Radz Pandit @radzpandit.bsky.social · 16hAnother 'Publisher Spotlight' post from me. This time it's Persephone Books. readersretreat2017.wordpress.com/2026/10/14/n...readersretreat2017.wordpress.comNine Favourite Persephone BooksMy new blog post on nine of my favourite Persephone Books. 183
Radz Pandit @radzpandit.bsky.social · 23hWonderful! What a treat to find a collection of Persephones.😍 010
Radz Pandit @radzpandit.bsky.social · 23hEvery Eye was so good! I generally love Persephone, some wonderful books and I've yet to come across a dud. 010
Reposted by Radz PanditRadz Pandit @radzpandit.bsky.social · 14/10/2026New blog post on my favourite Persephone books featuring authors such as RC Sherriff, Penelope Mortimer, Elizabeth Jenkins and more. readersretreat2017.wordpress.com/2026/10/14/n... 1112
Reposted by Radz PanditRadz Pandit @radzpandit.bsky.social · 14/10/2026Persephone Books: Nine recommendations. readersretreat2017.wordpress.com/2026/10/14/n...readersretreat2017.wordpress.comNine Favourite Persephone BooksMy new blog post on nine of my favourite Persephone Books. 2103
Radz Pandit @radzpandit.bsky.social · 14/10/2026"Barber's the third most lied-to person, you know." "Who's first?" "Man's wife is first anywhere in the world. Priest is second." 000
Radz Pandit @radzpandit.bsky.social · 14/10/2026I've yet to read Dorothy Whipple!🙈 But I do have SOMEONE AT A DISTANCE on my tbr. 100
Reposted by Radz PanditNightjar Press @nightjarpress.bsky.social · 14/10/2026New releases by Alison Moore and @saddlerliterary.bsky.social available now from Nightjar website. 0217
Radz Pandit @radzpandit.bsky.social · 14/10/2026Persephone Books: Nine recommendations. readersretreat2017.wordpress.com/2026/10/14/n...readersretreat2017.wordpress.comNine Favourite Persephone BooksMy new blog post on nine of my favourite Persephone Books. 2103
Radz Pandit @radzpandit.bsky.social · 14/10/2026New blog post on my favourite Persephone books featuring authors such as RC Sherriff, Penelope Mortimer, Elizabeth Jenkins and more. readersretreat2017.wordpress.com/2026/10/14/n... 1112
Reposted by Radz PanditJoanna Pocock @joannapocock.bsky.social · 13/10/2026I finished Tarjei Vesaas’s THE ICE PALACE (translated by Elizabeth Rokkan) a few nights ago. It’s one of those very short books (like Rhys’s Wide Sargasso Sea or Johnson’s Train Dreams) that bypasses the intellect and shoots straight into you, lodging somewhere very deep. (1) 1292
Radz Pandit @radzpandit.bsky.social · 13/10/2026"My rambling metaphysics was getting caught in the trap of reducing experience to coherence and meaning, letting the perplexity of things disrupt the joy in their mystery. To insist that diligent thought would bring an understanding of change was to limit life to the comprehensible." 120
Radz Pandit @radzpandit.bsky.social · 13/10/2026"The true West differs from the East in one great, pervasive, influential, and awesome way: space." 160
Radz Pandit @radzpandit.bsky.social · 13/10/2026"The wanderer's danger is to find comfort. A weekend in S'port around friends, & security started to pull me into a warm thrall, to make the wish for the road a craziness. So it was only memory of times in strange places where the scent of the unknown is sharp that drew me on to the highway again." 180
Reposted by Radz Panditgrantrintoul.bsky.social @grantrintoul.bsky.social · 12/10/2026For my first visit to the #1949club I take a look at Romain Gary's novel of post-war France, The Company of Men: 1streading.wordpress.com/2026/10/12/t...1streading.wordpress.comThe Company of MenThe Company of Men is Joseph Barnes’ translation of Romain Gary’s 1949 novel, Le Grande Vestiaire. ‘Vestiaire’ can be translated in a number of different ways, though probably the most accurate her… 1128
Reposted by Radz PanditRachel Malik @rachelmalik.bsky.social · 10/10/2026Haunted/haunting books for October. Some recommendations, all of which can be read & reread, & are haunting, disorienting & unsettling in the most interesting & pleasurable ways. some are very scary… Not all of these books have ghosts of the conventional kind but who wants ‘ordinary’ ghosts. 1366
Reposted by Radz PanditRadz Pandit @radzpandit.bsky.social · 08/10/2026"Perhaps that was the discovery, simply that life brings revelations, supplies all the material we need. And if it does not supply it in the right order, then we must simply wait for more to come to light." My post on Anita Brookner's LATECOMERS. readersretreat2017.wordpress.com/2026/10/08/l... 0146
Radz Pandit @radzpandit.bsky.social · 08/10/2026"And there was yet another thing that disturbed his aunt: he declined to visit any of his former friends. The company of people he knew had become abhorrent to him. These days he was only at ease in the company of strangers - which made the thought of a visit to his 'fiancée' doubly welcome." 010
Radz Pandit @radzpandit.bsky.social · 08/10/2026"There was a bitter, weary expression in his eyes that she had never seen before. But what else could one expect? she wondered. He must have been through horrors that peaceful old ladies (such as herself) might not even begin to comprehend. But he was alive, thank heaven, and he would get better." 161
Radz Pandit @radzpandit.bsky.social · 08/10/2026"Perhaps that was the discovery, simply that life brings revelations, supplies all the material we need. And if it does not supply it in the right order, then we must simply wait for more to come to light." My post on Anita Brookner's LATECOMERS. readersretreat2017.wordpress.com/2026/10/08/l... 0146
Reposted by Radz PanditRadz Pandit @radzpandit.bsky.social · 08/10/2026"He was not like Hartmann, who had the gift of being able to enjoy everything, every change in the climate, every amusement in the working day, every prospect of a new life. Fibich wished only to be safe, and, once safe, to be free, and, once free, to be brave."readersretreat2017.wordpress.comLatecomers – Anita BrooknerLatecomers by Anita Brookner is a brilliant, poignant exploration of trauma, time, memory, family, and identity. 021
Reposted by Radz PanditRadz Pandit @radzpandit.bsky.social · 08/10/2026My new blog post on LATECOMERS, Anita Brookner's brilliant, poignant novel of time, memory, truama, marriage, friendship and family, featuring an ensemble cast. One of my books of the year. readersretreat2017.wordpress.com/2026/10/08/l...readersretreat2017.wordpress.comLatecomers – Anita BrooknerLatecomers by Anita Brookner is a brilliant, poignant exploration of trauma, time, memory, family, and identity. 051
Radz Pandit @radzpandit.bsky.social · 08/10/2026"He was not like Hartmann, who had the gift of being able to enjoy everything, every change in the climate, every amusement in the working day, every prospect of a new life. Fibich wished only to be safe, and, once safe, to be free, and, once free, to be brave."readersretreat2017.wordpress.comLatecomers – Anita BrooknerLatecomers by Anita Brookner is a brilliant, poignant exploration of trauma, time, memory, family, and identity. 021
Radz Pandit @radzpandit.bsky.social · 08/10/2026My new blog post on LATECOMERS, Anita Brookner's brilliant, poignant novel of time, memory, truama, marriage, friendship and family, featuring an ensemble cast. One of my books of the year. readersretreat2017.wordpress.com/2026/10/08/l...readersretreat2017.wordpress.comLatecomers – Anita BrooknerLatecomers by Anita Brookner is a brilliant, poignant exploration of trauma, time, memory, family, and identity. 051
Radz Pandit @radzpandit.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Thanks Ian! I've only heard good things, very much looking forward. 010
Radz Pandit @radzpandit.bsky.social · 05/10/2026"In those days the Majestic was still standing in Kilnalough at the very end of a slim peninsula covered with dead pines leaning here and there at odd angles." Started today. TROUBLES by J.G. Farrell. 2111
Radz Pandit @radzpandit.bsky.social · 05/10/2026If you see this, recommend a short book. THE ENLIGHTENMENT OF KATZUO NAKAMATSU by Augusto Higa Oshiro, translated from the Spanish by Jennifer Shyue. 181
Radz Pandit @radzpandit.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Wishing you a speedy recovery, Chris! My husband had to undergo the same surgery a few years ago and was back on his feet pretty soon. 120
Reposted by Radz PanditNic Wilson @nicwilson.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Coming late to the (reprint) of this 1978 novel. Seminal, thought-provoking and tightly written. A classic exploring a woman/mother's place in the social and natural world. #naturewriting #womeninnature 2115
Reposted by Radz PanditWarwick Prize for Women in Translation @womenintranslation.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Announcing the Warwick Prize for Women in Translation Longlist 2026! The list of 13 titles from 12 languages includes novels, poetry, short fiction, and memoir. The prize is judged in 2026 by Arifa Akbar, Véronique Tadjo, Boyd Tonkin. For the full list and announcement: tinyurl.com/394cypw6 37035
Reposted by Radz Panditgrantrintoul.bsky.social @grantrintoul.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Reading the fifth winner of the James Tait Black Memorial Prize, Riceyman Steps, and discovering how entertaining Arnold Bennett can be. 1streading.wordpress.com/2026/09/28/r...1streading.wordpress.comRiceyman StepsPublished in 1923, and the fifth winner of the James Tait Black Memorial Prize, Riceyman Steps is Arnold Bennett’s thirtieth novel. Set in Clerkenwell in London, it tells the story of Henry Eralfor… 143
Radz Pandit @radzpandit.bsky.social · 29/09/2026I was unsure of the book in the beginning, but really getting into its rhythm now. The prose as you say is wonderful. 020
Radz Pandit @radzpandit.bsky.social · 29/09/2026"All round quivered the funereal countryside, yellow with stubble, black with burnt patches; the lament of cicadas filled the sky. It was like a death-rattle from parched Sicily at the end of August vainly awaiting rain." 231
Reposted by Radz PanditCaustic Cover Critic @causticcovercritic.bsky.social · 29/09/2026You too could be like Jacob (ie excellent and reading something from my list of 75 great but neglected books): causticcovercritic.blogspot.com/2020/02/75-e...causticcovercritic.blogspot.com75 Excellent But Neglected BooksOn Twitter I did a big thread of 75 unjustly forgotten or neglected books, so I thought I'd put the whole thing here to make it more eas... 5317
Radz Pandit @radzpandit.bsky.social · 29/09/2026"The sun, still far from its blazing zenith on that morning of the 13th of May, was showing itself the true ruler of Sicily; the crude brash sun, the drugging sun, which annulled every will, kept all things in servile immobility, cradled in violence and arbitrary dreams." #MorningReading 2161
Radz Pandit @radzpandit.bsky.social · 27/09/2026I loved this book too. Read it in 2020 and her granddaughter replied to my post saying it was Isobel English's 100th birthday that day. It was lovely! 120
Radz Pandit @radzpandit.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Vigorously nodding my head after having finished the brilliant and moving LATECOMERS. 110
Radz Pandit @radzpandit.bsky.social · 23/09/2026"It was the religious houses which gave the city its grimness and its character, its sedateness and also the sense of death which not ever the vibrant Sicilian light could ever manage to disperse." 060