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Reader, critical thinker, third sector employee, MSc student, mother of boys. Dog walker, hen feeder, cat lover, vegetable grower, jam maker.

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The road less travelled… a very old right of way that leads to my house, unused for 50 years, now opened again. Haven’t driven it yet but it makes for an idyllic morning walk 😊 #speirgorm #springtime

03.03.2026 08:43 👍 11 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

This is on my list. How is it on audio?

18.01.2026 09:41 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

It was gorgeous, Felicity. I rarely miss Sunday Miscellany 😊

11.01.2026 17:22 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

I think I remember it being on your list of favourite books. Happy New Year, Peter xx

31.12.2025 19:14 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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Revisiting a much loved novel on audible. Can think of worse ways to ring in the New Year.
#books
#booksky

31.12.2025 18:09 👍 6 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Susannah Clarke’s Piranesi

Susannah Clarke’s Piranesi

What an enchanting way to finish the year’s reading. I think I will always love this book. #books
#booksky

31.12.2025 16:24 👍 6 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0
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Bereft to have finished Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell on audio. Everything one could wish for to turn dark winter drives into gothic deliciousness. One of my favourite books this year. Saving Piranesi for Christmas: will fit Banville’s Venetian Vespers in between.

17.12.2025 14:01 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Best of luck Peter! Xx

10.12.2025 11:46 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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Content to sleep on arm if lap is not on offer 😂

02.12.2025 06:29 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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Patrick Kavanagh - well loved poet and writer died #OTD 30 November 1967
#PatrickKavanagh #Advent
#speirgorm

30.11.2025 09:35 👍 9 🔁 5 💬 1 📌 1

Couldn’t cope with the lack of punctuation really! So I put it on audio and finished it that way. Just not my kind of dystopia, for whatever reason. Maybe because I’m Irish 😂

27.11.2025 15:52 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Interested to hear what you think of this one. I wasn’t crazy about it.

26.11.2025 09:38 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Yes, it does feel like a winter book. Hope you’re doing ok under that heated blanket 😊 xx

21.11.2025 19:30 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

It’s one I’ve been meaning to read for a long time, Peter. Hoping the audio version does it justice, but Richard Armitage always does a great job narrating.

21.11.2025 19:09 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell, Susanna Clarke

Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell, Susanna Clarke

In the search for a long and atmospheric audiobook I came upon this. I’m a bit excited for it.
#books
#audiobooks
#booksky

21.11.2025 17:57 👍 12 🔁 1 💬 4 📌 0

Well if anybody deserves a heated throw/ blanket at the moment, it’s you Peter. Do you have a suitably cosy murder mystery to read under it? 😊

20.11.2025 10:23 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Waking up to Gordon Lightfoot on a dark November morning. Nice. #risingtime #speirgorm

16.11.2025 06:46 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Can’t resist the return of Jimmy Perez. If Cleeves applies the same evocation of place for Orkney as she did for Shetland, I’ll be a happy reader 😊
#books
#booksky

15.11.2025 10:10 👍 6 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 1

I remember reading Atonement years ago, but don’t think I’ve read any others. You’d like this one, I think.

15.11.2025 08:34 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Ian McEwan’s What We Can Know

Ian McEwan’s What We Can Know

An academic from a climate-ravaged 2119 searches for poet Francis Blundy’s lost masterpiece, trawling through century-old emails and social media. What’s not to love?
#books
#booksky

15.11.2025 08:08 👍 7 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Kate Atkinson’s Human Croquet

Kate Atkinson’s Human Croquet

Well, this was mental. Mental in a good way… sensuous and dark and thrilling, and possibly my favourite of all the Kate Atkinson novels I’ve been devouring over the last couple of months.
#books
#booksky
#KateAtkinson

08.11.2025 16:31 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Certainly seems like they’re taking you in hand a bit 😊

05.11.2025 19:54 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

All’s well here Peter. Finished my masters and back to reading whatever the hell I want to read. Sounds like you’ll be a new man by 2026 😊

05.11.2025 19:36 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Mick Herron’s Joe Country

Mick Herron’s Joe Country

Wouldn’t usually watch the tv series before reading the books and worry that the books won’t live up to the series, but I think it’s time to risk it.
#mickherron
#slowhorses
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#booksky

05.11.2025 19:32 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Glad to hear the recovery is progressing well, Peter 😊

05.11.2025 19:26 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Kate Atkinson’s A God in Ruins

Kate Atkinson’s A God in Ruins

I’m going to miss the Todds, in all their iterations.
#kateatkinson
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#booksky

04.11.2025 16:26 👍 7 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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One more sleep…
#therosefield
#philippullman
#books
#booksky
#bookofdust

22.10.2025 16:34 👍 8 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0

I have yet to come across a dud 😊

21.10.2025 19:52 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Think I’ll dive straight into A God in Ruins.

21.10.2025 19:51 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Kate Atkinson, Life After Life

Kate Atkinson, Life After Life

Everything hangs by a thread. I loved this novel. Off now to ponder my life choices 😉
#books
#booksky
#kateatkinson

21.10.2025 19:37 👍 28 🔁 1 💬 2 📌 0