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Hello everyone, happiest of Mondays to you and hope your week has started off well. I’m meeting bestie Janel @keeperofpages tomorrow for lunch (and probably book shopping, let’s be honest! 😂) so I’m really excited about that. Here’s a book haul! Crazy thing about this first book, The Impossible Fairytale, is that I already HAVE an edition on my shelves 🙈 However, I am trying to collect all the @tiltedaxisbooks so I had to pick this up too. The author is a major new voice from South Korea and has written a chilling, wildly original and unpredictable story. All buzz words for me! This book promises to be a fresh and terrifying exploration of the ethics of art making and of the stinging consequences of neglect. Manhunt - just look at that cover! I was chatting with my pals in the #bitcrackbookclub and the lovely Johanna from @memydogandbooks mentioned that she had just read this. It was already on my radar but she very kindly sent it over to me! This is described as an explosive post-apocalyptic novel that follows trans women and men on a grotesque journey of survival. Apparently, it is a timely, powerful response to gender-based apocalyptic story that failed to consider the existence of trans or non-binary people, from a powerful new voice in horror! Finally, I’m a bit annoyed with myself that I didn’t get the special edition of the lovely @alex_bell86 new novel when it was in Waterstones. The Winter Garden opens at the stroke of midnight with no great fanfare - after all, this is the time when all virtuous folk should be in bed. But for the few curious souls that brave the opening of its gates, many enchantments await. I know that my sister @chrissireads has read this already and loved it so might try to squeeze it in during December for the perfect wintry read. I’d love to hear your thoughts on any of these books or authors. Let’s have a chat in the comments! Have a great week everyone 🤗😘 #bookstagram #scottishbookstagrammer #newbooksplease #ohlookmorebooks #anotherbookhaul #theimpossiblefairytale #hanyujoo #janethong #tiltedaxispress #readingtranslatedliterature #manhunt #gretchenfelkermartin #thewintergarden #alexandrabell https://www.instagram.com/p/Clg5r-cL7cG/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

Hello everyone and happy Friday! Today is sadly the last day of my holiday and I’ll be back on that sleeper train home tonight 😟 (Scotland always has my soul though 😉😂) Summer Island was bought for me by my lovely sister @chrissireads in our quest to read Kristin Hannah’s back catalogue together. Sadly it left me with quite disappointed. It was incredibly predictable and I never felt connected to the characters at any point! 😬 Moving Parts was my next acquisition from one of my new favourite publishers @tiltedaxisbooks it’s described as surreal and puncturing short stories from the Thai master of the form. In a pink-walled motel, a teenage sex worker brings a grown man to tears. A love-struck young boy holds the dismembered hand of his crush, only to find himself the object of a complex ménage à trois. A naked body falls from the window of a twenty storey building, while two female officer-workers offer each other consolation in the elevator. Sounds right up my street!! Finally, I preordered Reputation as I loved Anatomy Of A Scandal by Sarah Vaughan so much! It follows a politician whose less than perfect personal life is thrust into the spotlight when a body is discovered in her home. 😳 I’d love to know your thoughts on any of these books or authors. Let’s have a chat in the comments! #bookstagram #scottishbookstagrammer #bookhaulheaven #newbooksplease #kristinhannah #summerisland #movingparts #tiltedaxispress #booksintranslation #prabdayoon #muipoopoksakul #reputation #sarahvaughan #lovenewbooks #booksimexcitedabout https://www.instagram.com/p/ClY8rACLJei/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

Hello everyone and happy Monday to you all. This Monday I’m super excited as by this time next week I’ll be on holiday in Scotland 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿😍 Here’s a book haul! Spare Parts, a nonfiction book about the history of transplant science spoke to me and demanded to be bought! I’m a scientist in my non bookish life and I love indulging my geeky side in popular science. This promises to be a fascinating read from Indian surgeons regrafting lost noses in the sixth century BC to the French seamstress whose needlework paved the way for kidney transplants in the 1900’s. The Arsonists’ City was brought to my attention and my wishlist by the fabulous @tarheelreader This is described as a rich family story, a personal look at the legacy of war in the Middle East, and an indelible rendering of how we hold onto the people and places we call home. Finally, I bought Vera with all best intentions to join in with @savidgereads Patreon bookclub. Unfortunately I didn’t get round to reading it but I’m still keen to give it a go. It’s been compared to Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier which makes me slightly nervous (but slightly excited! 😂). I’d love to know your thoughts on any of these books or authors. Let’s have a chat in the comments! Have a lovely week everyone 🤗😘 #bookstagram #scottishbookstagrammer #ohlookmorebooks #anotherbookhaul #newbooksplease #sparepartsanunexpectedhistoryoftransplantsurgery #paulcraddock #thearsonistscity #halaalyan #vera #elizabethvonarnim #booksimexcitedabout https://www.instagram.com/p/Ck86TK9rFaK/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

Hello everyone and happy Monday to you all. Hope this week is going well so far. Today I’m sharing three lovely new hardbacks that were just begging to be bought. The House Of Fortune is Jessie Burton’s follow up to The Miniaturist and I don’t want to spoil anything for anyone who hasn’t read the first book yet but I’m so excited to be back in Amsterdam with Nella and her family again. Next up, the Booker prize shortlisted Small Things Like These which I have been hearing great things about everywhere! Set in an Irish town in 1985 this is the story of Bill Furlong whom in the run up to Christmas is approaching his busiest season as a coal and timber merchant. As he does the rounds, he feels his past coming up to meet him - and encounters the complicit silences of a people controlled by the Church. Finally, The Temple House Vanishing. I can’t remember where I heard about the author Rachel Donohue on IG but I remember thinking she sounded like my kind of author! It’s described as a stunning, intensely atmospheric novel of unrequited longing, dark obsession and uneasy consequences. I’d love to know your thoughts on any of these authors or novels. Let’s have a chat in the comments! Have a lovely week everyone 🤗😘 #bookstagram #scottishbookstagrammer #bookhaul #newbooksplease #houseoffortune #jessieburton #bookseriesilove #clairekeegan #smallthingslikethese #bookershortlisted #irishfictionwriters #thetemplehousevanishing #racheldonohue #booksonmytbrlist #booksineedtogetto #booksimexcitedabout https://www.instagram.com/p/CjQt-ezrsZ6/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

Hello everyone and TGIF! On this wet, wild and blustery evening in my part of the UK 🇬🇧 it really feels like Autumn is here and announcing itself in full and proud voice! 🤣 Here’s three paperbacks I picked up recently. The Icepick Surgeon is nonfiction from the author of books including The Disappearing Spoon, The Violinists Thumb and one of my favourites - The Tale Of The Duelling Neurosurgeons. Sam Kean tells the true story of what happens when unfettered ambition pushes otherwise rational men and women to cross the line in the name of science, trampling ethical boundaries and often committing crimes in the process. Next up, Indigenous Species from one of my favourite presses @tiltedaxisbooks I’m slowly collecting all the books I’m translation that they’ve published. The author addresses issues of pollution, consumerism and habitat destruction with a poets sensibility and her frenetic neon artwork. This is also a bold and necessary experiment in making a sight impaired accessible art book. Finally, I bought Astray in my quest to own everything Emma Donoghue has ever written 😍 With the turn of each page, the characters that roam across these pages go astray. They are emigrants, runaways, drifters, gold miners, counterfeiters, attorneys and slaves. They cross borders of races, love, sex and sanity. They travel for love or money, under duress or incognito. A sequence of fourteen fact inspired fictions about travels to, in and from North America, Astray offers a past in scattered pieces, a surprising and moving history for restless times. I’d love to know your thoughts on any of these books or authors. Let’s have a chat in the comments! #bookstagram #bookhaul #bookhoarder #newbooksplease #scottishbookstagrammer #theicepicksurgeon #samkean #indigenousspecies #khairanibarokka #tiltedaxisbooks #booksintranslation #astray #emmadonoghue #cantstopwontstopbuyingbooks #addictedtobooks https://www.instagram.com/p/CjJDccrrHrQ/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

Hello everyone, I’m so glad it’s Friday! It’s been quite a week and I’m looking forward to telling you all about three new books I’ve added to my collection. I’ve just recently finished Shit Cassandra Saw and really enjoyed it. This is a feminist short story collection and is described as Margaret Atwood meets Buffy in these funny, warm and furious stories about women at their breaking point. Review to follow! Tomb Of Sand was a no brainer after it won the Booker International prize this year. It follows an eighty year old woman who slips into a deep depression after the death of her husband then resurfaces to gain a new lease on life. Finally, The Retreat. Since childhood, Sandra has been fascinated by the small, private island of Lieloh. Sandra is now in her forties and works as a receptionist but still harbours artistic ambitions. She sees an advert for a two weeks artistic retreat on Lieloh and resolves to set out on what might be a life-changing journey. I’d love to know your thoughts on any of these books or authors. Let’s have a chat in the comments! #bookstagram #scottishbookstagrammer #bookhauler #booksforlife📚 #newbooksplease #shitcassandrasaw #gwenekirby #tombofsand #geetanjalishree #tiltedaxispress #booksintranslation #daisyrockwell #theretreat #alisonmoore #booksimexcitedabout #booksineedtoread #feministshortstories https://www.instagram.com/p/CiS8gnJLz0N/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

Hello everyone and happy Friday! I’m going to enjoy this weekend as much as possible because I’m back to work on Monday. It’ll be nice to get into a routine again! Time for another book haul! 😜 I’ve heard such amazing things about Rachel Cusk as an author and still haven’t got to any of her books! 🙈 Described as a fable of female fate, male privilege, and a story of unfathomable attractions. Modern and timeless, it reminds us of art’s seduction and elemental power - to both save and destroy. Spirits Of The Season - Christmas Hauntings is another welcome addition to my British Library Tales Of The Weird collection. Festive cheer turns to maddening fear in this new collection of seasonal hauntings, presenting the best Christmas ghost stories from the 1860’s to the 1940’s. Finally, I’ve read and really enjoyed Lauren Groff before in Fates and Furies so was tempted by this new novel. Cast out of the royal court by Eleanor of Acquitaine, deemed too course and rough-hewn for courtly life, Marie de France is sent to England to be the new prioress of an impoverished abbey, its nuns on the brink of starvation and beset by disease. Matrix carries currents of violence, sensuality and religious ecstasy in a mesmerising portrait of consuming passion, aberrant faith and a woman that history moves both through and around. It is a defiant and timely exploration of the raw power of female creativity in a corrupted world. I’d love to know your thoughts on any of these books or authors. Let’s have a chat in the comments! #bookstagram #bookmanía #bookhaul #scottishbookstagrammer #newbooksplease #rachelcusksecondplace #britishlibrarytalesoftheweird #tanyakirk #spiritsoftheseasonchristmashauntings #matrix #laurengroff #literaryfiction #historicalfiction #shortstoriesfan #booksonmytbrlist https://www.instagram.com/p/ChKuveWrr-e/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

Hello all and welcome to a new week! Hope it’s started off okay wherever you are in the world. I had my first day back at work after a week and a half off and it was tough but at the same time, it was good to get back to a familiar routine. Weirdly enough my chronic issues tend to prefer routine so even though I feel exhausted tonight, I know I’ll be used to it by mid week. Anyway, back to a BOOK HAUL!! I’m reading Distant Shores as a buddy read with my sister @chrissireads and we’re making our way through Kristen Hannah’s back catalogue at the moment. It’s an interesting story at the moment of a failing marriage but if I know Hannah’s writing, I’m expecting a bit of tragedy too! 😬 Next up is a short story collection by Yoko Ogawa. I love the covers of these specific releases and am trying to collect them all. In the tradition of classical Japanese poetry collections, the stories in Revenge are linked through recurring images and motifs as each story follows on from the one before whilst simultaneously introducing new characters and themes. Finally, another book added to my British Library Tales of the Weird Collection. The Platform Edge - Uncanny Tales of the Railways promises to be a collection of the greatest stories of strange happenings on the tracks! 🚂 I’d love to know your thoughts on any of these books or authors, let’s have a chat in the comments and have a great week everyone! 🤗😘 #bookstagram #bookhoarder #bookhaul #newbooksplease #morebooks #bookwormforlife📚🐛 #distantshores #kristenhannah #revenge #yokoogawa #shortstorycollections #theplatformedge #britishlibrarytalesoftheweird #mikeashley #alwayslookingfornewbooks #bookfever https://www.instagram.com/p/CewOaLDL8ZP/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=