Couldn't be more delighted with this #bookpost - Louise Kennedy's new novel, Stations which I'm about to start. Huge fan of Trespasses. Coming from @bloomsburybooksuk.bsky.social in September

Absolutely delighted with this #bookpost - Ann Patchett's Whistler about 'family, memory and connection'. Coming from @bloomsburybooksuk.bsky.social in June

Intriguing #bookpost from @bloomsburybooksuk.bsky.social - Melissa Albert's The Children which promises a 'twisting narrative of family secrets'. I like the sound of that. Coming in June

Brilliant #bookpost courtesy of @penguinbooksuk.bsky.social - Claire Fuller's new novel, Hunger and Thirst, due out next May. Can't wait to get stuck in! #BookSky

Friday's reading courtesy of #NetGalley - the reliably excellent Bryan Washington's new novel, Palaver, set in Tokyo where a mother pays an unexpected and unwelcome visit to her son. Coming from @atlanticbooks.bsky.social in January

Post-holiday Monday reading courtesy of #NetGalley - I'm hoping Kari Leibowitz's How to Winter will set me up for the coming months. Coming in paperback from @panmacmillan.bsky.social shortly

#bookpost courtesy of @fairlightbooks.bsky.social - Clare O'Dea's new novel Before the Leaves Fall which I'm very much looking forward to having loved Voting Day. Coming in October.

Brilliant #bookpost courtesy of @bloomsburybooksuk.bsky.social - Patrick Ryan's Buckeye which I already know from reading the proof is one of my books of 2025. Coming in September

Wednesday's reading courtesy of #NetGalley - Just coming to the end of Andrew Porter's quietly compassionate, engrossing novel, The Imagined Life. Highly recommended. coming from @europaeditions.bsky.social next month

Monday's reading courtesy of #NetGalley - Debra Curtis's superb debut, Laws of Love and Logic. An immersive old-fashioned novel about love, life, loss, faith and redemption. Coming from @bloomsburybooksuk.bsky.social in February but well worth the wait. #LawsofLoveandLogic

Friday's reading courtesy of #NetGalley - Miriam Toews's A Truce That is Not Peace, a brief memoir about loss, writing, life and death. Raw, funny and hopeful. Coming from @4thestatebooks.bsky.social in August

Sunday's reading courtesy of #NetGalley - Olga Ravn's slim yet powerful The Wax Child based on Danish 17th century witch trials, superbly translated by Martin Aitken. Coming from @vikingpenguin99.bsky.social in November

Friday's reading courtesy of #NetGalley - Just coming to the end of The Two Roberts, Damian Barr's brilliant novel based on the lives of Scottish artists Robert MacBryde and Robert Colquhoun, which deserves all the prizes. @canongate.co.uk #TheTwoRoberts

#bookpost courtesy of @rosellis.bsky.social - Patrick Ryan's Buckeye set in small town America comes much praised by Ann Patchett and Alice McDermott. Sounds right up my street. Coming from @bloomsburybooksuk.bsky.social in August

Tuesday's reading courtesy of #NetGalley - Alexander Starritt's absorbing, moving novel about male friendship and ambition. Coming @swiftpress.bsky.social in July

Friday's reading couresy of #NetGalley - Oliver Lovrenski's coming-of-age novel, Back in the Day, set in Oslo. A tough, intensely moving read brilliantly translated by Nichola Smalley. Coming from @penguinbooksuk.bsky.social in April

Wednesday's reading courtesy of #NetGalley - Benjamin Wood's vividly cinematic, atmospheric novella, Seascraper. Coming from @vikingbooksuk.bsky.social in July

Friday's reading courtesy of #NetGalley - just finished Laura Barnett's Births, Deaths and Marriages which follows a year in the lives of a group of university friends, two decades after they first met. Loved it! Coming from @doubledayuk.bsky.social in June

Friday's reading courtesy of #NetGalley - thoroughly enjoying Paul McVeigh's linked short story collection, I Hear You, set in Belfast. Funny, powerful and immediate. Coming from @saltpublishing.com in March

Wednesday's reading courtesy of #NetGalley- Megan Hunter's luminously beautiful Days of Light follows six pivotal days in the life of Ivy, beginning in 1938. Due out in April but well worth the wait

Sunday's reading: Enjoying Anthony Marra's Mercury Pictures Presents which flits between Hollywood and Mussolini's Italy. Smart, funny but heart wrenching with it 📚

Finished Delphine de Vigan's Kids Run the Show (transl. Alison Anderson) which has left me with lots to thing about. Coming from Europa Editions in November.

Back from my travels and very pleased to find a copy of Nathacha Appanah's Nothing Belongs to You waiting for me. Due out next month

View from my Budapest bedroom balcony, last stop on a rail jaunt which started Bath, UK.

View from outside my bedroom door in Kosice: a creeper full of chatty sparrows

Here's Sandor Marai who has a statue in his hometown of Kosice (once Hungary, now Slovakia) where I now. He's sitting on the corner of the street named after him and looks like he might like some company.

No view from my bedroom window in Kosice, Slovakia so here's a shot of the very smart Cafe Slavia where we had breakfast.

My bedroom window view for the next couple of days. A little chilly in Olomouc today but sun tomorrow🤞

Monday's reading in Olomouc, Czech Republic - first rainy day of the holiday so it's just as well I'm enjoying Jean Hanff Korelitz's The Plot 📚

My bedroom window view for the next three days. Definitely autumn in beautiful Marianske Lazne