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Simon Thomas @stuckinabook.bsky.social · 29m

One week to go! @kaggsy59.bsky.social

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Pamela Hutchinson @pamhutch.bsky.social · 4h

The BFI Melodrama season will be keeping me busy over the coming weeks. I may be in a cinema near you! For example, I am introducing a 1940 double-bill of REBECCA and the British GASLIGHT in Brighton for CINECITY on 16 November @attenboroughac.bsky.social www.cine-city.co.uk/event/rebecc...

Rebecca + Gaslight double bill - Cinecity

A double bill of classic psychological thrillers, exploring love and obsession. REBECCA: Hitchcock’s Daphne Du Maurier adaptation was his first film in Hollywood after leaving...

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JacquiWine @jacquiwine.bsky.social · 19m

"...since then, the outset, the very beginning, there had been various understandings between them, the most fundamental of which was that nothing of what was taking place (had taken place and would continue to) could ever be known." #BookSky 💙📚

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The Land in Winter by Andrew Miller

Over the past 30 years, Andrew Miller has been carving out a reputation for himself as one of Britain’s finest writers of literary fiction. Twice shortlisted for the Booker Prize and winner of the …

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JacquiWine @jacquiwine.bsky.social · 21m

Great choices there. You can’t go wrong with Penelope F!

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eastlondongroup.bsky.social @eastlondongroup.bsky.social · 5h

This is a great favourite of mine &, I am pleased to say, it is a view that Elwin Hawthorne would still recognise to this day! This is "Reconstruction at Saltdean" by him from 1934. #ElwinHawthorne #Saltdean #Sussex #EastLondonGroup #MondayMorning

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JacquiWine @jacquiwine.bsky.social · 1d

PSA for Jean Rhys fans!

If you’re in London, get yourself along to the POSTURES: JEAN RHYS IN THE MODERN WORLD exhibition at the Michael Werner Gallery in Mayfair, which includes various artworks in conversation with Rhys’ books.

I especially loved these pieces by Celia Paul & Gwen John. 💙📚

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JacquiWine @jacquiwine.bsky.social · 4h

One of the things I found most impressive about this series was Powell’s ability to sketch out so many ‘minor’ characters, often needing just few sentences for each one. Somehow, he manages to make each individual feel memorable, or at least recognisable, in some way.

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Jonathan Gibbs @jonathangibbs.bsky.social · 5h

I’ve been rereading Anthony Powell’s A Dance to the Music of Time this year, a book a month. October was Books Do Furnish a Room, one of my favourites in the series so far. A short thread:

Jonathan Gibbs @jonathangibbs.bsky.social · 1d

2026 Reading 60: Books Do Furnish a Room by Anthony Powell. #10 in my year-long reread of A Dance to the Music of Time, and an absolute corker, both for its treatment of relationship between Pamela, Widmerpool and X Trapnel (‘Un Amour de Widmerpool’?) and for the extensive satire of publishing.

Paperback copy of Books Do Furnish a Room, with a pen and ink illustration of X Trapnel, a man with a severe face sporting a beatnik beard and a pair of dark glasses, and wearing a belted Macintosh over a black shirt with a green tie with an illustration of a naked woman on it. Under his arm he has a copy of a literary journal - you can see the title: FISSION - and a long thin stick with a white skull as its handle. Behind him, lying face down on a single bed is a naked woman with her hands seemingly embedded in her long hair.

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Richard Morris @ahistoryinart.bsky.social · 5h

John Nash painted many landscapes around Dorset in the interwar years. He rarely attempted to paint directly from nature, preferring to work in the constant light of his studio from the sketches and watercolours made on the spot. 'Walled Garden, Bredy,' was painted in 1923.

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JacquiWine @jacquiwine.bsky.social · 5h

*crafted

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JacquiWine @jacquiwine.bsky.social · 1d

New on the blog today, I've written about THE LAND IN WINTER by Andrew Miller.

I adored this moving, elegantly crated novel that goes deep into character, highlighting the fault lines in two beautifully observed marriages during winter 1962. #BookSky 💙📚

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The Land in Winter by Andrew Miller

Over the past 30 years, Andrew Miller has been carving out a reputation for himself as one of Britain’s finest writers of literary fiction. Twice shortlisted for the Booker Prize and winner of the …

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JacquiWine @jacquiwine.bsky.social · 7h

Penelope Fitzgerald! And Memento Mori is one of my favourites by Spark. 💛

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JacquiWine @jacquiwine.bsky.social · 7h

Very much so. It’s a slow burner, but I found it very compelling, partly for that stillness.

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JacquiWine @jacquiwine.bsky.social · 15h

Lovely! That’s right, definitely a slow burner, but I found it *so* absorbing. I really hope you enjoy it - let me know how you get on! :)

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JacquiWine @jacquiwine.bsky.social · 1d

“He sometimes thought she was the kind of person who might choose to bring the house down simply to find out what kind of noise it made.” #BookSky 💙📚 #BookerPrize

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The Land in Winter by Andrew Miller

Over the past 30 years, Andrew Miller has been carving out a reputation for himself as one of Britain’s finest writers of literary fiction. Twice shortlisted for the Booker Prize and winner of the …

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Richard Morris @ahistoryinart.bsky.social · 19h

Augusto Giacometti was a member of the Giacometti dynasty of artists and was among the very first painters of the 20thC to venture into non-representational painting. He moved back to figurative painting later in his career. 'Books and Cup,' is from 1940.

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Chris @staggerlee42.bsky.social · 20h

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A very fine book indeed. #BookSky💙📚

Review by chris_leathley - The Luminaries

This book is a huuuuge enterprise of fiction - so delicately layered and over-layered, so many...

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JacquiWine @jacquiwine.bsky.social · 19h

It’s so cool. Fingers crossed you’ll be able to catch it! 🤞

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JacquiWine @jacquiwine.bsky.social · 19h

There’s so much going on in it. I definitely want to see it again…

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JacquiWine @jacquiwine.bsky.social · 19h

Cool. I went yesterday and can definitely recommend!

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JacquiWine @jacquiwine.bsky.social · 1d

PSA for Jean Rhys fans!

If you’re in London, get yourself along to the POSTURES: JEAN RHYS IN THE MODERN WORLD exhibition at the Michael Werner Gallery in Mayfair, which includes various artworks in conversation with Rhys’ books.

I especially loved these pieces by Celia Paul & Gwen John. 💙📚

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JacquiWine @jacquiwine.bsky.social · 19h

No! But I do recall you posting about it recently. Definitely one to investigate - thanks for the tip!

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JacquiWine @jacquiwine.bsky.social · 20h

We are spoilt for choice in London right now!

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Jaghoul 🎃 @jagodesu.bsky.social · 23h

Impressionism 🐈

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JacquiWine @jacquiwine.bsky.social · 20h

That’s a great pic!

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