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My blog is all about books I have read, reviews, the bookshops I love, book recs, literary festivals and book chat. Oh and travel!
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Andy’s Sunday Lit Quiz - 2026/38 (L) (opens the original)
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It’s Sunday Lit Quiz time!Subscribe so you don’t miss my weekly bookish blogs & Sunday lit quizzesSubscribe nowThis week we continue with the alphabet theme with the letter L. Eighteen questions. One point per correct answer. Always mark yourself generously. Answers at the bottom.<a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" href="https://substackcdn.c
Unpacking my top 100 favourite books (opens the original)
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Last week I did a blog about my top 100 favourite books. It was just a list, really. So I’m going to spend the next 10 weeks talking about the books from my top 100, ten each week, and trying to explain what it is I love about them.<img alt="" class="sizing-n
Andy’s Sunday Lit Quiz - 2026/37 (K) (opens the original)
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It’s Sunday Lit Quiz time!Subscribe so you don’t miss my weekly bookish blogs & Sunday lit quizzesSubscribe nowThis week we continue with the alphabet theme with the letter K. Sixteen questions. One point per correct answer. Always mark yourself generously. Answers at the bottom.<a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" href
My favourite 100 books (opens the original)
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Every two or three years I update my favourite 100 books and it’s that time again. In the past three years I’ve read around 500 books, including some great ones, some of which have made their way into this list, some of which didn’t quite make it. I’ve also changed my opinion on some of the books on my original 2018 list.My rules for this list are simple. Maximum one book per author. Fiction only. My favourite books I define as... books I love, which I reread regularly, which I want to reread ag
Andy’s Sunday Lit Quiz - 2026/36 (J) (opens the original)
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It’s Sunday Lit Quiz time!Subscribe so you don’t miss my weekly bookish blogs & Sunday lit quizzesSubscribe nowThis week we continue with the alphabet theme with the letter J. Only fifteen questions this week. One point per correct answer. Always mark yourself generously. Answers at the bottom.<a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" href="https://substackc
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