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Reviews of fiction and non-fiction by an impressive line-up of author guests, hosted by Adele Geras, Linda Newbery and Celia Rees. Posts on alternate Mondays.
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Today: the first of three features on the launch titles for #WritersReviewPublishing. Here Linda Newbery 📚🌳🐝✏️Ⓥ talks to Jane Rogers about The One True Thing and some of its ingredients. reviewsbywriters.blogspot.com/2025/04/specia… #newbooks #newfiction #greatreads


At WritersReview: the 2nd of 3 features to mark the launch of #WritersReviewPublishing. Mary Hoffman on DAVID: THE UNAUTHORISED AUTOBIOGRAPHY - and 6 great tips for writers! reviewsbywriters.blogspot.com/2025/05/specia… #Italy #historicalfiction #Michelangelo #sculpture


"That’s what I like best for historical fiction - lots of facts to draw on but a great big gap where you can create the story." Mary Hoffman on DAVID, newly out from #WritersReviewPublishing. reviewsbywriters.blogspot.com/2025/05/specia… #Italy #Renaissance #Michelangelo #sculpture #historicalfiction




Good things happen at Compton Verney! Writers Review was born there in 2016; writing & publishing matters are discussed in the cafe; new books get their first airing on our special bench! #TheOneTrueThing #MissGrahamsColdWarCookbook Celia Rees Linda Newbery 📚🌳🐝✏️Ⓥ #newbooks #greatreads


Following the sad news that #AidanChambers has died, Celia Rees and Linda Newbery 📚🌳🐝✏️Ⓥ share their admiration and respect for this influential author: 'a quiet trailblazer'. reviewsbywriters.blogspot.com/2025/05/specia… The Carnegies #youthfiction #PostcardsfromNoMansLand


My WritersReview friends, Celia Rees and Linda Newbery 📚🌳🐝✏️Ⓥ have written movingly about the wonderful writer, Aidan Chambers, who has just died. reviewsbywriters.blogspot.com/2025/05/specia…

It's Oxfordshire Artweeks - and Linda Newbery 📚🌳🐝✏️Ⓥ joins the artists at #WiseInvestments with her Artweeks-inspired novel ##TheOneTrueThing. Come along to browse, chat & enjoy beautiful arts & crafts! #art #Oxfordshire #chippingnorton #newfiction #newbooks


At WritersReview - new guest, historical novelist David Breakell, praises #KateAtkinson's latest #JacksonBrodie mystery: 'There are crime writers, and then there's Kate Atkinson ..." reviewsbywriters.blogspot.com/2025/05/guest-… #crimefiction #mystery #greatreads Penguin Books UK


New guest, historical novelist David Breakell, praises #KateAtkinson's #JacksonBrodie: 'his humanity, fallibility, dark humour - and the sheer train wreck of his life - grab our minds and hearts and never let go.' reviewsbywriters.blogspot.com/2025/05/guest-… #crimefiction Penguin Books UK #mystery


At WritersReview - returning guest Laura Parker praises Nic Wilson's memoir of nature, illness and recovery: "Happiness begins to percolate through habitual anxiety and mysterious seizures." reviewsbywriters.blogspot.com/2025/06/guest-… Laura Parker Summersdale #naturewriting #nature #memoir


Guest Laura Parker praises this memoir of illness, loss and recovery through nature by Guardian Country Diarist Nic Wilson. reviewsbywriters.blogspot.com/2025/06/guest-… Laura Parker The Guardian #nature #NatureTherapy #illness #recovery #parenthood #memoir Summersdale


This is riveting. Thoroughly engaging. Thoroughly horrifying. Can/will the food system move away from greed & exploitation towards nourishing people & planet? By the excellent Stuart Gillespie who I heard speak most powerfully at OxfordLitFest. #foodsystem #futureoffood


Welcome to new WritersReview guest Emma Pass, who praises The Midnight Hour: "a mystery that turned out to be so much more". reviewsbywriters.blogspot.com/2025/06/guest-… Penguin Books UK Eve Chase is writing #greatreads #mystery #family #1990s #familysaga #disappearance


Welcome to new guest, novelist Emma Pass, who relishes this family mystery: "I am now a firm fan of Eve Chase and will definitely be reading more by her." reviewsbywriters.blogspot.com/2025/06/guest-… Penguin Books UK Eve Chase is writing #family #mystery #disappearance #greatreads


At WritersReview today, guest Cindy Jefferies relishes Samantha Harvey's Booker prizewinning ORBITAL, which divides opinion: "major complaint seems to be that 'nothing happens' - I beg to differ..." reviewsbywriters.blogspot.com/2025/06/guest-… The Booker Prizes #greatreads #space Vintage Books


Cindy Jefferies praises ORBITAL: "This jewel of a book is out there, like our beautiful planet in space; silent, modest, wonderful, waiting to be found." reviewsbywriters.blogspot.com/2025/06/guest-… #SamanthaHarvey The Booker Prizes #BookerPrize Vintage Books #greatreads
