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Novelist. Screenwriter. 📖 MAYBE NEXT TIME - a @reesesbookclub & 🎥 in development @appletv! Next 📖 THE RESIDENCY - a horror out 2026!

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🛍️ Come shopping with me at The Works! 📚

Check out my highlights and recommendations!

I went in for The Witch by Freida McFadden, but unfortunately they didn’t actually have it! 🤣🙈 but they did have a very good Freida selection, and several other books on my wishlist which I resisted buying for now!!

Do you spot anything you fancy reading?

#bookshopping #booksbooksbooks #bookworm #bookobsessed #bookish

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An artist’s retreat, a remote Scottish island, and paintings that are anything but ordinary… 👀🖼️

If you love slow-burning gothic horror, sinister benefactors, isolated settings, and houses hiding dark secrets, this is one residency that might make you think twice about accepting an invitation. 🖤

How many of these tropes are calling your name? 👀

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Looking for the perfect romance read to cuddle up with this autumn? Why not use our perfectly-curated and in no way incorrect zodiac based book rec system 💫

Your traits = your perfect romance read ❤️

What did you get!??

#zodiac #books #bookstagram #bookrecs #starsigns

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The Residency by C.D. Major published on 5th August 2026 by Bolinda Publishing Audio read by Sarah Cullum 10 hrs 28 Book 80 of 2026

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My first read by this author, I was attracted by the blurb as it sounded intriguing - and that it was!

This book verged into the supernatural (not my favourite genre), however the author introduced the premise gradually, writing convincingly enough to hold my curiosity.

Ginny, and her daughter, were authentic characters, although sometimes frustratingly naive.

The setting, an island with no way to communicate with the outside world, made for an atmospheric, chilling locked room mystery.

📚 blurb 📚
The opportunity of a lifetime, or the worst mistake of your life?
Life in London is hard for Ginny as a single mother barely scraping by. Once she was a promising artist with a glittering future ahead. On a whim, she applies for an artist’s residency – all expenses paid – and is astonished to be accepted.
Soon, Ginny is on a boat to a remote Scottish island, her daughter by her side. But was she too hasty, attracted by the promise of security and a chance to make art again? Locals she meets are tightlipped about the man who is Ginny’s benefactor, but she senses underlying fear. Her contract contains odd rules about avoiding the gallery at the vast property where she is living, and there is an undeniable eeriness to the place. If she didn’t know better, she’d swear she could hear whispers, and that the people in the paintings were changing overnight…
By the time Ginny realises what a grave mistake she has made, she is stranded. Accepting the invitation has sealed her fate and the only way to survive is through escape – or sacrifice.

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My toxic trait is thinking I need just one more horror book when what I actually need is an intervention. 💀

My beloved @aboxofstories Horror Box has done it again and I am foaming at the mouth. 🩸 Three books, bookmarks, tea, artwork, a magnet and merch??? I’m basically a Victorian child being lured into the woods by a suspiciously book-shaped object at this point 😂

Also, that tote? I need it buried with me. ⚰️

What I truly love about the book picks is that they aren't necessarily on the popular bestseller lists, they are more hidden gems destined to become iconic and usually filled with fictional trauma. EXACTLY MY SHIT.

💬 Now tell me, are you picking your next read based on the cover, the blurb, or the promise of psychological damage?

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We're still buzzing after last night's fantastic Get Booked event with Clare Mackintosh at Theatr Clwyd

Clare's brilliant guests on the sofa, C.D. Major, Harriet Tyce and M.J. Arlidge, had the audience laughing and captivated in equal measure with tales from their writing lives.

Highlights included Cesca's wonderful pet portrait of one of Harriet's dogs and Harriet giving Matt a memorable tarot card reading!

A huge thank you to everyone who joined us and thank you to @cescamajorauthor @harriet_tyce & @m_j_arlidge for being so entertaining.

Signed copies of all the authors books, and tickets for our next Get Booked event, in November, are available via the link in our bio! 🔗

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“You have too many books” is not a thing my people say- We don’t need that kind of negativity in our lives!!

THAT BEING SAID… I did just go through my bookshelves and do a little book decluttering. Some went to @bigstorybend - some were dropped off at Little Free Libraries, and a few are looking for new homes over on @pangobooks (link in bio of your interested)

✨ Silly question: If your bookshelves could talk, would they be begging for mercy or demanding you buy them more friends?

* Book lover & bookworm life
* Bookstagram community
* Book decluttering & bookshelf organization
* Little Free Library book donations
* PangoBooks books for sale
* Independent bookstores & used books
* Too many books, not enough shelves

#Bookstagram #BookishLife #BookDeclutter #LittleFreeLibrary #pangobooks

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We love an author visit! Thank @cescamajorauthor for signing copies of The Residency yesterday, we can't wait to read it! And thank you to @kate_gray_author for the fabulous photos 📸

Fancy reading an atmospheric, compelling and genuinely chilling mystery this spooky season? The Residency ticks all the boxes!

#indiebookshop #booklover #signedbooks

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If the walls of Henley Town Hall could talk… 📚

For ten days, the @gowercottage Stage barely stopped. There was crime and wine, food and politics, sport, science, history, poetry, plenty of laughter and some very good stories.

We welcomed everyone from Caroline Quentin, Jodie Ounsley and Sir Ben Okri to Sophie Raworth, Gary Kemp, the Wittering Whitehalls and the Maclean Brothers. Katherine Grainger presided over Crime Night, Kathy Lette had the room roaring, Rachel Bright and Jim Field filled it with younger Festival-goers, and Maggie Aderin brought our final afternoon to a close looking up at the stars.

And that barely scratches the surface.

A huge thank you to Gower Cottage Brownies, who have supported the Festival for so many years, for sponsoring our @henleytowncouncil stage again this year. ♥️

📷 @jimdonahueimages @scarletpage @photo_goldenberg

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Sunday Stack!📚💕

I have been truly blessed with book mail recently and I cannot thank everyone enough🥹 I still have to pinch myself every time something arrives!!😆😭 Thank you, thank you, thank you to everyone tagged!!🥰

Can we also just take a moment for those edges👀🤩

QOTD: What are you currently reading? I’m reading The Pools!!✨

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Had such a lovely evening at two events at @henleylitfest last night!

@niamh_connolly and @abigailavisauthor in conversation wirh @amanda_jennings1 at The Relais and then @chrischibnallauthor @harriet_tyce @louisecandlish with @cescamajorauthor at The Town Hall.

I love hearing authors talk about their books, how and where they write 🛌 😉 and their research styles.

Henley as always looked beautiful, the authors were very entertaining, and with @libcreads I had a great time.

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So looking forward to this brilliant event next Tuesday! What a fab lineup! @cescamajorauthor @harriet_tyce and of course our brilliant hostess and instigator of fun @claremackwrites

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