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#BookAdvent #Day23 As 2025 draws to a close, a year which marked the 250th anniversary of Jane Austen's birth, it seemed only fitting to share my personal favourite...
#Persuasion #JaneAusten
December 23, 2025 at 7:59 PM
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#BookAdvent #Day22 🦈 You're going to need a bigger coffee table...🦈
#JawsMemories #MattTaylor
December 22, 2025 at 5:03 PM
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I'm usually averse to promoting Amazon in any way, but this is outweighed by my belief that everyone should read this series! Only £1.99 for all these terrific books!!!
You're welcome!
@dougjohnstone.bsky.social @orendabooks.bsky.social
amzn.eu/d/1EUNa3P
December 21, 2025 at 4:50 PM
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#BookAdvent #Day21 A wonderfully dark and suspenseful thriller, featuring a truly creepy killer, who is anything but sweet...
@nicolasobregon.bsky.social #TheSugarMan
December 21, 2025 at 3:04 PM
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#BookAdvent #Day20 Been handselling this one like a demon today. Based on a real life triple murder case in the Hebrides in 1857 this is a spare but extremely powerful read. Perfect.
#GraemeMacraeBurnet #Benbecula
December 20, 2025 at 4:48 PM
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#BookAdvent #Day19 This final instalment of the #Enceladon trilogy was a wonderfully satisfying conclusion to this excellent series. I would urge you to discover this series too! ❤️🐙 @dougjohnstone.bsky.social @orendabooks.bsky.social
December 19, 2025 at 10:11 AM
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#NewBookDay This series is one of my favourites, and a big thank you to @hodderbooks.bsky.social for a proof of @vaseemkhanuk.bsky.social #TheEdgeOfDarkness publishing in January!
#TeamPersis
December 18, 2025 at 10:29 AM
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#BookPost My equivalent of three French hens! A big THANK YOU to @johnmurrays.bsky.social @pushkinpress.com and @wmcollinsbooks.bsky.social for these amazing books!
@calflyn.bsky.social #AnnaNerkagi #AdrianPotter
December 18, 2025 at 10:16 AM
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#BookAdvent #Day18 This will quite possibly be my book of the year. A crime novel that is unlike any other book you will read...🐾🐾🐾 @stevenashwrites.bsky.social #RemingtonPlatypus @northodoxpress.bsky.social
December 18, 2025 at 10:01 AM
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#BookAdvent #Day17 No spoilers here. It's just 😱 in the best way!
A terrific addition to the superlative Thorne series from
#MarkBillingham...
December 17, 2025 at 11:27 AM
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#BookAdvent #Day16 I seldom read biographies/memoirs but this one was a notable exception! @margaretatwood.bsky.social is an absolute legend and this book is as entertaining, thought provoking and dryly humorous as you would expect...
December 16, 2025 at 3:23 PM
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#BookAdvent #Day15 Picked this one up on a whim earlier this year and thoroughly enjoyed it. Based on the tumultuous 'friendship' of Joan Didion and Eve Babitz, I then fell down a rabbit hole of related reading! #EllaBerman #LAWomen
December 15, 2025 at 11:26 AM
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#amreading my first ever #FreidaMcFadden book.

I will not be taking questions at this time.
December 14, 2025 at 8:16 PM
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#BookAdvent #Day14 Can't help thinking that this one went a little under the radar, but I thought #TheGirlInCellA was both clever and compelling. If you liked
#AllTheColoursOfTheDark you'll love this!
@vaseemkhanuk.bsky.social
December 14, 2025 at 12:43 PM
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#BookAdvent #Day13 Another top 10 read of the year as Captain Sam Wyndham and his former police colleague Surendranath Banerjee are reunited in the newest instalment of this excellent series set in 1920s India. My advice would be to read them all-they're fantastic! @radiomukhers.bsky.social
December 13, 2025 at 5:08 PM
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#BookAdvent #Day12 A cracking start to a new Devon set police procedural series from @williamshaw.bsky.social Can't wait to see what happens as the series progresses...
@harpercollins.bsky.social
December 12, 2025 at 10:57 AM
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Lovely to see people embracing @stevenashwrites.bsky.social #RemingtonPlatypus The most refreshingly different book I have read this year..
#BeMoreBadger 🐾🐾🐾
@northodoxpress.bsky.social @tednorthodox.bsky.social

#BookSky💙📚
December 12, 2025 at 12:02 AM
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So glad that this paperback landed super early at work today! Been dying to catch up with Kat and Locke, as the first two of the series were soooo good!
@jocallaghankat.bsky.social
@simonschusteruk.bsky.social
December 11, 2025 at 8:10 PM
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#BookAdvent #Day11 The Winter Warriors depicts a harsh and uncompromising period of WWII history that is beautifully depicted by #OlivierNorek, tr. #NickCaistor and I thought it was simply marvellous.
@orendabooks.bsky.social
December 11, 2025 at 7:27 PM
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#BookAdvent #Day10 I'm spoiling you today with this terrific Dickensian duo from @authorbarbara.bsky.social Dark, atmospheric and with the added bonus of a truly compelling female protagonist. Marvellous!
@canelobooks.bsky.social
December 10, 2025 at 3:00 PM
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#BookAdvent #Day9 Another favourite read this year and one for your wishlist! Family, politics, culture, religion, the environment #Saraswati is a smorgasbord of delights and beautifully written too.
#GurnaikJohal
@profilebooks.bsky.social
December 9, 2025 at 3:51 PM
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#BookAdvent #Day8 One of my favourite reads this year, #Dangerous is a wonderfully researched and atmospheric re-imagining of Byron's sojourn in Venice. A suspenseful gothic tale of murder and scandal from
@essiefox.bsky.social
@orendabooks.bsky.social
December 8, 2025 at 12:43 PM
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#BookAdvent #Day7 I love a bit of Bond and very much enjoyed @vaseemkhanuk.bsky.social's #QuantumOfMenace featuring the curmudgeonly Q.
December 7, 2025 at 10:55 AM
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#BookAdvent #Day6 Nature writing is one of my favourite genres and this is just sublime. All the feels of #HIsForHawk and a beautiful meditation on our connection with nature.
#RaisingHare
@chloedalton.bsky.social
December 6, 2025 at 10:57 AM
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#BookAdvent #Day5 IMHO the one that should have won the #BookerPrize. If you've not read this quiet, poignant and beautifully written book I would definitely recommend it...
#BenjaminWood #Seascraper
@penguinrandomhouse.bsky.social
December 5, 2025 at 11:40 AM