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Nicky Maunder 🇬🇧 (she/her)
@nickymaund.bsky.social
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#booksky
CR: 🎧 One Dark Window / 📖 The One Day You Were My Husband 💭
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Another slowish month for my reading - I’m favouring audiobooks & in a slump with actual reading.

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
The 392
The Dictionary of Lost Words
The Shock of the Fall (re-read)
Atmosphere

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
The End of the World As We Know It
The Flower House
We All Live Here

#booksky #november #wrapup
🎧The Killer Question - Janice Hallett ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Janice Hallett has done it again. I absolutely loved this! It had me hooked right from the start.

Read my review ⬇️
bit.ly/4pAwJLV

#booksky #thekillerquestion #janicehallett
December 8, 2025 at 8:52 PM
Another corker from TJR - I devoured it. It made me cry - it really pulled me through the wringer

#booksky #atmosphere #taylorjenkinsreid
December 7, 2025 at 3:54 PM
💭📚The Last Witch - CJ Cooke ⭐️⭐️⭐️

Inspired by real events Cooke battles misogyny & incel culture in the extreme, set against the backdrop of witch-trials. But I really struggled with this one.

Read my review ⬇️
bit.ly/4iFyCEm

#booksky #cjcooke #harpercollins #adprproduct
December 7, 2025 at 3:36 PM
🎧The School for Good Mothers - Jessamine Chan ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

The alternate world that Chan has created in TSfGM is one I’d quite happily see burned to the ground!

Check out the CW!

Read my review ⬇️
bit.ly/3MroKlC

#booksky #theschoolforgoodmothers #jessaminechan
December 6, 2025 at 1:26 PM
Reposted by Nicky Maunder 🇬🇧 (she/her)
OOH!

#buyastrangerabook legend @melissaschuh.bsky.social has a new book out!

To celebrate, she's offering to buy 3 lucky people a book each.

Here's the deal.

Let Melissa know what kinda books you like reading & she'll offer you a selection of titles to choose from.

GO.

UK only
It’s a special week for me because my own book was published recently: link.springer.com/book/9783032... 🎉

For extra celebration I’ll #BuyAStrangerABook (3 strangers) 🤗

Personalised recommendations are my jam, so tell me what you like to read and I’ll suggest things📚

@biggreenbooks.bsky.social
Literary Autobiography
This book offers a theoretically elegant and literarily sensitive rethinking of the fraught relationship between the novel and autobiography
link.springer.com
December 3, 2025 at 7:05 PM
Another slowish month for my reading - I’m favouring audiobooks & in a slump with actual reading.

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
The 392
The Dictionary of Lost Words
The Shock of the Fall (re-read)
Atmosphere

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
The End of the World As We Know It
The Flower House
We All Live Here

#booksky #november #wrapup
December 3, 2025 at 9:04 PM
🎧Cruel is the Light - Sophie Clark ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Whilst there were parts that felt a bit drawn out, I really liked Clark’s take on Christianity, god and demons.

Read my review ⬇️
bit.ly/4p0xP3q

#book #cruelisthelight #sophieclark
November 24, 2025 at 9:32 PM
A reread for me and I absolutely loved it again the second time. It broke my heart and had me sobbing - but it’s not an easy read

#booksky #theshockofthefall #nathanfiler #reread
November 24, 2025 at 8:42 PM
Loved the Oxford setting (after living bear there many years ago). Absolutely bloody loved it and it broke my heart!

#booksky #pipwilliams #thedictionaryoflostwords
November 23, 2025 at 2:30 PM
🎧📚 A Beautiful Evil - Bea Fitzgerald ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

I struggled with the backstory to this one but once it got going it was right up my street. Fitzgerald packs in a lot with this one.

Read my review ⬇️
bit.ly/3KkBBp5

#booksky #beafitzgerald #abeautifulevil
November 22, 2025 at 7:50 PM
This one took a while to pull me in, but boy did I get hooked. A cracking thriller with lots going on without it being messy. Really enjoyed this one.

#booksky #theflowerhouse #nickyblack #audiobooks

#adprproduct
November 22, 2025 at 7:35 PM
So glad I stumbled across this little gem. It’s a short read, but packs a punch! Be warned it’s sweary and check the CW!

#the392 #ashleyhicksonlovence #booksky
November 20, 2025 at 8:05 AM
🎧The Hate U Give - Angie Thomas
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I loved the characterisation in this one. And Thomas’ storytelling is perfect - she made me cry, she made me chuckle, she made me shocked.

Read my review ⬇️
bit.ly/4oJhz6u

#booksky #thehateugive #angiethomas
November 17, 2025 at 9:33 PM
Very excited to have been granted access to an ARC of Rosie Walsh’s upcoming book - The One Day You Were My Husband (out June 2026).

Have you read her books? Her last book - The Love of My Life destroyed me

#booksky #rosiewalsh #netgalley #TheOneDayYouWereMyHusband #panmacmillan #adprproduct
November 16, 2025 at 12:16 PM
📚This Can Never Not Be Real - Sera Milano ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

I struggled with the pacing in the middle, but the ending packed an emotional punch as you learn about the aftermath for 5 teens at the heart of this one.

Read my review ⬇️
bit.ly/3JFy7NL

#booksky #seramilano #thiscannevernotbereal
November 16, 2025 at 12:11 PM
Great to be back in the world of ‘The Stand’. There were some cracking stories in this one

#booksky #variousauthors #theendoftheworldasweknowit #stephenking #thestand
November 15, 2025 at 7:26 AM
🎧We Play Games - Sarah A Denzil ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

As you’d expect with a thriller, this goes to some dark places, so consider yourself warned! An interesting take on the conman trope with very tense, short chapters that add to the tension.

Read my review ⬇️
bit.ly/43inHdy

#book #weplaygames #sarahadenzil
November 10, 2025 at 8:58 PM
🎧 Everything I Never Told You
- Celeste Ng ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

What an opener! Not so much a “whodunnit”, more of a “whatwasgoingon”. And there’s a lot going on in this family.

Ready my review ⬇️
bit.ly/4qQPMCK

#booksky #celesteng #everythinginevertoldyou
November 9, 2025 at 12:13 PM
October was a slow reading month for me… but this is what I read;

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HappyHead

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Circus of Wonders
Dead Happy
Death of the Author

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The Changing Man
Needy Little Things

#booksky #october #wrapup
November 8, 2025 at 11:47 AM
Reposted by Nicky Maunder 🇬🇧 (she/her)
This offer of a free Patrick Ness book is still unclaimed.

#buyastrangerabook
November 5, 2025 at 6:50 PM
You mean you don’t have all your books downloaded on your kindle just waiting for you?

#booksky #goodreads
November 2, 2025 at 10:10 AM
A cracking premise that didn’t really deliver for me. Normally a huge fan of YA, this one might be in the younger end of YA for me (or maybe I’m just getting old 😩)

#booksky #thechangingman #tomioyemakinde
October 30, 2025 at 10:41 AM
🎧The Storyteller - Jodi Picoult ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

An oldie from Picoult’s back catalogue, here she explores forgiveness - both for others and yourself. Some sections were hard to listen to.

Read my review ⬇️
bit.ly/4oDsP40

#booksky #thestoryteller #jodipicoult
October 29, 2025 at 8:29 PM
🎧The Sunshine Man - Emma Stonex
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

An engaging thriller that’s crafted around childhood trauma and societal issues, and of course the central issue of revenge.

Read my review ⬇️
bit.ly/4qOdWOr

#booksky #thesunshineman #emmastonex
October 28, 2025 at 1:14 PM