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Frances Hamilton

@franham.bsky.social
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Reader, critical thinker, third sector employee, MSc student, mother of boys. Dog walker, hen feeder, cat lover, vegetable grower, jam maker.

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Frances Hamilton @franham.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
Another gruesome art installation, courtesy of the cat.
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Frances Hamilton @franham.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
This one’s next for me, I think.
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Frances Hamilton @franham.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
…and not one will know of the war, not one Will care at last when it is done. Not one would mind, neither bird nor tree, If mankind perished utterly; And Spring herself, when she woke at dawn, Would scarcely know that we were gone. -Sarah Teasdale #speirgorm
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Frances Hamilton @franham.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
The road less travelled… a very old right of way that leads to my house, unused for 50 years, now opened again. Haven’t driven it yet but it makes for an idyllic morning walk 😊 #speirgorm #springtime
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Frances Hamilton @franham.bsky.social · 31/12/2025
Revisiting a much loved novel on audible. Can think of worse ways to ring in the New Year. #books #booksky
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Frances Hamilton @franham.bsky.social · 31/12/2025
What an enchanting way to finish the year’s reading. I think I will always love this book. #books #booksky
Susannah Clarke’s Piranesi
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Frances Hamilton @franham.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
Bereft to have finished Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell on audio. Everything one could wish for to turn dark winter drives into gothic deliciousness. One of my favourite books this year. Saving Piranesi for Christmas: will fit Banville’s Venetian Vespers in between.
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Frances Hamilton @franham.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
Content to sleep on arm if lap is not on offer 😂
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Frances Hamilton @franham.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
In the search for a long and atmospheric audiobook I came upon this. I’m a bit excited for it. #books #audiobooks #booksky
Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell, Susanna Clarke
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Frances Hamilton @franham.bsky.social · 15/11/2025
Can’t resist the return of Jimmy Perez. If Cleeves applies the same evocation of place for Orkney as she did for Shetland, I’ll be a happy reader 😊 #books #booksky
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Frances Hamilton @franham.bsky.social · 15/11/2025
An academic from a climate-ravaged 2119 searches for poet Francis Blundy’s lost masterpiece, trawling through century-old emails and social media. What’s not to love? #books #booksky
Ian McEwan’s What We Can Know
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Frances Hamilton @franham.bsky.social · 08/11/2025
Well, this was mental. Mental in a good way… sensuous and dark and thrilling, and possibly my favourite of all the Kate Atkinson novels I’ve been devouring over the last couple of months. #books #booksky #KateAtkinson
Kate Atkinson’s Human Croquet
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Frances Hamilton @franham.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
Wouldn’t usually watch the tv series before reading the books and worry that the books won’t live up to the series, but I think it’s time to risk it. #mickherron #slowhorses #books #booksky
Mick Herron’s Joe Country
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Frances Hamilton @franham.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
I’m going to miss the Todds, in all their iterations. #kateatkinson #books #booksky
Kate Atkinson’s A God in Ruins
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Frances Hamilton @franham.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
One more sleep… #therosefield #philippullman #books #booksky #bookofdust
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Frances Hamilton @franham.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
Everything hangs by a thread. I loved this novel. Off now to ponder my life choices 😉 #books #booksky #kateatkinson
Kate Atkinson, Life After Life
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Frances Hamilton @franham.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
Really enjoying Yume Kitasei’s Saltcrop… the author is new to me. #booksky #saltcrop
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Frances Hamilton @franham.bsky.social · 04/10/2025
Tempted to move directly to William Boyd’s The Predicament, having just finished Transcription (everything that I love about a spy novel) but think I’d better intersperse with some sci-fi. Going to try Mason Coile’s Exiles, a Guardian recommendation. #booksky
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Frances Hamilton @franham.bsky.social · 14/09/2025
Reasons to love September… apples and quince from my uncle’s garden, sunflowers €5 a bunch in the local garden centre 😊 #speirgorm #harvest
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Frances Hamilton @franham.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
Arrived in the post today from Blackwells, nice surprise! Had forgotten I’d ordered it. #TomCox #Booksky
Tom Cox, Everything Will Swallow You
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Frances Hamilton @franham.bsky.social · 26/08/2025
😊 #sunflowers
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Frances Hamilton @franham.bsky.social · 23/08/2025
Same as sloe gin, according to the internet… 40 apples, halved, 200g sugar, litre of gin, shake for two months. I do like a new potion 😊
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Frances Hamilton @franham.bsky.social · 23/08/2025
Making sloe gin is an annual event, crab apple gin is a new departure 😊 #speirgorm #sloegin
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Frances Hamilton @franham.bsky.social · 23/08/2025
Indulging in a little Jackson Brodie all over again, via audiobook. It’s been ages since I’ve read them. #booksky
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Frances Hamilton @franham.bsky.social · 19/08/2025
Everything changes and everything stays the same…. so elegantly done by Tracy Chevalier, as always. #booksky
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Frances Hamilton @franham.bsky.social · 16/08/2025
Just as well we’re nearly home 😊 #thunderstorm #speirgorm
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Frances Hamilton @franham.bsky.social · 16/08/2025
My summer of William Boyd continues, and this is probably the novel I have loved the most, thus far. But then, I’ve thought that about each one, as I go along. #booksky
William Boyd, Sweet Caress
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Frances Hamilton @franham.bsky.social · 03/08/2025
I don’t think I’ll ever forget Logan Mountstuart. #booksky
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Frances Hamilton @franham.bsky.social · 28/07/2025
Finding it hard to put this down, as always with a Kim Stanley Robinson novel. #booksky
Aurora, Kim Stanley Robinson
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Frances Hamilton @franham.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
Listening to this one, took the longer route home this evening… always a sign of a great audiobook. Samuel West narrating. #booksky
Robert Harris Precipice
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Frances Hamilton @franham.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
First William Boyd I’ve read and it was so much fun. Might be the start of a run of William Boyd… #booksky
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Frances Hamilton @franham.bsky.social · 14/07/2025
Love a good cucumber glut 😊 #speirgorm
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Frances Hamilton @franham.bsky.social · 11/07/2025
Well isn’t this just glorious. Bantry in the sunshine. #speirgorm
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Frances Hamilton @franham.bsky.social · 07/07/2025
Moved this to the top of the tbr pile, in advance of the West Cork Literary Festival on Friday. Love Hollinghurst’s writing and looking forward to hearing him speak. #booksky #westcorkliteraryfestivsl #speirgorm
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Frances Hamilton @franham.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
On Curragh Strand. Water was cold but that’s ok because it’s an otherwise perfect beach. #speirgorm
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Frances Hamilton @franham.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
Birdsong in the forest #speirgorm
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Frances Hamilton @franham.bsky.social · 27/05/2025
Summer rain… we needed a day of this, feels like living in a rainforest 😊 #speirgorm
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Frances Hamilton @franham.bsky.social · 26/04/2025
The Ministry of Time has put me back in the form for time-travel, and this one’s shaping up very well so far… Scott Alexander Howard’s The Other Valley #booksky
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Frances Hamilton @franham.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
Enjoyed The Ministry of Time, with one caveat. I prefer my time travel stories to give some sort of explanation of how the time travel works. I don’t care if it’s a ludicrous explanation, I just need to know how it works. Jack Finney did a superb job with that. #booksky
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Frances Hamilton @franham.bsky.social · 30/03/2025
Nettle soup time of the year 😊
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Frances Hamilton @franham.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
Happy hens 😊 #speirgorm
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Frances Hamilton @franham.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
First of the blackthorn blossom around these parts. Love the quality of the evening light at this time of year. #speirgorm
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Frances Hamilton @franham.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
Recreating the patriotic dessert of our childhood 💚
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Frances Hamilton @franham.bsky.social · 16/03/2025
Awaiting Andy Irvine #LiveatStLukes #Cork #Speirgorm
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Frances Hamilton @franham.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
Beautiful sky tonight #speirgorm #Cork
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Frances Hamilton @franham.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
Enjoyed the latest Chris Whitaker immensely. Battling to find time to read just now, so opting for Han Kang’s (very short) Nobel winner, and the Wolf Hall trilogy on audio, which should take care of the next few month’s commuting hours 😊 #booksky #rosbc #speirgorm
Chris Whitaker All the Colours of the  Dark Hilary Mantel Wolf HallHan Kang Greek Lessons
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Frances Hamilton @franham.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
Max Porter is fast becoming one of my favourite contemporary authors. #booksky
Max Porter’s Lanny
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Frances Hamilton @franham.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
100% only bought these because of Hannibal Lecter. #speirgorm
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Frances Hamilton @franham.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
“MAN I would be done grieving? BIRD No, not at all. You were done being hopeless. Grieving is something you’re still doing, and something you don’t need a crow for” This was remarkable. Off now to read everything Max Porter has ever written. #booksky
Front cover, Max Porter’s Grief is the Thing with Feathers
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Frances Hamilton @franham.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
I’m not loving this. Will probably finish it, but no desire to read the rest of the series. Any recommendations for a sci-fi series along the lines of the Hyperion novels, or Three Body Problem? Loved both of those. #booksky
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