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• Banned Books 2016 – MARCH READ – Saga Volume One (Chapters 1-6) by Brian E....

  

  What’s it all about?:When two soldiers from opposite sides of a never-ending galactic war fall in love, they risk everything to bring a fragile new life into a... Read more

  Posted on 28 March 2016 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Hausfrau – Jill Alexander Essbaum

  

  What’s it all about?:Anna Benz, an American in her late thirties, lives with her Swiss husband, Bruno—a banker—and their three young children in a... Read more

  Posted on 27 March 2016 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Short Stories Challenge – Enough Of This Shit Already by Tony Black from the...

  

  What’s Enough Of This Shit Already all about?:Teenager Alana is suffering after a break-up with her boyfriend and an incident at a party with popular “jock” Bra... Read more

  Posted on 22 March 2016 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Noah’s Rainy Day – Sandra Brannan

  

  What’s it all about?:From birth, Noah Hogarty has lived with severe cerebral palsy. He is nearly blind, unable to speak, and cannot run, walk, or crawl. Read more

  Posted on 18 March 2016 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Baileys Women’s Prize For Fiction Longlist Revealed!

  

  Image from http://www.womensprizeforfiction.co.ukThe Baileys Prize for fiction (previously known as the Orange prize) was first established in 1996 and... Read more

  Posted on 18 March 2016 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Talking About Moving by Jenny Eclair with Chrissi Reads

  

  What’s it all about?:Edwina Spinner has lived in the same house for over fifty years. It used to be a busy, crowded family home but now Edwina lives alone and i... Read more

  Posted on 17 March 2016 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Short Stories Challenge – Dreams In The Witch-House by H.P. Lovecraft from the...

  

  What’s Dreams In The Witch-House all about?:Dreams In The Witch-House is the story of a mathematics whizz who stays in an room rumoured to be haunted by an old... Read more

  Posted on 14 March 2016 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Talking About The Samaritan by Mason Cross with Chrissi Reads

  

  What’s it all about?:When the mutilated body of a young woman is discovered in the Santa Monica Mountains, LAPD Detective Jessica Allen knows this isn’t the wor... Read more

  Posted on 12 March 2016 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Strange Girls And Ordinary Women – Morgan McCarthy

  

  What’s it all about?:They say you know instinctively who to trust.Alice is normal; she’d never do anything rash. But when she sees her husband one day with a... Read more

  Posted on 10 March 2016 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Blog Tour – Defender Of The Realm (Defender Of The Realm #1) by Mark Huckerby an...

  

  What’s it all about?:Super-villains. Hungry monsters. One kid to stop them all. Meet King Alfie: fourteen-year-old British monarch and Defender of the Realm.... Read more

  Posted on 06 March 2016 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Short Stories Challenge – The Music of Bengt Karlsson, Murderer by John Ajvide...

  

  What’s The Music Of Bengt Karlsson, Murderer all about?:A widower who is still struggling to come to terms with the death of his wife attempts to connect... Read more

  Posted on 03 March 2016 BOOKS, CULTURE

• The Coral Strand – Ravinder Randhawa

  

  What’s it all about?:From English winters to Indian summers. From the cold streets of modern Britain to the glamorous, turbulent and impassioned world of... Read more

  Posted on 01 March 2016 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Banned Books 2016 – FEBRUARY READ – It’s Perfectly Normal by Robie H. Harris...

  

  What’s it all about?:The definitive book about puberty and sexual health for today’s kids and teens, now fully updated for its twentieth anniversary. Read more

  Posted on 29 February 2016 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Beth And Chrissi Do Kid-Lit 2016 – FEBRUARY READ – Carrie’s War by Nina Bawden

  

  What’s it all about?:It is the Second World War and Carrie and Nick are evacuated from London to a small town in Wales, where they are placed with strict Mr... Read more

  Posted on 28 February 2016 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Beth and Chrissi’s Points Of View On Point Horror – The Snowman by R.L. Stine

  

  Welcome to Round Three of our Points of View on the classic Point Horror series of books that Chrissi Reads and I loved when we were teenagers. Read more

  Posted on 27 February 2016 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Short Stories Challenge – Duet by Kate Mosse from the Collection The Mistletoe...

  

  What’s Duet all about?:In the second story in this collection, Kate Mosse draws the reader into what appears to be a conversation between two men about some... Read more

  Posted on 26 February 2016 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Gold Fame Citrus – Claire Vaye Watkins

  

  What’s it all about?:In a parched southern California of the near future, Luz, once the poster child for the country’s conservation movement, and Ray, an army... Read more

  Posted on 22 February 2016 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Crown Of Midnight (Throne Of Glass #2) – Sarah J. Maas

  

  What’s it all about?:Crowned by Evil. Bound by Duty. Divided by Love.Celaena Sardothien, royal assassin, is the King of Adarlan’s deadliest weapon. Read more

  Posted on 21 February 2016 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Short Stories Challenge – The Mean Time by Karin Slaughter (stand-alone)

  

  What’s The Mean Time all about?:It’s a hot summer’s day and twelve-year-old Peanut and her cousins are being driven into town on the back of a trailer drawn by... Read more

  Posted on 19 February 2016 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Talking About In A Dark, Dark Wood by Ruth Ware with Chrissi Reads

  

  What’s it all about?:Nora hasn’t seen Clare for ten years. Not since Nora walked out of school one day and never went back.In a dark, dark wood there was a dark... Read more

  Posted on 17 February 2016 BOOKS, CULTURE