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Novelist and BAFTA-winning screenwriter. Author of The Glass Field. Sometimes in the UK, sometimes in Spain, always in my head.

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One of my favorite bookish things to do besides reading is assemble TBR priority stacks.

They’re always changing. They’re always a combination of books that I grab from the shelves at the beginning of the year that I know I want to get to, recent acquisitions, and books that whatever I’m currently reading seems to guide me to.

I told myself I wouldn’t read anything else while reading Infinite Jest so here’s everything I’ve decided must be gotten to after I’ve finished it.

(This isn’t including my NYRBs that I’ve picked for #nyrbsummer . Those are in a box somewhere.)

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Recently acquired, gifted books
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📚Bug Hollow by Michelle Huneven @sassandherbooks @orionfiction
📚When Women Sleeping Wake by Emma Pei Yin @quercusbooks
📚The Life Cycle of a Moth by Rowe Irwin @headlinebooks
📚The Lonely City by Olivia Laing @headlinebooks
📚The Pocket Book of Hedgehogs by Hugh Warwick and ...Owls by Marianne Taylor @bloomsburyoutdoors
📚Our Noble Selves by Kate Atkinson @doubledayukbooks @writer_alisonbarrow
📚Main Characters by Bobby Palmer @headlinebooks
📚The Glass Field by Guy Burt @guyburtauthor
📚Whistler by Ann Patchett kindly gifted by @hannahsbookishjourney

So many books which look excellent here!

❓️what was last book that you received a gift? And how many gifted books is too many? Asking for a friend 😂❓️

##literaryfiction #books #bookstagram #read

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“He runs his fingers along the insides of her wrists wonderingly. She is soft; warm; the scars thin smooth ridges, barely discernible, Braille for an unknown language.”

Some books you finish and immediately want to press into someone’s hands without saying anything. This is one of them.

What Burt does is let grief exist without a name. It lives in a closed piano lid, in a father who has forgotten what day it is, in a boy who moves through the house trying to leave no trace. The loss at the centre of this book just is, and you feel the weight of it before you’ve consciously registered what you’re carrying.

I’m always drawn to writing that understands how people construct meaning rather than simply feel things; the psychological architecture of how we cope, what we build to survive ourselves.

Two people who have decided, with complete sincerity, that nuclear war is coming, and Burt makes you understand immediately that this is structure, rather than paranoia.

The prose is so unshowy that you almost miss how precisely it’s working on you. Then a sentence lands and you realise you’ve been holding your breath.

The novel holds its characters with real tenderness, which is harder to pull off than bleakness, I think.

A big thank you to @guyburtauthor who was kind enough to reach out and send me a copy.

#bookstagram #literaryfiction #theglassfield #guyburt #literature

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The glass field by Guy Burt

A character-driven coming-of-age story with two unique characters. Their pairing is powerful.

In 1986, with Chernobyl on the news and the Cold War looming, Scott believes nuclear conflict is inevitable. Jodie, brilliant, abrasive, and damaged, wears loneliness as armour, trusting her solitude for protection.

Scott’s character draws on a psychological link between early loss, especially of a mother in adolescence, and a gravitation towards catastrophes. Losing his mother shatters his assumption of a stable world, causing his internal world to feel like a disaster zone. Imaginal catastrophes mirror this inner state. Chernobyl provides a backdrop for his search for predictability in chaos, hoping studying it can create an illusion of control. Rehearsing for disaster restores some agency, almost avoiding ‘small feelings’ by focussing on large-scale tragedies.

Jodie, a self-harmer, sees Scott as a mirror, not of her behaviour, but of her internal experience. They share emotional language and intensity, seeking high-stakes metaphors for their pain. Scott’s catastrophising offers her a managed version of her self-harm. She finds comfort in his lack of comfort, not despite his catastrophes, but because of them. In his obsession with disaster, she finds a language equal to her own invisible wreckage.

The writing is observational, and the setting isn’t just widow dressing, it is the story’s quietest, most devastating engineering feat. I was almost the same age as Jodie and Scott in 1986, and no adults had convincing answers to Chernobyl. This pairing isn’t a twee romance, it’s two alarm systems that ring at the same frequency, and their bond becomes survival, not just comfort. I’ll think of this pair for a while.

Thank you to @guyburtauthor for this beautiful copy in return for an honest review.
#theglassfield #comingofage

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The Blurb
Set in Britain in 1986, in the long shadow of the Cold War and the aftermath of Chernobyl, The Glass Field follows two adolescent outsiders whose shared fear of nuclear catastrophe brings them together.
Scott is sensitive, watchful, and quietly burdened by grief. Convinced that global annihilation is inevitable, he retreats into post-apocalyptic fiction, survival games, and imagined futures, drawn to the clarity they offer in an uncertain world. Jodie is brilliant, abrasive, and fiercely guarded. Determined to keep the world at a distance, she trusts solitude as her only reliable form of protection.
When Scott and Jodie first meet, each recognises in the other a mirror of their own fear. To begin with, their bond is tentative and wary; but it gradually deepens, until the line between imagination and reality begins to slip.
Quiet, interior, and psychologically precise, The Glass Field is not a conventional coming-of-age story but rather a novel about how we deal with a world that feels on the verge of breaking. It explores adolescence, otherness, intimacy, and the beginnings of grief, without offering easy resolutions or emotional verdicts.

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🗣️*Literary Fiction Spotlight* 📚
𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐆𝐥𝐚𝐬𝐬 𝐅𝐢𝐞𝐥𝐝 by Guy Burt @guyburtauthor

Thanks @thebookdealer for the opportunity to highlight this book!

The Glass Field is not a conventional coming-of-age story but rather a novel about how we deal with a world that feels on the verge of breaking. If you want to know more, read below 👇

📚 Book description

𝙄𝙣 1986, 𝙬𝙞𝙩𝙝 𝘾𝙝𝙚𝙧𝙣𝙤𝙗𝙮𝙡 𝙨𝙢𝙤𝙪𝙡𝙙𝙚𝙧𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙤𝙣 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙣𝙚𝙬𝙨 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝘾𝙤𝙡𝙙 𝙒𝙖𝙧 𝙘𝙖𝙨𝙩𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙖 𝙙𝙚𝙚𝙥 𝙨𝙝𝙖𝙙𝙤𝙬, 𝙎𝙘𝙤𝙩𝙩 𝙗𝙚𝙘𝙤𝙢𝙚𝙨 𝙘𝙤𝙣𝙫𝙞𝙣𝙘𝙚𝙙 𝙩𝙝𝙖𝙩 𝙣𝙪𝙘𝙡𝙚𝙖𝙧 𝙘𝙤𝙣𝙛𝙡𝙞𝙘𝙩 𝙞𝙨 𝙞𝙣𝙚𝙫𝙞𝙩𝙖𝙗𝙡𝙚. 𝙎𝙚𝙣𝙨𝙞𝙩𝙞𝙫𝙚, 𝙬𝙖𝙩𝙘𝙝𝙛𝙪𝙡, 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙝𝙖𝙪𝙣𝙩𝙚𝙙 𝙗𝙮 𝙥𝙚𝙧𝙨𝙤𝙣𝙖𝙡 𝙜𝙧𝙞𝙚𝙛, 𝙝𝙚 𝙞𝙢𝙢𝙚𝙧𝙨𝙚𝙨 𝙝𝙞𝙢𝙨𝙚𝙡𝙛 𝙞𝙣 𝙥𝙤𝙨𝙩-𝙖𝙥𝙤𝙘𝙖𝙡𝙮𝙥𝙩𝙞𝙘 𝙨𝙩𝙤𝙧𝙞𝙚𝙨 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙨𝙪𝙧𝙫𝙞𝙫𝙖𝙡 𝙜𝙖𝙢𝙚𝙨, 𝙙𝙧𝙖𝙬𝙣 𝙩𝙤 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙘𝙡𝙖𝙧𝙞𝙩𝙮 𝙩𝙝𝙚𝙮 𝙤𝙛𝙛𝙚𝙧 𝙬𝙝𝙚𝙣 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙛𝙪𝙩𝙪𝙧𝙚 𝙛𝙚𝙚𝙡𝙨 𝙤𝙪𝙩 𝙤𝙛 𝙘𝙤𝙣𝙩𝙧𝙤𝙡.

𝙅𝙤𝙙𝙞𝙚 𝙞𝙨 𝙗𝙧𝙞𝙡𝙡𝙞𝙖𝙣𝙩, 𝙖𝙗𝙧𝙖𝙨𝙞𝙫𝙚, 𝙙𝙖𝙢𝙖𝙜𝙚𝙙. 𝙁𝙞𝙚𝙧𝙘𝙚𝙡𝙮 𝙙𝙚𝙩𝙚𝙧𝙢𝙞𝙣𝙚𝙙 𝙩𝙤 𝙠𝙚𝙚𝙥 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙬𝙤𝙧𝙡𝙙 𝙖𝙩 𝙖𝙧𝙢’𝙨 𝙡𝙚𝙣𝙜𝙩𝙝, 𝙨𝙝𝙚 𝙬𝙚𝙖𝙧𝙨 𝙡𝙤𝙣𝙚𝙡𝙞𝙣𝙚𝙨𝙨 𝙡𝙞𝙠𝙚 𝙖𝙧𝙢𝙤𝙪𝙧, 𝙩𝙧𝙪𝙨𝙩𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙝𝙚𝙧 𝙨𝙤𝙡𝙞𝙩𝙪𝙙𝙚 𝙩𝙤 𝙥𝙧𝙤𝙩𝙚𝙘𝙩 𝙝𝙚𝙧.

𝘿𝙧𝙖𝙬𝙣 𝙩𝙤𝙜𝙚𝙩𝙝𝙚𝙧 𝙗𝙮 𝙩𝙝𝙚𝙞𝙧 𝙛𝙚𝙖𝙧𝙨, 𝙅𝙤𝙙𝙞𝙚 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙎𝙘𝙤𝙩𝙩 𝙛𝙤𝙧𝙢 𝙖𝙣 𝙪𝙣𝙚𝙖𝙨𝙮, 𝙬𝙖𝙧𝙮 𝙖𝙡𝙡𝙞𝙖𝙣𝙘𝙚. 𝘽𝙪𝙩 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙘𝙡𝙤𝙨𝙚𝙧 𝙩𝙝𝙚𝙮 𝙗𝙚𝙘𝙤𝙢𝙚, 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙢𝙤𝙧𝙚 𝙞𝙩 𝙨𝙚𝙚𝙢𝙨 𝙩𝙝𝙖𝙩 𝙥𝙧𝙚𝙥𝙖𝙧𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙛𝙤𝙧 𝙒𝙤𝙧𝙡𝙙 𝙒𝙖𝙧 𝙏𝙝𝙧𝙚𝙚 𝙩𝙤𝙜𝙚𝙩𝙝𝙚𝙧 𝙢𝙖𝙮 𝙗𝙚 𝙩𝙝𝙚𝙞𝙧 𝙤𝙣𝙡𝙮 𝙘𝙝𝙖𝙣𝙘𝙚 𝙩𝙤 𝙨𝙪𝙧𝙫𝙞𝙫𝙚 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙥𝙚𝙧𝙨𝙤𝙣𝙖𝙡 𝙖𝙥𝙤𝙘𝙖𝙡𝙮𝙥𝙨𝙚𝙨 𝙩𝙝𝙖𝙩 𝙖𝙧𝙚 𝙖𝙡𝙧𝙚𝙖𝙙𝙮 𝙚𝙣𝙜𝙪𝙡𝙛𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙩𝙝𝙚𝙢.

𝙏𝙝𝙚 𝙂𝙡𝙖𝙨𝙨 𝙁𝙞𝙚𝙡𝙙 𝙞𝙨 𝙖𝙣 𝙞𝙣𝙩𝙞𝙢𝙖𝙩𝙚, 𝙦𝙪𝙞𝙚𝙩𝙡𝙮 𝙪𝙣𝙨𝙚𝙩𝙩𝙡𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙣𝙤𝙫𝙚𝙡 𝙖𝙗𝙤𝙪𝙩 𝙬𝙝𝙖𝙩 𝙬𝙚 𝙘𝙡𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙩𝙤 𝙬𝙝𝙚𝙣 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙬𝙤𝙧𝙡𝙙 𝙛𝙚𝙚𝙡𝙨 𝙘𝙡𝙤𝙨𝙚 𝙩𝙤 𝙗𝙧𝙚𝙖𝙠𝙞𝙣𝙜.

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❓Do you feel the need to prepare yourself for the worse in trying times, or you just take one day at a time?❓

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Synopsis

In 1986, with Chernobyl smouldering on the news and the Cold War casting a deep shadow, Scott becomes convinced that nuclear conflict is inevitable. Sensitive, watchful, and haunted by personal grief, he immerses himself in post-apocalyptic stories and survival games, drawn to the clarity they offer when the future feels out of control.

Jodie is brilliant, abrasive, damaged. Fiercely determined to keep the world at arm’s length, she wears loneliness like armour, trusting her solitude to protect her.

Drawn together by their fears, Jodie and Scott form an uneasy, wary alliance. But as time passes, their shared vision of cataclysm becomes increasingly seductive.

The Glass Field is an intimate, quietly unsettling novel about what we cling to when the world feels close to breaking.

Purchase Link

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Glass-Field-Guy-Burt-ebook/dp/B0GP2JKHY9

Author Bio

Guy Burt is a novelist and BAFTA-winning screenwriter. He was born in the UK and now lives in Spain.

#TheGlassField #GuyBurt #JaroPress #BlogTour #Bookstagram #Bookblogger #Tr4cyF3nton #TracyFenton #CompulsiveReaders

@GuyBurt @GuyBurtAuthor @ReadMedia @JaroPress @Tr4cyF3nton @TracyFenton @CompulsiveReaders

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Good morning! Happy Thursday! 😊

Just got back from a walk with bubba in the morning sunshine ☀️

Cracking on with #TheGlassField by @guyburtauthor should have it finished today. Really good so far.

Plus received some amazing book post yesterday, so pics coming up!

Have a fab day everyone! 💙

#bookstagrammer #bookstagram #readersofinstagram #reading

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Good morning! Happy Tuesday! 😊

Chilly & miserable day out there, so a day of reading and playing with bubba for me.

Making a start on #TheGlassField by @guyburtauthor for an upcoming blog tour. Plus pics of some more fab books I've received.

Have a wonderful day everyone! 💙📚

Blurb:

In 1986, with Chernobyl smouldering on the news and the Cold War casting a deep shadow, Scott becomes convinced that nuclear conflict is inevitable. Sensitive, watchful, and haunted by personal grief, he immerses himself in post-apocalyptic stories and survival games, drawn to the clarity they offer when the future feels out of control.

Jodie is brilliant, abrasive, damaged. Fiercely determined to keep the world at arm’s length, she wears loneliness like armour, trusting her solitude to protect her.

Drawn together by their fears, Jodie and Scott form an uneasy, wary alliance. But the closer they become, the more it seems that preparing for World War Three together may be their only chance to survive the personal apocalypses that are already engulfing them.

The Glass Field is an intimate, quietly unsettling novel about what we cling to when the world feels close to breaking.

@thebookdealer @readmedia_ #jaropress #guyburt #readersofinstagram #bookstagram

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Thank you to @thebookdealer and Read Media for a gifted copy of ‘The Glass Field’ by @guyburtauthor which publishes next month.

My review will be posted on my blog tour date, but in the meantime checkout the blurb below -

In 1986, with Chernobyl smouldering on the news and the Cold War casting a deep shadow, Scott becomes convinced that nuclear conflict is inevitable. Sensitive, watchful, and haunted by personal grief, he immerses himself in post-apocalyptic stories and survival games, drawn to the clarity they offer when the future feels out of control.

Jodie is brilliant, abrasive, damaged. Fiercely determined to keep the world at arm’s length, she wears loneliness like armour, trusting her solitude to protect her.

Drawn together by their fears, Jodie and Scott form an uneasy, wary alliance. But as time passes, their shared vision of cataclysm becomes increasingly seductive.

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It's been a long time since I did the "appointment television" thing and actually sat down on the couch at a specific time to watch something, but it was well worth it because having Roy and the team back on our screens last night was excellent. A wonderful 90 minutes of twists and turns and team work.

Perhaps not completely intentional, but the whole theme of "Roy is very done with everything" that ran through this episode still has me smirk a little bit. Come on, give the poor man a break.

No, wait, I retract that. Give the man all the angst and the conflict. More of that, please. And get him away from that whiteboard a bit more. Maybe home to his family. Where they can have more tension and conflict.

#grace #graceitv #graceseries #roygrace #johnsimm #itv

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