I listened to Caroline Crampton's absolutely brilliant history (and memoir) of hypochondria - I can't recommend it enough. My review: stuckinabook.com/a-body-made-of…

'...pacy, intriguing and certainly unlike anything I’ve read before.'
Thanks for the cool review!

Commitment by Mona Simpson: Coming of age in difficult times alifeinbooks.co.uk/2024/05/commit… via alifeinbooks

After a 4 am start this morning and a wander round London, I'm not sure I'll be able to keep my eyes open to see the Northern Lights if they do an encore tonight.

Fiction from Japan and Korea is booming among English-speaking audiences, read our latest article to find out why ⤵️

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Murder Under the Sun edited by Cecily Gayford crimefictionlover.com/2024/05/murder…
A new short anthology of Golden Age mysteries, and Golden Age-style mysteries

Over the next few (checks notes) 21 months you’re invited to join top bookseller, ace blogger and all round superstar Raven Crime Reads 𓄿 🇺🇦 💙📚 (and me) in a journey through the John Connolly Charlie Parker series

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We’re thrilled to announce the full line-up of plays for the #OOTW2024 Festival at Omnibus Theatre, July 16-20. Featuring work from Argentina, Brazil, Chile and Spain, and for the first time, Ecuador and El Salvador. omnibus-clapham.org/out-of-the-win… 🧵for details…

The Corylus Books blog tour for #MurderUnderTheMIdnightSun is underway so there's going to be lots of great reviews out there. Written under pseudonym Stella Blómkvist and magnificently transferred from Icelandic by Quentin Bates thanks to Ewa Sherman for the invite
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It's Friday and that means we bring you new releases!
This week, titles by authors including Ben Pastor, Ruth Ware kate weston JodyCooksleyAuthor and Sophie Flynn
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Join Istros Books for an unforgettable evening on Thurs 16th Barbican Library

A journey into the most profound depths of literature, its sources of inspiration and the strive to present one's work to increasingly larger audiences through translation.

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Picnic by the river at Cliveden, calling it research...

Today it is my turn on the Corylus Books blog tour for #MurderUnderTheMidnightSun by the mysterious (and unidentified) Icelandic author Stella Blómkvist and it is translated by Quentin Bates Stella Blómkvist is a lawyer who acts more like a hard-boiled PI
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With the holiday season coming, perhaps you need to add some short, classic-style mysteries to your luggage
Murder Under the Sun, edited by Cecily Gayford, is worth checking out
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Review by Erin Britton

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Darkness, Darkness by John Harvey crimefictionlover.com/2014/06/darkne…
Published on the 30th anniversary of the Miners' Strike, 10 years ago, and the last novel in the Resnick series.
Reviewed for us by Raven Crime Reads 𓄿 🇺🇦 💙📚 and a great read!

Well at least there’s that…

Critically Timed Moments 'Kairos' by Jenny Erpenbeck tcl-bookreviews.com/2024/05/10/cri… via Davida (((The Chocolate Lady))) Chazan 🍫📚 🍨✒

'...the lukewarm provinces of his soul...' #ceesnooteboom kaggsysbookishramblings.wordpress.com/2024/05/10/the…