This week’s #FridayReads is Lost Lambs by Madeline Cash 💙📚
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Currently reading Switzy by Emma Cline 💫 she/her
There are some wonderful photos amongst the winners of the Wildlife Photographer of the Year www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Wildlife photographer of the year 2026 winners – in pictures
A selection of the winning images from this year’s Wildlife Photographer of the Year competition across topics ranging from underwater to urban wildlife, and photojournalism to mammal behaviour
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New Review sometimes a neat idea still isn’t enough sadly The Caretaker by Marcus Kliewer was not for me www.runalongtheshelves.net/blog/2026/10...
The Caretaker by Marcus Kliewer — Runalong The Shelves
I would like to thank Bantam for a copy of this novel in exchange for a fair and honest review Publisher – Bantam Published – Out now Price – £18.99 hardback £5.99 eBook EXCITING OPPORT...
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Sally Rooney: To publish my work in the UK could now constitute a serious criminal offence. After a process of consultation and deliberation, and with my full agreement, my publisher Faber has therefore determined that it can no longer supply my work within the UK. www.irishtimes.com/culture/book...
Sally Rooney’s books will no longer be available in UK over her support for Palestine Action
Faber blames UK antiterrorism legislation for decision to stop distributing bestselling author’s works
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Congratulations to Anne Carson, winner of this year's Nobel Prize in Literature! www.theguardian.com/books/live/2...
Canadian poet Anne Carson wins Nobel prize in literature 2026 – live
Decision announced by permanent secretary of the Swedish Academy
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Booker shortlist ✅ An enjoyable read with a slightly disappointing ending 💙📚
The TARDIS is getting a younger crew! 🚀 First look at ‘Doctor Who: TARDIS Crew’, the new CBeebies animated adventure featuring new friends, strange worlds and, yes, Daleks! www.geektown.co.uk/2026/10/06/d...
‘Doctor Who: TARDIS Crew’ First Look Revealed For New CBeebies Animated Adventure | TV News | Geektown
The TARDIS is getting a younger crew, as BBC Children’s and Education unveils the first look at ‘Doctor Who: TARDIS Crew’, a new animated preschool series
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I’ve reviewed new ITV maverick pathologist drama “Winter”.
Winter review – Richard Armitage’s new cop drama is as ferociously watchable as it is daft
Sometimes you want prestige drama that roils with nuance and complexity. And sometimes you want Armitage shouting in a cagoule
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This week’s #FridayReads is What We Can Know by Ian McEwan 💙📚
5⭐️ reads in September 💙📚 Fury in Death by J.D. Robb Is This a Cry for Help? by Emily Austin
I’m happy to share with you my new research article which has just been published in _Shakespeare_ It is open access so you can read, download, and share it freely, if interested. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
‘The Best-regarded Virgins of Our Clime’: Unseen Black Women, Race, and the Construction of White Femininity in The Merchant of Venice
Using the tools of premodern critical race studies and whiteness studies, this article brings to critical visibility the Black women Shakespeare's Merchant of Venice evokes in passing, only to leav...
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Didn’t really care for my first T. Kingfisher (The Twisted Ones), but so glad I gave her another go 💙📚
Great list. Special congratulations to @aeavvw.bsky.social @rid9way.bsky.social from the Bluesky massive. www.theguardian.com/books/2026/s...
Missouri Williams and China Miéville among writers on ‘adventurous’ Goldsmiths shortlist
Six writers are in contention for the £10,000 books prize, which celebrates fiction that ‘breaks the mould or extends the possibilities of the novel form’
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Booker longlist 11/13 💙📚 My first Elizabeth Strout. Sorry to say the writing style didn’t really work for me, and I found the discussion of contemporary politics quite trite (3⭐️)
This week’s #FridayReads is The Things We Never Say by Elizabeth Strout 💙📚
Out now! 💙📚
Titan Books@titanbooks.bsky.social · 3w agoTHE UNSOLVABLE CASE by @cswritesbooks.bsky.social is out now! 🔎 The queer witchy series concludes in one last mystery for the gang, as they have to solve their biggest, and most important case of all - who killed Theodore... https://tinyurl.com/mvkc7wf 🪲
Mixed feelings about the Booker shortlist, but I’m trying to reserve judgement until I’ve read the Strout and the Stuart 💙📚
Presenting the Booker Prize 2026 shortlist. Find out more about the books and authors that make up this year's list. thebookerprizes.com/bp2026
Just read Emily Austin’s latest, and I don’t understand why she doesn’t get more love 💙📚
While we wait to see if Digger gets Tom Cruise an Oscar, here's an essay I wrote about his three Academy Award nominations, his hard turn away from that early quest, his strengths and weaknesses, and the limits of "intensity." A decade later, I think it still applies. grantland.com/hollywood-pr...
» Cruise’s Oscar Years: One Decade. Three Nominations. Myriad Lessons.
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This week’s #FridayReads is Is This a Cry for Help? by Emily Austin 💙📚
This week’s #FridayReads is Brawler by Lauren Groff 💙📚
I have done my definitely-going-to-be-regular romance reading round-up for the last month. Lots of historicals, from ancient world to 1950s (still lots of Regencies), several m/m, one excellent vampire book.
Romance Round-Up: Sept 26 — KJ Charles
My mid-Sept 26 romance reading round-up!
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I re-watched Paweł Pawlikowski’s FATHERLAND, his eloquently composed drama about a fractured family and broken post-war Germany, at Telluride and was once again floored. My review via @ebertvoices.bsky.social
Fatherland review: A sparse but powerful piece of heartbreaking historical fiction
Elegantly told and rich in meaning, “Fatherland” is a beautifully derived piece of heartbreaking art.
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Happy Star Trek Day! 🖖🏽 If you haven’t already, check out my recent essay about Star Trek IV, Moby-Dick and Cetacean Ops in @orionmagazine.bsky.social! orionmagazine.org/article/plan...
Planetary Kin - Orion Magazine
Learning from Star Trek’s space whales
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It’s one of those books where you get towards the end and wonder why you’ve got so many pages left. It's because Smyth has more surprises to spring.
Novel Review: The Unfathomable Curse (The Undetectables #3) by Courtney Smyth [2025]
Spoilers: NoneGenre: Paranormal Mystery / Urban Fantasy DetectiveFormat: PaperbackSource: BoughtRating: Liked (4★) Smyth is growing as a writer with each book, and The Unfathomable Curse is the best in the series so far. In this instalment, The Undetectables detective agency faces its most personal case yet, and they are on the clock to solve it before a fatal deadline.
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The UN just voted to adopt a new world map which better reflects Africa’s actual size. 164 nations agreed, only the USA voted against www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
UN votes to adopt new world map to reflect Africa's true size
The Togo-sponsored resolution was backed by 164 nations - with the US as the only nation to vote against it.
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