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Liz Dexter / LyzzyBee 📚📚🏃‍♀️ @lyzzybee.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Short Story September – Lesley Nneka Arimah “What It Means When A Man Falls From The Sky” and “The Third Persephone Book of Short Stories” #ShortStorySeptember librofulltime.wordpress.com/2026/09/27/s... #booksky 📚💙

Paperback copies of “What It Means When A Man Falls From The Sky” and “The Third Persephone Book of Short Stories” on a blue background

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Liz Dexter / LyzzyBee 📚📚🏃‍♀️ @lyzzybee.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Two Japanese Novels – Kazumasa Hayami – “How Can My Manager Be So Stupid?” and Nika Harada – “How to Use 3,000 Yen” librofulltime.wordpress.com/2026/09/25/t... #booksky 📚💙

Ebook covers of Kazumasa Hayami – “How Can My Manager Be So Stupid?” and Nika Harada – “How to Use 3,000 Yen”

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Liz Dexter / LyzzyBee 📚📚🏃‍♀️ @lyzzybee.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

A good, bracing read - Alexei Sayle - "How I've Tried to Change the World by Walking Down the Middle of the Street Shouting" librofulltime.wordpress.com/2026/09/24/b... @orionbooks.bsky.social @wnbooks.bsky.social #booksky 📚💙💡

A hardback of "How I've Tried to Change the World" on a blue background

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Liz Dexter / LyzzyBee 📚📚🏃‍♀️ @lyzzybee.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

A new favourite author, my second read by Tom Chesshyre, "Lost in the Lakes" from @summersdalebooks.bsky.social librofulltime.wordpress.com/2026/09/22/b... #booksky 📚💙💡

paperback copy of Lost in the Lakes on a blue cloth background

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Liz Dexter / LyzzyBee 📚📚🏃‍♀️ @lyzzybee.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Three entertaining reads – Kiley Dunbar – “Saving Christmas at the Highland Repair Shop”, Fay Keenan – “A Recipe for Romance in Brambleton” and Su Pollard, with Paul Boyd – “Fully Charged” librofulltime.wordpress.com/2026/09/16/t... #booksky 📚💙

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Three entertaining reads - Kiley Dunbar - "Saving Christmas at the Highland Repair Shop", Fay Keenan - "A Recipe for Romance in Brambleton" and Su Pollard, with Paul Boyd - "Fully Charged"

Novels set in Scotland, Novels set in Somerset, memoir, actors, showbiz, romance

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Liz Dexter / LyzzyBee 📚📚🏃‍♀️ @lyzzybee.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

The wonderful "An Island Rooing" by Joan Grigsby from Michael Walmer Publishing librofulltime.wordpress.com/2026/09/13/b... #booksky 📚💙💡

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Book review - Joan Grigsby - "An Island Rooing"

History, Shetland, memoir

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Liz Dexter / LyzzyBee 📚📚🏃‍♀️ @lyzzybee.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Three good fiction reads – Sara Cox – “The Truth of Us”, Damilare Kuku – “Women Rent Men and Secrets Here” and Susie Dent – “Death Writ Large” librofulltime.wordpress.com/2026/09/10/t... #booksky 📚💙

Ebook covers of The Truth of Us, Women Rent Men and Secrets Here and Death Writ Large

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Liz Dexter / LyzzyBee 📚📚🏃‍♀️ @lyzzybee.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

An excellent read from Jacaranda Press: Book review – Tolani Akinola – “Leave Your Mess at Home” 📚💙https://librofulltime.wordpress.com/2026/09/08/book-review-tolani-akinola-leave-your-mess-at-home/ @jacarandabooks.bsky.social #booksky

Paperback copy of Leave Your Mess at Home on a blue cloth background

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Liz Dexter / LyzzyBee 📚📚🏃‍♀️ @lyzzybee.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

My report from the Iris Murdoch Society Conference I went to in August: librofulltime.wordpress.com/2026/09/03/t...

A cloth bag featuring a drawing of Iris Murdoch with a pen, badges, a notebook and a conference booklet

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Liz Dexter / LyzzyBee 📚📚🏃‍♀️ @lyzzybee.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

State of the TBR! See how minuscule it now is! librofulltime.wordpress.com/2026/09/01/s... #booksky 📚💙💡

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Liz Dexter / LyzzyBee 📚📚🏃‍♀️ @lyzzybee.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

What I added to my wishlist in August: librofulltime.wordpress.com/2026/08/31/w... #booksky 📚💙💡

Covers of the four books mentioned in the post: The Water Remembers, The Queerest Folk, Battle Axe and House Made of Dawn

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Liz Dexter / LyzzyBee 📚📚🏃‍♀️ @lyzzybee.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Hooray! Yesterday's post: Finishing my 20 Books of Summer – Gabrielle Zevin – “The Storied Life of A. J. Fikry, Hannah Bonam-Young – “Next of Kin” and Charles Hadfield and John Norris – “Waterways to Stratford” librofulltime.wordpress.com/2026/08/31/f... #20BOS26 #booksky 📚💙💡

Paperbacks of The Storied Life of AJ Fikry and Next of Kin and a hardback of Waterways to Stratford

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Liz Dexter / LyzzyBee 📚📚🏃‍♀️ @lyzzybee.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

A lovely read with asexual / ace representation! Book review – Rhoda Baxter – “The Halloween Express on the Brambleberry Steam Railway” librofulltime.wordpress.com/2026/08/30/b... #booksky @jeevanicharika.bsky.social 📚💙

Ebook cover of The Halloween Express on the Brambleberry Steam Railway

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Liz Dexter / LyzzyBee 📚📚🏃‍♀️ @lyzzybee.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Rebekah Pierre (ed.) – Free Loaves on Fridays” and Karen Yin – “The Conscious Style Guide” Creeping nearer to my full 20 Books of Summer #20BOS26 librofulltime.wordpress.com/2026/08/27/c... #booksky 📚💙💡

Paperbacks of Free Loaves on Fridays and The Conscious Style Guide

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Liz Dexter / LyzzyBee 📚📚🏃‍♀️ @lyzzybee.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

More great nonfiction reads – Sylvia Patterson – “I’m Not With The Man”, Sally Coulthard – “The Secret World of Twilight” and Joad Raymond Wren – “The Uses of Utopia” librofulltime.wordpress.com/2026/08/25/m... #booksky 📚💙💡

Ebook covers of I'm Not With the Man, The Secret World of Twilight and The Uses of Utopia

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Liz Dexter / LyzzyBee 📚📚🏃‍♀️ @lyzzybee.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

More nonfiction reviews from my 20 Books of Summer – Samra Habib – “We Have Always Been Here” and Robert MacFarlane – “Mountains of the Mind” #20BOS26 librofulltime.wordpress.com/2026/08/22/m... #booksky 📚💙💡

Paperback copies of We Have Always Been Here and Mountains of the Mind

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Liz Dexter / LyzzyBee 📚📚🏃‍♀️ @lyzzybee.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Two fun novels – reviews of Jenny Jackson – “The Shampoo Effect” and Baek Seungyeon – “The Seoul Letter Shop” librofulltime.wordpress.com/2026/08/20/t... #booksky 📚💙

ebook covers of The Shampoo Effect and The Seoul Letter Shop

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Liz Dexter / LyzzyBee 📚📚🏃‍♀️ @lyzzybee.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Nonfiction roundup – Richard Askwith – “The Race Against Time”, Tim Burrows – “The Invention of Essex” and Takeo Doi’s “The Anatomy of Dependence” #20BOS26 librofulltime.wordpress.com/2026/08/18/n... #booksky 📚💙💡

Paperback copies of The Race Against Time, The Invention of Essex and The Anatomy of Dependence

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Liz Dexter / LyzzyBee 📚📚🏃‍♀️ @lyzzybee.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Getting the hardbacks read – reviews of Nathan Waddell – “A Bright Cold Day” Mathelinda Nabugodi – “The Trembling Hand ”https://librofulltime.wordpress.com/2026/08/11/getting-the-hardbacks-read-book-reviews-of-nathan-waddell-a-bright-cold-day-and-mathelinda-nabugodi-the-trembling-hand/ 📚💙💡#booksky

Hardbacks of A Bright Cold Day and The Trembling Hand

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Liz Dexter / LyzzyBee 📚📚🏃‍♀️ @lyzzybee.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

Rhoda Baxter's "The Christmas Express on the Brambleberry Steam Railway" was a lovely read, with tough issues covered but a sweet and kind community trying to make things OK. librofulltime.wordpress.com/2026/08/07/b... @jeevanicharika.bsky.social

Ebook cover for "The Christmas Express on the Brambleberry Steam Railway" with a Christmas tree, a train and the main character

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Liz Dexter / LyzzyBee 📚📚🏃‍♀️ @lyzzybee.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

I enjoyed reading Caroline James' "The Nile Cruise" over the weekend librofulltime.wordpress.com/2026/08/03/b... @carolinejames1.bsky.social #booksky📚💙

Ebook cover of The Nile Cruise, with an image on board a ship with the Nile behind it

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Liz Dexter / LyzzyBee 📚📚🏃‍♀️ @lyzzybee.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

What I added to my wishlist in July librofulltime.wordpress.com/2026/07/31/w... #booksky 📚💙💡

Seven book covers in a collage - all books listed and explained in the attached blog post

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Liz Dexter / LyzzyBee 📚📚🏃‍♀️ @lyzzybee.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Two Wedding Planners and an Actual Marriage – Victoria Lavine – “Not That Kind of Proposal”, Huma Qureshi – “How We Met” and Jeevani Charika’s “The Wedding Planner’s Guide to Stealing the Bride” #20BOS26 librofulltime.wordpress.com/2026/07/30/t... #booksky 📚💙💡 @jeevanicharika.bsky.social

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Liz Dexter / LyzzyBee 📚📚🏃‍♀️ @lyzzybee.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Two wonderful characters – book reviews for Amman Brar – “Mr Sidhu’s Post Office” and Mel Pennant – “Miss Hortense and the Last Rites” librofulltime.wordpress.com/2026/07/29/t... #booksky 💙📚

Ebook covers of Mr Sidhu's Post Office and Miss Hortense and the Last Rites

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Liz Dexter / LyzzyBee 📚📚🏃‍♀️ @lyzzybee.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Art and organising – book reviews – Bianca Bosker – “Get the Picture” and Alicia Garza – “The Purpose of Power” #20BOS26 librofulltime.wordpress.com/2026/07/27/a... #booksky 📚💙💡

Paperback copies of Get the Picture and The Purpose of Power

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Liz Dexter / LyzzyBee 📚📚🏃‍♀️ @lyzzybee.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

... and Tyson Yunkaporta - "Sand Talk" librofulltime.wordpress.com/2026/07/16/b... /booksky 📚💙💡

Paperback of Sand Talk on a blue background

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Liz Dexter / LyzzyBee 📚📚🏃‍♀️ @lyzzybee.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Debra Dank – “We Come With This Place” #20BOS26 librofulltime.wordpress.com/2026/07/12/b... #booksky 📚💙💡

Paperback of We Come With This Place held in my (White) hand in a wooded environment

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Liz Dexter / LyzzyBee 📚📚🏃‍♀️ @lyzzybee.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Book review catch-up! First off, Two books about nature and renewal – Maceo Carillo Martinet – “Healing the Land Teaches us Who We Are” and Lea Korsgaard – “The Butterfly Season” librofulltime.wordpress.com/2026/07/10/t... #booksky 📚💙💡

Ebook covers of Healing the Land Teaches us Who We Are and The Butterfly Season

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Liz Dexter / LyzzyBee 📚📚🏃‍♀️ @lyzzybee.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

A really lovely read, set in Como in Italy and full of family drama. What would you do if you suddenly found you had two sisters? Sue Moorcroft - "Secrets of the Italian Guesthouse" librofulltime.wordpress.com/2026/07/07/b... @rararesources.bsky.social @suemoorcroftauthor.bsky.social @booksky 📚💙

Pretty cover of the ebook of Secrets of the Italian Guesthouse

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Liz Dexter / LyzzyBee 📚📚🏃‍♀️ @lyzzybee.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Two 20 Books of Summer reads that have nothing in common – Scott Jurek, with Jenny Jurek – “North” and Madeline Linford – “Out of the Window” librofulltime.wordpress.com/2026/07/04/t... #20BOS26 #booksky 💙📚💡

Paperback copies of North and Out of the Window on a blue background

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Liz Dexter / LyzzyBee 📚📚🏃‍♀️ @lyzzybee.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

Did I read the 30 books I needed to read to stay on track last month? I did not. But look, there's more of a space on the shelves! State of the TBR July 2026 librofulltime.wordpress.com/2026/07/01/s... #booksky 📚💙💡

Three and three quarters shelves of varied books

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Liz Dexter / LyzzyBee 📚📚🏃‍♀️ @lyzzybee.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

A new experiment for me in blog posts - What I added to my wish list in June 2026 librofulltime.wordpress.com/2026/06/30/w... #booksky 📚💙💡

Twelve ebook covers in a grid - list of all the titles provided in the linked blog post

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Liz Dexter / LyzzyBee 📚📚🏃‍♀️ @lyzzybee.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

A book of the year for sure: Sathnam Sanghera – “Tonight The Music Seems so Loud” librofulltime.wordpress.com/2026/06/29/a... #booksky 📚💙💡

Hardback of Tonight the Music Seems so Loud on a blue background

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Liz Dexter / LyzzyBee 📚📚🏃‍♀️ @lyzzybee.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

More 20 Books of Summer with two nature-orientated books – Sarah Thomas – “The Raven’s Nest” and Lev Parikian – “Taking Flight” librofulltime.wordpress.com/2026/06/27/m... #20BOS26 #booksky 📚💙💡

Paperback copies of The Raven's Nest and Taking Flight on a blue background

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Liz Dexter / LyzzyBee 📚📚🏃‍♀️ @lyzzybee.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

Two good summer reads – Phillipa Ashley – “A Wedding Under the Cornish Sky” and Katie Clapham – “Receipts from the Bookshop” librofulltime.wordpress.com/2026/06/26/t... #booksky 📚💙💡

Ebook covers of A Wedding under the Cornish Sky and Receipts from the Bookshop

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Liz Dexter / LyzzyBee 📚📚🏃‍♀️ @lyzzybee.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

Finally getting some more reviews out there with two about queer books – reviews of Layla McCay – The Queer Bookshelf” and A. J. West – “How Queer Bookshops Changed the World” librofulltime.wordpress.com/2026/06/23/a... with mentions for @paulmagrs.bsky.social and @proud-geek.co.uk #booksky 📚💙💡

ebook covers of The Queer Bookshelf and How Queer Bookshops Changed the World

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Liz Dexter / LyzzyBee 📚📚🏃‍♀️ @lyzzybee.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

A lovely book from the British Library Women Writers series, Cynthia Asquith's "The Spring House" librofulltime.wordpress.com/2026/06/17/b... #booksky @britishlibrary.bsky.social 📚💙

Paperback of The Spring House on a pale wood background

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Liz Dexter / LyzzyBee 📚📚🏃‍♀️ @lyzzybee.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

Getting my #20BOS26 campaign underway finally with my first two books: librofulltime.wordpress.com/2026/06/14/s... #booksky 📚💙💡

Paperbacks of The Queen is Dead and Am I Black Enough for You? on a blue background

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Liz Dexter / LyzzyBee 📚📚🏃‍♀️ @lyzzybee.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

Pushing through my NetGalley reads for this month, Two novels set in the 1970s – Krystle Zara Appiah – “Half Lives” and Michelle Huneven – “Bug Hollow” librofulltime.wordpress.com/2026/06/11/t... #booksky 📚💙

Ebook covers of Half Lives and Bug Hollow

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Liz Dexter / LyzzyBee 📚📚🏃‍♀️ @lyzzybee.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

... and Finished at last: Review – Henry Eliot – “The Penguin Modern Classics Book” librofulltime.wordpress.com/2026/06/09/f... #booksky 📚💙💡

Hardback copy of the (rather large) The Penguin Modern Classics Book on a blue background

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Liz Dexter / LyzzyBee 📚📚🏃‍♀️ @lyzzybee.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

I've got behind sharing my blog posts / reviews. So first of all Nonfiction time – Martin Parr and Wendy Jones – “Utterly Lazy and Inattentive” and Jan-Werner Müller – “Street, Palace, Square” librofulltime.wordpress.com/2026/06/07/n... #booksky 📚💙💡

Hardback of Utterly Lazy and Inattentive and ebook cover of Street, Palace, Square, on a blue background

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Liz Dexter / LyzzyBee 📚📚🏃‍♀️ @lyzzybee.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

Two really important novels treating the Windrush Scandal really well - I'd recommend reading one or both of them! Eden McKenzie-Goddard – “Smallie” and Laura Blake – “Go Home Birdie Brown” librofulltime.wordpress.com/2026/06/05/t... #booksky #windrushgeneration 📚💙

ebook covers of Smallie and Go Home Birdie Brown

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Liz Dexter / LyzzyBee 📚📚🏃‍♀️ @lyzzybee.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

Two romance novels reviewed, with a reminder that it's OK to read genre and that we all need stories and consume them in different ways. Two romances, but wait ... Katie Holt - "The Last Page" and Hannah Bonam-Young - "Out on a Limb" librofulltime.wordpress.com/2026/06/04/t... #booksky📚💙

Ebook of The Last Page and paperback of Out on a Limb on a dark blue background

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Liz Dexter / LyzzyBee 📚📚🏃‍♀️ @lyzzybee.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

(Not so bad!) state of the TBR, June 2026 librofulltime.wordpress.com/2026/06/01/s... (search for Adventures in Reading, Running and Working from Home or link in bio) #booksky 📚💙💡 #20BOS26

Three shelves of books, the bottom one double-stacked, but there is a space at the end

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Liz Dexter / LyzzyBee 📚📚🏃‍♀️ @lyzzybee.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

Two music books from the same publisher – Kate Mossman – “Men of a Certain Age” and Anna Doble – “Connection is a Song” librofulltime.wordpress.com/2026/05/31/t... #booksky 📚💙💡 @nineeightbooks.bsky.social

Hardback copy of Men of a Certain Age and paperback copy of Connection is a Song

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Liz Dexter / LyzzyBee 📚📚🏃‍♀️ @lyzzybee.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

Two important campaigning books on disability matters: Bethany Handley – “My Body is a Meadow” and Saba Salman – “Double Discrimination” librofulltime.wordpress.com/2026/05/28/t... #booksky 📚💙💡

Ebook covers of My Body is a Meadow and Double Discrimination

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Liz Dexter / LyzzyBee 📚📚🏃‍♀️ @lyzzybee.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

Two crime novels (can you believe?) – Philippa Perry – “Shrink Solves Murder” and Mel Pennant – “A Murder for Miss Hortense” librofulltime.wordpress.com/2026/05/26/t... #booksky 📚💙

Ebook cover of Shrink Solves Murder on a tablet and hardback copy of A Murder for Miss Hortense

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Liz Dexter / LyzzyBee 📚📚🏃‍♀️ @lyzzybee.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

Two signed copies of nonfiction books – Corinne Fowler – “Green Unpleasant Land” and Robin Ince – “Normally Weird and Weirdly Normal” librofulltime.wordpress.com/2026/05/24/t... #booksky 📚💙💡

The books Green Unpleasant Land (paperback) and Normally Weird and Weirdly Normal (hardback) on a stripey background

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