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Linda Newbery 📚✍️🌳🐝 🦊🦋📷Ⓥ

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Author: The One True Thing, Lob, Set in Stone, The Shell House & more. Campaigner on animal & environmental issues. Green Party, vegan, amateur photographer; hosts Writers Review blog. www.lindanewbery.co.uk & www.reviewsbywriters.blogspot.com

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Linda Newbery 📚✍️🌳🐝 🦊🦋📷Ⓥ @lindanewbery.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Why Egon Schiele, outrageous in his time, continues to fascinate - and how he features in my forthcoming novel, THE HIDE. Here on Substack: lindanewbery.substack.com/p/the-distin... #EgonSchiele #TheHide #Vienna #Expressionism #GustavKlimt #Klimt #art #artinfiction

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@writersreview 📚 @writersreview.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

"A mind near broken, repaired through the curative hard task of art and creativity." Guest Graeme Fife chooses STILL by Paul Sanders: part photography tutorial, part memoir about Sanders' mental breakdown and recovery through mindful photography. reviewsbywriters.blogspot.com/2026/09/gues...

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Guest review by Graeme Fife: STILL - a mindful practice for photographers, by Paul Sanders

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@writersreview 📚 @writersreview.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Octavia E Butler was one of the first Black woman writers of sci-fi. Guest Sarah Lefanu celebrates the reissue by Headline of KINDRED, Butler's "dazzling, disturbing" tale of time-travel and slavery. reviewsbywriters.blogspot.com/2026/09/gues... @headlinebooks.bsky.social #scifi #slavery #greatreads

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Guest review by Sarah LeFanu: KINDRED by Octavia E Butler

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@writersreview 📚 @writersreview.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

New novel imminent from Writers Review Publishing! Here Linda Newbery reveals the cover for The Hide, by Owen Gent, and talks about how well it conveys the book's themes. lindanewbery.substack.com/p/cover-reve... @lindanewbery.bsky.social @owengent.bsky.social #TheHide #WritersReviewPublishing

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Cover reveal: The Hide

I know, a contradiction ...

Linda Newbery 📚✍️🌳🐝 🦊🦋📷Ⓥ @lindanewbery.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Here's the cover for THE HIDE, coming soon! Designed by the brilliant @owengent.bsky.social. On Substack I write about what I wanted the cover to convey, and why I chose this from the four roughs Owen supplied. lindanewbery.substack.com/p/cover-reve... #WritersReviewPublishing #TheHide #newfiction

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Cover reveal: The Hide

I know, a contradiction ...

Linda Newbery 📚✍️🌳🐝 🦊🦋📷Ⓥ @lindanewbery.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

At Writers Review today. Jon Appleton's recommendations are always worth following up and this sounds like no exception! #WritersReview

Linda Newbery 📚✍️🌳🐝 🦊🦋📷Ⓥ @lindanewbery.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Vystopia, the vegan novelist's dilemma and what I've done with food and eating in previous novels and my new one. I'm doing a run of Substack pieces leading up to publication of THE HIDE next month. Next week - 'cover reveal' ... lindanewbery.substack.com/p/vystopia?r... #Substack #TheHide

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and the vegan novelist's dilemma ...

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@writersreview 📚 @writersreview.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Welcome to new guest Peter Crawley, whose choice is a wartime memoir of resistance and courage that demands to be read. "...the awakening of spirit, the blossoming of defiance and the hardening of determination not to be beaten by the ranks of evil." reviewsbywriters.blogspot.com/2026/08/gues...

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Guest review by Peter Crawley: THE JOURNAL OF HÉLÈNE BERR: a Young Jewish Woman's Life in Occupied Paris, translated from French by David Bellos

Linda Newbery 📚✍️🌳🐝 🦊🦋📷Ⓥ @lindanewbery.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

On Substack: art in various forms in my adult fiction. Egon Schiele, painting, stonecarving, calligraphy, photography, and a taster of my forthcoming novel, THE HIDE. lindanewbery.substack.com/p/paint-ink-... #WritersReviewPublishing #newfiction #TheHide

A painting, Vier Baume (Four Trees) by the Austrian artist Egon Schiele. Four horse chestnut trees against a glowing sunset.

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@writersreview 📚 @writersreview.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Congratulations to Jane Dalton, journalist and now author, on her compelling first novel, THE SECOND LIFE OF ANTHONY B. It looks at bereavement, secrets, adaptation, new chances - and the possibility of an afterlife? Jane discusses her book in this Q&A. reviewsbywriters.blogspot.com/2026/08/spec...

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@writersreview 📚 @writersreview.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Regular contributor @cindyjefferies.bsky.social revisits Margaret Drabble, finding her reading experience very different after so long an interval. "What a lot I had missed..." reviewsbywriters.blogspot.com/2026/08/gues... #MargaretDrabble @canongate.co.uk #greatreads #rereading #favouritesrevisited

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Guest review by Cindy Jefferies: THE NEEDLE'S EYE by Margaret Drabble

Linda Newbery 📚✍️🌳🐝 🦊🦋📷Ⓥ @lindanewbery.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

The strange limbo of finishing a novel, the importance of a good cover & the work of the brilliant Owen Gent. See Substack for articles on writing and the ingredients of my new novel, THE HIDE. @owengent.bsky.social lindanewbery.substack.com/p/waiting-fo... #bookdesign #WritersReviewPublishing

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@writersreview 📚 @writersreview.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

New contributor Jude Hayland praises Arnold Bennett's THE OLD WIVES' TALE: "a masterpiece that has long been overlooked as Bennett appears to have slipped out of bookish fashion" yet "as relevant now as when the novel was published in 1908." reviewsbywriters.blogspot.com/2026/08/gues...

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Guest review by Jude Hayland: THE OLD WIVES' TALE by Arnold Bennett

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@writersreview 📚 @writersreview.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

On the blog today: an interview with @suepur.bsky.social, whose first novel for adults, AN ORDINARY WAR, is out now. Based on her father's experiences as prisoner-of-war in Poland, it's a moving story of suffering, endurance, recovery and love. reviewsbywriters.blogspot.com/2026/08/spec...

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Special feature: Q&A with Sue Purkiss about her first novel for adults, AN ORDINARY WAR

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@writersreview 📚 @writersreview.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

We're proud to publish our 6th title! Congratulations to Sue Purkiss, whose first novel for adults, AN ORDINARY WAR, is a moving and compelling tale based on her father's experiences as prisoner-of-war in Poland. See Q&A with Sue on the blog on Monday. #WritersReviewPublishing @suepur.bsky.social

Book cover showing a soldier in greatcoat looking at the fence and control tower of a prison camp, in a snowy landscape.

Linda Newbery 📚✍️🌳🐝 🦊🦋📷Ⓥ @lindanewbery.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

At @writersreview.bsky.social : Adele, Celia and I share our best recent reads. reviewsbywriters.blogspot.com/2026/07/summ... #art #cooking #thrillers #photography #summerreading #readingrecommendations @celiarees.bsky.social

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SUMMER ROUND-UP by Adèle, Celia and Linda

Linda Newbery 📚✍️🌳🐝 🦊🦋📷Ⓥ @lindanewbery.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

open.substack.com/pub/lindanew... How Writers Review began - 10 years ago, and how we've grown! Thanks, Patrick Gale, for being our birthday guest. @writersreview.bsky.social

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Writers Review's 10th birthday -

how we got there, thanks to Scillonian III, Compton Verney and writer friends

Linda Newbery 📚✍️🌳🐝 🦊🦋📷Ⓥ @lindanewbery.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

Happy birthday to us, and thank you #PatrickGale for answering our questions!

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@writersreview 📚 @writersreview.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

Guest Alice Jolly has won the Walter Scott prize for historical fiction with The Matchbox Girl - here she chooses 4 novels set in/after the Nazi regime in Germany and asks 'What would you have done?' reviewsbywriters.blogspot.com/2026/07/gues... @alicejolly.bsky.social #Nazism #SecondWorldWar

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Guest feature by Alice Jolly: WHAT WOULD YOU HAVE DONE? - a round-up

Linda Newbery 📚✍️🌳🐝 🦊🦋📷Ⓥ @lindanewbery.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

Mary's titles include my favourite, NEWES FROM THE DEAD, based on an incident at Oxford Prison. She will be much missed by her author friends.

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Linda Newbery 📚✍️🌳🐝 🦊🦋📷Ⓥ @lindanewbery.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

The BBC cancelling Winterwatch is such a bad decision - we need to connect with nature more than ever, and if we want people to care about wildlife, they need encouragement! Please add your name to ask the BBC to reconsider. you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/pr... #Winterwatch #nature #naturalworld

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Tell the BBC: Save Winterwatch!

The UK is losing its wildlife, and shows like Winterwatch are vital for connecting us to nature. The BBC's decision to cancel it makes no sense. Let's ask them to rethink this! Add your name here:

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@writersreview 📚 @writersreview.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

Welcome back, writer & editor Jon Appleton, who reflects on his admiration for #AnnPatchett and enjoys her latest novel, Whistler. reviewsbywriters.blogspot.com/2026/06/gues... @parnassusbooks.bsky.social @bloomsburybooksuk.bsky.social #greatreads #AmericanFiction

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Guest feature by Jon Appleton: 'This is the Time We Have' - my decade with Ann Patchett

Linda Newbery 📚✍️🌳🐝 🦊🦋📷Ⓥ @lindanewbery.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

I'm looking forward to this next Saturday, for Big Green Week: Celebration of Nature Writing — ROSARA at Nicholsons share.google/ohbaSf403t9i.... If you're in north Oxfordshire, do come and join us! #naturewriting #nature #greatbiggreenweek #authors

Big Green Week: Celebration of Nature Writing — ROSARA at Nicholsons

Tickets are £5 plus a small booking fee, £5 of the ticket will go toward a book on the day. Join garden and cookery writers and fiction authors to hear why the natural world is so important to thei...

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@writersreview 📚 @writersreview.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

Happy birthday, Writers Review Publishing! We launched our first 3 titles last April - now there are 5, with more on the way. reviewsbywriters.blogspot.com/2026/04/writ... #writersreviewpublishing

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WRITERS REVIEW PUBLISHING marks its first birthday

Linda Newbery 📚✍️🌳🐝 🦊🦋📷Ⓥ @lindanewbery.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

My review of Patrick Gale's new novel. 'Welcomes readers to its pages with warmth and empathy ...'

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@writersreview 📚 @writersreview.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

Nick Hodges enjoys Alfred Wainwright's Memoirs of Fellwanderer, finding many a contradiction in 'AW', beloved companion on many a hike or ascent. reviewsbywriters.blogspot.com/2026/04/gues...

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Guest review by Nick Hodges: MEMOIRS OF A FELLWANDERER by Alfred Wainwright

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@writersreview 📚 @writersreview.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

Latest indie bookseller feature: Sam Barnes of Books & Ink, Winchcombe, talks about her settings, specialities & plans. And a beautiful holiday let above the shop! reviewsbywriters.blogspot.com/2026/03/book... #bookshops #indiebookshop

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Bookseller feature: Sam Barnes of Books & Ink, Winchcombe

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plantbasedfuture 🌿🌿🌿 @plantbasedfuture.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

At last! The government consultation on 'trail' hunting is open. Everyone who's sick of wildlife crime masquerading as tradition, please respond! You can save & continue if you need to. consult.defra.gov.uk/defra/trail-... @leagueacs.bsky.social #TrailHuntLies

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Consultation on Proposals to Prohibit Trail Hunting in England and Wales - Defra - Citizen Space

This site contains consultations that are run by Defra.

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@writersreview 📚 @writersreview.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

Regular contributor Jane Rogers admires Alice Jolly's 'extraordinarily ambitious' novel: 'a truly heart-breaking coming of age story' set in 1930s & 40s Vienna. #Nazism #neurodivergence reviewsbywriters.blogspot.com/2026/03/gues... #Vienna #WorldWar2 @bloomsburybooksuk.bsky.social ##greatreads

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Guest review by Jane Rogers: THE MATCHBOX GIRL by Alice Jolly

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@writersreview 📚 @writersreview.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

Guest @cindyjefferies.bsky.social finds much to ponder in FORBIDDEN NOTEBOOK. 'I found Valeria in turns heroic, pathetic, irritating & impressive ... a woman of her time, in a country that's lost a bruising war'. reviewsbywriters.blogspot.com/2026/03/gues... #Rome #Italy #1950s

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Guest review by Cindy Jefferies: FORBIDDEN NOTEBOOK by Alba de Céspedes

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@writersreview 📚 @writersreview.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

A lovely bookshop feature today: how @paulmagrs.bsky.social & partner Jeremy saved their local bookstore. reviewsbywriters.blogspot.com/2026/02/book... #indiebookshop #Manchester #Community #PandasBooksandRecords #independentbookshop

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Bookshop Feature: PANDA'S BOOKS AND RECORDS in Levenshulme, South Manchester, by Paul Magrs

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@writersreview 📚 @writersreview.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

Welcome and congratulations to Jamila Gavin, winner of the Nero Book Awards children's prize with MY SOUL, A SHINING TREE. Here Jamila talks about her inspiration & influences, and how a short story became a novel. reviewsbywriters.blogspot.com/2026/02/gues... #FirstWorldWar #IndianArmy #WW1

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Guest feature by Jamila Gavin: the research and influences behind MY SOUL, A SHINING TREE, Nero Prize category winner

Linda Newbery 📚✍️🌳🐝 🦊🦋📷Ⓥ @lindanewbery.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

If you haven't done so already, please sign this open letter to the prime minister. It's time to consign fox-hunting to the past - there is irrefutable evidence that 'trail' hunting conceals wildlife crime. Please share. you.38degrees.org.uk/p/end-fox-hu... #bloodsport #cruelsport #TrailHuntLies

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The time for change is now: end fox hunting

Hunting was supposed to be banned over 20 years ago, but the hunts have carried on chasing and killing wild animals with dogs like the law never changed. This government was elected on a promise to fi...

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Celia Rees @celiarees.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

An important reminder that #RSPB was founded by women in response to the horrific trade in birds' feathers and skins to supply the Edwardian hat trade. Read more in this review by @lindanewbery.bsky.social

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My turn @writersreview.bsky.social - I commend ETTA LEMON to anyone interested in birds, conservation, social history, protest, activism or feminism! “Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.” (Margaret Mead)

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@writersreview 📚 @writersreview.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

Excellent article by our regular contributor Jane Rogers on Fire-ready. Does she shape her material for political purposes? 'I hope I never do. To quote the great short story writer Anton Chekhov: the role of the artist is to ask questions, not answer them.' morningstaronline.co.uk/article/what...

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What are short stories for?

I’VE been asked if I shape my material to serve political purposes, and the answer is I hope I never do. To quote the greatest short story writer of all time, Anton Chekhov: The role of the artist is ...

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@writersreview 📚 @writersreview.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

Have you seen, or are you thinking of seeing, H is for Hawk? To tempt you, or for comparison after seeing it, here's Nick Manns' excellent, thoughtful review for the blog. reviewsbywriters.blogspot.com/2024/09/gues... #HisforHawk #NickManns #WritersReview #filmandbook #falconry #grief #bereavement

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@writersreview 📚 @writersreview.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

Welcome to new contributor Nicki Thornton, bookseller-turned-author. She chooses Belinda Bauer's 'masterpiece of storytelling ... so much humanity, dealing with big, tricky subjects as well as a mystery plot.' reviewsbywriters.blogspot.com/2026/01/gues... #BantamBooks #NickiThornton #crime #mystery

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Guest review by Nicki Thornton: THE IMPOSSIBLE THING by Belinda Bauer

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@writersreview 📚 @writersreview.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

We've published 4 books now, with 3 more (so far) coming in 2026. If you read & enjoy one of our titles, we'd really appreciate a review or mention on Amazon, Goodreads or elsewhere - every kind word helps them to reach readers! More about our books & authors at www.writersreviewpublishing.co.uk

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@writersreview 📚 @writersreview.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

We welcome Paul Magrs to the blog in March, talking about his new bookshop, Panda's Books and Records. Meanwhile here's his radio play to mark 10 years since the death of #DavidBowie, based on a real-life experience ... recommended! www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/... @paulmagrs.bsky.social bsky.social

Drama on 4 - The Goblin King and Me - BBC Sounds

A story about a real-life encounter with David Bowie, marking ten years since his passing.

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This sounds like one for my list!

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@writersreview 📚 @writersreview.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

Something different this week! Paul Dowswell reassesses 2000 AD after finding a stash of the comics in his attic, and explains why he finds it more appealing than Superman, Spiderman etc. reviewsbywriters.blogspot.com/2026/01/spec... #comics #superheroes #PaulDowswell #JudgeDredd

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Special feature by Paul Dowswell: THRILL POWER - in praise of 2000 AD

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@writersreview 📚 @writersreview.bsky.social · 05/01/2026

First guest of the year! Lawyer-turned-author David Breakell, talks about the motivation and inspiration behind his first historical novel. "It took a long time to unlearn the way a lawyer drafts a document…" reviewsbywriters.blogspot.com/2026/01/spec... #thriller #Genoa #DowerHouseBooks

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SPECIAL FEATURE Q&A: David Breakell talks to John Case about THE ALCHEMIST OF GENOA

Linda Newbery 📚✍️🌳🐝 🦊🦋📷Ⓥ @lindanewbery.bsky.social · 31/12/2025

My best reads of this year. What have you most enjoyed in 2025? www.lindanewbery.co.uk/2025/12/31/m...

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My Books of the Year, 2025

My books of the year - fiction, non-fiction and a reminder that Writers Review Publishing launched this year!

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plantbasedfuture 🌿🌿🌿 @plantbasedfuture.bsky.social · 31/12/2025

Top garden designer Cleve West is a great advocate for animals & #plantbased eating. He's currently featured in the #RHS magazine, The Garden. Find out more about his focus on compassion & sustainability here at @writersreview.bsky.social. reviewsbywriters.blogspot.com/2020/06/lock...

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Special feature: Q & A with garden designer Cleve West on THE GARDEN OF VEGAN

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@writersreview 📚 @writersreview.bsky.social · 29/12/2025

Here's the final and even bigger batch of Book of the Year choices by our reviewers - all authors or independent booksellers. Excellent and wide-ranging choices here! Thanks to ALL our contributors, all authors or independent booksellers. reviewsbywriters.blogspot.com/2025/12/book...

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BOOKS OF THE YEAR Part 3: chosen by our contributors

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@writersreview 📚 @writersreview.bsky.social · 22/12/2025

Here's Part 2 of our Books of the Year roundups - great recommendations here by authors & booksellers. What's your best read of the year? Please tell us in the comments! reviewsbywriters.blogspot.com/2025/12/book... #greatreads #BooksoftheYear #readingrecommendations @booky.bsky.social

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BOOKS OF THE YEAR part 2 - chosen by our contributors

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@writersreview 📚 @writersreview.bsky.social · 15/12/2025

Great recommendations here! In the first of three roundups, our contributors choose their Books of the Year (not necessarily published in 2025). What's your best read this year? Tell us in the comments! reviewsbywriters.blogspot.com/2025/12/book... #greatreads #BooksoftheYear #bestreads #whatsyours

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BOOKS OF THE YEAR Part 1 - chosen by our contributors

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@writersreview 📚 @writersreview.bsky.social · 08/12/2025

Today: Cindy Jefferies enjoys Louis Sachar's latest, but questions why it's being marketed as his first adult novel. "I was expecting the jacket to demonstrate that this was a departure for Sacher ..." reviewsbywriters.blogspot.com/2025/12/gues... #LouisSachar @cindyjefferies.bsky.social

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Guest review by Cindy Jefferies: THE MAGICIAN OF TIGER CASTLE by Louis Sachar

Linda Newbery 📚✍️🌳🐝 🦊🦋📷Ⓥ @lindanewbery.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

Here are 3 of my best reads of 2025 (though a whole month to go!) What are yours? Do please add in the comments! shepherd.com/bboy/2025/f/... @guyshrubsole.bsky.social #judithallnatt #barbarakingsolver #greatreads #booksoftheyear #booksof2025 #TheLieoftheLand #ThePoetsWife #DemonCopperhead

Want to know Linda Newbery's Top 3 Books of 2025?

Linda's top 3 reads of 2025 include The Poet's Wife and two other amazing books. Discover what makes these books unmissable!