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The 2025 for Fiction longlist is out! I’m so pleased to see birding by Rose Ruane on there as she’s a longtime social media friend, I might read the Miranda July one out of curiosity due to the hype and will be getting to the Elizabeth Strout one when I’ve read Lucy by the Sea to catch up on the series! This blog post by Claire McAlpine gives a nice summary of each of the 14 titles @bookstodon
https://clairemcalpine.com/2025/03/04/womens-prize-for-fiction-longlist-2025/

I have uploaded .pdf copies of both editions of The Complete Norwegian Folktales and Legends of Asbjørnsen & Moe to ko-fi, where they are now available for purchase at less-than-half the cost of the Amazon paperback books.

Details and links on my Website here:

https://norwegianfolktales.net/books/the-complete-norwegian-folktales-and-legends-of-asbjornsen-moe

I think you should choose the annotated edition; here’s what you get:

1. Three chunky volumes (815 pages, 617 pages, and 665 pages).

2. Original prefaces from eight editions.

3. Jørgen Moe’s substantial introduction to the folktales, in which he discusses the origins of folk narratives, and how the Norwegian material exemplifies his ideas.

4. All 122 folktales Asbjørnsen & Moe published during their careers.

5. 28 hulder tales and folk legends, a genre Asbjørnsen defined, in which he embeds the legends of the hidden folk.

6. Approximately 350 illustrations by some of the most accomplished artists Norway has known, including Hans Gude, …

All of my books, including The Complete Norwegian Folktales and Legends of Asbjørnsen & Moe.

Any recommendations for readers for someone who likes to side load everything from and that has decent tagging/sorting options? My kindle is dying a slow death (keeps deleting book covers and adds impossible to delete book duplicates…), and I REALLY don’t want to support Amazon in any way. It would be great if there is a more ethical choice out there!

When the hunter becomes the prey. ‘The High Road’ is a fast-paced contemporary thriller set mainly in central Scotland and the far north-west.

St Monans in Fife is one of the lovely villages strung out along the Firth of Forth shore of the East Neuk of Fife. It seems rather less attractive to the book’s central character when he finds himself being shot at here after efforts to trap a killer go badly wrong.

Find out more on my website:
http://www.kenlussey.com/thr/index.html

The image shows a view across a harbour to a pier and slipway and then to a village of mainly white houses and a blue restaurant. Most buildings have red pantiles on their roofs. There are numerous small boats pulled up at the top of the slipway and one red speedboat is moored in the harbour. There is bright sunlight on most of the scene, though a windmill along the shore is in shadow. The front cover of ‘The High Road’ is shown in the top right corner.