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• Short Stories Challenge 2017 – An Anxious Man by James Lasdun from the Collectio...

  

  What’s An Anxious Man all about?:An Anxious Man follows our main character as he deals with financial difficulties on a family holiday.What did I think? Read more

  Posted on 15 July 2017 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Conclave – Robert Harris

  

  What’s it all about?:SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER ‘Unputdownable’ Guardian ‘Gripping’ Sunday Times The Pope is dead.Behind the locked doors of the Sistine Chapel, on... Read more

  Posted on 14 July 2017 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Together – Julie Cohen

  

  What’s it all about?:This is not a great love story. This is a story about great love.On a morning that seems just like any other, Robbie wakes in his bed, his... Read more

  Posted on 13 July 2017 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Leopard At The Door – Jennifer McVeigh

  

  What’s it all about?:After six years in England, Rachel has returned to Kenya and the farm where she spent her childhood, but the beloved home she’d longed for... Read more

  Posted on 12 July 2017 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Short Stories Challenge 2017 – Part Three

  

  Image from https://www.standoutbooks.com/how-publish-short-story/Hello everyone and welcome to Part Three of my Short Stories Challenge this year. Read more

  Posted on 08 July 2017 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Short Stories Challenge 2017 – Stations Of The Cross by Julie Orringer from the...

  

  What’s Stations Of The Cross all about?:Stations Of The Cross is a coming of age story about two young girls from different religions and how peer pressure... Read more

  Posted on 07 July 2017 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Living The Dream – Lauren Berry

  

  What’s it all about?:A funny, satirical, sharp and honest look at modern British life from the perspective of two young women. The launch of an exciting new... Read more

  Posted on 06 July 2017 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Mini Pin-It Reviews #10 – Four Thriller Novels

  

  Hello everyone and welcome to another mini pin-it reviews post! I have a massive backlog of reviews and this is my way of trying to get on top of things a bit. Read more

  Posted on 05 July 2017 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Prisoner Of Night And Fog (Prisoner Of Night And Fog #1) – Anne Blankman

  

  What’s it all about?:In 1930s Munich, danger lurks behind dark corners, and secrets are buried deep within the city. But Gretchen Müller, who grew up in the... Read more

  Posted on 04 July 2017 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Quieter Than Killing (DI Marnie Rome #4) – Sarah Hilary

  

  What’s it all about?:It’s winter, the nights are dark and freezing, and a series of seemingly random assaults is pulling DI Marnie Rome and DS Noah Jake out ont... Read more

  Posted on 30 June 2017 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Beth And Chrissi Do Kid-Lit 2017 – JUNE READ – The Prime Minister’s Brain (The...

  

  What’s it all about?:Everyone at school is playing the new computer game, Octopus Dare – but only Dinah is good enough to beat it. As it begins to take hold,... Read more

  Posted on 29 June 2017 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Short Stories Challenge 2017 – Fruits by Steve Mosby from the Collection The...

  

  What’s Fruits all about?:Fruits follows a man locked in a cell reminiscing about the frightening events that caused him to be placed there.What did I think? Read more

  Posted on 28 June 2017 BOOKS, CULTURE

• The Owl At The Window – Carl Gorham

  

  What’s it all about?:‘She is dead. She was here just now and she was alive. How can she suddenly be dead? People in history are dead. Old people are dead.... Read more

  Posted on 27 June 2017 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Banned Books 2017 – JUNE READ – Saga Volume Two (Chapters 7-12) – Brian K....

  

  What’s it all about?:From award-winning writer Brian K. Vaughan (Pride of Baghdad, Ex Machina) and critically acclaimed artist Fiona Staples (Mystery Society,... Read more

  Posted on 26 June 2017 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Anne Boleyn: A King’s Obsession (Six Tudor Queens #2) – Alison Weir

  

  What’s it all about?:Anne Boleyn: A King’s Obsession by bestselling historian Alison Weir, author of Katherine of Aragon: The True Queen, is the second... Read more

  Posted on 25 June 2017 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Short Stories Challenge 2017 – The Shadow Over Innsmouth by H.P. Lovecraft from...

  

  What’s The Shadow Over Innsmouth all about?:The Shadow Over Innsmouth is one of those classic H.P. Lovecraft stories where there are strange goings on in a smal... Read more

  Posted on 20 June 2017 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Black Water – Louise Doughty

  

  What’s it all about?:John Harper lies awake at night in an isolated hut on an Indonesian island, listening to the rain on the roof and believing his life may... Read more

  Posted on 18 June 2017 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Talking About I See You by Clare Mackintosh with Chrissi Reads

  

  What’s it all about?:You do the same thing every day.You know exactly where you’re going.You’re not alone.When Zoe Walker sees her photo in the classifieds... Read more

  Posted on 17 June 2017 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Short Stories Challenge 2017 – Alice Through The Plastic Sheet by Robert Shearma...

  

  What’s Alice Through The Plastic Sheet all about?:Alan and Alice have problem neighbours – they play the music too loud, they leave rubbish in the garden,... Read more

  Posted on 15 June 2017 BOOKS

• Jane Austen At Home: A Biography – Lucy Worsley

  

  What’s it all about?:On the 200th anniversary of Jane Austen’s death, historian Lucy Worsley leads us into the rooms from which our best-loved novelist quietly... Read more

  Posted on 14 June 2017 BOOKS, CULTURE