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Mainly books but also travel and art, viewing rather than creating
I blog at http://alifeinbooks.co.uk and live in beautiful Bath, UK.
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New on my blog - Flat Earth by Anika Jade Levy: A bleakly funny novella alifeinbooks.co.uk/2025/11/flat... #BookSky
Flat Earth by Anika Jade Levy: A bleakly funny novella - A Life in Books
Book reviews, snippets of book news, and alerts about books outside the glare of the publicity spotlight.
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Book Review – The Sea Road West by Sally Rena #NOVNOV25
About the Book The road from the Scottish mainland to Kintillo lies across a ridge of craggy and forbidding hills, a natural barrier isolating the peninsular from the rest of the world and making K…
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November 15, 2025 at 2:11 PM
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A Year in Novellas
As I mentioned last time, I’m not consciously participating in either of the two major reading projects that run this month, Nonfiction November and Novellas in November. But I do very much l…
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November 15, 2025 at 1:29 PM
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Sample Saturday – novellas
Sample Saturday is when I wade through the eleventy billion samples I have downloaded on my Kindle. I’m slowly chipping away and deciding whether it’s buy or bye.
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November 15, 2025 at 12:39 PM
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Flat Earth by Anika Jade Levy: A bleakly funny novella alifeinbooks.co.uk/2025/11/flat...
Flat Earth by Anika Jade Levy: A bleakly funny novella - A Life in Books
Book reviews, snippets of book news, and alerts about books outside the glare of the publicity spotlight.
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November 15, 2025 at 10:10 AM
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Is This All About the Legs?
For Becky’s NovemberShadows – And Debbie’s Six Word Saturday. P.S. Despite having a post prepared, being in London discombobulated my Inner Timetable, and I neglected to publish F…
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November 15, 2025 at 8:41 AM
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New on my blog - Flat Earth by Anika Jade Levy: A bleakly funny novella alifeinbooks.co.uk/2025/11/flat... #BookSky
Flat Earth by Anika Jade Levy: A bleakly funny novella - A Life in Books
Book reviews, snippets of book news, and alerts about books outside the glare of the publicity spotlight.
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November 14, 2025 at 8:27 AM
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Weatherglass Books’ Second Annual Novella Prize Shortlist (#NovNov25)
Last year I attended an event at Foyles in London introducing the two joint winners of the inaugural Weatherglass Novella Prize, as chosen by Ali Smith. I later reviewed both Astraea by Kate Kruimi…
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November 14, 2025 at 4:30 PM
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#FridayFun: Autumn in Berlin
Everybody assures me that winter in Berlin is dreadful: cold, grey, miserable… but then I do have experience both of cold and snow (in Romania and France) and of grey and miserable (in the UK…
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November 14, 2025 at 3:24 PM
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Flat Earth by Anika Jade Levy: A bleakly funny novella alifeinbooks.co.uk/2025/11/flat...
Flat Earth by Anika Jade Levy: A bleakly funny novella - A Life in Books
Book reviews, snippets of book news, and alerts about books outside the glare of the publicity spotlight.
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November 14, 2025 at 2:05 PM
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New on my blog - Flat Earth by Anika Jade Levy: A bleakly funny novella alifeinbooks.co.uk/2025/11/flat... #BookSky
Flat Earth by Anika Jade Levy: A bleakly funny novella - A Life in Books
Book reviews, snippets of book news, and alerts about books outside the glare of the publicity spotlight.
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November 14, 2025 at 8:27 AM
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Review: The Murder Game by John Curran | Nonfiction
In his analysis of classic detective fiction, John Curran begins by running through some of the previous major critical studies of the Golden Age mystery genre, concluding that, while many of them …
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November 14, 2025 at 8:05 AM
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New on my blog today: A Snapshot of My Reading #9 alifeinbooks.co.uk/2025/11/a-sn... #BookSky
A Snapshot of My Reading #9 - A Life in Books
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November 12, 2025 at 8:28 AM
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#GermanLitMonth: Volker Kutscher’s Lunapark
A hefty book of 556 pages, so most certainly not a novella, but the sixth in the Gereon Rath crime fiction series, a part of them having been adapted for TV in the internationally successful Babylo…
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November 13, 2025 at 12:45 PM
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Beginnings and Endings: In Evil Hour and Until August by Gabriel Garcia Márquez for #NovNov25
Gabriel García Márquez is one of my favourite writers and one of those authors whose name alone feels like a whole world. The Colombian Nobel Laureate reshaped modern fiction with his blend of the …
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November 13, 2025 at 11:42 AM
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“My nails are my rhythm section.” (Dolly Parton)
I mentioned buying two novellas in my post for A Room Above a Shop, and the other one was Pick A Colour by Souvankham Thammavongsa (2025). Once again, it was Susan’s enticing review which sent me i…
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November 13, 2025 at 11:41 AM
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A Snapshot of My Reading #9 alifeinbooks.co.uk/2025/11/a-sn...
A Snapshot of My Reading #9 - A Life in Books
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November 13, 2025 at 8:07 AM
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TBR Thursday 478…
The current state of the TBR, and a preview of four books I’ll be reading soon: A Demon in My View by Ruth Rendell, The Noose by Philip MacDonald, Dressed for Death by Donna Leon, and A Box F…
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November 13, 2025 at 7:55 AM
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Book Review: Pachinko
Pachinko, by Min Jin Lee, is a family saga spanning close to a century of Korean and Japanese history. It tells of poverty, aspiration and ingrained bigotry. It lays bare the cultural changes over …
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November 13, 2025 at 7:53 AM
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On the blog this gem from Alexander Kluge written in his 90s winstonsdad.blog/2025/11/12/w...
War Primer by Alexander Kluge - Winstonsdad's Blog
War Primer by Alexander Kluge German fiction Original title - Kreigsfibel Translator - Alexander Booth Source - Personal copy I am moving slowly this German lit month, and here is another gem of a boo...
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November 12, 2025 at 5:20 PM
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Book Review: The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs by Steve Brusatte exploringallgenres.com/the-rise-and... #booksky 💡📚💙
Book Review: The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs by Steve Brusatte - Exploring All Genres
The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs shows us a glimpse of life during the time of the dinosaurs and highlights important fossil finds.
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November 12, 2025 at 4:44 PM
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Review: The Frozen People (Ali Dawson 1) by Elly Griffiths | Crime Fiction fictionfanblog.wordpress.com/2025/11/12/r...
Review: The Frozen People (Ali Dawson 1) by Elly Griffiths | Crime Fiction
Ali Dawson works in a cold case unit investigating crimes “so cold they’re frozen.” When a Tory minister requests a re-investigation of a Victorian triple murder, Ali’s team deploys an unusual meth…
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November 12, 2025 at 11:47 AM
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Gazing Upwards – Shadows
Gazing upwards, as you walk towards the Museu Blau in Barcelona, your eye is baffled by sky and concrete and shadow all jostling for attention. Or do you prefer it in colour? For Becky’s Nove…
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November 12, 2025 at 8:40 AM
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New on my blog today: A Snapshot of My Reading #9 alifeinbooks.co.uk/2025/11/a-sn... #BookSky
A Snapshot of My Reading #9 - A Life in Books
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November 12, 2025 at 8:28 AM
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#WWWWednesday - 12th November 2025 whatcathyreadnext.co.uk/2025/11/12/w...
#WWWWednesday – 12th November 2025
Hosted by Taking on a World of Words, this meme is all about the three Ws: What are you currently reading? What did you recently finish reading? What do you think you’ll read next? Why not join in …
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November 12, 2025 at 8:13 AM
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Books to Look Out For in December 2025 alifeinbooks.co.uk/2025/11/book... including titles from @srlpublishing.bsky.social @serpents-tail.bsky.social
Books to Look Out For in December 2025 - A Life in Books
Book reviews, snippets of book news, and alerts about books outside the glare of the publicity spotlight.
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November 10, 2025 at 11:21 AM