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Luath Press@LuathPress3 Apr 2025
🧵✨ Thread: Discovering Scotland's History with Anna Groundwater's Connecting Scotland's History! 📚 #ScottishHistory #ConnectingScotlandsHistory #AnnaGroundwater
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Kate Jackson@ArmchairSleuth14 Dec 2024
Reprint Of The Year 2024 - Tour De Force by Christianna Brand classicmystery.blog/2024/12/… via @puzzledoctor

Reprint Of The Year 2024 – Tour De Force by Christianna Brand

So, it’s time for the Reprint Of The Year awards. For the next two weeks, I’m going to nominate two classic crime novels that were reprinted this year in order for you to vote for them to win the a…

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DallerGut Dream Department Store by Miye Lee, translated by Sandy Joosun Lee - review fromfirstpagetolast.wordpres… via @JanetEmson

DallerGut Dream Department Store by Miye Lee, translated by Sandy Joosun Lee – review

Published by Wildfire Books Publication date – 1 August 2024 Source – own copy In a mysterious town hidden in our collective subconscious there’s a department store that sells dre…

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Rae Broughton@rae_reads114 Nov 2024
#BlogTour #Review – The Viscount and the Thief by Emma Orchard @EmmaOrchardB @rararesources raereadsbookblog.wordpress.c…

#BlogTour #Review – The Viscount and the Thief by Emma Orchard @EmmaOrchardB @rararesources

Thanks for stopping by! I’m delighted to be sharing my review for The Viscount and the Thief by Emma Orchard as part of the blog tour today. With thanks to Rachel at Rachel’s Random Resources for t…

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The starlings are back, filling the sky with their magic💫 #murmurations @YorksWildlife 📍Ripon Wetlands
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Kate Levey@BrophyLevey8 Nov 2024
Now *that's* what I call a recipe! @FaberBooks @elgrffths @Nigella_Lawson
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in retrospect, strange women lying in ponds distributing swords really might've been a better basis for a system of government.
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Never trust that anything that’s digitised or available online will be available forever. Digitisation is not preservation, and tech companies aren’t archivists or librarians. The presence of hard copy in a physical collection is the only guarantee of long-term survival
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@AntigoneJournal3 Nov 2024
Why is Google Books removing access to out-of-copyright books that it once hosted as open access? There is a good chance that the mass-deaccession policy of libraries, on the ground that "it's available for free online", will be one of the most stupid acts of modern curatorship.
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James Rebanks@herdyshepherd14 Nov 2024
If you’d like a signed copy with lovely end papers then call my local indie bookshops They are superstars And it sustains jobs in my community!
Bookends Carlisle www.bookscumbria.com@BookendsCarl4 Nov 2024
If you missed it,tune into BBC Sounds for a fascinating discussion with these 3 & Adam. I'm currently reading & loving #PlaceofTides @herdyshepherd1 's book on Anna & the eider down farming. bookscumbria.com/?s=Place+ti…
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Dan Neidle
@DanNeidle31 Oct 2024
Lots of over-the-top coverage right now about the £1m cap on inheritance tax agricultural property relief (APR). Quick thread:
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David@schaalfan30 Oct 2024
I wish that people who say libraries don't matter anymore could take a tour of ours right now. All of our computers are full, and the tables are full of people studying, while grandparents read Mo Willems book in the children's department. We haven't even been open an hour.
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Renard Press@renardpress30 Oct 2024
Very excited to be part of these excellent showcases! Please do help us spread the word - booksellers, reviewers, let us tell you about our books! Promise it’ll be short and sweet. 😁
The Indie Press Network@IndiePressNet30 Oct 2024
Booksellers, bloggers, reviewers, lend us your ears! The Indie Press Network Showcases are a chance to hear about the hottest titles on the indie press scene – from the horses’ mouths!
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Today we've added four major digitised manuscripts to our website. The Moutier-Grandval Bible, Codex Sinaiticus, Chronicle of the Kings of Mann and the Isles; John of Salisbury, Entheticus in Policraticum etc., and the Lindisfarne Gospels are available to view at bit.ly/BLDigitisedManuscript…
A page from The Lindisfarne Gospels (Cotton MS Nero d iv), showing large text and an illuminated border design.

ALT A page from The Lindisfarne Gospels (Cotton MS Nero d iv), showing large text and an illuminated border design.

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JACK O LANTERNS Turnips not pumpkins this #Halloween - going back to our roots. Grimacing pumpkins just beet it! Pardon the puns #turniplanterns Send us your pics & RT #31daysofhalloween
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How to be a poundland connoisseur. Wrote a thing in the Guardian. theguardian.com/food/2024/oc…

First-class wines at Ryanair prices

Some absolutely belting finds at belt-tightening prices

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After my talk on Wright of Derby, I went to see his house, near Derby Cathedral. A sorry sight; derelict, under threat of demolition, occupied by squatters. A sad way to remember one of our artistic giants!
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Renard Press@renardpress11 Oct 2024
‘There is nothing remotely stupid about this lovely little book, and I thoroughly enjoyed my time with it. It would make a perfect present for anyone who enjoys looking at life through the bitter-sweet comic lens of irony!’ 💚
Sue at Brown Flopsy's Book Burrow 🐇📖@brownflopsy11 Oct 2024
Welcome to my thoughts about the razor-sharp #StupidStoriesForToughTimes by @AndrewJCrowther Out now from @renardpress brownflopsy.blogspot.com/202… More details about this beautifully produced gem here: renardpress.com/books/stupid…
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Hearing about the Briish Library Women Writers Series with @stuck_inabook and @Book_Snob @BL_Publishing⁩ in @whitehorsebooks today #MLF2024 #15years
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This is me on the ‘97 Vanity Fair case against Fayed - what we knew, why we had to settle and what happened to our extensive evidence of his criminality. Remorseless, ruthless, racist’ Mohamed Al Fayed | The Guardian theguardian.com/global/2024/…

‘Remorseless, ruthless, racist’: my battle to expose Mohamed Al Fayed

As UK editor of Vanity Fair, from the 1990s I amassed appalling testimonies about the Harrods owner of sex abuse, racism and spying on staff

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Renard Press@renardpress31 Aug 2024
Delighted to introduce you to this long-lost gem of French lit – a short but powerful novel about an orphan in rural France by the incredible George Sand. What better time than the close of #WITmonth to rediscover Sand’s masterpiece… renardpress.com/books/franco… #bookpost #booktwt
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