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Scottish Book Blogger trying to champion the books that I think everyone should be reading. These are the books I have been reading and the news stories that caught my attention. I will share the good stuff and comment on the less memorable in the hope that I manage to bring a few books to your attention that you will feel may be worth some of your time.
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1w ago
I’ve been looking forward to this week for many, many months. If you follow me on Twitter (aka X) you can’t help but have noticed my continued insistence that people should read Dominic Nolan’s excellent Vine Street. Vine Street utterly blew me when I listened to the audiobook, it was like no story I had ..read more
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2w ago
It is time for a Halloween trip to my Decades Library. Welcome back to my ongoing quest to assemble the ultimate reading experience – my Ulitmate Library curated by book lovers, readers, authors, bloggers, journalists and publishers. In January 2021 I set out to fill the shelves of a brand new Library. I felt it ..read more
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1M ago
I adopted my alter ego of Grab This Book back in the spring of 2014. Initially I had hoped my blog would encourage someone to buy books I had loved reading. Ten and a half years later that hope endures, I love to know my blog is responsible for someone buying a book and discovering ..read more
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1M ago
Welcome back to the Decades Library. My ongoing quest to assemble the ultimate collection of unmissable reads returns once again (this is Decades number ninety five) and this one is an absolute cracker – five brand new titles will be added to the shelves of the Decades Library by the time you have reached the ..read more
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1M ago
She came to write, but the island has its own story . . . Off the windswept coast of Scotland lies Finish Island, rugged and remote. Once a home, it now stands abandoned, a place of dark history and deep memory, a place that holds its stories close. Unable to write since her daughter’s death ..read more
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1M ago
Decades took a snooze last weekend as I was snoozing after a busy long-weekend at Bloody Scotland up in Stirling. The festival remains the absolute high point of my reading year and once again I had an absolute blast meeting old friends, making new friends and listening with rapt attention to the stories and anecdotes ..read more
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2M ago
A murder. The body of eighteen-year-old TV personality Kathleen is found abandoned on a remote beach at the head of An Loch Dubh – the Black Loch – on the west coast of the Isle of Lewis. A swimmer and canoeist, it is inconceivable that she could have drowned. A secret. Fin Macleod left the ..read more
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2M ago
A skull looks up at Jennie from the trench, but it’s not the chalk-white bone and grimacing teeth that send her reeling. It’s the heart-shaped gold pendant, its delicate chain snapped in two. The necklace Hannah never took off. It can’t be Hannah. But it is. When Jennie Whitmore arrives at her school reunion, she ..read more
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2M ago
When I first opened the doors to the Decades Library (back in January 2021) I had no idea that three and a half years later I’d still be welcoming guest curators to Grab This Book and inviting them to add their five reading recommendations to the Library shelves. Earlier this week I looked back over ..read more
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2M ago
What happens when two book bloggers get chatting on Social Media about a long established series of crime thrillers? To be honest that’s practically a daily occurrence…the author gets a few Twitter/X notifications and with a bit of luck that chat will be seen by a few hundred people and some of them may be ..read more