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Kirsty Blackman's Top Book Recommendations

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Poetry of Northeast Scotland

Recommended by Kirsty Blackman, and 1 others.

Kirsty BlackmanAnd here’s a few more from this brilliant book. Including “Hogmanay” and a number that made me laugh. (Sorry, Banff 😉) https://t.co/wewBeAfBw1 (Source)

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Women Talking

One evening, eight Mennonite women climb into a hay loft to conduct a secret meeting. For the past two years, each of these women, and more than a hundred other girls in their colony, has been repeatedly violated in the night by demons coming to punish them for their sins. Now that the women have learned they were in fact drugged and attacked by a group of men from their own community, they are determined to protect themselves and their daughters from future harm.

While the men of the colony are off in the city, attempting to raise enough money to bail out the rapists and bring...
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Recommended by Mona Eltahawy, Kirsty Blackman, and 2 others.

Mona EltahawyI LOVE this book! I read it last year ❤️✊🏽💜 https://t.co/JmmR9karvT (Source)

Kirsty BlackmanI haven’t finished it yet, but Women Talking by Miriam Toews is the best book I’ve read this year. https://t.co/fIWSZy03KZ (Source)

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Swallow and starling, puffin and peregrine, blue tit and blackcap. We use these names so often that few of us ever pause to wonder about their origins. What do they mean? Where did they come from? And who created them?

The words we use to name birds are some of the most lyrical and evocative in the English language. They also
tell incredible stories: of epic expeditions, fierce battles between rival ornithologists, momentous historical
events and touching romantic gestures.

Through fascinating encounters with birds, and...
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Recommended by Kirsty Blackman, and 1 others.

Kirsty BlackmanI’m pondering what to start next. Possibly this, because it looks fascinating even though it’s not my usual type of book. https://t.co/OaYrx9qNzQ (Source)

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