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Mark Curnell

@books4maphead.bsky.social
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Books are Life. Everything is mere details. I’m the book blogger your mother warned you about. www.maphead.wordpress.com

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Mark Curnell @books4maphead.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
This morning with coffee it’s Katie Crouch’s 2021 novel Embassy Wife. #booksky #backlist
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Mark Curnell @books4maphead.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
This morning with coffee it’s Robert Harris’s 2020 V2: A Novel of World War II. #booksky #backlist #historicalfiction
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Mark Curnell @books4maphead.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
This morning with coffee it’s Dawn Anahid MacKeen’s 2016 book The Hundred-Year Walk: An Armenian Odyssey. #booksky #backlist
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Mark Curnell @books4maphead.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
This morning with coffee it’s Robert Olen Butler’s 2012 historical thriller The Hot Country and the first novel in his four book Christopher Marlowe Cobb series. #booksky #backlist #historicalfiction
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Mark Curnell @books4maphead.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
I found a big slug.
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Mark Curnell @books4maphead.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
I have a visitor this morning.
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Mark Curnell @books4maphead.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
This morning with coffee it’s German author Jennifer Teege’s 2015 memoir My Grandfather Would Have Shot Me: A Black Woman Discovers Her Family's Nazi Past. #booksky #backlist
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Mark Curnell @books4maphead.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
This morning with coffee it’s David Downing’s 2018 historical thriller set in Bolshevik Russia The Dark Clouds Shining. #booksky #backlist #historicalfiction
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Mark Curnell @books4maphead.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
This morning with coffee it’s David Dyer’s 2016 The Midnight Watch: A Novel of the Titanic and the Californian. #booksky #backlist #kindle #historicalfiction
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Mark Curnell @books4maphead.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
My signs for today’s protest.
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Mark Curnell @books4maphead.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
This morning with coffee it’s Jason Burke’s 2026 book The Revolutionists: The Story of the Extremists Who Hijacked the 1970s. #booksky
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Mark Curnell @books4maphead.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
This morning with coffee it’s Robert Olen Butler’s 2013 historical spy novel The Star of Istanbul. #booksky #backlist
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Mark Curnell @books4maphead.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
This morning with coffee it’s Eric Burns’s 2016 book 1920: The Year that Made the Decade Roar. #booksky #backlist
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Mark Curnell @books4maphead.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
It’s all coming together. Come visit our booth at Dallas Days. We’re here Friday and Saturday.
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Mark Curnell @books4maphead.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
This morning with coffee it’s Kate Harris’s 2018 travel memoir Lands of Lost Borders: A Journey on the Silk Road.
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Mark Curnell @books4maphead.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
It was the perfect summer day for a rally in Dallas, Oregon today. Lots of great signs. A good time was had by all.
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Mark Curnell @books4maphead.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
It was the perfect summer day for a rally in Dallas, Oregon today. Lots of great signs. A good time was had by all.
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Mark Curnell @books4maphead.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
This morning with coffee it’s Cuban-American author Armando Lucas Correa’s 2016 historical novel The German Girl. #booksky #backlist #historicalfiction
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Mark Curnell @books4maphead.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
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Mark Curnell @books4maphead.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
What do you do when you’re visiting Portland and you stumble across a protest in your old ‘hood? When you have a trunk full of signs you park the car and go join them.
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Mark Curnell @books4maphead.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
This morning with coffee it’s Spanish author Arturo Pérez-Reverte’s 2026 historical whodunnit The Final Problem. #booksky
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Mark Curnell @books4maphead.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
This morning with coffee it’s Kim Barnes’s 2012 historical novel In The Kingdom of Men set during 1967 largely within the confines of the Arabian American Oil Company (Aramco) settlement in Saudi Arabia. #booksky #backlist #historicalfiction
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Mark Curnell @books4maphead.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
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Mark Curnell @books4maphead.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
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Mark Curnell @books4maphead.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
This morning with coffee it’s David Downing’s 2017 historical spy novel Lenin’s Rollercoaster. #booksky #backlist #historicalfiction
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Mark Curnell @books4maphead.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
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Mark Curnell @books4maphead.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
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Mark Curnell @books4maphead.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
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Mark Curnell @books4maphead.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
This morning with coffee it’s Evan Osnos’s 2026 The Haves and Have-Yachts: Dispatches on the Ultrarich. #20bos26 #bluesky
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Mark Curnell @books4maphead.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
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Mark Curnell @books4maphead.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
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Mark Curnell @books4maphead.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
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Mark Curnell @books4maphead.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
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Mark Curnell @books4maphead.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
Here's my stack of books for Big Book Summer Challenge 2026 #booksky #backlist #BigBookSummer #historicalfiction #booksky
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Mark Curnell @books4maphead.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
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Mark Curnell @books4maphead.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
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Mark Curnell @books4maphead.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
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Mark Curnell @books4maphead.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
This morning with coffee it’s Ben Mezrich’s 2015 book Once Upon a Time in Russia: The Rise of the Oligarchs—A True Story of Ambition, Wealth, Betrayal, and Murder. #booksky #nonfiction #backlist
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Mark Curnell @books4maphead.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
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Mark Curnell @books4maphead.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
This morning with coffee it’s Kristin Harmel’s 2020 historical novel The Book of Lost Names. #booksky #historicalfiction
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Mark Curnell @books4maphead.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
My protest signs from today.
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Mark Curnell @books4maphead.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
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Mark Curnell @books4maphead.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
Why not spend Friday night fighting for democracy. A good time was had by all last night in beautiful downtown Independence, Oregon.
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Mark Curnell @books4maphead.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
Why not spend Friday night fighting for democracy. A good time was had by all last night in beautiful downtown Independence, Oregon.
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Mark Curnell @books4maphead.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
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Mark Curnell @books4maphead.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
This morning with coffee it’s Guillermo Erades’s 2016 debut novel Back to Moscow. #booksky #backlist
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Mark Curnell @books4maphead.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
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Mark Curnell @books4maphead.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
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