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High quality literary fiction, upmarket non-fiction & the best in crime writing. Tweets from @JasmineLPalmer Visit https://nitter.cf/t.co/5oalPeU3iM

 Carmelite House, London
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Joined January 2016
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To have & to hold… especially in print. A special three-books-in-one-review on art for @TheCriticMag, featuring: • Savoy, Who Owns Beauty (@politybooks) • Primo, The Foreign Invention of British Art (@thamesandhudson) • Delbourgo, A Noble Madness (@riverrunbooks)
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Happy #PublicationDay to Amy Jeffs and Gwen Burns whose beautiful new book #OldSongs: Stories of Love and Death from Traditional Ballads comes out today! 😍🎶🎉🎉🎉 @riverrunbooks
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Welcome to my review of the fabulous #Havoc by Rebecca Wait. Out now from @riverrunbooks What a gem for the @Squadpod3 to be featuring this month. I loved it from start to finish! brownflopsy.blogspot.com/202…
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Tea break and new book day! #TheWomanWhoLaughed @SimonMasonbooks Really enjoyed the previous books in this series! #Finder @riverrunbooks #BookTwitter
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✨✨ NEW BOOK MAIL ✨✨ This week, I was thrilled to receive a special delivery of book mail—all from the incredible @QuercusBooks. It's always exciting to get my hands on new reads, and these editions are stunning. The books in this week’s round-up are: 💌The Boys by @leorobsonwriter 💌The Woman Who Laughed by Simon Mason 💌Havoc by Rebecca Wait Full review⬇️ thesecretbookreview.co.uk/po… Purchase link⬇️ uk.bookshop.org/shop/Secret_… 👏🏻👏🏼 👏🏽 👏🏾 👏🏿
Hand holding a vibrant book titled "The Boys" by Leo Robson, with bold colors and patterns. Blurred bookshelves in the background.

ALT Hand holding a vibrant book titled "The Boys" by Leo Robson, with bold colors and patterns. Blurred bookshelves in the background.

Hand holding a book titled "The Woman Who Laughed" by Simon Mason. Colorful bookshelves in the background create a vibrant setting.

ALT Hand holding a book titled "The Woman Who Laughed" by Simon Mason. Colorful bookshelves in the background create a vibrant setting.

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ALT Hand holds a book with a person on cover. Text reads: "By the way, there are other girls suffering seizures at Patient's Boarding School. Now you're interested, aren't you?" Colorful shelves in background.

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Discover a captivating history of obsessive collectors ✨ 'witty, erudite, and deliciously written' - Hartwig Fischer 'a magisterial rethinking of why we collect' - Edmund de Waal A NOBLE MADNESS by James Delbourgo is coming later this month: brnw.ch/21wUExJ
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Perfect intelligent holiday read ⁦@SimonMasonbooks⁩ Finder series ⁦@riverrunbooks⁩ are short, superbly-plotted, humane and suspenseful.
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'A tour de force of scholarship and storytelling' - Daniel Weiss From ancient looters to fin de siècle decadents, Freudian psychos, and hoarders, James Delbourgo's captivating history of obsessive collectors is out now. Order A NOBLE MADNESS here: brnw.ch/21wUQlT
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The coverage continues to roll in for The Director! Thank you to @ftweekend and @Telegraph for the brilliant write-ups this weekend. The Director publishes in the UK this Thursday 🔗rb.gy/kr1xll
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ICYMI, we had @leorobsonwriter on the podcast this month to talk about his debut novel, The Boys (@riverrunbooks), and the virtues of obstinacy in the writing process. Listen to the full episode here: open.spotify.com/episode/121…
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Book post. Thank you ⁦@riverrunbooks⁩ ⁦@QuercusBooks⁩ ⁦@QuercusBkshelf⁩ #Havoc #RebeccaWait
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Happy publication day to Daniel Kehlmann and The Director! A visionary novel exploring the complicated relationships and distinctions between art and power, beauty and barbarism, cog and conspirator. The Director is out now in hardback 🔗rb.gy/kr1xll
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A lovely proof package today from @riverrunbooks @QuercusBooks. #Havoc by Rebecca Wait follows what happens when a mysterious sickness spreads through a failing girls' boarding school. It sounds brilliant! #BookPost out 3rd July.
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Saints by Amy Jeffs is in PB! Fresh approach. You'll learn loads about the medieval world, not just about saints! -Scothíne walking on Irish sea -Brigid removing a pregnancy -Ia's leaf boat -Patrick -Brendan & the skull -Columba changing wind direction -Ailbe raised by a wolf
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Nina Allan's new book A Granite Silence out today. It's v good. & look out for Studio Electrophonique next week - James Taylor's superb pop history of Sheffield at the start of the synthpop era & beyond. Both inc in @heraldmagazine April books round-up heraldscotland.com/life_styl…
This remarkable Scottish true-crime book is full of pain and pathos

This remarkable Scottish true-crime book is full of pain and pathos

A Granite Silence is something else. At one level it’s a true crime story, including Allan’s recreation of the events of a child’s murder and her own revisiting the scene of the crime. On another it...

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Amy Jeffs has created a window at @HachetteUK to mark the paperback launch of her book Saints: Medieval Legends of Heroes, Humans and Magic (@riverrunbooks) bookbrunch.co.uk/page/articl… (£)
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Thank you to @riverrunbooks for my proof copy of #Havoc by Rebecca Wait. I’m looking forward to reading this with my @Squadpod3 ladies. Out in July. #squadpodreads #squadpodfeaturedbooks
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Always a complete thrill to read the latest book from the brilliant @eoinmcnamee3 Just published by @riverrunbooks @QuercusBooks Can’t wait..
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Which book made you? We have loved seeing library displays all around the UK for 2025's most life-affirming debut, Life Hacks for a Little Alien courtesy of @readingagency! #LittleAlien #LifeHacksForALittleAlien
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1934, Aberdeen: Among the granite tenements on Urquhart Road, working families are squashed together like pickled herrings. One day eight-year-old Helen Priestly is sent by her mother to buy bread, and never returns. Coming soon from the acclaimed writer waterstones.com/book/a-grani…
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