Today's post has brought this treat! We're looking forward to reviewing it soon. Thank you @tinderpress.bsky.social and Patrick Gale! #LoveLane
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Today's post has brought this treat! We're looking forward to reviewing it soon. Thank you @tinderpress.bsky.social and Patrick Gale! #LoveLane
Welcome to Wren James, who talks about writing as activism and how their own writing led to the formation of the Climate Fiction Writers League. reviewsbywriters.blogspot.com/2026/03/spec... #clifi #climateawareness #climatefiction
Another excellent review from @cindyjefferies.bsky.social Real reviews by real writers @writersreview.bsky.social!
And handsome they look, too!
Woohoo!
An important reminder that #RSPB was founded by women in response to the horrific trade in birds' feathers and skins to supply the Edwardian hat trade. Read more in this review by @lindanewbery.bsky.social
Why isn't Etta Lemon better known for being one of four women who founded the #RSPB? Tessa Boase's engaging biography is an illuminating sweep of social history that gives Etta the acclaim she deserves. reviewsbywriters.blogspot.com/2026/02/etta... @lindanewbery.bsky.social #birds #conservation
This sounds fascinating! GOD'S SECRETARIES (great title) - the writing of the #KingJamesBible by the amazingly prolific #AdamNicolson, praised by Graeme Fife: 'deft portraits of characters, strengths, quirks and all'. reviewsbywriters.blogspot.com/2026/01/gues... @harperperennial.bsky.social
Great review. Well spotted Adele Geras!
Congratulations to the category winners in the Nero Book Awards - Benjamin Wood, Claire Lynch, Jamila Gavin and Sarah Perry! Sarah's Non-Fiction winner is reviewed here by Adele Geras: Overall winner announced 4th March. reviewsbywriters.blogspot.com/2025/11/deat... #NeroBookAwards
First guest of the year! Lawyer-turned-author David Breakell, talks about the motivation and inspiration behind his first historical novel. "It took a long time to unlearn the way a lawyer drafts a document…" reviewsbywriters.blogspot.com/2026/01/spec... #thriller #Genoa #DowerHouseBooks
A bumper batch of great reads here!
Here's the final and even bigger batch of Book of the Year choices by our reviewers - all authors or independent booksellers. Excellent and wide-ranging choices here! Thanks to ALL our contributors, all authors or independent booksellers. reviewsbywriters.blogspot.com/2025/12/book...
Our second round up. Some great choices here.
Here's Part 2 of our Books of the Year roundups - great recommendations here by authors & booksellers. What's your best read of the year? Please tell us in the comments! reviewsbywriters.blogspot.com/2025/12/book... #greatreads #BooksoftheYear #readingrecommendations @booky.bsky.social
Very moving!
Today's post: Adele Geras praises Sarah Perry's memoir about her father-in-law's death. "I was knocked sideways ... have often thought about it since & agree with the rave reviews it's received." reviewsbywriters.blogspot.com/2025/11/deat... @vintagebooks.bsky.social #SarahPerry #death #bereavement
This week's guest, regular contributor @cindyjefferies.bsky.social, finds much to enjoy in THE HUMMINGBIRD by Sandro Veronesi. reviewsbywriters.blogspot.com/2025/09/gues... #translation #literatureintranslation #Italianfiction #greatreads
New bookseller guest! Richard Hayden of The Rye Bookshop chooses James Fox's excellent CRAFTLAND: "Craft, it is implied, is for hobbyists at home; instead, this tiny and shrinking minority do work. Hard work ... "
reviewsbywriters.blogspot.com/2025/09/book... #Rye #bookshops #JamesFox #crafts
Welcome to new guest Sarah LeFanu, who praises Iris Murdoch's Under the Net: "Joy in thinking & observing, in the pleasures of friendship and pursuit of love, all vividly present in her first, utterly delightful novel." reviewsbywriters.blogspot.com/2025/10/gues... @vintagebooks.bsky.social
"Asks deep questions about individual responsibility, whether past wrongs can be righted, how we adapt to climate change & nature loss, & what kind of future we can shape." reviewsbywriters.blogspot.com/2025/10/albi... @lindanewbery.bsky.social @penguinrandomhouse.bsky.social #AnnaHope #greatreads
Guest author David Breakell finds much to admire in Robert Harris's PRECIPICE, set in 1914. "Finds something new to say ... a seasoned political observer so the context is expertly handled." reviewsbywriters.blogspot.com/2025/10/gues... #RobertHarris #historicalfiction #FirstWorldWar #greatreads
If you'd like to read my new novel, THE ONE TRUE THING, it's available in Kindle form for just 99p for a limited period. amzn.to/4oSs7AZ #TheOneTrueThing #WritersReviewPublishing #newbooks #newfiction
Great novel. Thank you for the reminder Dennis Hamley on @writersreview.bsky.social
Guest Dennis Hamley explains why A S Byatt's POSSESSION is hi 'favourite-ever' novel. "I re-read it once every three years and each time I find even more in it." reviewsbywriters.blogspot.com/2025/09/gues... #BookerPrize #ASByatt #greatreads #literarymystery #poetry
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'The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there.' Regular contributor Graeme Fife comes to THE GO BETWEEN for the first time. 'At the end, I cried.' Who else loves this, and/or the film versions? reviewsbywriters.blogspot.com/2025/08/gues... #LPHartley #TheGoBetween #heatwave #1900
"Just like its customers, a bookstore has its own personality..." A new kind of bookshop feature today - guided by Venkatesh Swamy, we visit the thriving Eureka! in #Delhi to sample the rewards & irritations of daily bookshop life. reviewsbywriters.blogspot.com/2025/09/book... #India #indiebookshop
Check out our summer reads. We'd love to know what your choices would be!
Summer round-up: what have we loved recently? What's on our reading piles? Lovely range chosen by @celiarees.bsky.social @lindanewbery.bsky.social and #AdeleGeras. reviewsbywriters.blogspot.com/2025/07/summ... @guyshrubsole.bsky.social @merlinsheldrake.bsky.social @judithallnatt.bsky.social
Fabulous and so well deserved!