MadameBibiLophile
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I like books and I blog about books I like at https://madamebibilophilerecommends.co.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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November 14, 2025 at 8:27 AM
New on my blog - Flat Earth by Anika Jade Levy: A bleakly funny novella alifeinbooks.co.uk/2025/11/flat... #BookSky
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New on the blog today, I've written about the TIRZAH GARWOOD: Beyond Ravilious exhibition at Dulwich PG, which showcased Garwood as a highly talented artist in her own right.
One of my favourite exhibitions in recent years! #NonFictionNovember2025 #BookSky
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One of my favourite exhibitions in recent years! #NonFictionNovember2025 #BookSky
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Tirzah Garwood: Beyond Ravilious – exhibition and accompanying book
Something a little different from me today – another post in an occasional series of pieces about the art books I’ve accumulated over the past few years, mostly from gallery visits in London and th…
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November 14, 2025 at 7:17 AM
New on the blog today, I've written about the TIRZAH GARWOOD: Beyond Ravilious exhibition at Dulwich PG, which showcased Garwood as a highly talented artist in her own right.
One of my favourite exhibitions in recent years! #NonFictionNovember2025 #BookSky
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One of my favourite exhibitions in recent years! #NonFictionNovember2025 #BookSky
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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
Book reviews, snippets of book news, and alerts about books outside the glare of the publicity spotlight.
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November 12, 2025 at 8:28 AM
New on my blog today: A Snapshot of My Reading #9 alifeinbooks.co.uk/2025/11/a-sn... #BookSky
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On the Ramblings today - a remarkable new book from @twistedspoon.bsky.social which also works for #GLM2025 and #NovNov25! More here: kaggsysbookishramblings.wordpress.com/2025/11/11/h...
“He was done with everything now” #twistedspoonpress
Twisted Spoon Press are a Prague-based publisher who produce a fascinating range of books, and I’ve written about a good number of titles here on the Ramblings. Their titles are often quirky,…
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November 11, 2025 at 8:25 AM
On the Ramblings today - a remarkable new book from @twistedspoon.bsky.social which also works for #GLM2025 and #NovNov25! More here: kaggsysbookishramblings.wordpress.com/2025/11/11/h...
Today on the blog, a visit to a nail bar for #NovNov25 “My nails are my rhythm section.” (Dolly Parton) madamebibilophilerecommends.co.uk/2025/11/13/m...
“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 9:54 AM
Today on the blog, a visit to a nail bar for #NovNov25 “My nails are my rhythm section.” (Dolly Parton) madamebibilophilerecommends.co.uk/2025/11/13/m...
Today on the blog, my second #NovNov read, a powerful 2025 release from @vqbooks.bsky.social “All of my close friends are emotional train wrecks.” (Patrick de Witt) madamebibilophilerecommends.co.uk/2025/11/11/a...
“All of my close friends are emotional train wrecks.” (Patrick de Witt)
I don’t get many books sent to me by publishers, but I was really pleased to be offered Every Time We Say Goodbye from V&Q Books who specialise in writing from Germany. Ivana Sajko was born in …
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November 11, 2025 at 10:58 AM
Today on the blog, my second #NovNov read, a powerful 2025 release from @vqbooks.bsky.social “All of my close friends are emotional train wrecks.” (Patrick de Witt) madamebibilophilerecommends.co.uk/2025/11/11/a...
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New on my blog - Books to Look Out For in December 2025 alifeinbooks.co.uk/2025/11/book... #BookSky
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.
alifeinbooks.co.uk
November 10, 2025 at 8:28 AM
New on my blog - Books to Look Out For in December 2025 alifeinbooks.co.uk/2025/11/book... #BookSky
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New on the blog today, I've written about CROOKED CROSS by Sally Carson.
A brilliant, terrifying novel about the rise of Nazism, the falling apart of a country’s codes of decency & the moral fortitude required to oppose persecution. Frighteningly timely. 💙📚
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A brilliant, terrifying novel about the rise of Nazism, the falling apart of a country’s codes of decency & the moral fortitude required to oppose persecution. Frighteningly timely. 💙📚
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Crooked Cross by Sally Carson
For a novel first published in 1934, Sally Carson’s Crooked Cross feels remarkably timely, charting, as it does, the rise of Nazism in the early 1930s, the falling apart of a country’s fundamental …
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November 9, 2025 at 7:17 AM
New on the blog today, I've written about CROOKED CROSS by Sally Carson.
A brilliant, terrifying novel about the rise of Nazism, the falling apart of a country’s codes of decency & the moral fortitude required to oppose persecution. Frighteningly timely. 💙📚
jacquiwine.wordpress.com/2025/11/09/c...
A brilliant, terrifying novel about the rise of Nazism, the falling apart of a country’s codes of decency & the moral fortitude required to oppose persecution. Frighteningly timely. 💙📚
jacquiwine.wordpress.com/2025/11/09/c...
Today on the blog, my first contribution to #NovNov25 “Small and growing businesses are the beating heart of our economy and the soul of our communities.” (Mary Portas) madamebibilophilerecommends.co.uk/2025/11/09/s...
“Small and growing businesses are the beating heart of our economy and the soul of our communities.” (Mary Portas)
I’ve finished at work now and my leaving gift was bookshop.org vouchers (to quote my colleague: “Tell me what you want so you don’t get some rubbish you’ll never use” :-D ) which of course I starte…
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November 9, 2025 at 11:41 AM
Today on the blog, my first contribution to #NovNov25 “Small and growing businesses are the beating heart of our economy and the soul of our communities.” (Mary Portas) madamebibilophilerecommends.co.uk/2025/11/09/s...
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Winding Up the Week #446
This week, I look at books read and reviewed, discover some of the best writing about literature on the blogosphere, go blue for Manatee Awareness Month, announce Dean Street December, keep up with…
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November 8, 2025 at 7:13 AM
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... in which I am slightly underwhelmed by Patrick Modiano... #novnov2025🫤 kaggsysbookishramblings.wordpress.com/2025/11/07/h...
“He seemed reluctant to speak”. #NovNov2025
An author who keeps reappearing on my radar is Patrick Modiano, winner of the Nobel Prize for literature back in 2014. I read his book “Search Warrant” in 2015 and did get a lot from it…
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November 7, 2025 at 8:10 AM
... in which I am slightly underwhelmed by Patrick Modiano... #novnov2025🫤 kaggsysbookishramblings.wordpress.com/2025/11/07/h...
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Today for #NovNov25 I reviewed Petrol by Martina Evans - ' a prose poem masquerading as a novella'
No 223 Petrol by Martina Evans #NovNov25
Petrol by Martina Evans is a hybrid work, a prose poem that revels in both intensity and restraint. Set sometime in the 1970’s, the book is thin in pages but robust in emotional charge, with a narr…
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November 4, 2025 at 1:58 PM
Today for #NovNov25 I reviewed Petrol by Martina Evans - ' a prose poem masquerading as a novella'
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New on my blog - The Silver Book by Olivia Laing: ‘We are all in danger’ alifeinbooks.co.uk/2025/11/the-... #BookSky
The Silver Book by Olivia Laing: ‘We are all in danger’ - 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 7, 2025 at 8:25 AM
New on my blog - The Silver Book by Olivia Laing: ‘We are all in danger’ alifeinbooks.co.uk/2025/11/the-... #BookSky
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New on my blog - The Wax Child by Olga Ravn (transl. Martin Aitken): ‘I am not a child, only something that looks like one’ alifeinbooks.co.uk/2025/11/the-... #BookSky
The Wax Child by Olga Ravn (transl. Martin Aitken): ‘I am not a child, only something that looks like one’ - A Life in Books
Book reviews, snippets of book news, and alerts about books outside the glare of the publicity spotlight.
alifeinbooks.co.uk
November 5, 2025 at 8:27 AM
New on my blog - The Wax Child by Olga Ravn (transl. Martin Aitken): ‘I am not a child, only something that looks like one’ alifeinbooks.co.uk/2025/11/the-... #BookSky
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Today on the blog, for #MARM2025, I take a look at two different sides of the marvellous @margaretatwood.bsky.social - more here! kaggsysbookishramblings.wordpress.com/2025/11/05/t...
Two different sides of Margaret Atwood! #MARM2025
For the past several years, Buried in Print has hosted a Margaret Atwood Reading Month in November, to celebrate the great Canadian author during the month of her birth. I’ve very much enjoye…
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November 5, 2025 at 8:19 AM
Today on the blog, for #MARM2025, I take a look at two different sides of the marvellous @margaretatwood.bsky.social - more here! kaggsysbookishramblings.wordpress.com/2025/11/05/t...
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New on the blog today, I've written about SLANTING TOWARDS THE SEA by Lidija Hilje.
A sultry, sun-drenched, emotionally involving story of first love, the ongoing yearning that follows and the agonising sacrifices we sometimes make for those around us. 💙📚
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A sultry, sun-drenched, emotionally involving story of first love, the ongoing yearning that follows and the agonising sacrifices we sometimes make for those around us. 💙📚
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Slanting Towards the Sea by Lidija Hilje
Written in English (the author’s second language), Slanting Towards the Sea is the debut novel by the Croatian writer Lidija Hilje – a new name to me, but one I will be looking out for again in the…
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November 4, 2025 at 7:14 AM
New on the blog today, I've written about SLANTING TOWARDS THE SEA by Lidija Hilje.
A sultry, sun-drenched, emotionally involving story of first love, the ongoing yearning that follows and the agonising sacrifices we sometimes make for those around us. 💙📚
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A sultry, sun-drenched, emotionally involving story of first love, the ongoing yearning that follows and the agonising sacrifices we sometimes make for those around us. 💙📚
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New on my blog - Another Five Doorstopping Novels I’ve Read alifeinbooks.co.uk/2025/11/anot... #BookSky
Another Five Doorstopping Novels I’ve Read - 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 3, 2025 at 8:32 AM
New on my blog - Another Five Doorstopping Novels I’ve Read alifeinbooks.co.uk/2025/11/anot... #BookSky
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#BuddyRead – ANZ LitLovers LitBlog
Posts about #BuddyRead written by Lisa Hill
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November 2, 2025 at 11:37 AM
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Winding Up the Week #445
As we step into November, I look at books read and reviewed, discover some of the best writing about literature on the blogosphere, announce the 1961 Club, keep up with a variety of literary annive…
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November 1, 2025 at 3:35 AM
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If you're thinking of doing #NovellasInNovember, you're in luck - here is an A-Z of brilliant novella suggestions!
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An A-Z of Brilliant Novellas
As Novellas in November is starting, I thought I’d recommend some novellas you might like to read. And after jotting down a few, I thought… would I be able to make a whole alphabet of t…
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November 1, 2025 at 7:46 AM
If you're thinking of doing #NovellasInNovember, you're in luck - here is an A-Z of brilliant novella suggestions!
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Dust off your German, Swiss and Austrian books and join us for #GermanLitMonth. beautyisasleepingcat.com/2025/11/01/w...
Welcome to German Literature Month XV November 2025
Welcome to German Literature Month XV Hopefully many of you have a nice selection of books or a reading list for #germanlitmonth. Remember – anything that was originally written in German ca…
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November 1, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Dust off your German, Swiss and Austrian books and join us for #GermanLitMonth. beautyisasleepingcat.com/2025/11/01/w...
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Looking back at October reading -
It was a cracking month! kaggsysbookishramblings.wordpress.com/2025/10/31/l...
It was a cracking month! kaggsysbookishramblings.wordpress.com/2025/10/31/l...
Looking back at a very busy and bookish October!
I can’t believe that we’re actually at the end of October; the year is flying by, scarily so, and the dreaded C-word will be on us before we know it! I did have a very good month of rea…
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October 31, 2025 at 8:16 AM
Looking back at October reading -
It was a cracking month! kaggsysbookishramblings.wordpress.com/2025/10/31/l...
It was a cracking month! kaggsysbookishramblings.wordpress.com/2025/10/31/l...
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New on my blog - Blasts from the Past: Close Range by Annie Proulx (1999) alifeinbooks.co.uk/2025/10/blas... #BookSky
Blasts from the Past: Close Range by Annie Proulx (1999) - 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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October 31, 2025 at 8:25 AM
New on my blog - Blasts from the Past: Close Range by Annie Proulx (1999) alifeinbooks.co.uk/2025/10/blas... #BookSky