A well-deserved, excellent review by @erinmaglaque.bsky.social in @nybooks.com of @drnaomibaker.bsky.social's 'Voices of Thunder: Radical Religious Women of the Seventeenth Century', which I edited for @reaktionbooks.bsky.social. www.nybooks.com/articles/202...
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Look on my Works, ye Mighty…
Second photo: current reads.
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Kristjan Toomaspoeg reviews 'The Teutonic Knights: Rise and Fall of a Religious Corporation', by Aleksander Pluskowski
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🚨 The Perilous Deep: A Supernatural History of the Atlantic by Karl Bell is now in audiobook! 🚨
Available wherever you get your audiobooks from, this tells the fantastical stories of ghosts and monsters engendered by the Atlantic ocean.
NEW EVENT: How the Spanish Empire was Built: A 400-Year History
Felipe Fernández-Armesto
🎟️ Saturday, 28 March 2026
4pm
£10 - £18
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Badge of Honour! The Daily Telegraph HATES my book, FIVE EVIL WOMEN. They think prison works & 'bad people' should be locked up for ever. They did not like my anti-carceral feminism & belief in rehabilitation. Thrilled! @reaktionbooks.bsky.social @slamble1.bsky.social @elenaloizidou.bsky.social
Rough Music, by Liz Williams; Perilous Deep by Karl Bell; Ghosts, Trolls and Hidden People, ed Dagrún Ósk Jónsdóttir
Arrived today — some recent folklore titles from @reaktionbooks.bsky.social!
Katherine Mansfield: the Blazing Moment
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Now available from @reaktionbooks.bsky.social
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Here I've tried to give an account in English of the Ming ruling house as a family enterprise (and not forgetting imperial aunties)
What makes the perfect passionate kiss? 5 tips from history
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Maths is second best
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Watch now: The Rest is History: Rome Vs Hannibal: Cannae Aftermath
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Minds over matter: Delusions in every shape and form
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My new book is out today! Aways a nervous thing..... FIVE EVIL WOMEN: Hindley, West, Wuornos, Homolka, Tucker. First interview: newbooksnetwork.com/five-evil-wo... Really enjoyed talking to the amazing Miranda Melcher about evil & femininity. @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social @reaktionbooks.bsky.social
For more about Mansfield, take a listen to @jackewilson.bsky.social's conversation with author Gerri Kimber about her book Katherine Mansfield: A Hidden Life.
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Restless spirit: A tortured writer and the one man who stood by her
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Listen now: Biz sits down with cultural historian Mary E. Davis to discuss her fabulous new book Paul Poiret: Inventing Modern Luxury.
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StAnza 26 (Online): A Home in Space: exploring Edwin Morgan’s concrete poetry
Sunday 15 March 2026
🎟️ 11am-12pm
Online
£5
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The solar system at its best
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A better death? Rabbi suggests a ceremony for those who have chosen assisted dying
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Drops today: in this week's ARB @NewBooksNetwork podcast, host Nicholas Gordon talks to Warwick Ball about his recent book “Ancient Civilizations of Afghanistan: From the Earliest Times to the Mongol Conquest” @reaktionbooks.bsky.social asianreviewofbooks.com/podcast-with...
Lit Editor Business for @thirdcoastrvw.bsky.social: Patrick Reardon reviews Trees Ancient and Modern, a meditation on “the diverse interactions between people and trees over time.” @uchicagopress.bsky.social @reaktionbooks.bsky.social @chicagotree.bsky.social
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Fab early offer on A Home in Space: Selected Concrete, Visual and Sound Poetry by Edwin Morgan coming in June from @reaktionbooks.bsky.social Order the book on the @waterstones.bsky.social app or website by 20 Feb and you get 25% off. Enter FEB26 at the check-out. www.waterstones.com/campaign/feb...
🌊🌊🌊 New on H-Oceans 🌊🌊🌊
Check out Brooke Grasberger (German Maritime Museum)’s review of @karlbell.bsky.social (@uophistory.bsky.social)’s book _The Perilous Deep: A Supernatural History of the Atlantic_, pub 2025 @reaktionbooks.bsky.social
Review available @hnetreviews.bsky.social
In the UK? Lucky you! There’s a pre-order promotion on The Museum of Imaginary Musical Instruments, which book you can hold in your hands in April (in the US we have to wait until July)
Order from Waterstones by Feb 20th w/ code FEB26 for the discount
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Jason Whittaker on Big Tech v Big Journalism @reaktionbooks.bsky.social content.yudu.com/web/3pylg/0A...
I wrote a book! The Medieval Guide to Healthy Living will be published by @reaktionbooks.bsky.social on 1st April- and if you preorder from Waterstones between now and Friday it is 25% off: www.waterstones.com/book/the-med...
Off The Ground spotted in The Museum of Liverpool! ❤️ 👍 🎶 ✌️
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The best environmental books we’ve read in 2025
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Move over, Neptune
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