Annabookbel
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Book lover, blogging about them since 2008! Oxford environs. Blog: https://annabookbel.net/. Proud Co-founder of https://shinynewbooks.co.uk/
It's Novellas in November #NovNov25 and I've shamelessly borrowed this idea from @stuckinabook.bsky.social posting an A-Z (-X) of good novellas I've read and reviewed. annabookbel.net/an-a-z-of-no...
An A-Z of Novellas for #NovNov25
I have shamelessly stolen this idea from the lovely Simon at Stuck in a Book as a curtain-raiser to Novellas in November hosted by Rebecca and Cathy. So, here is my A-Z of novellas and short NF all…
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November 2, 2025 at 2:26 PM
It's Novellas in November #NovNov25 and I've shamelessly borrowed this idea from @stuckinabook.bsky.social posting an A-Z (-X) of good novellas I've read and reviewed. annabookbel.net/an-a-z-of-no...
First Sat of the month - time for the bookish #6degrees tag annabookbel.net/six-degrees-...
Six Degrees of Separation: We Have Always Lived in the Castle
It’s time for the super monthly tag Six Degrees of Separation, which is hosted by Kate at Booksaremyfavouriteandbest, Six Degrees of Separation #6degrees picks a starting book for participants to g…
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November 1, 2025 at 11:16 AM
First Sat of the month - time for the bookish #6degrees tag annabookbel.net/six-degrees-...
On my blog today, my review of the brilliant new book by Antti Tuomainen transl. David Hackston pub @orendabooks.bsky.social The Winter Job. annabookbel.net/the-winter-j...
The Winter Job by Antti Tuomainen – blog tour
Translated by David Hackston For me, Antti Tuomainen is the new Antoine Laurain! When Gallic Books (now part of Pushkin Press) introduced Laurain via his novel The President’s Hat it was a bi…
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October 30, 2025 at 11:02 AM
On my blog today, my review of the brilliant new book by Antti Tuomainen transl. David Hackston pub @orendabooks.bsky.social The Winter Job. annabookbel.net/the-winter-j...
It's the start of #NonfictionNov and here's my post highlighting my best nf reads of the past year. annabookbel.net/my-year-in-n...
My Year in Nonfiction
Nonfiction November runs for 5 weeks from today! As always, week 1 is ‘My Year in NF’, and is hosted by Heather. I’ve participated since 2017! My best ever NF year was 2019 when I read 33 book…
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October 27, 2025 at 10:47 AM
It's the start of #NonfictionNov and here's my post highlighting my best nf reads of the past year. annabookbel.net/my-year-in-n...
On my blog today for #RIPXX, my review of King Sorrow by Joe Hill @headlinebooks.bsky.social. Thanks to @bookywookydooda.bsky.social for the ARC. annabookbel.net/king-sorrow-...
King Sorrow by Joe Hill
Even when I knew it would be a doorstop brick of a novel, I gulped and said ‘yes’ when offered a proof of Hill’s sixth novel, having really enjoyed two previously; Heart-Shaped Bo…
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October 26, 2025 at 5:24 PM
On my blog today for #RIPXX, my review of King Sorrow by Joe Hill @headlinebooks.bsky.social. Thanks to @bookywookydooda.bsky.social for the ARC. annabookbel.net/king-sorrow-...
Sharing books I've previously blogged about published in 1925, for the #1925Club hosted by @kaggsy59.bsky.social and @stuckinabook.bsky.social annabookbel.net/the-1925-club/
The 1925 Club
It’s the latest year reading Club hosted by Kaggsy & Simon. I couldn’t find any 1925 books in my TBR, but I have read and reviewed a couple of the greats published that year and a c…
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October 20, 2025 at 9:31 AM
Sharing books I've previously blogged about published in 1925, for the #1925Club hosted by @kaggsy59.bsky.social and @stuckinabook.bsky.social annabookbel.net/the-1925-club/
On my blog, my review of Three Bags Full by Leonie Swann transl Anthea Bell pub Allison & Busby
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Three Bags Full by Leonie Swann – book group report
Translated by Anthea Bell This was our book group’s pick for S is for… Sheep in this case as we make our way through the tail end of our Flora & Fauna alphabet theme for picking boo…
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October 18, 2025 at 4:41 PM
On my blog, my review of Three Bags Full by Leonie Swann transl Anthea Bell pub Allison & Busby
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On my blog today, my thoughts on Rainforest by Michelle Paver annabookbel.net/rainforest-b...
Rainforest by Michelle Paver – blog tour
I’ve really enjoyed all three of Michelle Paver’s previous supernatural novels for adults; Dark Matter, Thin Air and the Gothic Wakenhyrst, Thin Air – the one I read first being m…
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October 17, 2025 at 6:11 AM
On my blog today, my thoughts on Rainforest by Michelle Paver annabookbel.net/rainforest-b...
Delighted to help kick off the @corylusbooks.bsky.social
tour for A Lethal Legacy by Guðrún Guðlaugsdóttir, translated by @graskeggur.bsky.social annabookbel.net/a-lethal-leg...
tour for A Lethal Legacy by Guðrún Guðlaugsdóttir, translated by @graskeggur.bsky.social annabookbel.net/a-lethal-leg...
A Lethal Legacy by Guðrún Guðlaugsdóttir – blog tour
Translated by Quentin Bates It’s always a delight to read the new titles from Corylus Books, and, using their own tag line ‘to discover new voices’. Icelander, Guðrún Guðlaugsdótt…
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September 20, 2025 at 9:47 AM
Delighted to help kick off the @corylusbooks.bsky.social
tour for A Lethal Legacy by Guðrún Guðlaugsdóttir, translated by @graskeggur.bsky.social annabookbel.net/a-lethal-leg...
tour for A Lethal Legacy by Guðrún Guðlaugsdóttir, translated by @graskeggur.bsky.social annabookbel.net/a-lethal-leg...
Best book I've read so far this year - Muckle Flugga by @michaelpedersen.bsky.social @faberbooks.bsky.social annabookbel.net/muckle-flugg...
Muckle Flugga by Michael Pedersen
Sometimes a book cover calls to you – as this one did – gorgeous colours with the lighthouse’s blazing beacon, silver foam in the waves crashing against the rocks, with the added …
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September 13, 2025 at 12:25 PM
Best book I've read so far this year - Muckle Flugga by @michaelpedersen.bsky.social @faberbooks.bsky.social annabookbel.net/muckle-flugg...
Lovely #Bookpost from @canongate.co.uk Thank you very much, looking forward to getting into this novel.
September 2, 2025 at 7:01 PM
Lovely #Bookpost from @canongate.co.uk Thank you very much, looking forward to getting into this novel.
It's the #20BooksofSummer2025 end of challenge questionnaire by @wordsandpeace.bsky.social - Here are my answers: annabookbel.net/20booksofsum...
#20BooksofSummer2025 – My Summary
As before, Emma has created a questionnaire for us to help share our experience of this summer challenge. You can find the link HERE. The August linky oost will stay open for another full week so y…
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August 31, 2025 at 2:06 PM
It's the #20BooksofSummer2025 end of challenge questionnaire by @wordsandpeace.bsky.social - Here are my answers: annabookbel.net/20booksofsum...
Reading -or not reading-in bed with HarryInterruptor. Loving it. @grantabooks.bsky.social
August 30, 2025 at 8:04 AM
Reading -or not reading-in bed with HarryInterruptor. Loving it. @grantabooks.bsky.social
#bookpost arrivals. Absolutely delighted to receive a copy of Christelle Dabos' new novel from Europa Editions UK @danielap.bsky.social
August 28, 2025 at 2:02 PM
#bookpost arrivals. Absolutely delighted to receive a copy of Christelle Dabos' new novel from Europa Editions UK @danielap.bsky.social
My 20th of #20BooksofSummer2025 and it qualifies for #WITMonth2025 too, plus shorter reviews of two other recent reads. annabookbel.net/review-catch...
Review catch-up including no. 20 of my #20BooksofSummer2025 & #WITMonth2025: Roig, Vassell & Armitage
Some shorter reviews to help reduce the height of the pile of books I’ve read but haven’t written up yet. First my latest read for WITMonth which is also my 20th of my 20 Books of Summe…
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August 27, 2025 at 9:48 AM
My 20th of #20BooksofSummer2025 and it qualifies for #WITMonth2025 too, plus shorter reviews of two other recent reads. annabookbel.net/review-catch...
We're nearly done with August in #20BooksofSummer2025 but the linky post will remain open for a week or so into September for last reviews of August reads. annabookbel.net/20booksofsum...
#20BooksofSummer2025 – August (into Sept for late reviews)
June started the 2025 20 Books campaign off brilliantly and July continued the trend. Emma and I have been delighted with your wonderful response, and we hope you’ve enjoyed visitin…
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August 27, 2025 at 9:46 AM
We're nearly done with August in #20BooksofSummer2025 but the linky post will remain open for a week or so into September for last reviews of August reads. annabookbel.net/20booksofsum...
Reading in bed with Harry and Ginny @faberbooks.bsky.social
August 22, 2025 at 6:40 AM
Reading in bed with Harry and Ginny @faberbooks.bsky.social
My 19th of my #20BooksofSummer2025 a rediscovered comic gem from 1956 @vintagebooks.bsky.social annabookbel.net/the-ascent-o...
The Ascent of Rum Doodle by W.E.Bowman – #20BooksofSummer2025 no. 19
This novella was sheer joy to read! A rediscovered masterpiece, Rum Doodle is a comic novel satirising men, their work and obsessions on an expedition to the Himalaya, first published in 1956, writ…
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August 16, 2025 at 9:18 AM
My 19th of my #20BooksofSummer2025 a rediscovered comic gem from 1956 @vintagebooks.bsky.social annabookbel.net/the-ascent-o...
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On a Sweltering Shiny Tuesday: @maxdunbar1.bsky.social reviews Kill Your Darlings by Peter Swanson @faberbooks.bsky.social shinynewbooks.co.uk/kill-your-da...
Kill Your Darlings by Peter Swanson
Review by Max Dunbar
A Wrong in Time
At a literary festival in 1993 Thom Graves watches an author being interviewed. It's slow going:
Toward the end of the hourlong interview the discus
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August 12, 2025 at 8:30 AM
On a Sweltering Shiny Tuesday: @maxdunbar1.bsky.social reviews Kill Your Darlings by Peter Swanson @faberbooks.bsky.social shinynewbooks.co.uk/kill-your-da...
My 15th of my #20BooksofSummer2025 Making it so by Sir Patrick Stewart - wonderful memoir. annabookbel.net/making-it-so...
Making It So by Patrick Stewart – #20BooksofSummer2025 no 15
Stewart’s memoir is my favourite kind of actors’ autobiography, combining lots of Shakespeare, building from one-liner parts to the title character, then film and TV success, with more …
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August 12, 2025 at 8:26 AM
My 15th of my #20BooksofSummer2025 Making it so by Sir Patrick Stewart - wonderful memoir. annabookbel.net/making-it-so...
Reading in bed with Harry... Muckle Flugga by MIchael Pedersen @faberbooks.bsky.social
August 7, 2025 at 9:58 AM
Reading in bed with Harry... Muckle Flugga by MIchael Pedersen @faberbooks.bsky.social
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Outrageously happy that my unpublished children's book has been shortlisted for the David Fickling Books/Arvon Search for a Storyteller prize!
Congratulations to my fellow shortlistees, & very best wishes to everyone else who was on the longlist.
Congratulations to my fellow shortlistees, & very best wishes to everyone else who was on the longlist.
July 26, 2025 at 6:15 AM
Outrageously happy that my unpublished children's book has been shortlisted for the David Fickling Books/Arvon Search for a Storyteller prize!
Congratulations to my fellow shortlistees, & very best wishes to everyone else who was on the longlist.
Congratulations to my fellow shortlistees, & very best wishes to everyone else who was on the longlist.
Reading in bed with Harry ... 💙📚
July 25, 2025 at 6:48 AM
Reading in bed with Harry ... 💙📚
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Shiny #TranslationThursday -
@annabookbel.bsky.social reviews two volumes from Penguin's new Maigret Capsule Collection shinynewbooks.co.uk/the-penguin-...
@annabookbel.bsky.social reviews two volumes from Penguin's new Maigret Capsule Collection shinynewbooks.co.uk/the-penguin-...
The Penguin Maigret Capsule Collection – Maigret’s Holiday and Maigret’s Pickpocket – by Georges Simenon
Review by Annabel
Starting back in 2013, Penguin began reissuing the novels of Georges Simenon in new or recent translations with distinctive photographic details on the covers. All 75 Maigrets ar
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July 24, 2025 at 5:44 PM
Shiny #TranslationThursday -
@annabookbel.bsky.social reviews two volumes from Penguin's new Maigret Capsule Collection shinynewbooks.co.uk/the-penguin-...
@annabookbel.bsky.social reviews two volumes from Penguin's new Maigret Capsule Collection shinynewbooks.co.uk/the-penguin-...
On my blog today, my blog tour review of The Serial Killer's Party by Amy Cunningham - A great summer thriller! 💙📚@penguinbooksusa.bsky.social annabookbel.net/the-serial-k...
The Serial Killer’s Party by Amy Cunningham – blog tour
A new to me author, but what a fun sounding thriller! You can’t beat a book about rich people being naughty and profligate with added bodies for a summer thriller read – and on that sco…
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July 21, 2025 at 1:19 PM
On my blog today, my blog tour review of The Serial Killer's Party by Amy Cunningham - A great summer thriller! 💙📚@penguinbooksusa.bsky.social annabookbel.net/the-serial-k...