Step back into 1950s London with this week’s #FreeTillFriday pick: The Fledgeling by Frances Faviell. #FurrowedMiddlebrow ✨ Download for FREE on Kindle until Friday! ✨ www.amazon.com/Fledgeling-F...
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Currently reading The Art School Murders by Moray Dalton. It never ceases to amaze me how many Golden Age mysteries @deanstpress.bsky.social have reissued - so many to choose from.
A look back at our original vision. Sourcing rare texts and tracing estates is a rewarding challenge. Here's a 2016 interview with my late brother, Rupert Heath, on his passion for running Dean Street Press. Thanks to Kate Jackson for the chat. crossexaminingcrime.com/2016/01/23/a...
A Behind the Scenes Look at Reprinting the Golden Age: Interviewing the Dean Street Press
As you might have twigged by now, I am a massive fan of Golden Age detective fiction and this last year has been quite a treat for me and other fans, as publishers such as the Dean Street Press hav…
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An absolutely lovely review of Seaview House by Elizabeth Fair from Instagram #summer #bookreview www.instagram.com/p/CDUQ0nlgnin/
Huge thanks and Happy Housewarming to Caro in her brand new House of Dreams! Bel Lamington #BookReview www.youtube.com/watch?v=kafN...
Everything I’ve Read Since Moving Into My House of Dreams 📖🏡❤️
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Today, I’m sharing everything I’ve read since moving into my house of dreams. Grab a cuppa and join me for my first video in my beautiful new library. ❤️
Everything I’ve Read Since Moving Into My House of Dreams 📖🏡❤️
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Long before Cara Delevingne shot to stardom as one of the most sought after models of her generation, her great aunt, the socialite Viscountess Castlerosse, made headlines of her own. John Lavery was so impressed by her that he included her legs twice in this painting from 1938.
Somehow I only learned yesterday that there's a film of The Summer Book coming out very soon www.youtube.com/watch?v=tDYc...
THE SUMMER BOOK | Official Trailer | In Select Theaters September 19
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The Mark Treasure books by David Williams can be hard to find. I was pleased to discover this title about a cigar factory in the West Indies. Murder of course is prominent. 📚⚡️ 📚💙 happinessisabook.com/treasure-up-...
Treasure Up in Smoke by David Williams
I am enamored of the Mark Treasure series by David Williams (1926-2003), 17 mysteries published between 1976 and 1993. Mark Treasure is Vice-Chairman of Grenwood Phipps & Co., merchant bankers …
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In the latest ep of 'Tea or Books?', we compare the Booker-longlisted The Things We Never Say by Elizabeth Strout with Willa Cather's The Professor's House - and discuss whether we prefer reading about women's professional lives or homelives.
#152: Novels about women’s home life vs work life, and The Professor’s House by Willa Cather vs The Things We Never Say by Elizabeth Strout
Elizabeth Strout, Willa Cather, and women’s lives – welcome to episode 152! In the first half, Rachel and Simon discuss whether we prefer reading novels about women’s professional…
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I've argued with you about this series over the years, but on a big birthday I'll be gracious - all fans should read and listen!
Tipping My Fedora@tippingmyfedora.bsky.social · last wk.It's the 70th birthday of the 87th Precinct series by Ed McBain. How many have you read? Paul Abbott, co-host of Hark! The 87th Precinct Podcast (hark87podcast.blogspot.com) joins me to celebrate. I reviewed & ranked all the books at my Fedora blog: bloodymurder.wordpress.com/ed-mcbain-87...
It's the 70th birthday of the 87th Precinct series by Ed McBain. How many have you read? Paul Abbott, co-host of Hark! The 87th Precinct Podcast (hark87podcast.blogspot.com) joins me to celebrate. I reviewed & ranked all the books at my Fedora blog: bloodymurder.wordpress.com/ed-mcbain-87...
We love a book-y theme on the blog, and today it is childhood reading, and stories of children caught reading the wrong book. And Peter Dickinson defending the right to NOT 'go out into that lovely sunshine' but to stay in reading comics.... clothesinbooks.blogspot.com/2026/07/chil...
Childhood reading and intellectual freedom
In the recent sunny weather in the UK I was reminded of a favourite quotation from revered author Peter Dickinson : “Nobody who has no...
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This week’s free Kindle! 📖✨ #FreeTillFriday The Other Side of the Moon: The Life of David Niven by Sheridan Morley. Grab this captivating look at a Hollywood icon for free before Friday! 🎬🥂 Link here and on bio: bit.ly/4pGQJNC
The Other Side of the Moon: The Life of David Niven
The Other Side of the Moon: The Life of David Niven - Kindle edition by Morley, Sheridan. Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading The Other Side of the Moon: The Life of David Niven.
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🕵️♂️ #MurderEveryMonday Challenge Accepted! Find vintage mysteries with a word repeated in the title: 🚶♂️ One by One They Disappeared by Moray Dalton 🚪 Knock, Murderer, Knock! by Harriet Rutland 🔢 Two and Two Make Twenty-Two by Gwen Bristow & Bruce Manning
An unusual book from 1946 - is it a novel, is it crime? - and one that lingers in the mind. The story of a really monstrous mother; but what made her that way? The Late Mrs Prioleau by Monica Tindall @deanstpress.bsky.social h/t clothesinbooks.blogspot.com/2026/07/the-...
The Late Mrs Prioleau by Monica Tindall
The Late Mrs Prioleau by Monica Tindall published 1946 daughter/daughter-in-law in mourning I wish I could remember how I ...
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Christopher St John Sprigg was killed in action during the Spanish Civil War. He left an impressive literary output including 7 mysteries. The first is about a hotel full of eccentrics, murder, blackmail, and other unsavory activities. 📚⚡️ 📚💙 #FFB happinessisabook.com/fridays-forg...
Friday’s Forgotten Book: Crime in Kensington by Christopher St John Sprigg
Christopher St John Sprigg (1907-1937) was a versatile English writer of poetry, plays, short stories, detective novels, and aeronautics textbooks. In his mid-20s he became fascinated by Marxism an…
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Four Gardens by Margery Sharp "Thoughtful and deeply human novel." #FurrowedMiddlebrow #bookreview bookpalooza.wordpress.com/2026/07/23/f...
Four Gardens
Some novels captivate us with grand adventures, dramatic twists, and unforgettable spectacles. Others work their magic more quietly, inviting us into the everyday moments that shape a life. Four Ga…
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The second part of our Q&A special for Tea or Books? is now out! www.stuckinabook.com/151-a-qa-spe...
#151: A Q&A special! (part 2)
Thanks again for all your questions for our special Q&A episode of Tea or Books? It took longer than planned, but here is part 2… Do get in touch at teaorbooks[at]gmail.com with suggestio…
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Off to Wigtown for a quick visit. We launch the programme with tickets on sale to all from Friday. Hope you like what we’ve built and come along this autumn. Www.Wigtownbookfestival.com
"Ay, Ay, Ay, Ay!": A Look at Cornell Woolrich's Mexican Connection "Ay, ay, ay, ay Canto y no llores" --"Cielito Lindo," Mexican folksong thepassingtramp.blogspot.com/2026/07/ay-a...
"Ay, Ay, Ay, Ay!": A Look at Cornell Woolrich's Mexican Connection
" Ay, ay, ay, ay Canto y no llore s" --" Cielito Lindo ," Mexican folksong Cornell George Hopley Woolrich was born in New York City on Dece...
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Who has a heart to break? Elizabeth Bowen's Portia Death of the Heart gets short shrift from me, along with sidelines about Dismal Desmonds, and my own appearance in the New Scienties. it's all on the blog today clothesinbooks.blogspot.com/2026/07/grow...
Grow up Portia: The Death of the Heart by Elizabeth Bowen
The Death of the Heart by Elizabeth Bowen published 1938 This picture is Boredom, 1935 Alexander Deineka – I don’t believe Porti...
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Which fictional holiday would you like to join in on? I'm looking at a cruise on the Nile, a fancy hotel with 50s shared bathrooms, and who is that suspicious man over there? Out watchword is: There may be murderers but no riff raff clothesinbooks.blogspot.com/2026/07/livi...
LIVING A LIFE IN BOOKS: HOLIDAYS
I have had some wonderful holidays in my life, and yet I am secretly always longing to jump into my favourite books and share a ho...
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Cosmopolitan Recluse: Cornel's Woolrich's Globe Spanning Ancestry Part One: Oh, Canada! thepassingtramp.blogspot.com/2026/07/cosm...
Cosmopolitan Recluse: Cornel's Woolrich's Globe Spanning Ancestry Part One: Oh, Canada!
For someone who spent over thirty-five years living in New York apartment hotels and increasingly not getting out much (in his last years he...
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My thoughts on Murder in Outline, reissued by @deanstpress.bsky.social #CrimeFiction #BookReview #booksky windowthroughtime.wordpress.com/2026/07/17/m...
Murder In Outline
A review of Murder in Outline by Anne Morice – 260529 Thirteen, lucky for some, unlucky for others. Sadly, Murder in Outline, the thirteenth in Anne Morice’s Tessa Crichton series, originally publi…
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Wow, this video absolutely made our day at Dean Street Press! Caro's enthusiasm for Dorothy Lambert’s new editions is incredibly infectious. So much love and care went into bringing these books to life. Seeing them celebrated with this much pure joy is the ultimate reward! 📚✨
Dean Street Press@deanstpress.bsky.social · 3w ago"Today I’m shining a light on Irish writer Dorothy Lambert (1884-1967) through the 5 books that made me fall in love with her writing. If you like books that are funny, romantic, idyllic, chaotic, and yet, gentle and timeless, then this video is for you." ❤️ www.youtube.com/watch?v=C-C5...
"Today I’m shining a light on Irish writer Dorothy Lambert (1884-1967) through the 5 books that made me fall in love with her writing. If you like books that are funny, romantic, idyllic, chaotic, and yet, gentle and timeless, then this video is for you." ❤️ www.youtube.com/watch?v=C-C5...
Dorothy Lambert | The Ultimate Gentle Read 📖❤️
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