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Historical Fiction you say? How about some sapphic noir for ! 💄👠🥃
Kathryn isn't a bad girl. Just misunderstood.
Jenny is a good girl, really. She just has a penchant for trouble.
When misunderstood meets trouble, intrigue and desire ignite a love that brings a bad girl to her knees, and a good girl to the edge of ruin. Willingly.

https://amzn.to/3icwd98

The four audiobook covers of the sapphic noir Shadow series by J.E. Leak. Text reads: Film Noir Vibes? Sultry Spies? Yes, please! Sapphic love, intrigue, secrets, and spies. Shadow Series narrated by Abby Craden.

Book review:
Munehito Moro “Empire of Blood”

I found his name from the website of the Japan Writers Conference 2025. At the same time, I planned my writing project in English, so I was curious about his idea that Japanese natives write entertaining fiction in English.

That was a good reading experience! This is just an entertainment spy fiction, but sensitive or controversial ideas for Japanese people were full in this story, and it won’t be published in Japanese, at least from major publishers.

Other languages make us sometimes talkative, and provide another vision. I celebrate this self-publishing project. I’m looking forward JWC2025 in next week in Mitaka to listen his presentation.

(I alert for some readers. A subcharacter who had same-sex love chose a sad decision.)

https://a.co/49Q40Rs

Today's cartoon by @tomgauld.bsky.social - on point as I head down to do a shift at Edinburgh Community Bookshop...

"Librarians v booksellers."

https://www.theguardian.com/books/picture/2025/nov/23/tom-gauld-on-librarians-v-booksellers-cartoon?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other

Less than a week to go until 1. December.

Over the years, I have translated innumerous tidbits of folklore from all sorts of collectors and writers from across Scandinavia. This, my first advent calendar, is a way of publishing this work.

Christmas in Norway, 2025 is a slim tome of 24 texts, one for each day of December until Christmas Eve, when preparations cease and the day is celebrated with gifts, good food, and (above all) good company.

https://norwegianfolktales.net/books/Christmas-in-Norway-2025

2nd December "Old Christmas Customs" tells of the pagan jul, the julereie (wild hunt), Lussi, and other preternatural episodes.

Ab heute gibt es mein zweites Eldrador-Buch im Buchhandel: ELDRADOR CREATURES: SPION AUS DER SCHATTENWELT. Ein spannendes und humorvolles Fantasyabenteuer für Kinder ab 8 Jahren. Mit großartigen Illustrationen von Annika Görlitz.

https://shop.autorenwelt.de/products/eldrador-spion-aus-der-schattenwelt-von-andreas-vollinger

Das Buchcover zeigt zwei Kreaturen aus Eldrador: den Lavaskorpion und den Schattenpanther.

Dietz-Bücher schenken, Tipp 6 🧡 »Walter Rodney kennen nur wenige. Dabei war der Aktivist und Marxist aus Guyana eine zentrale Figur in der Geschichte des Schwarzen Protests, ein Vordenker der Black-Power-Bewegung« (Bafta Sarbo). Das Buch »Dekolonialer Marxismus«, das Rodneys Schriften zur panafrikanischen Revolution sammelt, wird günstiger – ab jetzt für 24 € statt 29,90 €: https://dietzberlin.de/dekolonialer-marxismus

Porträt von Walter Rodney, auf dem der Titel unseres Theorie-Bandes steht: »Walter Rodney: Dekolonialer Marxismus. Schriften aus der panafrikanischen Revolution«. Weiter unten im Bild ist ein Button mit Text: »Tipp 6«. Foto: Walter Rodney Foundation

Is your enemy’s enemy always your friend? My new novel ‘Friend or Foe?’ is a fast-paced thriller set largely in south-west Scotland during World War Two.

This modern image shows Wigtown County Buildings and Town Hall in the heart of Wigtown in Galloway. Wigtown plays an important role in the story as the hunt for a spy builds towards its dramatic climax.

Find out more on my website:
https://www.kenlussey.com/fof/index.html

This modern image shows Wigtown County Buildings and Town Hall in the heart of Wigtown in Galloway. Across the bottom of the frame is a grass bowling green which slopes noticeably down to the left. Beyond it is a large red stone building that is eight bays wide and two tall storeys in height. On its left end is a tall clock tower. The land drops away behind the building. The sky is mainly blue but the side of the building facing us is in shadow. The front cover of ‘Friend or Foe?’ is shown in the top right corner.