & bland slog, I’ve since done some research and the translation by Emily Wilson (2017) is apparently lean, fast-paced, plain-spoken. #BookSky

#BooksOf2026 Book number 56 A short stay in Hell by Steven L Peck You love books BUT your Hell is to spend eternity in Babel’s library searching for the book of your life story…. #BookSky

#BooksOf2026 Book number 55 The Glittering Prizes by Frederic Raphael Enjoyable book, random choice prompted by a random quote in a review of another book. Have order the TV series to check that out too. #BookSky

The British Museum on receipt of the Bayeux Tapestry.

#BooksOf2026 Book number 54 The Editor’s Wife by Clare Chambers Another great book by Clare Chambers, I love they way she writes & the characters she brings to life. I will have to continue delving into her back catalogue. #BookSky

Pretty pleased to have reached my fighting weight

#BooksOf2026 Book number 53 A Vicious Circle by Amanda Craig My first Amanda Craig novel, and it will not be my last. A satire of literary London so precise it borders on cruelty, everyone here is either climbing over someone or being climbed over, usually both. #BookSky

Hydration Break

Hydration Break

First ever record that you bought? I’ll start: SHADDAP YOU FACE by Joe Dolce

#BooksOf2026 Book number 52 The Girl Who Electrified TESLA by @cynthiavonbuhler.bsky.social I loved this graphic novel, a sexy and propulsive story based on facts. I even learned that there was an intelligent member of the Trump family! #BookSky

Just put the bins out 🥵

#BooksOf2026 Book number 51 Service by John Tottenham A misanthropic bookseller who hates people, and selling books to people. Nobody is spared his protagonist’s critical attention, except the venerable B.S. Johnson. Highly recommended by me, and more importantly @strongwordsmag.bsky.social

#BooksOf2026 Book number 50 Helen Of Nowhere by Makenna Goodman Left me with more questions than answers, and I think that’s entirely the point. Slippery, surreal, and unlike anything else I’ve read recently. Bewildering in the best way. #BookSky