alifeinbooks
@alifeinbooks.bsky.social
Mainly books but also travel and art, viewing rather than creating
I blog at http://alifeinbooks.co.uk and live in beautiful Bath, UK.
I blog at http://alifeinbooks.co.uk and live in beautiful Bath, UK.
Brilliant #bookpost courtesy of @penguinbooksuk.bsky.social - Claire Fuller's new novel, Hunger and Thirst, due out next May. Can't wait to get stuck in! #BookSky
November 17, 2025 at 9:58 AM
Brilliant #bookpost courtesy of @penguinbooksuk.bsky.social - Claire Fuller's new novel, Hunger and Thirst, due out next May. Can't wait to get stuck in! #BookSky
Friday's reading courtesy of #NetGalley - the reliably excellent Bryan Washington's new novel, Palaver, set in Tokyo where a mother pays an unexpected and unwelcome visit to her son. Coming from @atlanticbooks.bsky.social in January
October 10, 2025 at 9:56 AM
Friday's reading courtesy of #NetGalley - the reliably excellent Bryan Washington's new novel, Palaver, set in Tokyo where a mother pays an unexpected and unwelcome visit to her son. Coming from @atlanticbooks.bsky.social in January
Post-holiday Monday reading courtesy of #NetGalley - I'm hoping Kari Leibowitz's How to Winter will set me up for the coming months. Coming in paperback from @panmacmillan.bsky.social shortly
October 6, 2025 at 11:05 AM
Post-holiday Monday reading courtesy of #NetGalley - I'm hoping Kari Leibowitz's How to Winter will set me up for the coming months. Coming in paperback from @panmacmillan.bsky.social shortly
#bookpost courtesy of @fairlightbooks.bsky.social - Clare O'Dea's new novel Before the Leaves Fall which I'm very much looking forward to having loved Voting Day. Coming in October.
August 24, 2025 at 1:13 PM
#bookpost courtesy of @fairlightbooks.bsky.social - Clare O'Dea's new novel Before the Leaves Fall which I'm very much looking forward to having loved Voting Day. Coming in October.
Brilliant #bookpost courtesy of @bloomsburybooksuk.bsky.social - Patrick Ryan's Buckeye which I already know from reading the proof is one of my books of 2025. Coming in September
August 20, 2025 at 10:31 AM
Brilliant #bookpost courtesy of @bloomsburybooksuk.bsky.social - Patrick Ryan's Buckeye which I already know from reading the proof is one of my books of 2025. Coming in September
Wednesday's reading courtesy of #NetGalley - Just coming to the end of Andrew Porter's quietly compassionate, engrossing novel, The Imagined Life. Highly recommended. coming from @europaeditions.bsky.social next month
July 23, 2025 at 11:06 AM
Wednesday's reading courtesy of #NetGalley - Just coming to the end of Andrew Porter's quietly compassionate, engrossing novel, The Imagined Life. Highly recommended. coming from @europaeditions.bsky.social next month
Monday's reading courtesy of #NetGalley - Debra Curtis's superb debut, Laws of Love and Logic. An immersive old-fashioned novel about love, life, loss, faith and redemption. Coming from @bloomsburybooksuk.bsky.social in February but well worth the wait. #LawsofLoveandLogic
July 7, 2025 at 9:59 AM
Monday's reading courtesy of #NetGalley - Debra Curtis's superb debut, Laws of Love and Logic. An immersive old-fashioned novel about love, life, loss, faith and redemption. Coming from @bloomsburybooksuk.bsky.social in February but well worth the wait. #LawsofLoveandLogic
Friday's reading courtesy of #NetGalley - Miriam Toews's A Truce That is Not Peace, a brief memoir about loss, writing, life and death. Raw, funny and hopeful. Coming from @4thestatebooks.bsky.social in August
July 4, 2025 at 10:09 AM
Friday's reading courtesy of #NetGalley - Miriam Toews's A Truce That is Not Peace, a brief memoir about loss, writing, life and death. Raw, funny and hopeful. Coming from @4thestatebooks.bsky.social in August
Sunday's reading courtesy of #NetGalley - Olga Ravn's slim yet powerful The Wax Child based on Danish 17th century witch trials, superbly translated by Martin Aitken. Coming from @vikingpenguin99.bsky.social in November
June 29, 2025 at 10:24 AM
Sunday's reading courtesy of #NetGalley - Olga Ravn's slim yet powerful The Wax Child based on Danish 17th century witch trials, superbly translated by Martin Aitken. Coming from @vikingpenguin99.bsky.social in November
Friday's reading courtesy of #NetGalley - Just coming to the end of The Two Roberts, Damian Barr's brilliant novel based on the lives of Scottish artists Robert MacBryde and Robert Colquhoun, which deserves all the prizes. @canongate.co.uk #TheTwoRoberts
June 6, 2025 at 9:36 AM
Friday's reading courtesy of #NetGalley - Just coming to the end of The Two Roberts, Damian Barr's brilliant novel based on the lives of Scottish artists Robert MacBryde and Robert Colquhoun, which deserves all the prizes. @canongate.co.uk #TheTwoRoberts
#bookpost courtesy of @rosellis.bsky.social - Patrick Ryan's Buckeye set in small town America comes much praised by Ann Patchett and Alice McDermott. Sounds right up my street. Coming from @bloomsburybooksuk.bsky.social in August
April 1, 2025 at 11:02 AM
#bookpost courtesy of @rosellis.bsky.social - Patrick Ryan's Buckeye set in small town America comes much praised by Ann Patchett and Alice McDermott. Sounds right up my street. Coming from @bloomsburybooksuk.bsky.social in August
Tuesday's reading courtesy of #NetGalley - Alexander Starritt's absorbing, moving novel about male friendship and ambition. Coming @swiftpress.bsky.social in July
March 11, 2025 at 11:05 AM
Tuesday's reading courtesy of #NetGalley - Alexander Starritt's absorbing, moving novel about male friendship and ambition. Coming @swiftpress.bsky.social in July
Friday's reading couresy of #NetGalley - Oliver Lovrenski's coming-of-age novel, Back in the Day, set in Oslo. A tough, intensely moving read brilliantly translated by Nichola Smalley. Coming from @penguinbooksuk.bsky.social in April
February 21, 2025 at 12:17 PM
Friday's reading couresy of #NetGalley - Oliver Lovrenski's coming-of-age novel, Back in the Day, set in Oslo. A tough, intensely moving read brilliantly translated by Nichola Smalley. Coming from @penguinbooksuk.bsky.social in April
Wednesday's reading courtesy of #NetGalley - Benjamin Wood's vividly cinematic, atmospheric novella, Seascraper. Coming from @vikingbooksuk.bsky.social in July
February 19, 2025 at 10:54 AM
Wednesday's reading courtesy of #NetGalley - Benjamin Wood's vividly cinematic, atmospheric novella, Seascraper. Coming from @vikingbooksuk.bsky.social in July
Friday's reading courtesy of #NetGalley - just finished Laura Barnett's Births, Deaths and Marriages which follows a year in the lives of a group of university friends, two decades after they first met. Loved it! Coming from @doubledayuk.bsky.social in June
January 31, 2025 at 10:45 AM
Friday's reading courtesy of #NetGalley - just finished Laura Barnett's Births, Deaths and Marriages which follows a year in the lives of a group of university friends, two decades after they first met. Loved it! Coming from @doubledayuk.bsky.social in June
Friday's reading courtesy of #NetGalley - thoroughly enjoying Paul McVeigh's linked short story collection, I Hear You, set in Belfast. Funny, powerful and immediate. Coming from @saltpublishing.com in March
January 24, 2025 at 12:01 PM
Friday's reading courtesy of #NetGalley - thoroughly enjoying Paul McVeigh's linked short story collection, I Hear You, set in Belfast. Funny, powerful and immediate. Coming from @saltpublishing.com in March
Wednesday's reading courtesy of #NetGalley- Megan Hunter's luminously beautiful Days of Light follows six pivotal days in the life of Ivy, beginning in 1938. Due out in April but well worth the wait
November 20, 2024 at 1:57 PM
Wednesday's reading courtesy of #NetGalley- Megan Hunter's luminously beautiful Days of Light follows six pivotal days in the life of Ivy, beginning in 1938. Due out in April but well worth the wait
Sunday's reading: Enjoying Anthony Marra's Mercury Pictures Presents which flits between Hollywood and Mussolini's Italy. Smart, funny but heart wrenching with it 📚
November 17, 2024 at 11:04 AM
Sunday's reading: Enjoying Anthony Marra's Mercury Pictures Presents which flits between Hollywood and Mussolini's Italy. Smart, funny but heart wrenching with it 📚
Finished Delphine de Vigan's Kids Run the Show (transl. Alison Anderson) which has left me with lots to thing about. Coming from Europa Editions in November.
October 25, 2023 at 7:15 PM
Finished Delphine de Vigan's Kids Run the Show (transl. Alison Anderson) which has left me with lots to thing about. Coming from Europa Editions in November.
Back from my travels and very pleased to find a copy of Nathacha Appanah's Nothing Belongs to You waiting for me. Due out next month
October 20, 2023 at 12:31 PM
Back from my travels and very pleased to find a copy of Nathacha Appanah's Nothing Belongs to You waiting for me. Due out next month
View from my Budapest bedroom balcony, last stop on a rail jaunt which started Bath, UK.
October 15, 2023 at 9:36 AM
View from my Budapest bedroom balcony, last stop on a rail jaunt which started Bath, UK.
View from outside my bedroom door in Kosice: a creeper full of chatty sparrows
October 13, 2023 at 8:46 AM
View from outside my bedroom door in Kosice: a creeper full of chatty sparrows
Here's Sandor Marai who has a statue in his hometown of Kosice (once Hungary, now Slovakia) where I now. He's sitting on the corner of the street named after him and looks like he might like some company.
October 12, 2023 at 3:44 PM
Here's Sandor Marai who has a statue in his hometown of Kosice (once Hungary, now Slovakia) where I now. He's sitting on the corner of the street named after him and looks like he might like some company.
No view from my bedroom window in Kosice, Slovakia so here's a shot of the very smart Cafe Slavia where we had breakfast.
October 12, 2023 at 8:26 AM
No view from my bedroom window in Kosice, Slovakia so here's a shot of the very smart Cafe Slavia where we had breakfast.
My bedroom window view for the next couple of days. A little chilly in Olomouc today but sun tomorrow🤞
October 9, 2023 at 1:38 PM
My bedroom window view for the next couple of days. A little chilly in Olomouc today but sun tomorrow🤞