Janet Emson
@janetemson.bsky.social
Book lover. Book reviewer. On the other socials as @JanetEmson
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Three left and I hate all books @nationalbooktokens.bsky.social #hiddenbookgame
November 14, 2025 at 11:49 AM
Three left and I hate all books @nationalbooktokens.bsky.social #hiddenbookgame
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Booklovers, your favourite game is back! 📚🔎
Guess all 20 books in the #HiddenBooksGame and you could win a £500/€500 National Book Token to spend in your local bookshop (the best gift ever, in our opinion).
Play now: buff.ly/460M0aR
Guess all 20 books in the #HiddenBooksGame and you could win a £500/€500 National Book Token to spend in your local bookshop (the best gift ever, in our opinion).
Play now: buff.ly/460M0aR
November 13, 2025 at 10:37 AM
Booklovers, your favourite game is back! 📚🔎
Guess all 20 books in the #HiddenBooksGame and you could win a £500/€500 National Book Token to spend in your local bookshop (the best gift ever, in our opinion).
Play now: buff.ly/460M0aR
Guess all 20 books in the #HiddenBooksGame and you could win a £500/€500 National Book Token to spend in your local bookshop (the best gift ever, in our opinion).
Play now: buff.ly/460M0aR
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Dictionary of Fine Distinctions by Eli Burnstein – review… via @janetemson.bsky.social
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Dictionary of Fine Distinctions by Eli Burnstein – review
Published by Profile Publication date – 4 September 2025 Source – review copy Guilt or shame? Clementine or tangerine? We like to think that we choose our words with care, but are we us…
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September 26, 2025 at 6:27 AM
Dictionary of Fine Distinctions by Eli Burnstein – review… via @janetemson.bsky.social
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Winding Up the Week #438
This week we announce another brief break coming up, look at books read and reviewed, discover some of the best writing about literature on the blogosphere, keep up with literary anniversaries, foc…
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September 6, 2025 at 7:10 AM
So it actually went up but I’ve narrowed it down to these. Which to say I’ve got about 2,300 to choose from isn’t bad. I’m only away for a week so I need to pick 5. Which ones would you take? #booksky📚
August 11, 2025 at 8:23 AM
So it actually went up but I’ve narrowed it down to these. Which to say I’ve got about 2,300 to choose from isn’t bad. I’m only away for a week so I need to pick 5. Which ones would you take? #booksky📚
Narrowing down which books to take on holiday is going well…
August 9, 2025 at 2:19 PM
Narrowing down which books to take on holiday is going well…
Went book shopping. Came home without any books but with this. Which is book adjacent so counts.
August 2, 2025 at 2:35 PM
Went book shopping. Came home without any books but with this. Which is book adjacent so counts.
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Attention All Shipping by Kathy Biggs – review fromfirstpagetolast.wordpress.com/2025/07/25/a... via @janetemson.bsky.social
Attention All Shipping by Kathy Biggs – review
Published by Borough Press Publication date – 8 May 2025 Source – review copy When you’re feeling lost at sea, what will it take to guide you home? Grace lives with her father Jac…
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July 26, 2025 at 6:28 AM
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Murder in Mesopotamia by Agatha Christie – review
Published by Fontana Publication date – originally 1936 Source – own copy What secrets lie in the past? Fifteen years ago, during the Great War, Louise Leidner’s first husband was tried…
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July 26, 2025 at 6:33 AM
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Death on the Down Beat by Sebastian Farr
Published by The British Library Publication date – 10 September 2022 Source – review copy As a rousing Strauss piece is reaching its crescendo in Maningpool Civic Hall, the talented ye…
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July 20, 2025 at 6:20 PM
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“It’s the drama Mick. I just love it” (I do feel for Ros Hemmings and her husband though).
Penniless and homeless, Raynor and Moth Winn found fame with their story of their 630-mile walk to salvation. The Salt Path became a global bestseller and was adapted into a major film.
But we can reveal it wasn’t the whole truth.
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Penniless and homeless, the Winns found fame and fortune with the story of their 630-mile walk to salvation. We can reveal it was far from the truth
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July 6, 2025 at 3:20 PM
“It’s the drama Mick. I just love it” (I do feel for Ros Hemmings and her husband though).
Doing my bit for science by trying these.
July 6, 2025 at 8:26 AM
Doing my bit for science by trying these.
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Bourne on the Fourth of July
July 4, 2025 at 9:25 AM
Bourne on the Fourth of July
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Happy publication day to @zenaldehyde.bsky.social for Behind Frenemy Lines, from @panmacmillan.bsky.social, a book I ready enjoyed #romance #lawyers #cosplay bluebookballoon.blogspot.com/2025/07/revi...
July 3, 2025 at 7:45 AM
Happy publication day to @zenaldehyde.bsky.social for Behind Frenemy Lines, from @panmacmillan.bsky.social, a book I ready enjoyed #romance #lawyers #cosplay bluebookballoon.blogspot.com/2025/07/revi...
I’m all for books not being translated into US/UK English for each market but this tests my resolve.
(Yes I do know different countries use different terms. No it’s not that much of a big deal. Yes it does make my eye twitch).
(Yes I do know different countries use different terms. No it’s not that much of a big deal. Yes it does make my eye twitch).
June 25, 2025 at 10:13 AM
I’m all for books not being translated into US/UK English for each market but this tests my resolve.
(Yes I do know different countries use different terms. No it’s not that much of a big deal. Yes it does make my eye twitch).
(Yes I do know different countries use different terms. No it’s not that much of a big deal. Yes it does make my eye twitch).
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This is not a Game by Kelly Mullen – review
Published by Century Publication date – 10 April 2025 Source – review copy Two unlikely detectives. A killer cocktail of suspects. A Gibson martini garnished with three silverskin onion…
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June 8, 2025 at 6:33 AM
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We are off on a trip for a few days. You’ll never guess where…
May 27, 2025 at 8:59 AM
We are off on a trip for a few days. You’ll never guess where…
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The Cat Who Saved the Library by Sosuke Natsukawa, translated by Louise Heal Kawai – review fromfirstpagetolast.wordpress.com/2025/05/15/t... via @janetemson.bsky.social
The Cat Who Saved the Library by Sosuke Natsukawa, translated by Louise Heal Kawai – review
Published by Picador Publication date – 10 April 2025 Source – review copy but listened via audio subscription Nanami Kosaki loves reading. The local library has become a home from home…
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May 18, 2025 at 4:28 PM
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This afternoon’s task is to tear up these proofs to go in the recycling. I’m putting it off for as long as possible…
May 11, 2025 at 3:54 PM
This afternoon’s task is to tear up these proofs to go in the recycling. I’m putting it off for as long as possible…
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Kate MacDougall – Q&A
Good Things by Kate MacDougall is published by Zaffre on 24 April. Kate kindly answered a few of my questions. 1. Tell us a little about Good Things. Good Things is about two very different sisters…
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April 25, 2025 at 4:36 PM
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Hodder has signed two sagas by Romantic Novelists Association chair Seána Tinley, starting with The Irish Midwife
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April 25, 2025 at 10:45 AM
Hodder has signed two sagas by Romantic Novelists Association chair Seána Tinley, starting with The Irish Midwife
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Out now - Sleeper Beach by @harkaway.bsky.social from Corsair ( @hachetteuk.bsky.social ) - at last another Cal Sounder story. Read it! bluebookballoon.blogspot.com/2025/04/revi... 💙📚 #Booksky
April 25, 2025 at 6:24 AM
Out now - Sleeper Beach by @harkaway.bsky.social from Corsair ( @hachetteuk.bsky.social ) - at last another Cal Sounder story. Read it! bluebookballoon.blogspot.com/2025/04/revi... 💙📚 #Booksky
Just in case you need to know you can give yourself a splinter with a piece of your own nail.
April 25, 2025 at 10:08 AM
Just in case you need to know you can give yourself a splinter with a piece of your own nail.
Managed to block myself in while book sorting.
April 20, 2025 at 5:47 PM
Managed to block myself in while book sorting.
Sometimes I remember how annoyed I get by the 2005 Pride and Prejudice adaptation.
April 8, 2025 at 8:24 AM
Sometimes I remember how annoyed I get by the 2005 Pride and Prejudice adaptation.