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| | In 1850, Lensinda Marten lives in an all-Black town in Canada north of Lake Erie. She is a healer, but she is puzzled when she is summoned to the side of a slave catcher who has come after a group of escaped slaves that are hiding on Simion's farm. Puzzled because the man is dead....
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| | Novellas: "all killer, no filler" ~Joe Hill For the third year in a row, Rebecca ofBookish Beckand I are co-hosting Novellas in November as a month-long challenge with four weekly prompts. We'll both put up an opening post on 1 November where you can leave your links throughout the month, to be rounded up on...
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| | I'm delighted to once again join forces with Kim fromReading Mattersduring 2026 for a Year With Iris Murdoch! This will be our fourth year jointly exploring the work of one Irish writer following on from William Trevor (2023), John Banville (2024) and Edna O'Brien (2025). Iris Murdoch (1919-1999) was a British novelist, philosopher, and academic,...
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| I'm catching up on four 2023 poetry collections from independent publishers, three of them from Carcanet Press, which so graciously keeps me stocked up with work by contemporary poets. Despite the wide range of subject matter, style and technique, nature imagery and erotic musings are links. From each I've chosen one short poem as a...