mkmarion
@mkmarion.bsky.social
Book lover, artist, author of Pippo's War
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Spring treats on the way - Paperbacks to Look Out For in March 2025: Part Two alifeinbooks.co.uk/2025/02/pape...
Paperbacks to Look Out For in March 2025: Part Two - A life in books
Book reviews, snippets of book news, and alerts about books outside the glare of the publicity spotlight.
alifeinbooks.co.uk
February 25, 2025 at 8:14 AM
Spring treats on the way - Paperbacks to Look Out For in March 2025: Part Two alifeinbooks.co.uk/2025/02/pape...
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Wow what a book! I’ve absolutely adored this. Feeling bereft it’s over 😭
#OurEvenings #AlanHollinghurst
@picadorbooks.bsky.social
#booksky
#reading
#booklovers
#OurEvenings #AlanHollinghurst
@picadorbooks.bsky.social
#booksky
#reading
#booklovers
February 24, 2025 at 9:18 PM
Wow what a book! I’ve absolutely adored this. Feeling bereft it’s over 😭
#OurEvenings #AlanHollinghurst
@picadorbooks.bsky.social
#booksky
#reading
#booklovers
#OurEvenings #AlanHollinghurst
@picadorbooks.bsky.social
#booksky
#reading
#booklovers
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Congratulations @markabowles.bsky.social and @galleybeggars.bsky.social !!! I loved this book so really delighted for you!🍾👏🏽🍾👏🏽
Thrilled to say that oour brilliant author and friend Mark Bowles has been longlisted for the Authors' Club Best First Novel Award.
Bravo Mark! And to the other brilliant writers - hooray!
www.authorsclub.co.uk/longlist-for...
Bravo Mark! And to the other brilliant writers - hooray!
www.authorsclub.co.uk/longlist-for...
Longlist for Authors’ Club Best First Novel Award 2025
Today, the Authors’ Club announces the longlist for the annual Best First Novel Award, now in its 71st year. The longlisted books are as follows…
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February 24, 2025 at 9:29 PM
Congratulations @markabowles.bsky.social and @galleybeggars.bsky.social !!! I loved this book so really delighted for you!🍾👏🏽🍾👏🏽
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Been a good day today. From morning to evening, European leaders standing up, all around the world, one after another, and speaking clearly against the Trump/Putin agenda.
President of Finland Alexander Stubb speaking in Kyiv today:
▪️ It’s not Russia who decides on EU membership,its the European Union who does that
▪️ It’s not Russia that decides on NATO membership,it’s the alliance itself
▪️ It’s not Russia that decides on what Ukraine has by its border,when,where&how
▪️ It’s not Russia who decides on EU membership,its the European Union who does that
▪️ It’s not Russia that decides on NATO membership,it’s the alliance itself
▪️ It’s not Russia that decides on what Ukraine has by its border,when,where&how
February 24, 2025 at 9:49 PM
Been a good day today. From morning to evening, European leaders standing up, all around the world, one after another, and speaking clearly against the Trump/Putin agenda.
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Two great writers in conversation
February 24, 2025 at 10:07 PM
Two great writers in conversation
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Some group predictions from our shadow group. IBP longlist tomorrow! @stujallen.bsky.social @fulcherkim.bsky.social @davidheb.bsky.social @marinasofia.bsky.social @jeremykoenig.bsky.social shadowingtheibp.substack.com/p/some-predi...
Some predictions...
On the eve of the longlist
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February 24, 2025 at 11:20 PM
Some group predictions from our shadow group. IBP longlist tomorrow! @stujallen.bsky.social @fulcherkim.bsky.social @davidheb.bsky.social @marinasofia.bsky.social @jeremykoenig.bsky.social shadowingtheibp.substack.com/p/some-predi...
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February 24, 2025 at 11:51 PM
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New Audiobook in the Elizabethan Series: Frances – Tudor Countess, “A thrilling portrait of a remarkable woman who witnessed the key events of Elizabethan England.”
🇬🇧 www.amazon.co.uk/Frances-Tudo...
🇺🇸 www.amazon.com/Frances-Tudo...
#Elizabethan #Tudors #HistoricalFiction #Audiobook
🇬🇧 www.amazon.co.uk/Frances-Tudo...
🇺🇸 www.amazon.com/Frances-Tudo...
#Elizabethan #Tudors #HistoricalFiction #Audiobook
February 25, 2025 at 6:37 AM
New Audiobook in the Elizabethan Series: Frances – Tudor Countess, “A thrilling portrait of a remarkable woman who witnessed the key events of Elizabethan England.”
🇬🇧 www.amazon.co.uk/Frances-Tudo...
🇺🇸 www.amazon.com/Frances-Tudo...
#Elizabethan #Tudors #HistoricalFiction #Audiobook
🇬🇧 www.amazon.co.uk/Frances-Tudo...
🇺🇸 www.amazon.com/Frances-Tudo...
#Elizabethan #Tudors #HistoricalFiction #Audiobook
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Small Fires by Ronnie Turner @OrendaBooks #fiction #gothic #mystery #bookreview vonnibee.com/2025/02/25/s... @yvonnembee.bsky.social
Small Fires by Ronnie Turner @OrendaBooks #fiction #gothic #mystery #bookreview
I am delighted to share my review today for Small Fires by Ronnie Turner. This is the third book by this author and it is amazing 😍 My huge thanks to Orenda Books for getting in touch to see if I w…
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February 25, 2025 at 6:56 AM
Small Fires by Ronnie Turner @OrendaBooks #fiction #gothic #mystery #bookreview vonnibee.com/2025/02/25/s... @yvonnembee.bsky.social
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In which we welcome one of @backlisted.bsky.social's heroes, the writer and critic, John Lahr. Join me, @iammilliam.bsky.social, and Nicky Birch as we explore the huge (in every sense) A Life by Elia Kazan, a book as gutsy, bruising & brilliant as the man himself.
www.backlisted.fm/episodes/234...
www.backlisted.fm/episodes/234...
234. A Life by Elia Kazan — Backlisted
We explore Elia Kazan 's memoir A Life (1988) with veteran biographer and critic John Lahr, author of Notes on a Cowardly Lion , Prick Up Your Ears: The Biography of Joe ...
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February 25, 2025 at 7:18 AM
In which we welcome one of @backlisted.bsky.social's heroes, the writer and critic, John Lahr. Join me, @iammilliam.bsky.social, and Nicky Birch as we explore the huge (in every sense) A Life by Elia Kazan, a book as gutsy, bruising & brilliant as the man himself.
www.backlisted.fm/episodes/234...
www.backlisted.fm/episodes/234...
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“An ex-wife’s a woman who’s always prattling at parties about the joy of being independent, while she’s sober…and beginning on either the virtues or the villainies of her departed husband on one drink too many.” #ReadIndies #BookSky 💙📚
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jacquiwine.wordpress.com/2025/02/25/e...
Ex-Wife by Ursula Parrott
When Ex-Wife was published anonymously in 1929, it quickly became a literary sensation, selling 100,000 copies in its first year. Its author, Ursula Parrott, worked as a newspaper reporter in New Y…
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February 25, 2025 at 8:21 AM
“An ex-wife’s a woman who’s always prattling at parties about the joy of being independent, while she’s sober…and beginning on either the virtues or the villainies of her departed husband on one drink too many.” #ReadIndies #BookSky 💙📚
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John Lahr! Very excited about this, but also sad guests can't do their own books I want Backlisted to do The Joe Orton Diaries.
New episode up now. A Life by Elia Kazan, with guest John Lahr joining @johnmitchinson.bsky.social @iammilliam.bsky.social and @birchos.bsky.social.
www.backlisted.fm/episodes/234...
www.backlisted.fm/episodes/234...
234. A Life by Elia Kazan — Backlisted
We explore Elia Kazan 's memoir A Life (1988) with veteran biographer and critic John Lahr, author of Notes on a Cowardly Lion , Prick Up Your Ears: The Biography of Joe ...
www.backlisted.fm
February 25, 2025 at 8:49 AM
John Lahr! Very excited about this, but also sad guests can't do their own books I want Backlisted to do The Joe Orton Diaries.
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N3w billet: The English Teacher by R.K. Narayan - Sad, beautiful and very modern. bookaroundthecorner.com/2025/02/11/t...
The English Teacher by R.K. Narayan – Sad, beautiful and very modern.
The English Teacher by R.Y. Narayan. (1945) French title: Le professeur d’anglais. The English Teacher by R.K. Narayan is the last volume of three books based upon the author’s life and set in fict…
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February 12, 2025 at 5:21 AM
N3w billet: The English Teacher by R.K. Narayan - Sad, beautiful and very modern. bookaroundthecorner.com/2025/02/11/t...
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Old billet relevant at the moment, especially for US readers.
Ubu King by Alfred Jarry.
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Ubu King by Alfred Jarry.
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Merdre or Shrit! Ubu Roi is a lot more sensible than expected
Ubu Roi by Alfred Jarry. 1896. Written circa 1888. English Title: Ubu Rex. I’m going to watch the play Ubu Enchaîné (Ubu Bound) by Alfred Jarry in a couple of days. So I thought I might as we…
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February 15, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Old billet relevant at the moment, especially for US readers.
Ubu King by Alfred Jarry.
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Ubu King by Alfred Jarry.
bookaroundthecorner.com/2012/02/11/m...
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Another billet about Ubu.
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Cornegibouille! Ubu is a slave now.
Ubu Enchainé by Alfred Jarry. 1899. Ubu Bound. In case you’ve missed the first episode, here is my chronicle of Ubu Roi. Ubu Enchainé is the sequel of Ubu Roi. The first scene sums up what happened…
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February 15, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Another billet about Ubu.
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bookaroundthecorner.com/2012/02/18/c...
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There's something otherworldly about Tirzah Garwood's work. Another outstanding exhibition at @dulwichgallery.bsky.social
February 12, 2025 at 10:37 AM
There's something otherworldly about Tirzah Garwood's work. Another outstanding exhibition at @dulwichgallery.bsky.social
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Congratulations to the winner of the 2024 Great Britain Sasakawa Foundation Translation Prize, for translations into English of full-length Japanese language works.
Masaya Saito for The Kobe Hotel: Memoirs by Sanki Saitō (Isobar Press)
#TranslationPrizes
Masaya Saito for The Kobe Hotel: Memoirs by Sanki Saitō (Isobar Press)
#TranslationPrizes
February 12, 2025 at 11:04 AM
Congratulations to the winner of the 2024 Great Britain Sasakawa Foundation Translation Prize, for translations into English of full-length Japanese language works.
Masaya Saito for The Kobe Hotel: Memoirs by Sanki Saitō (Isobar Press)
#TranslationPrizes
Masaya Saito for The Kobe Hotel: Memoirs by Sanki Saitō (Isobar Press)
#TranslationPrizes
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📢We are enormously excited to announce that the keynote speaker for Bristol Translates 2025 will be Damion Searls, translator of Nobel laureate Jon Fosse and seven other Nobel prize-winners.
February 16, 2025 at 7:16 AM
📢We are enormously excited to announce that the keynote speaker for Bristol Translates 2025 will be Damion Searls, translator of Nobel laureate Jon Fosse and seven other Nobel prize-winners.
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On the Ramblings today, for #readindies and #moomins80, the first book in the Moomin series! kaggsysbookishramblings.wordpress.com/2025/02/15/b...
“…behind the horizon threatening black clouds were gathering.” #Moomins80
Back in August last year, I took part in a lovely event called Moominweek, hosted by Paula at Book Jotter. I read all the Moomin books by Tove Jansson in the early years of the blog (mainly) so I c…
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February 15, 2025 at 10:51 AM
On the Ramblings today, for #readindies and #moomins80, the first book in the Moomin series! kaggsysbookishramblings.wordpress.com/2025/02/15/b...
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Review of 'The Moomins and the Great Flood' by #ToveJansson, read for @bookjotter.bsky.social's #ToveTrove and @kaggsy59.bsky.social and @lizzysiddal.bsky.social's #ReadIndies.
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The quest for home: #ReadIndies
Cover illustration by Tove Jansson, showing Moomins spotting Sniff for the first time. The Moomins and the Great Flood by Tove Jansson. Småtrollen och den stora övervämningen (1945) translated by D…
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February 16, 2025 at 9:34 AM
Review of 'The Moomins and the Great Flood' by #ToveJansson, read for @bookjotter.bsky.social's #ToveTrove and @kaggsy59.bsky.social and @lizzysiddal.bsky.social's #ReadIndies.
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Calling agents seeking (human) #KidLitArt talent!
Do browse this thread of art samples from #KidLit illustrators who are actively seeking representation:
debbieohi.link/illustrators...
To others: Pls help boost, esp if you have agents following you? It's a tough time for freelance illustrators.
Do browse this thread of art samples from #KidLit illustrators who are actively seeking representation:
debbieohi.link/illustrators...
To others: Pls help boost, esp if you have agents following you? It's a tough time for freelance illustrators.
February 10, 2025 at 2:42 PM
Calling agents seeking (human) #KidLitArt talent!
Do browse this thread of art samples from #KidLit illustrators who are actively seeking representation:
debbieohi.link/illustrators...
To others: Pls help boost, esp if you have agents following you? It's a tough time for freelance illustrators.
Do browse this thread of art samples from #KidLit illustrators who are actively seeking representation:
debbieohi.link/illustrators...
To others: Pls help boost, esp if you have agents following you? It's a tough time for freelance illustrators.
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New billet : Mafalda, a BD and a graphic novel bookaroundthecorner.com/2025/02/16/m...
Mafalda, a BD and a graphic novel
Mafalda, mon héroïne (2024) by Florence Cestac, Maële Reat, Emilie Gleason, Anne Simon, Aude Picault, Maud Begon, Véro Cazot, Soledad Bravi, Agathe de Lastic, Gally, Marie Bardiaux-Vaïente and Flor…
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February 16, 2025 at 7:27 AM
New billet : Mafalda, a BD and a graphic novel bookaroundthecorner.com/2025/02/16/m...