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• Bamboo Island – Ann Bennett

  

  What’s it all about?:Juliet Crosby has lived a reclusive life on her Malayan rubber plantation since the Second World War robbed her of everyone she loved. Read more

  Posted on 29 March 2017 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Bamboo Heart – Ann Bennett

  

  What’s it all about?:Shortlisted for Best Fiction Title, Singapore Book Awards 2016Thailand, 1943: Thomas Ellis, captured by the Japanese at the fall of... Read more

  Posted on 28 March 2017 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Short Stories Challenge 2017 – On The Banks Of Table River: (Planet Lucina,...

  

  What’s On The Banks Of Table River: (Planet Lucina, Andromeda Galaxy, AD 2319) all about?:The final story in this collection is set in the future on Planet... Read more

  Posted on 27 March 2017 BOOKS, CULTURE

• That Girl From Nowhere – Dorothy Koomson

  

  What’s it all about?:‘Where are you coming from with that accent of yours?’ he asks. ‘Nowhere,’ I reply. ‘I’m from nowhere.’ ‘Everyone’s from somewhere,’ he... Read more

  Posted on 26 March 2017 BOOKS, CULTURE

• This Is How It Always Is – Laurie Frankel

  

  What’s it all about?:This is how a family keeps a secret…and how that secret ends up keeping them.This is how a family lives happily ever after…until happily... Read more

  Posted on 25 March 2017 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Short Stories Challenge 2017 – Erase Me: Positron, Episode Three – Margaret...

  

  What’s Erase Me all about?:In the latest edge-of-your-seat episode of “Positron,” the Byliner Serial by renowned author Margaret Atwood, the dystopian dark... Read more

  Posted on 23 March 2017 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Mini Pin-It Reviews #7 – Four Random Books

  

  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 21 March 2017 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Heir Of Fire (Throne Of Glass #3) – Sarah J. Maas

  

  What’s it all about?:Celaena has survived deadly contests and shattering heartbreak―but at an unspeakable cost. Now, she must travel to a new land to confront... Read more

  Posted on 20 March 2017 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Talking About Lie With Me by Sabine Durrant with Chrissi Reads

  

  What’s it all about?:“I suppose what I am saying is, how much do we collude in our own destruction? How much of this nightmare is on me?You can hate and rail.... Read more

  Posted on 16 March 2017 BOOKS, CULTURE

• In Darkling Wood – Emma Carroll

  

  What’s it all about?:‘You’re telling me there are fairies in this wood?’When Alice’s brother gets a longed-for chance for a heart transplant, Alice is suddenly... Read more

  Posted on 14 March 2017 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Short Stories Challenge 2017 – The Adventure Of The Engineer’s Thumb by Arthur...

  

  What’s The Adventure Of The Engineer’s Thumb all about?:A young man comes to see Dr Watson in his surgery with a bloody cloth wrapped around his missing thumb.... Read more

  Posted on 13 March 2017 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Tastes Like Fear (DI Marnie Rome #3) – Sarah Hilary

  

  What’s it all about?:Sarah Hilary won the 2015 Theakston’s Crime Novel of the Year with her debut, the 2014 Richard and Judy pick SOMEONE ELSE’S SKIN. Read more

  Posted on 12 March 2017 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Etta And Otto and Russell And James – Emma Hooper

  

  What’s it all about?:I’ve gone. I’ve never seen the water, so I’ve gone there. I will try to remember to come back.Etta’s greatest unfulfilled wish, living in... Read more

  Posted on 11 March 2017 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Short Stories Challenge 2017 – Double Room by Ramsey Campbell from the Collectio...

  

  What’s Double Room all about?:Double Room focuses on an older man who after losing his wife begins to hear strange and disturbing things in the hotel room next... Read more

  Posted on 10 March 2017 BOOKS, CULTURE

• A Place Called Winter – Patrick Gale

  

  What’s it all about?:In the golden 1900s, Harry Cane, a shy, eligible gentleman of leisure is drawn from a life of quiet routine into courting and marrying... Read more

  Posted on 08 March 2017 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Guildford Library Talk – David Young, Author of Stasi Child and Stasi Wolf, the...

  

  AUTHOR INFORMATIONDavid Young was born near Hull and – after dropping out of a Bristol University science degree – studied Humanities at Bristol Polytechnic... Read more

  Posted on 07 March 2017 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Stasi Child (Karin Müller #1) – David Young

  

  What’s it all about?:East Berlin, 1975When Oberleutnant Karin Müller is called to investigate a teenage girl’s body at the foot of the wall, she imagines she’s... Read more

  Posted on 06 March 2017 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Short Stories Challenge – Faithful Lovers by Margaret Drabble from the Collectio...

  

  What’s Faithful Lovers all about?:Faithful Lovers is about a couple who, after promising to never see each other again, meet up by chance in one of the places... Read more

  Posted on 05 March 2017 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Mini Pin-It Reviews #6 – Four Random Books

  

  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 03 March 2017 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Talking About Mad Girl by Bryony Gordon with Chrissi Reads

  

  What’s it all about?:A new Sunday Times bestseller from Bryony Gordon, Telegraph columnist and author of the bestselling The Wrong Knickers. Read more

  Posted on 02 March 2017 BOOKS, CULTURE