Talking about Jane Austen covers,and @mags-is-crocheting.bsky.social marvellous book about them youtu.be/GuqJHujL70k?...
Jane Austen Covers 1960s #janeaustenjuly
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Lucy in danger in a 1963 'madcap mystery' - surprisingly good!
So I'm in a reading event of short horror – was delighted to find The Hamlet by @joannacorrance.bsky.social and early forays into Unquiet Guests ed @dancoxon.bsky.social pub @deadinkbooks.bsky.social have been fun – meanwhile in C19th Bro x 7 Kings is sensational... youtu.be/7vIE2bkpl58
Mayhem Horror Sensation - a week of reading
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Reactions to last month's reading jollity... @nicholasroyle.bsky.social 'Shadow Lines' Pauline Murray 'Life's a Gamble' James Payn 'Lost Sir Massingberd' + 'Alone on the Borderland' ...fun times youtu.be/CKK-obrHXJU?...
April Reads #peopleapril
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Now re-edited to remove a mistake that concealed most images of the actual book 😅 So HERE are brief thoughts on amazing 🏴 graphic novel, Tara Togs: The Silence of Unicorns (pub. @comicscene.bsky.social ) youtu.be/8UqjJ2vmOyc?...
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My ongoing quest to promote L. T. Meade youtu.be/Vwxo7zDFx4E?...
L. T. Meade: neglected author of 300 books
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Trains! I have read of them. Chambers Journal 1862, Murder on the Tracks crime anthology ed @martinedwardsbooks.bsky.social, Beggars of Life, Boxcar Children and more youtu.be/Mb9oIru6pEg
Railway Reading Recap
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Marie Corelli's Electric Creed was a bit much for me, but I still love her and her gondola. (All authors should ride around in gondolas, and carts pulled by Shetland ponies.) youtu.be/lCzkTgWk1qI?...
Marie Corelli's Romance of Two Worlds
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In case you've ever wondered what an actual Victorian 'Bradshaw' is like #victoriana #railways youtu.be/JWC21FlOEIQ
Bradshaw's Guide 1896 - Dracula read it, Dickens hated it, Holmes relied in it
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Scoping out next month's reads for the #PeopleApril event on #BookTube – Stephen Coan's H Rider Haggard biog, Susannah Gibson's Bluestockings, @nicholasroyle.bsky.social Shadow Lines and Pauline Murray's Life's a Gamble. Should be a fun month. youtu.be/XtJZTQXidMs?...
People April & Channel Plans #peopleapril
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A week when I ♤ Discovered Arnold Bennett via The Card ♡ Enjoyed an Emma Bennet romance (pub @joffebooks.bsky.social ) ♧ Delved into M E Braddon's Belgravia mag ...good times! youtu.be/45ynO5u5Aa4?...
Recent Reads: Bennett, Bennet, Belgravia and... Patterson?
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Feb I enjoyed a bunch of movie-linked reads... 🎞 Zeroville - Steve Erickson 🎞 Leather Boys - Gillian Freeman (@deadinkbooks.bsky.social reissue w/ great intro @drkayemitchell.bsky.social ) 🎞 Dead Mabelle - Elizabeth Bowen (fab short) & Girls' Career Stories... Good times! youtu.be/H_BN9uep1tA?...
Filmtastic Reads Recap
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A month of reading Sherlock Holmes & related stuff – including @drdouglassmall.bsky.social 's fabulous Cocaine, Literature, and Culture, 1876-1930 youtu.be/PsuSt--jP0Q?...
Sherlock Holmes: canon chimps & lost TV
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A rambling round up of recent ear-reading, including some SFF everyone on earth has read already, The Eights by Joanna Miller, God's Junk Drawer @peterclines.com , Secrets of Hartwood Hall @katiejlumsden.bsky.social & The Grapples of Wrath @abeewords.bsky.social youtu.be/u9pAsCugsEA?...
Audio Book Roundup Chat
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That was fun! Interviewed about my Neglected Victorian Bestsellers YouTube readalong project by @helenaesser.bsky.social for the @vpfa.bsky.social blog victorianpopularfiction.org/neglected-vi...
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Helena Esser interviews Roy Bayfield about the most VPFA book club ever On YouTube, Roy Reads Anything heads up a year-long read-along that will be right up the VPFA members’ alley: We’ve got Marry…
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Victorian energy vampires ahoy! The Blood of the Vampire by Florence Marryat and some fellow travellers youtu.be/4FgXteJx6nA?... cc @madelinepotter.bsky.social
Psychic Vampires of Victorian Times | SPOILERS for Blood of the Vampire
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It's a Leather Boys kind of afternoon – what a lovely edition. Book written 1961 & was filmed in 64 @deadinkbooks.bsky.social
Occult Detectives! Review of the latest Occult Detective Mag + series recommendations including the amazing @abeewords.bsky.social Grave Expectations et seq. youtu.be/wU-_GT0IazU?...
Occult Detective Catchup: magazine review and series recommendations
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This doesn't ring true to me. It reads like a pastiche and the unlikely use of the word 'beatnik' would be earlier than the widely-cited 1958 coinage. www.theguardian.com/books/2025/o...
‘Very significant’ Jack Kerouac story discovered after mafia boss auction
Exclusive: Two-page 1957 manuscript signed by author linked to his classic of beat literature, On the Road
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Really enjoyed talking Jane Austen with @19thcenturyem.bsky.social a PhD student with @ehunineteen.bsky.social - some great #JaneAustenJuly recommendations youtu.be/xeGNIo5qpds?...
Jane Austen Conversation: Emma Butler, PhD student #janeaustenjuly
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Happy #JaneAustenJuly ! Here's a video about the books and movies I have lined up. And later this week a great Austen convo with @19thcenturyem.bsky.social - good times! youtu.be/YXKipNyxFP4?...
Jane Austen July TBR
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For when you have a spare hour – eg while ironing, or stripping down an engine on the kitchen table – here's a just-for-fun Joyce reading group out loud for #Bloomsday youtu.be/v0pZ0q3U-oo?...
Bloomsday Read Aloud | James Joyce | Ulysses & more
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Working my way through 'Decades of Dread' in the annual #BookTube #HorrorMayhem event, with the aid of @blpublishing.bsky.social tomes inc the new @johnnymains.co.uk edited Dead of Summer youtu.be/Uztvd1on_EU?... #booksky
Horror Mayhem 2025
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Book Haul! Fungi ( via @blpublishing.bsky.social ), Ferns ( via @drfrond.bsky.social and others ), Female Hypnotists and Sweet Valley High ♥️ youtu.be/JKsNR9KjqnQ?...
Book Haul: Fungi - Ferns - Female Hypnotists - SVH in excelsis
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Reminiscing bout @whsmithofficial.bsky.social – home of genre fiction and downfall of my pocket money youtu.be/IC2HzQF6-bo #whsmith #tgjones
WHSmith memories | 70s paperback wonderland
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