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Nils Tregenza 📚 @nilstregenza.bsky.social · 2d

‘Toddler-Hunting and other stories’ by Taeko Kōno (1969)

Stories of female desire with a macabre flair. Set in postwar Japan, scenes of marriage and motherhood are subverted by the inner lives of their protagonists. The stories catch us off guard, or allow a sense of unease to simmer #booksky

Cover with an old photo of a Japanese mother and daughter, with the child crossed out.

‘The power of the artfully spun words makes the reader shudder’ -SAYAKA MURATA, author of CONVENIENCE STORE WOMAN

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Radz Pandit @radzpandit.bsky.social · 22h

Oooh, a new Laxness! I'm reading Independent People currently which is very good so far.

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Joseph Schreiber @roughghosts.bsky.social · 1d

New arrival. I'm really looking forward to this one; it will be out in February. @archipelagobooks.bsky.social

Book: A Parish Chronicle by Halldór Laxness. Translated from the Icelandic by Philip Roughton.

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Radz Pandit @radzpandit.bsky.social · 1d

#BlogArchives My post on YOUNG MAN WITH A HORN. Dorothy Baker writes wonderfully about music, jazz, ambition, and male friendship.
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Young Man with a Horn – Dorothy Baker

I’m enjoying the #NYRBWomen23 reading project this year, hosted by Kim McNeill, and have read a couple of wonderful novels as a result – Leonora Carrington’s The Hearing Trumpet and Vicki Baum’s Gr…

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Radz Pandit @radzpandit.bsky.social · 1d

Forthcoming titles from McNally Editions including a vampire novel! Wonderful covers as ever.

Love Life of a Cheltenham Lady by Dinah Brooke

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Radz Pandit @radzpandit.bsky.social · 1d

New #bookmail. Two more books from Foundry Editions after having loved BRANDY SOUR.

Three books published by Foundry Editions:

Brandy Sour by Constantia Soteriou
Far by Rosa Ribas
Your Little Matter by Maria Grazia Calandrone

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Radz Pandit @radzpandit.bsky.social · 1d

In "An Eye in the Throat", a moment’s distraction leads to tragedy when a young father’s son swallows a lithium battery that leaves him mute, forever changing their lives. Blending a singular narrative with suspense & eerie late-night calls, this poignant story explores parental guilt & resentment.

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grantrintoul.bsky.social @grantrintoul.bsky.social · 2d

Alexander Baron's repeatedly rediscovered novel The Lowlife:
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The Lowlife

Alexander Baron’s 1963 novel, The Lowlife, already had a history of being rediscovered before its inclusion in Faber Editions, an imprint which specialises in neglected classics, and John Williams …

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Kim McNeill •📚🌿☕️ @joiedevivre9.bsky.social · 2d

#NYRBWomen25 Eve Babitz's guide to Los Angeles. la.curbed.com/maps/los-ang...

Eve Babitz's guide to Los Angeles

Take a tour of the writer’s sexy, smoggy city of the 1960s and ’70s.

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Kim McNeill •📚🌿☕️ @joiedevivre9.bsky.social · 2d

“Once you’re on Orange Grove, you’re on your own and you should forget the map, time, and how you’re going to get back. Just find a street to wander […] and go look at the Gamble House and see if it’s open.” (p52) #NYRBWomen25 gamblehouse.org

“The Gamble House was built in 1908 for a rich Cincinnati family (part of Procter & Gamble) as a winter house. It was designed by the Greene Brothers…” (p52)

“The inside of the house is mostly made of polished teak, carved by one of the Greene Brothers in a pattern called the ‘cloud design.’ … The windows, lamps, and even the rug designs are by Tiffany” (p52)

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Radz Pandit @radzpandit.bsky.social · 2d

I loved this radical, powerful collection of essays by Emilie Pine touching upon topics such as caring for an alcoholic parent and the crippling grief of infertility. #BlogArchives #NotesToSelf
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Notes to Self – Emilie Pine

While looking at my reading habits over the last few years, I realize I haven’t read too many essay collections (something I need to correct), but I have been quite impressed with the ones I have –…

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Neglected Books @neglectedbooks.com · 2d

Seven years ago, I came across a strange novel about a woman who tries to raise a orangutan as a human. In 2020, with the help of @meandmybigmouth.bsky.social, Gertrude Trevelyan's Appius and Virginia saw print again after almost 90 years—and now her renaissance continues.

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Wm Henry Morris @wmhenrymorris.com · 3d

Having just finished Han Kang's We Do Not Part, I don't have the words to express the experience other than to say this is an instance where I'd suggest reading all her other works first.

And I can recommend @radzpandit.bsky.social's review: readersretreat2017.wordpress.com/2025/09/07/w...

We Do Not Part – Han Kang (tr. E. Yaewon & Paige Aniyah Morris)

Han Kang is one of my favourite authors – loved both The Vegetarian and The White Book – but inexplicably I did not read anything by her since then. She came into my orbit once again after being aw…

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Radz Pandit @radzpandit.bsky.social · 3d

I read it early this year and loved it!

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Sarah Matthews @sarahmatthews.bsky.social · 3d

Here’s my review of A Start in Life, 1981, by Anita Brookner, a wonderful, thoughtful novel that surprised and delighted me! 💙📚 #BookSky #BookReview #Braille https://app.thestorygraph.com/reviews/c3f94b8f-fc4e-40e5-8627-8ec73594cf91

Review by sarahmatthews - A Start in Life

A Start in Life by Anita Brookner Read partly in Braille and partly as text to speechPenguin ...

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Radz Pandit @radzpandit.bsky.social · 4d

In “William in the Window,” two women, who forge an unexpected friendship at a writers’ retreat, are later unsettled by the scratching noises of a cat who has died. A story that explores grief and the fear of losing your loved ones.

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Sophie Carr @sophiecarr.bsky.social · 5d

The weekend starts here!

Some of the craziest skies I've ever seen - two years ago over Jökulsárlón glacial lagoon.

#Iceland

Mad stormy purpley/grey skies over a glacial lagoon which has some black water at the front and turquoise water beyond, and has a few turquoise icebergs floating. In the distance you can see some dark mountains and the glacier itself is just visible. There is an ara of brightness on the horizon beneath the storm clouds.

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Radz Pandit @radzpandit.bsky.social · 5d

'Like an evil sister who's gone on the stage and enchanted the world, L.A. may be all right for everyone else, but San Francisco knows all about her and is not impressed. "She simply won't do!" ladylike San Francisco says, "She won't do at all."'
#NYRBWomen25

From the piece "My God, Eve, How Can You Live Here?" in I USED TO BE CHARMING: THE REST OF EVE BABITZ. NYRB Classics.

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BLPublishing @blpublishing.bsky.social · 5d

🎄 Bringing together murder, mystery and Christmas cheer, this festive crime story has been republished for the first time in over 70 years. 'Death in Ambush' is the perfect winter-y read for fans of golden age crime.

Available now: shop.bl.uk/products/death-in-ambush-a-lost-christmas-murder-mystery

Death in Ambush: A Lost Christmas Murder Mystery, against a green background with holly leaves around it.

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Radz Pandit @radzpandit.bsky.social · 5d

Also, two friends Elena and Leila, one rooted in Buenos Aires while the other has travelled, an absent child...faint echo of Elena Ferrante's Neapolitan novels?

Radz Pandit @radzpandit.bsky.social · 5d

In “A Fabulous Animal,” an unsettling tale of friendship, grief, and loss, Leila gets a call from her dying, estranged friend Elena after 20 years about her son, whose death Leila unwittingly caused. The boy’s wish to become a horse lends the story an eerie vibe and a faint hope of reconciliation.

Radz Pandit @radzpandit.bsky.social · 5d

In “A Fabulous Animal,” an unsettling tale of friendship, grief, and loss, Leila gets a call from her dying, estranged friend Elena after 20 years about her son, whose death Leila unwittingly caused. The boy’s wish to become a horse lends the story an eerie vibe and a faint hope of reconciliation.

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Radz Pandit @radzpandit.bsky.social · 5d

“Welcome to the Club” focuses on a woman in crisis, as she tries to drown herself, fails, and returns home to prepare lunch for her family. Putting on dry clothes & hiding the suicide notes, she views her surroundings with an eerie sense of unreality, until a neighbour makes a disquieting remark.

GOOD AND EVIL AND OTHER STORIES by Samanta Schweblin.

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Radz Pandit @radzpandit.bsky.social · 6d

I've read two - Eve's Hollywood and Slow Days Fast Company. They are a compilation of short pieces, often autobiographical with a lot of anecdotes.

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Radz Pandit @radzpandit.bsky.social · 6d

I love her voice!

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Radz Pandit @radzpandit.bsky.social · 6d

I love Babitz's voice, so chatty, intelligent, and charming.

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