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Cathy J
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Gardener 🌱 | Avid reader | Historical fiction fan | Admirer of John Buchan | Book blogger always ready for the next chapter... 💙📚

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I won a prize! And what a brilliant one it is - a signed copy of Fly, Wild Swans by Jung Chang. I remember loving Wild Swans when I read it so looking forward to diving into this follow-up.

Thank you for running the giveaway @wmcollinsbooks.bsky.social

#books #nonfiction #booksky 💙📚
Cover of Fly, Wild Swans by Jung Chang Title page of Fly, Wild Swans by Jung Chang, signed by the author
November 26, 2025 at 10:02 AM
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John Buchan Fact of the Day (327/365) Buchan wrote, 'To me as a child, autumn meant the thick, close odour of rotting leaves, varied by scents from the harvested stubble; glimpses of uncanny scarlet toadstools... acres of spongy ground which miraculously dried up at the first frosts' #booksky 💙📚
Autumn leaves and rotting bark
November 23, 2025 at 1:58 PM
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Why do we do this to ourselves every year? Can't give you an answer at the moment as my brain hurts too much #hiddenbooksgame #books #booksky 💙📚
Screenshot of completed hidden books game
November 14, 2025 at 3:16 PM
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John Buchan Fact of the Day (317/365) On his motivation for writing The Long Traverse, Buchan said, 'You see Canadian history is obligatory for the schools, but the books are perfectly deadly, and there is really nothing to engage the imagination of a child.' #JBFactOfTheDay #JohnBuchan #booksky 💙📚
Hardback copy of book The Long Traverse by John Buchan open at title page and frontispiece with sketch of Native American and young boy on mountainside
November 13, 2025 at 1:21 PM
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The books were Sick Heart River, Memory Hold-The-Door and The Long Traverse, all published posthumously #books #JohnBuchan #booksky 💙📚
Hardback copies of three books by John Buchan - Sick Heart River, Memory Hold-The-Door and The Long Traverse - shown spines outward. They are on a wooden shelf and resting against a wooden bowl filled with pine cones
November 12, 2025 at 10:25 AM
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John Buchan Fact of the Day (315/365) In 1956 Penguin marked the twenty first anniversary of its founding by reissuing ten Buchan novels - including The Island of Sheep and Greenmantle - with an (unattributed) introduction by his son Wiiliam #JBFactOfTheDay #JohnBuchan #books #booksky 💙📚
Front covers of Penguin paperback editions of The Island of Sheep and Greenmantle by John Buchan
November 11, 2025 at 1:20 PM
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John Buchan Fact of the Day (314/365) #OnThisDay in 1941, Buchan's book of Canadian history for children, The Long Traverse, was published. Unfinished at the time of his death in 1940, it was completed by his wife, Susan #JBFactOfTheDay #JohnBuchan #Canada 🇨🇦 #books #booksky 💙📚
Hardback copy of book The Long Traverse by John Buchan open at title page with illustration opposite showing Native American and young boy on mountainside
November 10, 2025 at 10:46 AM
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These For Remembrance - John Buchan's memoir of 6 friends killed in the Great War: Tommy Nelson, Bron Lucas, Cecil Rawling, Basil Blackwood, Jack Wortley & Raymond Asquith #JohnBuchan #RemembranceDay #books #booksky 💙📚 #RemembranceSunday #WW1
Front cover of These For Remembrance by John Buchan featuring an illustration of a wounded soldier in WW1 uniform
November 9, 2025 at 4:22 PM
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Finally the cosmos I sowed ages ago has flowered. Does it not know it's now November? #gardens #gardening #flowers #bloomscrolling 🌱
Cosmos flower with pink petals and yellow centre against background of green foliage
November 9, 2025 at 4:13 PM
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And here they are #books #booksky 💙📚
Two piles of five hardback & paperback books, spines outwards, with a book-patterned cushion in the background
November 4, 2025 at 10:23 AM
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John Buchan Fact of the Day (307/365) In his memoir Memory Hold-The-Door, Buchan wrote "To live for a time close to great minds is the best kind of education." #JBFactOfTheDay #JohnBuchan #books #memoir #quotations #booksky 💙📚
Front cover of Memory Hold-The-Door subtitled The autobiography of John Buchan, featuring a black and white photograph of the author, shown in profile, wearing a tweed jacket
November 3, 2025 at 10:27 AM
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John Buchan Fact of the Day (305/365) In a lecture to the John Buchan Society in March 2025 entitled 'Greenmantle and Me', Professor Sir Niall Ferguson explained why he chose to name his New York-based advisory business after Buchan's novel #JBFactOfTheDay #JohnBuchan #books #booksky 💙📚
Front cover of Penguin paperback edition of Greenmantle by John Buchan featuring illustration of a man on a mountainside dressed in green robe and turban aiming a rifle. Alongside are two beer mats for Greenmantle Ale
November 1, 2025 at 3:32 PM
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The Master 👻 #Halloween #books #ghoststories #MRJames #booksky 💙📚
Front cover of Collected Ghost Stories by M. R. James resting on a antique brass toasting fork. Alongside are the covers of CDs of BBC adaptations of A View From A Hill and Whistle And I'll Come To You illustrated with stills from the programmes
October 31, 2025 at 10:45 AM
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John Buchan Fact of the Day (300/365) The woods around Elsfield Manor, the Buchan family home in Oxfordshire, were the inspiration for the setting of his historical novel The Blanket of the Dark, set in the reign of Henry VIII #JBFactOfTheDay #JohnBuchan #books #historicalfiction ⏳️📚 #booksky 💙📚
Front cover of the book The Blanket of the Dark by John Buchan. It is a pale yellow colour with a black and white illustration of a street with Tudoe era half-timbered houses either side. Four figures bearing spears are emerging from a stone arch
October 27, 2025 at 1:42 PM
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John Buchan Fact of the Day (299/365) #OnThisDay in 1916, Buchan's novel Greenmantle was published by Hodder & Stoughton. Set in WW1, Richard Hannay's second appearance involves a chase across Europe to Constantinople to defeat a German plot #JBFactOfTheDay #JohnBuchan #books #booksky 💙📚
Front cover of Greenmantle by John Buchan. Yellow cover with image of bearded man wearing green silk robe and turban seen in profile
October 26, 2025 at 4:15 PM
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John Buchan Fact of the Day (297/365) #OnThisDay in 1932 The Magic Walking-Stick, Buchan's only novel for children, was published by Hodder & Stoughton. This first edition contained illustrations by John Morton-Sale #JBFactOfTheDay #JohnBuchan #books #booksky 💙📚
Hardback copy of The Magic Walking-Stick by John Buchan. White cover with title and author in blue text and the initials JB in the bottom right-hand corner
October 24, 2025 at 8:57 AM
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John Buchan Fact of the Day (292/365) #OnThisDay in 1915 Buchan's most famous novel, The Thirty-Nine Steps, was published #JBFactOfTheDay #JohnBuchan #books #booksky 💙📚
Front cover of paperback edition of The Thirty-Nine Steps by John Buchan featuring a man in a suit hiding in a hayloft from two men in suits below
October 19, 2025 at 7:42 AM
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Not a terribly good picture but here's Damian with Tash Aw, author of The South at Henley Literary Festival on Friday
Authors Damian Barr and Tash Aw with interviewer Daniel Hahn perched on stools in front of audience with screen in background advertising Henley Literary Festival
October 12, 2025 at 3:16 PM
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A #spellthemonthinbooks stack AKA putting off doing household chores #books #booksky 💙📚
Stack of books spines outwards with titles the first letters of which spell October. The stack is sitting on a wooden shelf. Partly visible is a wooden bowl full of pine cones
October 12, 2025 at 11:28 AM
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One of my favourite events at Henley Literary Festival, the Headline Proof Party. A glass of wine, an audience of book lovers, a fascinating Q&A with two authors & PROOF COPIES! @headlinebooks.bsky.social 💙📚 #books #HenleyLiteraryFestival #literaryfestivals #bookevents #Room706 #Female,Nude #booksky
Copies of two paperback books Room 706 and Female, Nude resting on pink tote bag with Henley Literary Festival logo
October 7, 2025 at 11:01 AM
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The #HenleyLiteraryFestival 2025 book haul has begun... #books #bookhaul #booklove #booklover #historicalfiction ⏳️📚 #booksky 💙📚
Front covers of Ravenglass by Carolyn Kirby and The Other Side of Paradise by Vanessa Beaumont
October 5, 2025 at 3:09 PM
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"She chose poorly." Loving Hunlaf's Indiana Jones style hunt for a sacred relic in Dominion of Dust the new book by @matthewharffy.bsky.social to be published on 9th October. Thanks to @headofzeus.bsky.social for my review copy #DominionOfDust #ATimeForSwords #book #historicalfiction #booksky 💙📚
Hardback copy of Dominion of Dust by Matthew Harffy resting on a grey paving slab surrounded by gravel with a low growing plant. The pink-hued cover depicts a man carrying spear looking towards a group of ancient buildings
October 3, 2025 at 2:43 PM
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John Buchan Fact of the Day (276/365) "I returned from the City about three o'clock on that May afternoon pretty much disgusted with life" is the opening line of Buchan's most famous novel, The Thirty-Nine Steps #JBFactOfTheDay #JohnBuchan #FirstLinesFriday #books #booksky 💙📚
Window of The John Buchan Story museum in Peebles, Scotland displaying a poster advertising the museum and referencing the film version of his novel The Thirty-Nine Steps
October 3, 2025 at 1:07 PM
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John Buchan Fact of the Day (275/365) Dr Kevin Hutchings, Professor of English at the University of Northern British Columbia, has set ten of Buchan's early poems to music. The album John Buchan's Poetry in Song was released in May 2024 #JBFactOfTheDay #JohnBuchan #poetry #music 🎼 #books #booksky 💙📚
Album cover of John Buchan's Poetry in Song by Kevin Hutchings featuring an image of a mountain range against a cloudy sky
October 2, 2025 at 1:51 PM
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John Buchan Fact of the Day (271/365) In August 1937 Buchan (by then Lord Tweedsmuir) flew to Port Radium, a mining area on the eastern shore of Great Bear Lake in Canada's Northwest Territories, where he visited the Eldorado copper mine #JBFactOfTheDay #JohnBuchan #Canada 🇨🇦 #booksky 💙📚
Blue plaque with engraving commemorating the visit of Lord Tweedsmuir (the author John Buchan) to the Eldorado copper mine in 1937
September 28, 2025 at 2:22 PM