Robin's Random Rambles

   It's December 2025 and Dean Street Press have once again given me something to celebrate. The wonderful Liz Dexter's   hosting a FOURTH  Dean Street December , and this year my theme is symmetry. For the inaugural Dean Street December , I managed to read and review 27 books published by Dean Street Press. For Dean Street December Deux , and Drei I opted for a much saner 15. This year I'm aiming for a nice round ten. Ten books from ten different authors for the (nominally) tenth month, shown below:   As in previous years, I plan to read the books in the left-to-right order of the screenshot. Mystery, murder and mayhem dominate again with seven authors, including one writing pair. Just as in 2024, the Sara Woods is a brand new release from DSP, only becoming available in December 2025. Molly Clavering and Margery Sharp return, representing team Furrowed Middlebrow .  All my reviews will be posted at The StoryGraph again, but I will also update ...

 It's December 2024 and Dean Street Press have once again given me something to celebrate. The wonderful Liz Dexter's   hosting a third Dean Street December , and this year, my entries feature four new-to-me authors, between them accounting for all but four of my set. For the inaugural Dean Street December , I managed to read and review 27 books published by Dean Street Press. For Dean Street December Deux , I opted for a much saner 15, and that's where I've ended up this year too, shown in the image below. In last year's challenge, several of the non-mystery middlebrow books were new to my library, but this year the major new entries are two mystery series I'd not even heard of before and my first two non-fiction works from Dean Street Press, biographies by Sheridan Morley. One of the three middlebrow entries from is a second chance for an author who left me tepid on my first encounter, Susan Scarlett.  Once again, I plan to read the books in the left-to-ri...