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Jewell

@jewellislate.bsky.social
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If it's dark and twisted, send it my way. Joy is important even in the bleakest of times - small joys too. Bad at rules. Grumpy old lady, but not old. Self-medicating with books.

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Jewell @jewellislate.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Please stop with the baby horror! #TheArchers
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Jewell @jewellislate.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
So do I, sigh.
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Jessica Elgot @jessicaelgot.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
The Tory Bayeux Tapestry is very funny and a great skewering of most of the main characters, apart from Angela Rayner who looks absolutely iconic in every image
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Cursed Morsels @cursedmorsels.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
If you like your ghost stories dark, scary, and rooted in social issues, you'll love Why Didn't You Just Leave, our Shirley Jackson Award-winning anthology. Snag a copy and make your October a little more haunted: www.cursedmorselspress.com/product/why-...
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Why Didn't You Just Leave paperback | Cursed Morsels Press
It's the question asked of any story about a haunting: why didn't you just leave? But if accounts of people who have stayed in haunted houses are any indication … it's never that simple.In...
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Raw Dog Screaming Press @rdspress.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Did you just feel a chill? 5 of our spookiest books dropped in price at the same time. There's definitely something sinister going on. See all the twisted books on sale here: devilsrockbooks.com/halloween-20...
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Clothes in Books @clothesinbooks.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
What could be more Clothes in Books than EXCLUSIVE pics of Barbara Cartland's clothes, courtesy of fashion expert Daniel Milford Cottam ? Followup to post on @drmatthewsweet.bsky.social 's marvellous biog, The Great Dictator. A gallery of pink pictures clothesinbooks.blogspot.com/2026/10/barb...
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Barbara, the clothes, and a guest on the blog
Barbara Cartland is the gift that keeps giving. Last week I did a post on Matthew Sweet 's wonderful new book, a biography of Barbara, The ...
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Jewell @jewellislate.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
When There Are Wolves Again is only 99p for Kindle today. Bargain.
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Sorrowscopes @sorrowscopes.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Capricorn: The walls have ears. They’re infected. And it’s contagious.
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Jewell @jewellislate.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Shut up, Harrison. #TheArchers
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General Boles @generalboles.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
THE TAPESTRY IS HERE #CPC26
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Runalong Womble @runalongwomble.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Good morning Blue Sky! Hope you’re all ok? Today I am currently reading The Siren of Groves Peak by Glenn Rolfe for some aquatic horror. What are you reading at the moment?
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Neil Williamson @neilwilliamson.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Blood In The Bricks is NewCon Press's book of the month for October. Not only did it scoop a BSFA award earlier in the year, it's shortlisted in the British Fantasy Awards Best Anthology category, the winner of which will be announced at Fantasycon next weekend, too. Get yer urban folk horror here!
Advertising graphic for a folk horror anthology, titled Blood in the Bricks. The cover features a man with a rat's head in a seedy alley. The graphic is titled: OCTOBER'S BOOK OF THE MONTH.
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Dr Sam Hirst @romgothsam.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Having seen the Joyce Carol Oates very bad, not good tweet about romance and AI, I can't help thinking about the way that romance has been treated as a punching bag for so long and always by people who are completely unwilling to engage with the genre and know little about it.
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 04/10/2026
Incinerated novels and destroyed warehouses: Russia’s war on Ukrainian books
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Incinerated novels and destroyed warehouses: Russia’s war on Ukrainian books
A Ukrainian publishing boom sparked by the 2022 invasion is now under threat from the force and frequency of Russian attacks
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Jewell @jewellislate.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
It's Matthew Syed! you don't need to read it!
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The Ignyte Awards @theignyteawards.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
As ever, we begin with the #2026IgnyteAwards winner in Outstanding Novel - Adult for novel-length (40k words+) works intended for an adult audience Congratulations to THE BUFFALO HUNTER HUNTER (Saga Press/Titan Books) by Stephen Graham Jones!
2026 Ignyte Award Winner: Outstanding Novel - Adult - The Buffalo Hunter Hunter x Stephen Graham Jones
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The Ignyte Awards @theignyteawards.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
The Outstanding Novella category recognizes for speculative works ranging from 17,500-39,999 words Congratulations to THE RIVER HAS ROOTS by @amalelmohtar.com #2026IgnyteAwards
2026 Ignyte Award Winner in Outstanding Novella: The River Has Roots by Amal El-Mohtar
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Runalong Womble @runalongwomble.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Welcome to the weekend and back to a Normal schedule hopefully have your latest Wombling Along time for recharging www.runalongtheshelves.net/blog/2026/10...
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Wombling Along! — Runalong The Shelves
Helloooo! Well that was a week where I think being rather stressed and far too busy caught up with me that I caught some lurgy. But sometimes some enforced rest does all the magic and this week I g...
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Renay⁷ @renay.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Building Intergalactic Mixtape this week. Many of the links were discovered because someone shared them: either as a rec, to raise a related point, or to have further thoughts. Linking to things outside the "be mad about this" cycle is so critical.
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
last night at dinner we were talking about how much tracey sucks and the server overheard and was like are you talking about michael tracey? that guy fucking sucks, and it was very satisfying
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Jewell @jewellislate.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
When your partner finally notices the results of your giant cheer-up sessions in Waterstones and One Tree Books, and very heroically says nothing. Not even "you haven't put the last lot away yet."
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EUvsDisinfo @euvsdisinfo.eu · 02/10/2026
Two Russian drones struck Kyiv’s Southern Bridge while civilian traffic was moving across it.   A major piece of civilian transport infrastructure became the target of another Russian attack.
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Olga Onuch @oonuch.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
This our new study first ever national representative study of PTSD CPTSD in the Ukrainian population. www.manchester.ac.uk/about/news/n...
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New study suggests nearly one in three Ukrainian civilians has PTSD or CPTSD
Many people continue to face the threat of shelling, displacement, bereavement and uncertainty in their daily lives, highlighting the urgent need for sustained mental health support
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Siddhartha Mitter @siddharthamitter.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
First @mediapart.fr revealed gross antisemitic messages and associations w/ Holocaust deniers etc by Jordan Bardella, Le Pen's protégé and presumed PM if she becomes president. Cue mass denials, accusations of fabrication, etc. Now Mediapart drops the — rigorous, devastating — receipts.
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Écrits antisémites de Jordan Bardella : les preuves du mensonge
« Propos délirants », « dinguerie », « faux grossiers »… Depuis nos révélations sur ses écrits antisémites, Jordan Bardella, soutenu par Marine Le Pen et le Rassemblement national, a violemment mis e…
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Jewell @jewellislate.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Hope you enjoyed being patronised by Pip, Lynda. #TheArchers
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Jewell @jewellislate.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
"troubled Xinjiang"
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Chapters Bookstore, Parnell St, D1 @chaptersbookstore.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Cooking in a Bedsitter has arrived in Secondhand. Is that a mouse hanging on the cover? 🐭 Inside: a lovingly handwritten recipe involving beans, chilli, “thickish brown gravy” and fruit added at the end. We cherish the note. We have some questions about dinner.
A handwritten recipe on a torn sheet of lined paper found inside the book. It begins by simmering red beans, then adds onion, chilli powder, mushrooms and meat. The beans are stirred into “thickish brown gravy”, with fruit added near the end.Worn black paperback cover of Katharine Whitehorn’s Cooking in a Bedsitter. A candle stands beside a row of hooks holding a cup, food, a knife and a small furry object that looks rather like a mouse.
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Jewell @jewellislate.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
It was a bit tactless, Linda suggesting a dog field to Brian of all people. She's usually more devious than that. #TheArchers
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Ruth Curtice @ruthcurtice.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The triple lock announcement today is essentially a shift to a long-run link to earnings. But with a minimum of inflation or 2.5% in any given year. Most importantly that removes the permanent ratchet above earnings.
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Solaris Books @solarisbooks.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
🚨 KINDLE UK DAILY DEAL 🚨 Don't miss out! Grab @pennyvixen.bsky.social 's belovéd fantasy classic THE GOBLIN EMPEROR and enter the court of reluctant ruler Maia as he learns to navigate his distant father's complex realm and builds bridges along the way. Snap it up for only 99p! 👉️ buff.ly/dnkFJbc
Against a black and gold patterned background, an eReader with the UK cover for Katherine Addison's THE GOBLIN EMPEROR. White text: "Amazon UK Kindle Daily Deal" 99p.
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Ginger Coffee Creams of Horror @gnofhorror.com · 29/09/2026
Jennifer Thorne's Newbourne Park is a werewolf horror novel where the rich do the biting. A stately home break-in turns into a siege, then a seduction. Five stars. gnofhorror.com/jennifer-thornes-new…
newbourne-park-by-jennifer-thorne-reviewNewbourne Park by Jennifer Thorne book cover
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Helen Day @lbflyawayhome.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Beautiful everyday Ladybird things Before the blue Smartie Artist: Harry Wingfield (First Picture Book, 1970)
Photo-realistic illustration of a tube of Smarties with Smarties spilling out onto a white background 
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Jewell @jewellislate.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Overstepping, Brian. Seriously overstepping. #TheArchers
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Ginger Coffee Creams of Horror @gnofhorror.com · 28/09/2026
Tracy Fahey on Queens of the Crone Age, her Irish folk horror of the Cailleach, and Down We Go Together, crime and noir that refuses clean endings. gnofhorror.com/tracy-fahey-interview
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Tracy Fahey Interview: Crones, Cold Cases and Memory
Tracy Fahey interview: Queens of the Crone Age, her noir collection Down We Go Together, open endings, and why horror film keeps making the Hag a villain.
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Joshua Foust 🪖🎮 @joshuafoust.com · 28/09/2026
Two things worth considering dude by side, with AI in research:
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Jewell @jewellislate.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
On the nose. Sigh.
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Jewell @jewellislate.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
"Your grey streak has got bigger - you look like a skunk." Good to know I can still rely on you, mother.
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Harare Review of Books @hararereview.com · 26/09/2026
Fitzcarraldo – inside the chicest publisher on earth www.ft.com/content/fad8...
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Jewell @jewellislate.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
There's worse addictions one could have...
3 books - The Art of Fairytales by Joanna Ebenstein, Cristina Rivera Garza's Terrestrial, and Colin Thubron's Passage. 13 books on a white background - Ian Mortimer - Through the Windows of an Ordinary House; Fiona Sampson - Starlight Wood; Rebecca Perry - May We Feed the King; Cynthia Murphy - Paint Me Like Your Dead Girls; Mavis Gallant - The Latehomecomer; Carlos Manuel Alvarez - False War; Isabel Colegate - The Shooting Party; Christine Mangan - Palace of the Drowned; Gwendoline Riley - First Love; Muriel Spark - The Driver's Seat and The Girls of Slender Means; Jeremy Cooper - Discord; Wendy Erskine - Dance Move
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Jewell @jewellislate.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
I am so glad I never wanted children. Horrific. #TheArchers
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Jewell @jewellislate.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
do we have to have yet another labour dash to the hospital? #TheArchers
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Jewell @jewellislate.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
I've watched precisely 3 of those TV shows...
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Duncan Weldon @duncanweldon.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Can’t believe no one has ever thought of the idea of selling us hot food. I, for one, am both excited and, if I’m honest, a little apprehensive about the idea of warm food. www.ft.com/content/bdb6... Subway rival bets hot sandwiches will sell in UK’s ‘cold and rain’
US sandwich maker Jersey Mike’s is launching an ambitious expansion plan in the UK, with its billionaire founder betting that “the cold and the rain” in Britain will push consumers to embrace the brand’s hot subs.
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Jewell @jewellislate.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
@monsieurwaldo.bsky.social shall I pre-order you this as a Christmas present?
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Jewell @jewellislate.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Goodbye, Helen's gate. #TheArchers
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The Public Domain Review @publicdomainrev.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Croatian Tales of Long Ago — a seminal collection of short stories by the acclaimed children's author Ivana Brlić-Mažuranić. The illustrations in this 1922 edition are by Croatian artist Vladimir Kirin: publicdomainreview.org/collection/c…
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Jewell @jewellislate.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Everything else may be terrible, but watching a heron and an egret fight it out for top fishing spot on Frensham Great Pond this morning was still quite something.
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Jewell @jewellislate.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Nothing re-orders my brain like a Bach cello suite.
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Tom Roberts @tpgroberts.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Not to harp on this, but one man has now coordinated the disruption of a port, two separate attacks on the RNLI, and interference with the border force and the police have no further questions? And the Home Secretary has not noticed?
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Ruth Deyermond @ruthdeyermond.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
So apparently the Trump admin is now concerned to facilitate Putin's engagement with other world leaders. Putin values status recognition of this kind enormously, particularly from the US, and it will be taken as a further sign of Western weakness.
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