Laurence Westwood
@lwestwoodauthor.bsky.social
crime novelist interested in Chinese law, both dynastic and modern, and possibly retired investigator
www.laurencewestwood.com
www.laurencewestwood.com
#histbookchat #sinology Out July 2026, from Cambridge University Press, edited by Cong Ellen Zhang #SongDynasty
December 8, 2025 at 2:30 PM
#histbookchat #sinology Out July 2026, from Cambridge University Press, edited by Cong Ellen Zhang #SongDynasty
#histbookchat #photofriday I've been writing a bit about the Mafia this week, so a deep dive into history here with Blood Brotherhoods: A History of Italy's Three Mafias by John Dickie (this edition, 2014) #amreading #BookSky 📚💜 #truecrime #Italy
December 5, 2025 at 10:57 AM
#histbookchat #photofriday I've been writing a bit about the Mafia this week, so a deep dive into history here with Blood Brotherhoods: A History of Italy's Three Mafias by John Dickie (this edition, 2014) #amreading #BookSky 📚💜 #truecrime #Italy
#BookSky 📚💜Latest read! Death in Zanzibar by M. M. Kaye (1959, this edition 1983) #amreading #CrimeFiction
December 2, 2025 at 10:48 AM
#BookSky 📚💜Latest read! Death in Zanzibar by M. M. Kaye (1959, this edition 1983) #amreading #CrimeFiction
#histbookchat Latest read! More than 40 years before Miranda v Arizona (1966) there was a triple murder in Washington DC, the investigation of which had a profound effect on American law: The Third Degree by Scott Seligman (2018) #BookSky 📚💜 #truecrime
November 28, 2025 at 10:46 AM
#histbookchat Latest read! More than 40 years before Miranda v Arizona (1966) there was a triple murder in Washington DC, the investigation of which had a profound effect on American law: The Third Degree by Scott Seligman (2018) #BookSky 📚💜 #truecrime
November 22, 2025 at 12:36 PM
#histbookchat #sinology New arrival! The Highest Exam: How the Gaokao Shapes China by Ruixue Jia & Hongbin Li (2025) - supplied by Aunty Lesley of @bridgebooksdromore.bsky.social who was awarded her English degree after reading only one book (Great Gatsby) just to stop her rabbiting on about it
November 21, 2025 at 2:44 PM
#histbookchat #sinology New arrival! The Highest Exam: How the Gaokao Shapes China by Ruixue Jia & Hongbin Li (2025) - supplied by Aunty Lesley of @bridgebooksdromore.bsky.social who was awarded her English degree after reading only one book (Great Gatsby) just to stop her rabbiting on about it
#histbookchat #photofriday took a few days off from my own writing & finished Raiders, Rulers, & Traders by @davidchaffetz.bsky.social I'm not a great believer in books changing people's lives but I'll never look at horses the same way again! Amazing book! There was so much I never realised before..
November 21, 2025 at 10:37 AM
#histbookchat #photofriday took a few days off from my own writing & finished Raiders, Rulers, & Traders by @davidchaffetz.bsky.social I'm not a great believer in books changing people's lives but I'll never look at horses the same way again! Amazing book! There was so much I never realised before..
#histbookchat Some #CrimeFiction from me today: Death in Berlin by M. M. Kaye (1955, this edition 1985) #amreading #BookSky 📚💜
November 14, 2025 at 10:45 AM
#histbookchat Some #CrimeFiction from me today: Death in Berlin by M. M. Kaye (1955, this edition 1985) #amreading #BookSky 📚💜
#histbookchat Part 1 of Sino-Japanese War by John Dong out now from Helion - Part 2 due Spring 2026
www.helion.co.uk/military-his...
www.helion.co.uk/military-his...
November 12, 2025 at 10:08 AM
#histbookchat Part 1 of Sino-Japanese War by John Dong out now from Helion - Part 2 due Spring 2026
www.helion.co.uk/military-his...
www.helion.co.uk/military-his...
It's fish tank cleaning day and the fish 🐟🐠🐡🦈wanted some #blues so I chose their namesake - they were so excited! - Paper Doll by Samantha Fish (2025) 🎵🎶🎵 - very cool
November 8, 2025 at 12:00 PM
It's fish tank cleaning day and the fish 🐟🐠🐡🦈wanted some #blues so I chose their namesake - they were so excited! - Paper Doll by Samantha Fish (2025) 🎵🎶🎵 - very cool
#histbookpost sadly, no new book offering this week but a long (64pg😬) paper on Xi Jinping's concept of law and the future of law in China: Zeming Liu & Benjamin Liebman: Redefining Law in China
#law #China #research #funread
Open Access
American Journal of Comparative Law 2025
#law #China #research #funread
Open Access
American Journal of Comparative Law 2025
November 7, 2025 at 9:39 AM
#histbookpost sadly, no new book offering this week but a long (64pg😬) paper on Xi Jinping's concept of law and the future of law in China: Zeming Liu & Benjamin Liebman: Redefining Law in China
#law #China #research #funread
Open Access
American Journal of Comparative Law 2025
#law #China #research #funread
Open Access
American Journal of Comparative Law 2025
#BookSky 📚💜Starship Troopers is to be filmed again. My thoughts on this and on Robert Heinlein's (most?) controversial novel in The Perfect Voice with editorial thanks to the esteemed Mister Banerjee @shoumojitb.bsky.social #sciencefiction
www.theperfectvoice.in/post/the-gal...
www.theperfectvoice.in/post/the-gal...
November 6, 2025 at 9:31 AM
#BookSky 📚💜Starship Troopers is to be filmed again. My thoughts on this and on Robert Heinlein's (most?) controversial novel in The Perfect Voice with editorial thanks to the esteemed Mister Banerjee @shoumojitb.bsky.social #sciencefiction
www.theperfectvoice.in/post/the-gal...
www.theperfectvoice.in/post/the-gal...
Latest read! #histbookchat The Deep Silence by Douglas Reeman (1967, this the 2003 reprint) - the Royal Navy's newest nuclear submarine, HMS Temeraire, is in Asian waters and sailing into danger off the coast of Red China.... #exciting
November 2, 2025 at 12:33 PM
Latest read! #histbookchat The Deep Silence by Douglas Reeman (1967, this the 2003 reprint) - the Royal Navy's newest nuclear submarine, HMS Temeraire, is in Asian waters and sailing into danger off the coast of Red China.... #exciting
Latest arrival for Halloween!! The Revolutionists by Jason Burke (2025) @jasonburke2.bsky.social from The Bodley Head as
as supplied by the Scream (Drama) Queen of Dromore herself 🧙♀️🧹🐈, Aunty Lesley of Bridge Books
@bridgebooksdromore.bsky.social
#histbookchat #BookSky📚💜
as supplied by the Scream (Drama) Queen of Dromore herself 🧙♀️🧹🐈, Aunty Lesley of Bridge Books
@bridgebooksdromore.bsky.social
#histbookchat #BookSky📚💜
October 31, 2025 at 10:24 AM
Latest arrival for Halloween!! The Revolutionists by Jason Burke (2025) @jasonburke2.bsky.social from The Bodley Head as
as supplied by the Scream (Drama) Queen of Dromore herself 🧙♀️🧹🐈, Aunty Lesley of Bridge Books
@bridgebooksdromore.bsky.social
#histbookchat #BookSky📚💜
as supplied by the Scream (Drama) Queen of Dromore herself 🧙♀️🧹🐈, Aunty Lesley of Bridge Books
@bridgebooksdromore.bsky.social
#histbookchat #BookSky📚💜
in time, the novel also tells the story of Hong Kong through the eyes of the police force - a police force that, sadly, is no longer 2/2
October 24, 2025 at 9:22 AM
in time, the novel also tells the story of Hong Kong through the eyes of the police force - a police force that, sadly, is no longer 2/2
#histbookchat #BookSky 📚💜 #CrimeFiction I recommended this to @yorgosmoraitis.bsky.social for his class some time ago and decided I ought to read it for myself!!😂The Borrowed by Chan Ho-Kai (2014) trans. Jeremy Tiang (2016) - six interlocking murder investigations moving backwards 1/2
October 24, 2025 at 9:22 AM
#histbookchat #BookSky 📚💜 #CrimeFiction I recommended this to @yorgosmoraitis.bsky.social for his class some time ago and decided I ought to read it for myself!!😂The Borrowed by Chan Ho-Kai (2014) trans. Jeremy Tiang (2016) - six interlocking murder investigations moving backwards 1/2
latest read! #BookSky 📚💜 #histbookchat Some more fiction from Douglas Reeman: The Iron Pirate (1986)
October 19, 2025 at 1:29 PM
latest read! #BookSky 📚💜 #histbookchat Some more fiction from Douglas Reeman: The Iron Pirate (1986)
It's fish tank cleaning day and the fish 🐟🐠🐡🦈wanted some #spacerock and an album they hadn't heard before, so Into The Woods by Hawkwind (2017) - really, really good!!🎵🎶🎵
October 18, 2025 at 10:50 AM
It's fish tank cleaning day and the fish 🐟🐠🐡🦈wanted some #spacerock and an album they hadn't heard before, so Into The Woods by Hawkwind (2017) - really, really good!!🎵🎶🎵
#BookSky 📚💜 Latest read! Death in Kashmir by M.M. Kaye (1953, this edition 1984) #CrimeFiction #amreading
It's 1947, and there are both spies and murder on the glittering ski slopes of Kashmir...
It's 1947, and there are both spies and murder on the glittering ski slopes of Kashmir...
October 12, 2025 at 11:01 AM
#BookSky 📚💜 Latest read! Death in Kashmir by M.M. Kaye (1953, this edition 1984) #CrimeFiction #amreading
It's 1947, and there are both spies and murder on the glittering ski slopes of Kashmir...
It's 1947, and there are both spies and murder on the glittering ski slopes of Kashmir...
#histbookchat #BookSky 📚💜 I wrote about the Tea & Horse Agency keeping the Song Dynasty alive (militarily) in my first Magistrate Zhu novel, now for a greater history of the horse: Raiders, Rulers, & Traders (2024) by @davidchaffetz.bsky.social
October 10, 2025 at 9:28 AM
#histbookchat #BookSky 📚💜 I wrote about the Tea & Horse Agency keeping the Song Dynasty alive (militarily) in my first Magistrate Zhu novel, now for a greater history of the horse: Raiders, Rulers, & Traders (2024) by @davidchaffetz.bsky.social
#BookSky 📚💜 #CrimeFiction Latest read! Tokyo Express by Seicho Matsumoto (1958) trans. Jesse Kirkwood (2022) as supplied by the Queen of the Dromore Underworld herself, Aunty Lesley of Bridge Books @bridgebooksdromore.bsky.social
October 7, 2025 at 10:32 AM
#BookSky 📚💜 #CrimeFiction Latest read! Tokyo Express by Seicho Matsumoto (1958) trans. Jesse Kirkwood (2022) as supplied by the Queen of the Dromore Underworld herself, Aunty Lesley of Bridge Books @bridgebooksdromore.bsky.social
#histbookchat #sinology New arrival!! Politicizing Business by Ning Leng from @universitypress.cambridge.org as supplied by Aunty Lesley of @bridgebooksdromore.bsky.social
who, this month, is celebrating 30 years of selling books to the (once) literary impoverished inhabitants of Dromore!!
who, this month, is celebrating 30 years of selling books to the (once) literary impoverished inhabitants of Dromore!!
October 3, 2025 at 8:31 AM
#histbookchat #sinology New arrival!! Politicizing Business by Ning Leng from @universitypress.cambridge.org as supplied by Aunty Lesley of @bridgebooksdromore.bsky.social
who, this month, is celebrating 30 years of selling books to the (once) literary impoverished inhabitants of Dromore!!
who, this month, is celebrating 30 years of selling books to the (once) literary impoverished inhabitants of Dromore!!
It's fish tank cleaning day and the fish wanted some earlyish Pink Floyd, so Obscured by Clouds (1972). This one's a bit of a forgotten album but the fish & I love it & I can always hear echoes (see what I did there) of the famous album to come the very next year(Dark Side of the Moon) 🎵🎶🎵
September 27, 2025 at 11:11 AM
It's fish tank cleaning day and the fish wanted some earlyish Pink Floyd, so Obscured by Clouds (1972). This one's a bit of a forgotten album but the fish & I love it & I can always hear echoes (see what I did there) of the famous album to come the very next year(Dark Side of the Moon) 🎵🎶🎵