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#TopTenTuesday : Book Titles Featuring Ordinal Numbers | #TuesdayBookBlog Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly meme created by The Broke and the Bookish, which is now being hosted by Jana at That Artsy Reader Girl. The rules are simple: Each Tuesday, Jana assigns a new topic…

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Top Ten Tuesday – 10/03/26 – Book Titles Featuring Ordinal Numbers #BookList #TopTenTuesday #TuesdayBookBlog #BookSky #SecretLibraryBookBlog Top Ten Tuesday was created by The Broke and the Bookish in June of 2010 and was moved to That Artsy Reader Girl in January of 2018. It was born of a love of lists, a love of books, and a desire to…

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Top Ten Tuesday 10th March 2026: Ordinal Numbers  | #TopTenTuesday #amreading #bookrecommendations #TuesdayBookBlog #BookSky 💙📚 This week’s topic: Ordinal Numbers It’s an exciting Top Ten Tuesday for me this week as I chose the topic! It seemed like a good idea at the time but actual it was harder than I thought…

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A Far-Flung Life by M.L. Stedman | Review A Far-Flung Life by M.L. Stedman (March 2026) is an epic read, a cinematic experience, a brilliant book club choice!!

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#6Degrees of Separation for March 2026: From Wuthering Heights to Bleak House #BookSky 💙📚 For the first time in ages, I’ve read the starting book this month! Emily Bronte’s Wuthering Heights has been adapted for the screen several times with the latest film version released …

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One to watch out for: Wonderful by Louise Beech | #bookreview #FiveStars Today is International Women’s Day so it seems rather appropriate to be sharing my review of a book which very much celebrates women. You will have to wait a bit for this one if you like the …

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The Lottery Winner Widows Club by Lucy Vine My enormous thanks to Helena Towers at Headline for sending me a copy of The Lottery Winner Widows Club by Elly Vine. It’s my pleasure to share my review of the book today.  The Lottery Winner Wido…

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Rewind Recap: Weekly Update W/E 08/03/26 Rewind Recap: Weekly Update W/E 08/03/26 My weekly reading roundup. #bookstagram #bookish #bookthreads #booksky #timweaver #amenalonge #angelamarsons #stephaniebramwelllawes #dougjohnstone #ianrank…

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#ThreeTwoOne quickfire questions with Eloho #author of Sleepless Night | #grief #memoir I’m delighted to be joined by Eloho today, author of Sleepless Night. Sleepless Night was published in January and available in physical and digital editions: full details below. Over to Eloh…

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#AudiobookReview – The Last Letter of Rachel Ellsworth by Barbara O’Neal #BookSky #TheLastLetterofRachelEllsworth #ContemporaryFiction #SecretLibraryBookBlog Synopsis: “Two women overcoming past traumas embark on a healing journey across continents in a novel about friendship, family, and rediscovery by the USA Today bestselling author of When We …

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Lie With Me by Philippe Besson | Audiobook Review Lie With Me by Philippe Besson published with Penguin in 2019 & was translated from the original French by Molly Ringwald.

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An A-Z of (UK) Independent Publishers – M By definition an Independent Publisher is one that is not one of the large multinational publishing houses commonly referred to as the ‘Big Five’ (namely Penguin Random House, Macmillan, Simon & Schuster, Hachette and Harper Collins – along with their imprints). I’ve also excluded Bloomsbury and its imprints because its size, reach and income put it beyond what most people think of as an ‘indie’ publisher. The list is aimed not only at authors seeking to find a publisher, but also, at readers looking to support indie publishers. This list was started in 2021 and is gradually being updated from Aug 2023.

An A-Z of (UK) Independent Publishers – M

By definition an Independent Publisher is one that is not one of the large multinational publishing houses commonly referred to as the ‘Big Five’ (namely Penguin Random House, Macmillan, Simon & Schuster, Hachette and Harper Collins – along with their…

A Good Day To Die by Amen Alonge Today I am sharing my thoughts on A Good Day To Die,book one in Amen Alonge’s Pretty Boy series. I’ve had this on my TBR list for a while so figures now was a good time to remedy that. …

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The month that was… February 2026 February was a nice, quiet month. The weather was mostly terrible, but I’ve enjoyed having some down time, particularly as March looks busy! The highlight was spending a weekend in Ilkley and…

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#FlashbackFriday March 2026 #BookReviews #BookRecommendations #BookSky #SecretLibraryBookBlog It’s the first Friday of the month, so I’m joining Kerry @ Chat About Books looking back at the books I was reading or listening to in March 2025. I’m also sharing a link to previous March Flashbac…

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Life Will Find a Way #courtyardgarden #gardening After near constant rain since December it was good to get out into the courtyard garden yesterday for a tidy session.

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100 Books Bucket List Challenge | Audiobooks Reviews - Swirl and Thread For Christmas I received this fun gift of the 100 Books Scratch Off Bucket List poster. I immediately scratched off any book I had read over the years but soon realised that they were so many I had ye...

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Five on Friday with Rosie Hendry @hendry_rosie Today I'm delighted to feature author Rosie Hendry. Her heartwarming stories are inspired by historical records, where gems of social history are often to be found. Her interest in the WWII era was sparked by her father’s many tales of growing up at that time. Rosie’s novel, The Mother’s Day Club, won the 2022 Romantic Novelists’ Association (RNA) award for historical romantic sagas, and isthe first of her books set at Rookery House during wartime. Her East End Angels series set in the London Blitz, has been described as ‘Historical fiction at its very best!’.

Five on Friday with Rosie Hendry @hendry_rosie

Today I'm delighted to feature author Rosie Hendry. Her heartwarming stories are inspired by historical records, where gems of social history are often to be found. Her interest in the WWII era was sparked by her father’s many tales of growing up at…

WWW Wednesdays! – 04/03/26 #HappyShrugDay #WWWWednesdays #BookSky #WhatAmIReading #SecretLibraryBookBlog Welcome to WWW Wednesdays! hosted by Sam @ Taking on a World of Words. Just answer the three questions below and leave a link to your post in the comments for others to look at. No blog? No problem…

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The Family Friend by Claire Douglas Today I am sharing my thoughts on the brand new thriller from Claire Douglas, The Family Friend. I was completely hooked on the premise of this one and am ever grateful to publisher, Michael Joseph…

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February 2026 Wrap Up & Favourite Books of the Month #February2026WrapUp #BookSky #BookishTravel #SecretLibraryBookBlog February has been a fab bookish month. I read/listened to a total of 10 books. I read 4 books and listened to 6 audiobooks.  For those of you who enjoy graphs, here are my stats from StoryGraph Fa…

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Sons of Great Men by Adrian Ross | Review Sons of Great Men by Adrian Ross explores family, mortality, work, love & belonging and how it feels to reach one of life's crossroads

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This Ends Now by T.M. Payne Today I share my thoughts on book two in T.M. Payne’s brilliant Sheridan Holler series, This Ends Now. I’m very late to the plate on this series, but loving the catch up. Here’s w…

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Extract from EL by Thaddeus Ó Buachalla | @mercierpress.bsky.social - Swirl and Thread ‘When reality itself becomes the conspiracy . . .’ EL by Thaddeus Ó Buachalla was first published in Irish by Coiscéim in 2022. It won an Oireachtas Literary Award and was awarded Irish Language Novel...

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In Memoriam by Alice Winn | Review In Memoriam by Alice Winn - 'an epic tale of both the devastating tragedies of war & the forbidden romance that blooms in its grip'

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Top Ten Tuesday – 03/03/26 Book Titles That Would Make Great Newspaper Headlines #2 #TopTenTuesday #BookSky #BookList #TuesdayBookBlog #SecretLibraryBookBlog Top Ten Tuesday was created by The Broke and the Bookish in June of 2010 and was moved to That Artsy Reader Girl in January of 2018. It was born of a love of lists, a love of books, and a desire to…

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Love & Other Liabilities by Fiona McCann | Review Love & Other Liabilities by Fiona McCann (February 2026) is described as being 'full of charm, community, and the magic of coming home.'

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#BookReview: How to Kill a Crime Writer by Sarah Lotz @HarperCollinsUK #HowToKillaCrimeWriter #BookTwitter #booktwt #BookSky #damppebbles “She wrote for a living. But who wanted her dead? When bestselling author Annie Morrissey is found dead, her daughter Niamh knows in her gut it’s no accident – even if the case needs a good e…

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The Rush by Beth Lewis Gold fever has taken him. I believe he means to kill me… Canada, 1898. The gold rush is on in the frozen wilderness of the Yukon. Fortunes are made as quickly as they’re lost, and Dawso…

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#BookReview – Michael Without Apology: A Novel by Catherine Ryan Hyde #Michael Without Apology #BookSky #ContemporaryFiction #Favouritesof2026 #SecretLibraryBookBlog Synopsis: ” A film student struggling with self-acceptance finally stops looking away from his traumatic past in a powerful novel by New York Times bestselling author Catherine Ryan Hyde. Mic…

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