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Eva @evaduffy.bsky.social · 01/01/2026

The 41 books I read in 2025 …

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36. Mrs Bridge by Evan S Connell 37. Trespasses by Louise Kennedy 38. The Power by Naomi Alderman 39. The Ballad of Jacquotte Delahaye by Briony Cameron 40. Hour of the Star by Clarice Lispector 41. Fundamentally by Nussaibah Younis

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Eva @evaduffy.bsky.social · 01/01/2026

29. Swamplandia by Karen Russell 30. Strangers by Taichi Yamada 31. Nightbitch by Rachel Yoder 32. A Month in the Country by JL Carr 33. The Island of Missing Trees by Elif Shafak 34. How Steeple Sinderby Wanderers Won the FA Cup by J.L. Carr 35. The Rachel Incident by Carol O’Donaghue

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Eva @evaduffy.bsky.social · 01/01/2026

21. Turtle Diary by Russell Hoban 22. Stone Yard Devotional by Charlotte Wood 23. Connection by Kae Tempest 24. The Leaf-Sweeper by Muriel Spark 25. All Fours by Miranda July 26. Martyr by Kaveh Akbar 27. Friday Black by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah 28. The Safekeep by Yael van der Wouden

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Eva @evaduffy.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

15. What We Tried to Bury Grows Here by Julian Zabalbeascoa 16. Brotherless Night by V. V. Ganeshananthan 17. Libertie by Kaitlyn Greenidge 18. The History of Time by Kaliane Bradley 19. Eden’s Shore by Oisín Fagan 20. Headshot by Rita Bullwinkel

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Eva @evaduffy.bsky.social · 05/05/2025

8. The People’s Act of Love by James Meek 9. Orbital by Samantha Harvey 10. Butter by Asako Yuzuki 11. Milkman by Anna Burns 12. Looking at Women Looking at War - A War and Justice Diary by Victoria Amelina 13. This Immaculate Body by Emma van Straaten 14. Sunburn by Chloe Michelle Howarth

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Eva @evaduffy.bsky.social · 05/05/2025

What I’ve been reading in 2025: 1. The Bees by Laline Paull 2. Big Swiss by Jen Beagin 3. The Fishermen by Chigozie Obioma 4. Goodlord by Ella Frears 5. Nightingale Point by Luan Goldie 6. Taste: My Life Through Food by Stanley Tucci 7. The Visitor by Maeve Brennan

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Eva @evaduffy.bsky.social · 27/04/2025

Fantastic afternoon hearing from two of my favourite contemporary writers, Eimear McBride and Kevin Barry, at the Cambridge Literary Festival, lead expertly in conversation by @newstatesman.com’s Tom Gatti 📚

Eimear is sitting in a chair wearing a black and gold trouser suit, black shirt and emerald green tie with a thick knot. She is speaking and appears animated.

Kevin is sitting in a chair. He is dressed casually in a light green shirt. In front of him is a low table with a water jug and glasses and a copy of his book The Heart in Winter. He is talking and gesticulating.

Tom and Eimear sit on either side of a low table with a red tablecloth in which sits a jug of water and glasses. Tom and Eimear are laughing.

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Eva @evaduffy.bsky.social · 09/03/2025

But available in public libraries, it seems - New Yorkers can borrow it!

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Eva @evaduffy.bsky.social · 09/03/2025

@ronanhession.bsky.social well done - New York Public Library’s book of the day!

Email screenshot: “Today’s Book of the Day is quiet yet thought provoking” Ghost Mountain by Rónán Hession

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Royal Free Charity @royalfreecharity.org · 03/03/2025

Which animals have you spotted on our pondcam? Our pondcam live stream focuses on one of the Hampstead Heath ponds. It is played for patients to ease the stresses of waiting to be seen in the oncology clinic at the Royal Free Hospital. 📺Watch live at the link in our bio! #NHS #nature #Hampstead

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Eva @evaduffy.bsky.social · 16/02/2025

Sure, I get that - though we can read books for reasons other than enjoyment …

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Eva @evaduffy.bsky.social · 06/01/2025

Virginia Woolf, Vanessa’s sister, did the same artistic magpie act: her novel Mrs Dalloway - stream of consciousness covering one day in one woman’s life - “inspired by” James Joyce’s Ulysses despite Woolf declaring it ”an illiterate, underbred book … the book of a self-taught working man…”

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Eva @evaduffy.bsky.social · 05/01/2025

First exhibition of 2025 - Vanessa Bell: A World of Form and Colour. Superbly-curated but Bell’s work felt hugely derivative - her style veering erratically between Rembrandt, Cézanne, Matisse, even a nod to Kandinsky - without mastering any. Textbook class privilege. 📸 @davidbevan.bsky.social

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Eva @evaduffy.bsky.social · 02/01/2025

Loving the 25% increase on the cost of a bus trip into town. Happy Back To Work Day to all who are participating - and a shout out to all the bus drivers explaining government price caps to disgruntled passengers.

Bus ticket showing £2.50 fare to Northampton town centre

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Eva @evaduffy.bsky.social · 01/01/2025

Really love the NHS text message updates telling me where my donated blood has gone. Genius idea. #GiveBlood

Text message advising that donates blood has been issued to Birmingham Children’s Hospital.

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Eva @evaduffy.bsky.social · 29/12/2024

Books 2024 … continued: 55. The Wild Laughter by Caoilinn Hughes 56. The Spinning Heart by Donal Ryan 57. The Night Watch by Sarah Waters 58. Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand

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National Library of Ireland @nlireland.bsky.social · 23/12/2024

✨ "With Sincere Good Wishes" ✨ We love this beautiful #Christmas #card from the #HarryClarke and #MargaretClarke Papers, 1860-1991; catalogue.nli.ie/Record/vtls0....

Black and white illustrated Christmas card by Harry Clarke featuring the Virgin Mary holding baby Jesus

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Eva @evaduffy.bsky.social · 23/12/2024

A pint of plain is yer only man #GiveBlood 🩸

A needle is inserted into a bare arm. A tube of blood leading from the needle is visible in the background

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Eva @evaduffy.bsky.social · 14/12/2024

A work colleague, who drew my name in our team Secret Santa, heard me raving about the @britishlibrary.bsky.social Irish Writers Weekend so he researched which writers took part to help his book buying for my present 📚 What wonderful choices!

Three books side by side: I Don’t Want to Talk About Home by Suad Aldarra, Trespass by Louise Kennedy and Without Warning by @kitdewaal.bsky.social

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Eva @evaduffy.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

Ah, you’d miss the subeditors all the same …

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Eva @evaduffy.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

Oooooooooooh look what was in today’s post 💕 @stingingfly.bsky.social

A copy of the latest edition of the Stinging Fly literary magazine

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Eva @evaduffy.bsky.social · 08/12/2024

A poignant coincidence to have been reading Caoilinn Hughes’ The Wild Laughter as UK politicians voted in favour of assisted dying. Gorgeously written, as you’d expect from a poet-turned-writer, with deliciously dislikeable characters and laugh-out-loud dark humour.

Screenshot of the audiobook cover of The Wild Laughter by Caoilinn Hughes

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Eva @evaduffy.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

Oh. Foe-cal Not Fuh-cal. Disappointing. 🇮🇪

Screen shot of a BlueSky account which on first glance looks like the Irish word “focal” which means word followed by the word data.

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Eva @evaduffy.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

Thanks for the recommendation! Btw I think you accidentally photobombed my photo of Eimear McBride on Saturday 😁

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Eva @evaduffy.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

What a gorgeous photograph!!

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Eva @evaduffy.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

@ronanhession.bsky.social I audio-consumed Gospodinov’s Time Shelter earlier this year while staining and varnishing floorboards; not long after, at a roadside in Nice awaiting the Tour de France, I had a lovely conversation with a Bulgarian woman also waiting for cyclists, about him 📚 ❤️

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Eva @evaduffy.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

Books 2024 … continued: 51. The Bee Sting by Paul Murray 52. James by Percival Everett 53. The Racial Code: Tales of Resistance and Survival by Nicola Rollock 54. Just Kids by Patti Smith

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Eva @evaduffy.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

Books 2024…continued: 45. Cacophony of Bone by Kerri ní Dochartaigh 46. The long way to a small angry planet by Becky Chambers 47. I Who Have Never Known Men by Jacqueline Harpman 48. The Girl from the Fiction Department by Hilary Spurling 49. Intermezzo by Sally Rooney 50. Free by Lea Ypi

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Eva @evaduffy.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

Books 2024 … continued: 39. Fup by Jim Dodge 40. The Heart in Winter by Kevin Barry 41. How to Kill Your Family by Bella Mackie 42. We Had To Remove This Post by Hanna Bervoets 43. Call Me Zebra by Azareen Van der Vliet Oloomi 44. The Sleeping Car Porter by Suzette Mayr

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Eva @evaduffy.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

Books 2024 … continued: 33. Creatures of Passage by Morowa Yejidé 34. The Colour of Milk by Nell Leyshon 35. Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy 36. The Fraud by Zadie Smith 37. The Paris Bookseller by Kerri Maher 38. Show Me the Bodies: How We Let Grenfell Happen by Peter Apps

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Eva @evaduffy.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

Books 2024 … continued: 27. Delicious Foods by James Hannaham 28. Titanium Noir by Nick Harkaway 29. Trinity, Trinity, Trinity by Erika Kobayashi 30. The Marriage Portrait by Maggie O’Farrell 31. Let the Great World Spin by Colum McCann 32. Prophet Song by Paul Lynch

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Eva @evaduffy.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

Books 2024 … continued: 21. The Grass is Singing by Doris Lessing 22. Heatwave by Victor Jestin (trans Sam Taylor) 23. Convenience Store Woman by Sayaka Murata 24. Good Behaviour by Mollie Keane 25. How to Build a Boat by Elaine Feeney 26. Western Lane by Chetna Marco

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Eva @evaduffy.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

Books 2024 … continued 16. For Thy Great Pain Have Mercy On My Little Pain by Victoria Mackenzie 17. Time Shelter by Georgi Gospodinov 18. That They May Face the Rising Son by John McGahern 19. Mark Twain’s Adventures of Huckleberry Finn 20. The Maker of Swans by Paraic O’Donnell

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Eva @evaduffy.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

Books 2024 … continued: 12. Lean Your Loneliness Slowly Against Mine by Klara Hveberg (translated by Alison McCullough) 13. Man-Eating Typewriter by Richard Milward 14. How to Stand Up to a Dictator by Maria Ressa 15. Vagabonds by Eloghosa Osunde

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Eva @evaduffy.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

Books 2024 … continued: 6. Buddenbrooks by Thomas Mann 7. Daughter of Earth by Alice Smedley 8. Five Rivers Met on a Wooded Plain by Barney Norris 9. Our Hideous Progeny by C.E. McGill 10. Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin 11. The Lonely Londoners by Sam Selvon

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Eva @evaduffy.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

What I’ve read in 2024 (so far): 1. Cuddy by Benjamin Myers 2. Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes 3. Land of Milk and Honey by C Pam Zhang 4. The Three-Body Problem by Cixin Liu (trns by Ken Liu) 5. Prophet by Helen MacDonald and Sin Blaché A thread …

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Eva @evaduffy.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

Cauvery, I was the audience member who asked what the panel is currently reading in the diverse Irish writing session - loved the discussion in that room, thank you.

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Eva @evaduffy.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

The session with Cauvery, Chloe and Donal was my favourite. Now I have so many more books to buy!!

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Eva @evaduffy.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

A wonderful day at @britishlibrary.bsky.social for its Irish Writers Weekend in the company of some of my favourite living writers, including Donal Ryan, Eimear McBride and Lisa McInerney. Discovered exciting new writers and poets to check out too.

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Eva @evaduffy.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

Looks like Robyn is having so much fun of late, following up a superb summer collaboration with Jamie xx with this brat hilarity: “I started so young I didn’t even have email” open.spotify.com/track/0VYJse...

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360 featuring robyn & yung lean

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