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Mandie Griffiths @mandie163.bsky.social · 46m

Snowblind by Ragnar Jónasson, translated by Quentin Bates jenmedsbookreviews.com/2025/10/20/s...

Snowblind by Ragnar Jónasson, translated by Quentin Bates

Today it is my absolute pleasure to join the blog tour celebrating the 10th anniversary of the release of Snowblind by Ragnar Jónasson. 10 years – can you believe it? Snowblind was one of the…

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Mandie Griffiths @mandie163.bsky.social · 22h

The Restless Coast by Roger Morgan-Grenville | #bookreview #nonfiction | @iconbooks portobellobookblog.com/2025/10/19/t...

The Restless Coast by Roger Morgan-Grenville | #bookreview #nonfiction | @iconbooks

I was delighted to receive a copy of The Restless Coast by Roger Morgan-Greville from Icon Books earlier this year. Thanks to Amelia for sending a copy my way and apologies for taking so long to ge…

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Mandie Griffiths @mandie163.bsky.social · 1d

#ThreeTwoOne quickfire questions with Hil G Gibb #author of The Dying Realm portobellobookblog.com/2025/10/18/t...

#ThreeTwoOne quickfire questions with Hil G Gibb #author of The Dying Realm

I’m delighted to be joined by Hil G Gibb today, author of The Dying Realms. The Dying Realms was published last year and available in paperback and digitals version: full details below. It&#8…

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Mandie Griffiths @mandie163.bsky.social · 2d

The Hawk Is Dead by Peter James jenmedsbookreviews.com/2025/10/17/t...

The Hawk Is Dead by Peter James

Today I am sharing my thoughts on the brand new Roy Grace thriller from Peter James. This book may be the 21st book in the series, but it packs a real (Royal) punch. My thanks to publisher Pan Macm…

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Mandie Griffiths @mandie163.bsky.social · 2d

First Line Friday 17th October 2025: The Secret of Secrets by Dan Brown | #FirstLineFriday #BookSky 💙📚 portobellobookblog.com/2025/10/17/f...

First Line Friday 17th October 2025: The Secret of Secrets by Dan Brown | #FirstLineFriday #BookSky 💙📚

I am very excited to be taking a copy of The Secret of Secrets by Dan Brown away with me for the weekend. I’m away with my family for a few days – they won’t actually want me to t…

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Mandie Griffiths @mandie163.bsky.social · 2d

First Line Friday 17th October 2025: The Secret of Secrets by Dan Brown | #FirstLineFriday #BookSky 💙📚 portobellobookblog.com/2025/10/17/f...

First Line Friday 17th October 2025: The Secret of Secrets by Dan Brown | #FirstLineFriday #BookSky 💙📚

I am very excited to be taking a copy of The Secret of Secrets by Dan Brown away with me for the weekend. I’m away with my family for a few days – they won’t actually want me to t…

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Mandie Griffiths @mandie163.bsky.social · 3d

Black As Death by Lilja Sigurðardóttir, translated by Lorenza Garcia jenmedsbookreviews.com/2025/10/16/b...

Black As Death by Lilja Sigurðardóttir, translated by Lorenza Garcia

Today I am delighted to join the blog tour for Black As Death by Lilja Sigurðardóttir, translated into english by Lorenza Garcia. I love the Áróra Investigations series and it has been a bit of a b…

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Mandie Griffiths @mandie163.bsky.social · 3d

#BookReview: The Captive by Kit Burgoyne @titanbooks.bsky.social #TheCaptive #BookTwitter #booktwt #BookX #BookSky #damppebbles damppebbles.com/2025/10/16/b...

#BookReview: The Captive by Kit Burgoyne @titanbooks.bsky.social #TheCaptive #BookTwitter #booktwt #BookX #BookSky #damppebbles

“A darkly comedic, cinematic horror about a revolutionary group who kidnap an heiress, only to discover she’s pregnant with the antichrist, and she’s about to give birth. Underground revoluti…

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Mandie Griffiths @mandie163.bsky.social · 3d

Never Tear Us Apart by Rowan Coleman | #bookreview #romanticfiction #WW2 #Malta | @RandomTTours @rowancoleman @hodderfiction portobellobookblog.com/2025/10/16/n...

Never Tear Us Apart by Rowan Coleman | #bookreview #romanticfiction #WW2 #Malta | @RandomTTours @rowancoleman @hodderfiction

I am delighted to reshare my review of Rowan Coleman’s Never Tear Us Apart as part of the blogtour organised by Anne at Random Things Tours. I thoroughly enjoyed this book when I read it a fe…

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Mandie Griffiths @mandie163.bsky.social · 3d

Snowblind by Ragnar Jonasson | #10yearsOfSnowblind #blogtour #Iceland | @ragnarjo @OrendaBooks @RandomTTours portobellobookblog.com/2025/10/16/s...

Snowblind by Ragnar Jonasson | #10yearsOfSnowblind #blogtour #Iceland | @ragnarjo @OrendaBooks @RandomTTours

I can’t believe that Ragnar Jonasson’s Snowblind is celebrating its tenth birthday. I didn’t read it until 2016 and, other than The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, it was the first S…

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Mandie Griffiths @mandie163.bsky.social · 4d

Staying in with Lucy E. M. Black on A Quilting of Scars Publication Day lindasbookbag.com/2025/10/15/s...

Staying in with Lucy E. M. Black on A Quilting of Scars Publication Day

I am delighted to welcome Lucy M. Black to Linda’s Book Bag today to tell me all about her latest book. My huge thanks to Hollay at River Street Writing for putting us in touch with one another. Le…

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Mandie Griffiths @mandie163.bsky.social · 4d

An Eye For An Eye by Jeffrey Archer jenmedsbookreviews.com/2025/10/15/a...

An Eye For An Eye by Jeffrey Archer

Today it is over to Mandie for her review of An Eye For An Eye by Jeffrey Archer, part of the William Warwick series. Mandie has been loving this series so is playing a touch of catch up to see wha…

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Mandie Griffiths @mandie163.bsky.social · 4d

WWW Wednesdays (15 October 2025)! What are you reading this week? #WWWWednesdays aknightsreads.wordpress.com/2025/10/15/w...

WWW Wednesdays (15 October 2025)! What are you reading this week? #WWWWednesdays

Welcome to this week’s WWW Wednesday!

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Mandie Griffiths @mandie163.bsky.social · 4d

WWW Wednesday | 15th October 2025 #WWWWednesday #bookblogger #amreading #BookTwitter #booktwt #BookX #BookSky #damppebbles damppebbles.com/2025/10/15/w...

WWW Wednesday | 15th October 2025 #WWWWednesday #bookblogger #amreading #BookTwitter #booktwt #BookX #BookSky #damppebbles

Welcome to WWW Wednesday. This meme was formerly hosted by MizB at A Daily Rhythm and revived by Sam at Taking on a World of Words. Just answer the three questions below and leave a link to your po…

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Mandie Griffiths @mandie163.bsky.social · 4d

WWW Wednesday 15th October 2025: what am I reading? | #WWWWednesday #amreading #bookrecommendations #BookSky 💙📚 portobellobookblog.com/2025/10/15/w...

WWW Wednesday 15th October 2025: what am I reading? | #WWWWednesday #amreading #bookrecommendations #BookSky 💙📚

What am I currently reading? I’ve finally got around to starting Amanda Prowse’s This One Life! I’m taking a break again from The Mirror and The Light and have started listening t…

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Mandie Griffiths @mandie163.bsky.social · 4d

#ThreeTwoOne quickfire questions with Beverly Thompson #author of Forgetting Lorna Rose portobellobookblog.com/2025/10/15/t...

#ThreeTwoOne quickfire questions with Beverly Thompson #author of Forgetting Lorna Rose

I’m delighted to be joined by Beverly Thompson today, author of Forgetting Lorna Rose. Forgetting Lorna Rose was published in August and is available now in paperback: full details below. Ove…

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Mandie Griffiths @mandie163.bsky.social · 5d

Magpie by Georgia Hill lindasbookbag.com/2025/10/14/m...

Magpie by Georgia Hill

My enormous thanks to lovely Georgia Hill for ensuring I received a copy of her latest book, Magpie, and to Tara Lyons for sending it to me. It’s my pleasure to share my review of Magpie today. You…

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Mandie Griffiths @mandie163.bsky.social · 5d

Revenge of Odessa by Frederick Forsyth with Tony Kent jenmedsbookreviews.com/2025/10/14/r...

Revenge of Odessa by Frederick Forsyth with Tony Kent

Today it is my great pleasure to share my thoughts on Revenge of Odessa by the late Frederick Forsyth together with Tony Kent. I came extremely late to the party, only recently having read The Odes…

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Mandie Griffiths @mandie163.bsky.social · 5d

#BookReview: The Othello Club by J.D. Pennington @daturabooks.bsky.social #TheOthelloClub #BookTwitter #booktwt #BookSky #damppebbles damppebbles.com/2025/10/14/b...

#BookReview: The Othello Club by J.D. Pennington @daturabooks.bsky.social #TheOthelloClub #BookTwitter #booktwt #BookSky #damppebbles

“Emily had the perfect life – the perfect job, the perfect house, the perfect husband – before she was blindsided and betrayed and lost it all. Now she’s sitting in a divorce counsellin…

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Mandie Griffiths @mandie163.bsky.social · 5d

Snowblind by Ragnar Jónasson #bookreview #blogtour hookedfrompageoneblog.wordpress.com/2025/10/14/s...

Snowblind by Ragnar Jónasson #bookreview #blogtour

On my blog today, I’m taking part in the blog tour for the tenth anniversary edition of Snowblind by Ragnar Jónasson, with thanks to Anne Cater from Random Things Tours for inviting me to tak…

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Mandie Griffiths @mandie163.bsky.social · 5d

Top Ten Tuesday 14th October 2025: Ten Film Quotations | #TopTenTuesday #amreading #bookrecommendations #TuesdayBookBlog #BookSky 💙📚 portobellobookblog.com/2025/10/14/t...

Top Ten Tuesday 14th October 2025: Ten Film Quotations | #TopTenTuesday #amreading #bookrecommendations #TuesdayBookBlog #BookSky 💙📚

This week’s topic: Ten Film Quotations Photo by ClickerHappy on Pexels.com This week’s topic was going to be a non-bookish freebie but has been changed to ‘ten books you wish you …

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Mandie Griffiths @mandie163.bsky.social · 5d

#ThreeTwoOne quickfire questions with AE Chandler #author of Knights of the Roundish Table portobellobookblog.com/2025/10/14/t...

#ThreeTwoOne quickfire questions with AE Chandler #author of Knights of the Roundish Table

I’m delighted to be joined by AE Chandler today, author of Knights of the Roundish Table. Knights of the Roundish Table is published today which just happens to be the anniversary of the Batt…

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Mandie Griffiths @mandie163.bsky.social · 5d

#TopTenTuesday | 14th October 2025: Books I Wish I Could Read Again for the First Time #Top10Tuesday #bookblogger #bookish #amreading #TTT #BookTwitter #booktwt #BookX #BookSky #damppebbles damppebbles.com/2025/10/14/t...

#TopTenTuesday | 14th October 2025: Books I Wish I Could Read Again for the First Time #Top10Tuesday #bookblogger #bookish #amreading #TTT #BookTwitter #booktwt #BookX #BookSky #damppebbles

Hello and a very warm welcome to damppebbles. It’s Tuesday which means it’s time for this week’s Top Ten Tuesday post. I’ve decided to take part in That Artsy Reader Girl&#8…

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Mandie Griffiths @mandie163.bsky.social · 6d

'Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness' : a cosy autumnal reading list jillsbookcafe.blog/2025/10/13/s...

‘Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness’ : a cosy autumnal reading list

In deciding what to call this post I went for a more cultured approach to my usual, and opted to quote the first line of John Keats poem ‘To Autumn’. It’s a poem that captures the…

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Mandie Griffiths @mandie163.bsky.social · 6d

A Slowly Dying Cause (Linley and Havers #22) by Elizabeth George liveanddeadly.net/2025/10/13/a...

A Slowly Dying Cause (Linley and Havers #22) by Elizabeth George

Source: Review copyPublication: 25 September 2025 fromPP: 656ISBN-13: 978-1035074624 My thanks to Pan MacMillan for a review copyIn Cornwall, a man suffers a violent death – and the killer may lurk…

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