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Johnny Mains will be in store to sign Halloweird on Thursday 29th October from 4pm! 🎃

Collecting up a haunting haul of tales and a handful of weird seasonal poetry from across the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, this new volume celebrates the riotous weird of the Halloween season through the works of legendary ghost story writers such as Edith Wharton alongside rare literary treats, rediscovered by Johnny Mains and returning to print for the first time since their original publication.

@johnnymains @bl_publishing

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#waterstones #britishlibrary #halloween #booksigning #plymouth

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One of my favourite collections 😍🕯️📖💀🖤
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Day 23 of #spookishbookishpages - Weird
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#britishlibrarytalesoftheweird #britishlibrary #talesoftheweird #gothicliterature

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This Week’s (let me in your) Window 👻 🧛‍♀️ 🐦‍⬛

#bodiesinthebookshop #ghoststories #bookshopwindow #thisweekswindow #hauntedbookshop

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The Pan paperback of Nina Bawden’s early crime novel The Odd Flamingo which the British Library republished recently #classiccrimefiction #crimeclassics #coverart #panpaperbacks @bl_publishing

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Do you read classic crime?

You may be forgiven for thinking its mid December on my page this week, as I’m talking about a lot of Christmas books, but they are all arriving so I can read them in the next couple months - I love planning my Winter Reading and @bl_publishing always comes up trumps with a great Crime Classic.

This month it’s Call A Hearse by Jonathan Stagge.

There are just a few days to go till Christmas in a snowy upstate New York and Dr. Hugh Westlake is looking forward to enjoying the festive season with his daughter. His greatest worry is how to find all the items on her Christmas list when a young woman, Norma Hale, arrives at his surgery, asking for sleeping pills and telling him she’s being stalked by a yellow New York City taxi – the same car that drove two of her friends to their deaths.

Though Westlake initially dismisses Norma’s fears as fantasy, he changes his mind when he sees the cab for himself, and decides to get to the bottom of the situation. But has he accepted a poisoned chalice? Up at the Hale’s family seat the deaths start to mount up: someone is strangled by fairy lights strung between two Christmas trees, another is left for dead in the snow… Can Westlake unravel the secrets of the past in time to stop a killer carrying out their ruthless plan?

This sounds like a great mystery for a winter night!

[prgifted]

#callahearse #crimeclassics #britishlibrarycrimeclassics #travelsalongmybookshelf #neverstopreading

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Here are some more of my favourite blue covers from my collection. 💙🩵

📖 Publishers in order of appearance:
1- The Odyssey - Barnes & Noble @barnesandnoble
2- The Enchanted April - Chronicle Books @chroniclebooks @abramschronicle
3- The Adventures of Tom Sawyer - Barnes & Noble
4- The Ghost Stories of Willie Collins - British Library @britishlibrary @bl_publishing
5- Tales of the Sea - Chronicle Books
6- The Little Prince - Farshore @farshorebooks
7- Peter Pan - North Parade Publishing (Bath Treasury of Children’s Classics) @northparadepublishing4

#booklover #classicbooks #beautifulbooks #odyssey #bookrecommendations

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Oh this is our favourite time of year for books! 📚

New things hitting the shelves this week . . . Lots of spooky reads and a few wintery stories too for good measure. 👻 ❄️

A couple of these might be coming along with us to Trinnacle this coming Saturday - we are excited! ✨ @well_dressed_derbyshire

#smallbookshop #spookyseason #autumnal #newbooks #wirksworth

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The Philosophy of Perfume by @aliceduparcq contains lots of interesting perfume facts, such as the fragrance Marie Antoinette wore to the guillotine. Naturally, I asked Alice what fragrance she would wear to be beheaded…

🎧 Listen to the full episode via the link in my bio or wherever you find your podcasts.

📺 Watch the episode on YouTube and Apple Podcasts.

[AD] A huge thank you to @discoverkaorium for sponsoring this season of the podcast.

#fragrance #perfume #fragrancecollection #fragranceaddict #beauty

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INDIE PRESS HIGHLIGHTS for 29 & 30 October 2026

Highlighted new releases for 29 & 30 October by Independent and Small Presses from the UK and the ROI.

* Attacking Earth and Sun by Mathieu Belezi, translated by Lara Vergnaud, Hope Road
* Agatha Christie A World of Mystery, edtied by Lucy Rowland and Martin Edwards, British Library Publishing
* Hotel Casanova And Other Brief Texts by Annie Ernaux, translated by Alison L. Strayer, Seven Stories Press
* Wild Horse by Abbas Sayar, translated by Can Kocak, Thousand Horsemen Press
* Magic: Beyond the Supernatural in Contemporary Art by Amy Hale, Tate Publishing
* The Thistles of the Baragan by Panait Istrati, translated by Jacques Le Clercq, Thousand Horsemen Press
* The Carry On Girls by Gemma Ross & Robert Ross, The History Press
* The Encyclopedia of Middle-earth by Bador et al, Frances Lincoln
* Paradise Burns by Pol Guasch, translated by Mara Faye Lethem, Peninsula Press

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October 2026 - recommended new releases: links below

https://tinyurl.com/Oct2026TBR
https://uk.bookshop.org/lists/october-2026-recommended-new-releases-from-independent-presses

#Bookstagram #BookstagramUK #ReadersOfInstagram

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She’s back! Returning to the podcast hot on the heels of the publication of her first book, content creator and author @aliceduparcq tells me all about her perfume philosophy.

🎧 Listen to the full episode via the link in my bio or wherever you find your podcasts.

📺 Watch the episode on YouTube and Apple Podcasts.

[AD] A huge thank you to @discoverkaorium for sponsoring this season of the podcast.

#fragrance #perfume #fragrancecollection #fragranceaddict #beauty

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FOLKLORE, MYTH AND MAGIC: new releases from Independent Presses for October 2026

Here are our highlights this month in Folklore, Myth and Magic from Independent Presses in the UK and ROI.

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October 2026 - recommended new releases: links below

https://tinyurl.com/Oct2026TBR
https://uk.bookshop.org/lists/october-2026-recommended-new-releases-from-independent-presses

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Highlights in Folklore, Myth and Magic:
* Magic: Beyond the Supernatural in Contemporary Art by Amy Hale, Tate Publishing
* Tara of the Kings: Ancient Irish Myths and Legends Retold by Gerry Smyth, British Library Publishing
* The Years of the Wizard by Rachel Morris, September Publishing
* Perilous Enchantment: The True History of Faeries by Sarah Clegg, Granta Books

#Bookstagram #BookstagramUK #ReadersOfInstagram

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keeping it light xx

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#bookrecommendations #bookstagram #prettybooks

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