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Second part of this newsletter - other regions recent arrivals / upcoming releases only. If the first part didn't arrive you can read it online here.
You may notice a preoccupation with places of Ice and Cold. It happens around here in Summer.
First newsletter for 2026. As anticipated January was a nightmare of fire weather, stinking heat, dust storms, kilometres walked checking on everyone and everything, no rain and did I mention heat.... Amazed we got anything done really other than slogging it out trying to keep the burnable trash in the house yards to a minimum and animals and birds alive. But here we are. Sort of upright.
I'm sending this out in two parts as I suspect it's a bit too long for the newsletter delivery system so other regions additions to follow in the next instalment.
Newtown Review of Books recently posted their yearly reader's favourites from 2025, and I was particularly pleased to see Fiona Hardy's Unbury the Dead review in the list.
Which is the perfect excuse to remind everyone that the second book in the series - Old Games is due out late February. Add it to your Mt TBR piles.
2026 has been quite a year. Let's hope that 2027 is better. (Yes I've given up on this one already and it's the 12th of January).
So far we've been very very lucky on the fire front - the closest anything has gotten so far has been about 6ks away and that was on day one of the Extreme Heatwave last week. That's not going to last so we're watching and waiting for that other shoe to kick us in the head. You may or may not, therefore hear a lot from me, and then you may get never-ending newsletters as I go for distraction.
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