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1920s (Sarah Waters recommendations)
1929 Club (a detective and a war)
1930 Club (women’s working lives)
1954 Club (domestic settings)
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Alternative London Underground
B
Blog anniversary (another blogger’s writing)
My brother’s birthday – two poems
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D
Daphne du Maurier reading week 2019
Daphne du Maurier reading week 2021
Daphne du Maurier reading week 2022
Daphne du Maurier reading week 2023
#DiverseDecember – Hackney playwrights
#DiverseDecember II – Marriage
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Female friendship (Kathy Burke)
Feminist Sundays – Beatrice in Much Ado About Nothing
Feminist Sundays – Domestic Violence (The Woman Who Walked into Doors by Roddy Doyle)
First Virago and First Persephone
Foreign language children’s classics
G
German Literature Month 2017 (1)
German Literature Month 2017 (2)
German Literature Month 2018 (1)
German Literature Month 2018 (2) – Stefan Zweig
German Literature Month IX – Vienna
Guy Fawkes Night/Catholic writing
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I
Indigenous Literature Week 2021
International Day Against Homophobia, Biphobia and Transphobia 2013
J
Japanese Literature challenge 17 (2024)
L
Literary Wives – December 2023
M
Margaret Atwood Reading Month 2018
Margaret Atwood Reading Month 2023
May Day/International Workers Day 2013
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National Poetry Day 2013 (theme: Water)
National Poetry Day 2016 (theme: Messages)
Nordic FINDS 2023 – two Ragnar Jónasson novels
Novels for people who don’t read
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P
Persephone Readathon 2018 No.2
Persephone Readathon 2018 No.3 (short stories)
R
ReadIndies 2023: Destructive families
ReadIndies 2024: Pushkin Press (1)
ReadIndies 2024: Pushkin Press (2)
ReadIndies 2024: Pushkin Press (3)
ReadIndies 2024: Pushkin Press (4)
ReadIndies 2024: Boiler House Press (1)
ReadIndies 2024: Boiler House Press (2)
ReadIndies 2024: Boiler House Press (3)
Reading Ireland 2016 – St Patrick’s Day
Reading Ireland 2016 – Students
Reading Ireland 2017 – Debut novels
Reading Ireland 2017 – Elizabeth Bowen
Reading Ireland 2018 – 90s students
Reading Ireland 2018 – Alcoholism in families
Reading Ireland 2018 – Molly Keane
Reading Ireland 2022 – Molly Keane
Reading Ireland 2022 – Brian Moore
Reading Ireland 2022 – unsympathetic characters
Rumer Godden Reading Week 2021
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Sherlock (& Lord Peter Wimsey)
Short nonfiction (Deborah Levy)
Spanish and Portuguese Lit Month 2021
Spring Equinox (Day and Night)
T
Ten Books that Most Influenced Me – Part I
Ten Books that Most Influenced Me – Part II
TV characters, recommendations for
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V
Valentine’s Day 2013 – bee-keeping & plague
Valentine’s Day 2014 – Cary Grant
Valentine’s Day 2018 – Vita & Violet
Valentine’s Day 2019: Rebecca West & HG Wells
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Welsh readathon 2019/Dewithon19
Welsh readathon 2020/Dewithon20
Women in Translation month 2016
Women in Translation Month 2017 – 6 quick reviews
Women in Translation Month 2018 – Animators
Women in Translation Month 2018 – Acclaimed writers
Women in Translation Month 2019 – Virginity
Women in Translation Month 2019 – Travel
Women in Translation Month 2020 – Two short story collections
Women in Translation Month 2021 – Short stories & a novella
Women in Translation Month 2021 – Two Pushkin Press reads
Women in Translation Month 2021 – Small communities