Authors call for UK government to hold Meta accountable for copyright infringement https://www.theguardian.com/books/2025/mar/31/authors-call-for-uk-government-to-hold-meta-accountable-for-copyright-infringement #Artificialintelligence(AI) #KazuoIshiguro #RichardOsman #PaulaHawkins #JoanneHarris #ValMcDermid #SarahWaters #Technology #Computing #KateMosse #Culture #Books #Meta

"Yövartio", Sarah Watersin romaani lisätty arkistoon. Oletko jo lukenut tämän?

#sarahwaters #wlw #queer

http://wlwmedia.com/2025/03/25/yovartio/

Rikos ja kielletty rakkaus 20-luvun Lontoossa. Sarah Watersin "Parempaa väkeä" löytyy nyt WLW-arkistosta

#sarahwaters #sateenkaarikirjallisuus #wlw

http://wlwmedia.com/2025/03/24/parempaa-vakea/

🔮 Tumma viktoriaaninen romanssi, jossa mystiikka ja kaipaus kietoutuvat vaaralliseen peliin. #affinity #queercinema #sarahwaters #wlwelokuva #sateenkaarielokuva

http://wlwmedia.com/2025/03/17/affinity/

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

Day 16/20

#BookSky
#BookChallenge
#20BookChallenge
#GreatBooks #Books #SarahWaters

2025 book six: Sarah Waters: The Little Stranger ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

#bookstodon #bookstagram #fiction #2025books #books #fiction #kindle #sarahwaters #thelittlestranger

Five of the best books about queer relationships https://www.theguardian.com/books/2024/apr/25/five-of-the-best-books-about-queer-relationships #JamesBaldwin #LGBTQ+rights #SarahWaters #JennyHval #Culture #Fiction #Books

I've just finished Josephine Tey's "The Franchise Affair" and have been struck by its conservatism. This excellent Sarah Waters essay spotlights some of the fears and resentments seething in the book.

I would recommend "The Franchise Affair" not just as a gripping detective story but also as an insight into the post WW2 Tory mind.

The lost girl | Sarah Waters | The Guardian

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2009/may/30/sarah-waters-books

#JosephineTey #DetectiveNovels #CrimeStories #Mysteries #BritishHistory #Conservatism #TheFranchiseAffair #SarahWaters #Bookstodon

I would love it if Sarah Waters and Becky Chambers both released new books this year.

Which authors do you hope will have new books out in 2024?

#AskFedi #SarahWaters #BeckyChambers #Bookstodon #ReadingCommunity

I’m tagging @bookstodon to see if they have an opinion, too.

The 2015 Women’s Prize for Fiction shortlist is out and there are some wonderful books on the list this year.

I’m particularly interested in Laline Paull’s The Bees as I’ve mentioned in earlier posts.

Outline by Rachel Cusk

‘A woman writer goes to Athens in the height of summer to teach a writing course. Though her own circumstances remain indistinct, she becomes the audience to a chain of narratives, as the people she meets tell her one after another the stories of their lives.  Beginning with the neighbouring passenger on the flight out and his tales of fast boats and failed marriages, the storytellers talk of their loves and ambitions and pains, their anxieties, their perceptions and daily lives. In the stifling heat and noise of the city the sequence of voice begins to weave a complex human tapestry. The more they talk the more elliptical their listener becomes, as she shapes and directs their accounts until certain themes begin to emerge: the experience of loss, the nature of family life, the difficulty of intimacy and the mystery of creativity itself.’ (GoodReads)

The Bees by Laline Paull

‘Born into the lowest class of her society, Flora 717 is a sanitation bee, only fit to clean her orchard hive. Living to accept, obey and serve, she is prepared to sacrifice everything for her beloved holy mother, the Queen. Yet Flora has talents that are not typical of her kin. And while mutant bees are usually instantly destroyed, Flora is reassigned to feed the newborns, before becoming a forager, collecting pollen on the wing. Then she finds her way into the Queen’s inner sanctum, where she discovers secrets both sublime and ominous. Enemies roam everywhere, from the fearsome fertility police to the high priestesses who jealously guard the Hive Mind. But Flora cannot help but break the most sacred law of all, and her instinct to serve is overshadowed by a desire, as overwhelming as it is forbidden…’ (GoodReads)

A God In Every Stone by Kamila Shamsie

‘July 1914. Young Englishwoman Vivian Rose Spencer is running up a mountainside in an ancient land, surrounded by figs and cypresses. Soon she will discover the Temple of Zeus, the call of adventure, and the ecstasy of love. Thousands of miles away a twenty-year old Pathan, Qayyum Gul, is learning about brotherhood and loyalty in the British Indian army.  July, 1915. Qayyum Gul is returning home after losing an eye at Ypres, his allegiances in tatters. Viv is following the mysterious trail of her beloved. They meet on a train to Peshawar, unaware that a connection is about to be forged between their lives – one that will reveal itself fifteen years later, on the Street of Storytellers, when a brutal fight for freedom, an ancient artefact and a mysterious green-eyed woman will bring them together again.’ (GoodReads)

How To Be Both by Ali Smith

‘How to be both is a novel all about art’s versatility. Borrowing from painting’s fresco technique to make an original literary double-take, it’s a fast-moving genre-bending conversation between forms, times, truths and fictions. There’s a Renaissance artist of the 1460s. There’s the child of a child of the 1960s. Two tales of love and injustice twist into a singular yarn where time gets timeless, structural gets playful, knowing gets mysterious, fictional gets real—and all life’s givens get given a second chance.’ (GoodReads)

A Spool of Blue Thread by Anne Tyler

‘It was a beautiful, breezy, yellow-and-green afternoon…’  This is the way Abby Whitshank always begins the story of how she and Red fell in love that day in July 1959. The whole family on the porch, relaxed, half-listening as their mother tells the same tale they have heard so many times before.  And yet this gathering is different. Abby and Red are getting older, and decisions must be made about how best to look after them and their beloved family home. They’ve all come, even Denny, who can usually be relied on only to please himself.  From that porch we spool back through three generations of the Whitshanks, witnessing the events, secrets and unguarded moments that have come to define who and what they are. And while all families like to believe they are special, round that kitchen table over all those years we see played out the hopes and fears, the rivalries and tensions of families everywhere – the essential nature of family life.’ (GoodReads)

The Paying Guests by Sarah Waters

‘It is 1922, and London is tense. Ex-servicemen are disillusioned; the out-of-work and the hungry are demanding change. And in South London, in a genteel Camberwell villa — a large, silent house now bereft of brothers, husband, and even servants — life is about to be transformed as impoverished widow Mrs. Wray and her spinster daughter, Frances, are obliged to take in lodgers.  With the arrival of Lilian and Leonard Barber, a modern young couple of the “clerk class,” the routines of the house will be shaken up in unexpected ways. Little do the Wrays know just how profoundly their new tenants will alter the course of Frances’s life — or, as passions mount and frustration gathers, how far-reaching, and how devastating, the disturbances will be.’ (GoodReads)

What are your thoughts on this year’s shortlist? Visit the Women’s Prize website for more info about this year’s nominated books.

https://lilolia.wordpress.com/2015/04/16/2015-baileys-womens-prize-for-fiction-shortlist/

#AliSmith #AnneTyler #Fiction #KamilaShamsie #LalinePaull #LiteraryFiction #RachelCusk #ReadingList #SarahWaters #WomenSPrizeForFiction #WomenSPrizeShortlist

@dsharman Oh, one more, I'm not sure if you've seen it, check out: #TheHandmaiden.

It's a Korean movie released in 2016. It was #KimTaeRi's second movie, and which catapulted her to stardom.

According to MyDramaList, the story was based on the novel #Fingersmith by Welsh writer #SarahWaters. Instead of the setting in Victorian era Britain, it was adapted into Korea during the Japanese colonial era.

It's a masterpiece. An art. ^_^

Absolutely LOVING our #BowieBookClub book this month. #Fingersmith by #sarahwaters.
Period #class drama, family secrets, #victorian London underworld, secret #sapphic romance! @bookstodon

Just started reading this & already I can see why #JodiTaylor wrote a glowing review. It's like #SarahWaters meets #MarieBrennan. Very atmospheric & intriguing. #Witherward was published two years ago and its sequel, #Wayward (which I have also borrowed) last year. Witherward is the debut novel by #HannahMathewson & I feel she is one to watch.

@bookstodon

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/49356509-witherward

#AmReading #Fantasy #LibraryBooks #bookstodon

#7books
The Master and Margarita #Bulgakov
The Silent Companions #SpookyPurcell
Easy Connections #LizBerry
The Little Stranger #SarahWaters
Lottie and Lisa #kastner
Heidi #Sypri
Riders #jillycooper

Not cool, not impressive and entirely changeable, depending on how I feel.

@OwlBeSatReading Love Sarah Waters's writing & also her! had a brilliant chat with her at The Women's Prize one year 7 she is a complete legend. nd yes, a new novel would be lovely! #SarahWaters

I'll give this a go #bookstodon

seven favourite authors (with apologies to all the ones I'm missing out)

#SusannaClarke
#SarahWaters
#CharlesDickens
#WilliamBoyd
#EnidBlyton (sorry)
#ThomasHardy
#AlisonWeir

Favourite authors is a very long list so here are those that come immediately to mind this morning.

#AgathaChristie
#SarahWaters
#SarahMoss
#SarahPerry
#CarlosRuizZafon
#DaphneDuMaurier
#NeilGaiman
#MRJames
#NicciFrench
#ValMcDermid
#JoannaCannon

#books #authors

Loving the 7 favourite author posts. I'm not sure I can name 7!

#KirstyLogan
#SarahWaters
#ShirleyJackson
#DaphneDuMaurier

Nope can't name 7 so here are some fave books I've read in recent years:

📚 Things We Lost in the Fire by #MarianaEnriquez
📚 The Mercies by #KiranMillwoodHargrave
📚 Woman, Eating by #ClaireKohda

#BookToot #bookstadon #CurrentlyReading #BookRecs #BookTwitter