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The London Film Festival (LFF) at the British Film Institute (BFI) has reached “record-breaking” audience numbers of more than 200,000 in its 69th year, according to figures released on 6 November.
BFI film festival boasts 'record-breaking' audience numbers - Arts Professional
The London Film Festival (LFF) at the British Film Institute (BFI) has reached “record-breaking” audience numbers of more than 200,000 in its 69th year,
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November 7, 2025 at 10:22 AM
The London Film Festival (LFF) at the British Film Institute (BFI) has reached “record-breaking” audience numbers of more than 200,000 in its 69th year, according to figures released on 6 November.
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More on theatrical mysteries, and death on stage when the props go wrong during a 1930s musical. And wouldn't we all like to see the Rough Riff Ruffian Rag? Quick Curtain by Alan Melville, and I am very pleased with the pics I found.... clothesinbooks.blogspot.com/2025/11/deat...
Death by Theatre: Quick Curtain by Alan Melville
Quick Curtain by Alan Melville published 1934 We have been having quite the discussion here on people being killed on stage by w...
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November 29, 2025 at 9:36 AM
More on theatrical mysteries, and death on stage when the props go wrong during a 1930s musical. And wouldn't we all like to see the Rough Riff Ruffian Rag? Quick Curtain by Alan Melville, and I am very pleased with the pics I found.... clothesinbooks.blogspot.com/2025/11/deat...
We can only be grateful that George was eventually asked to leave South America following a duel of honour (very nearly to the death), and was forced to take up acting for a living instead.
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November 28, 2025 at 10:32 AM
We can only be grateful that George was eventually asked to leave South America following a duel of honour (very nearly to the death), and was forced to take up acting for a living instead.
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🧵About the historical sex trade in Edinburgh. Goodmorning. The go to starting place is Ranger's Impartial List of Ladies of Pleasure published 1775. It contains 66 entries of 'hoors' around town. Here's Lady Agnew's listing👇For sure there were more than 66 but it's a start /1
November 28, 2025 at 9:20 AM
🧵About the historical sex trade in Edinburgh. Goodmorning. The go to starting place is Ranger's Impartial List of Ladies of Pleasure published 1775. It contains 66 entries of 'hoors' around town. Here's Lady Agnew's listing👇For sure there were more than 66 but it's a start /1
🍂 Happy Thanksgiving! 📚
On this day devoted to appreciation, we are pausing to reflect on the things that bring us joy, and high on that list is the comfort and escape to be found within the covers of a cherished classic.
Which book are you most grateful for this year?
On this day devoted to appreciation, we are pausing to reflect on the things that bring us joy, and high on that list is the comfort and escape to be found within the covers of a cherished classic.
Which book are you most grateful for this year?
November 27, 2025 at 9:22 AM
🍂 Happy Thanksgiving! 📚
On this day devoted to appreciation, we are pausing to reflect on the things that bring us joy, and high on that list is the comfort and escape to be found within the covers of a cherished classic.
Which book are you most grateful for this year?
On this day devoted to appreciation, we are pausing to reflect on the things that bring us joy, and high on that list is the comfort and escape to be found within the covers of a cherished classic.
Which book are you most grateful for this year?
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I like a Patricia Moyes vintage mystery now and again, but sometimes she takes up a subject that I find uninteresting. In the case of Sunken Sailor, it is..... sailing clothesinbooks.blogspot.com/2025/11/how-...
How boring is sailing?
The Sunken Sailor by Patricia Moyes aka Down Among the Dead Men (in USA) published 1961 This was the second of Patricia Moye...
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November 26, 2025 at 9:42 AM
I like a Patricia Moyes vintage mystery now and again, but sometimes she takes up a subject that I find uninteresting. In the case of Sunken Sailor, it is..... sailing clothesinbooks.blogspot.com/2025/11/how-...
Ranked: The Margaret Rutherford Miss Marple Films
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Ranked: The Margaret Rutherford Miss Marple Films
I first encountered Margaret Rutherford’s portrayal of Miss Jane Marple while I was living in Halls of Residence. I had a few friends I would watch films with regularly. When there wasn’…
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November 26, 2025 at 12:49 PM
Ranked: The Margaret Rutherford Miss Marple Films
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How exciting! We can’t wait to read your entries to #DeanStreetDecember! 🙏🥰✨
Just 5 days before #DeanStreetDecember, and this year, I'm doing less AND more 10/10
LESS reading from @deanstpress.bsky.social (or, for the pedants, fewer books) but MORE authors, also ten. BIG thanks to @lyzzybee.bsky.social for hosting AGAIN: We who are about to die-ve into reading salute you
LESS reading from @deanstpress.bsky.social (or, for the pedants, fewer books) but MORE authors, also ten. BIG thanks to @lyzzybee.bsky.social for hosting AGAIN: We who are about to die-ve into reading salute you
November 26, 2025 at 7:42 AM
How exciting! We can’t wait to read your entries to #DeanStreetDecember! 🙏🥰✨
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Some controversial takes on Sylvia Plath in ep144 of Tea or Books? - on Spotify or wherever you get podcasts
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#144: Simple vs Ornate Style, and Sylvia Plath vs Janet Malcolm
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November 25, 2025 at 7:14 PM
Some controversial takes on Sylvia Plath in ep144 of Tea or Books? - on Spotify or wherever you get podcasts
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Fancy a new read at no cost at all? Download your copy now!
A Talent to Amuse: A Life of Noel Coward #freetillfriday
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A Talent to Amuse: A Life of Noel Coward #freetillfriday
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A Talent to Amuse: A Life of Noel Coward
A Talent to Amuse: A Life of Noel Coward - Kindle edition by Morley, Sheridan. Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading A Talent to Amuse: A Life of Noel Coward.
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A Talent to Amuse: A Life of Noel Coward #freetillfriday
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A Talent to Amuse: A Life of Noel Coward #freetillfriday
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Life in a Boarding House adorns our edition of Babbacombe’s by Susan Scarlett aka #NoelStreatfeild
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November 24, 2025 at 3:56 PM
Life in a Boarding House adorns our edition of Babbacombe’s by Susan Scarlett aka #NoelStreatfeild
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Which mystery with a chair-bound character would you pick for today’s climb into crime? #murdereverymonday #booksky
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November 24, 2025 at 2:31 PM
Which mystery with a chair-bound character would you pick for today’s climb into crime? #murdereverymonday #booksky
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After looking at theatrical mysteries, time to revisit Ngaio Marsh's Vintage Murder, where the victim is hit on the head with a bottle of champagne. The story itself has not improved with age... but there were points of interest & rather a good photo clothesinbooks.blogspot.com/2025/11/thea...
Theatricals ahoy: Vintage Murder
Vintage Murder by Ngaio Marsh published 1937 After looking at theatrical mysteries last week, and reading all the erudite comments,...
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November 23, 2025 at 8:45 AM
After looking at theatrical mysteries, time to revisit Ngaio Marsh's Vintage Murder, where the victim is hit on the head with a bottle of champagne. The story itself has not improved with age... but there were points of interest & rather a good photo clothesinbooks.blogspot.com/2025/11/thea...
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There are 10 things that help me keep my sanity, when my brain is too cluttered to focus on reading. And they just might help you too. 🧡
10 Tips for Finding Joy When You Cannot Concentrate on Reading ✨ Advice for Bookworms 📖
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November 22, 2025 at 7:30 PM
There are 10 things that help me keep my sanity, when my brain is too cluttered to focus on reading. And they just might help you too. 🧡
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Many late-19th-century paintings depict people reading, a motif that symbolizes intelligence and personal introspection. For artists such as Georg Pauli, the absorbed reader offered a relatable way to express the era’s growing appreciation for private reflection.
November 21, 2025 at 8:47 PM
Many late-19th-century paintings depict people reading, a motif that symbolizes intelligence and personal introspection. For artists such as Georg Pauli, the absorbed reader offered a relatable way to express the era’s growing appreciation for private reflection.
Sara Woods’ Enter Certain Murderers returns on 1 Dec 2025, with Antony Maitland in top form and a new introduction by Curtis Evans. A classic investigation revived.
#CrimeFiction #GoldenAgeMystery #AvailableforPreOrder
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#CrimeFiction #GoldenAgeMystery #AvailableforPreOrder
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Enter Certain Murderers: An Antony Maitland Mystery|Paperback
A classic courtroom drama, first published in 1966.
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November 21, 2025 at 1:22 PM
Sara Woods’ Enter Certain Murderers returns on 1 Dec 2025, with Antony Maitland in top form and a new introduction by Curtis Evans. A classic investigation revived.
#CrimeFiction #GoldenAgeMystery #AvailableforPreOrder
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#CrimeFiction #GoldenAgeMystery #AvailableforPreOrder
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Audrey Hepburn on the set of 'Sabrina', 1953
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November 19, 2025 at 5:22 PM
Audrey Hepburn on the set of 'Sabrina', 1953
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Scarface by Armitage Trail #paperback #email
‘I’m Scarface. I’m just about ten times as hard-boiled as Johnny Lovo ever thought of being.’
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‘I’m Scarface. I’m just about ten times as hard-boiled as Johnny Lovo ever thought of being.’
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November 20, 2025 at 2:05 PM
Scarface by Armitage Trail #paperback #email
‘I’m Scarface. I’m just about ten times as hard-boiled as Johnny Lovo ever thought of being.’
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‘I’m Scarface. I’m just about ten times as hard-boiled as Johnny Lovo ever thought of being.’
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Mary Stewart and Eric Ambler - coming to the thriller genre from different directions, but they coincide sometimes. I've been reading My Brother Michael and The Schirmer Inheritance - both looking at post-WW2 Greece, both great. clothesinbooks.blogspot.com/2025/11/gree...
Greece, Ambler, Stewart
My Brother Michael by Mary Stewart published 1959 The Schirmer Inheritance by Eric Ambler published 1953 I recently posted on a roma...
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November 20, 2025 at 10:14 AM
Mary Stewart and Eric Ambler - coming to the thriller genre from different directions, but they coincide sometimes. I've been reading My Brother Michael and The Schirmer Inheritance - both looking at post-WW2 Greece, both great. clothesinbooks.blogspot.com/2025/11/gree...
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Following up some references in The Ring of Innocent by #BrianFlynn, reissued by @deanstpress.bsky.social #booksky
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Chowles, Judith Malmayns And Others
One of the delights for me in reading books from another era is coming across references which might have meant something to contemporary readers but have long sunk into obscurity by the end of the…
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November 20, 2025 at 8:40 AM
Following up some references in The Ring of Innocent by #BrianFlynn, reissued by @deanstpress.bsky.social #booksky
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For #RobertLouisStevensonDay (I'm running late I grant you) I give you D E Stevenson, 2nd cousin of RLS whose father disapproved of her writing so she did so in the attic of their Edinburgh house. She sold 7 million copies of her 40 novels. Yes, more than RLS. Gaun Dorothy. Where are the Women tho?
November 18, 2025 at 10:56 AM
For #RobertLouisStevensonDay (I'm running late I grant you) I give you D E Stevenson, 2nd cousin of RLS whose father disapproved of her writing so she did so in the attic of their Edinburgh house. She sold 7 million copies of her 40 novels. Yes, more than RLS. Gaun Dorothy. Where are the Women tho?
From The Fletcher Files: The South Foreland Murder (1930), by J. S. Fletcher
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From The Fletcher Files: The South Foreland Murder (1930), by J. S. Fletcher
If I had had the very slightest premonition when I took that bungalow that I was about to be mixed up in an affair such as that which develo...
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November 18, 2025 at 11:13 AM
From The Fletcher Files: The South Foreland Murder (1930), by J. S. Fletcher
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Happy heavenly birthday to D E Stevenson, 2nd cousin to Robert Louis Stevenson & friend of Molly Clavering.
She published 40 novels, 19 of which reissued by DSP - 2 more due next year! Her sales reached 7M copies, surpassing RLS himself. Nae bad at a’! 🥰 #BOTD #Booksky #FurrowedMiddlebrow
She published 40 novels, 19 of which reissued by DSP - 2 more due next year! Her sales reached 7M copies, surpassing RLS himself. Nae bad at a’! 🥰 #BOTD #Booksky #FurrowedMiddlebrow
November 18, 2025 at 10:38 AM
Happy heavenly birthday to D E Stevenson, 2nd cousin to Robert Louis Stevenson & friend of Molly Clavering.
She published 40 novels, 19 of which reissued by DSP - 2 more due next year! Her sales reached 7M copies, surpassing RLS himself. Nae bad at a’! 🥰 #BOTD #Booksky #FurrowedMiddlebrow
She published 40 novels, 19 of which reissued by DSP - 2 more due next year! Her sales reached 7M copies, surpassing RLS himself. Nae bad at a’! 🥰 #BOTD #Booksky #FurrowedMiddlebrow
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My thoughts on The Case of the Dead Man Gone, reissued by @deanstpress.bsky.social #CrimeFiction #BookReview #booksky
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The Case Of The Dead Man Gone
A review of The Case of the Dead Man Gone by Christopher Bush – 250904 The fifty-sixth in Christopher Bush’s long-running Ludovic Travers series, The Case of the Dead Man Gone, originally published…
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November 18, 2025 at 8:34 AM
My thoughts on The Case of the Dead Man Gone, reissued by @deanstpress.bsky.social #CrimeFiction #BookReview #booksky
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