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• The Quality Of Silence – Rosamund Lupton

  

  What’s it all about?:On 24th November Yasmin and her deaf daughter Ruby arrived in Alaska.Within hours they were driving alone across a frozen wildernessWhere... Read more

  Posted on 15 February 2016 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Short Stories Challenge – A Mighty Horde Of Women In Very Big Hats, Advancing...

  

  What’s A Mighty Horde Of Women In Very Big Hats, Advancing all about?:In the final story of this collection we learn what became of Sophie Rackham through the... Read more

  Posted on 13 February 2016 BOOKS, CULTURE

• The Versions Of Us – Laura Barnett

  

  What’s it all about?:What if you had said yes? The moments that change everything… One Day meets Sliding Doors in this outstanding debut that is causing a buzz... Read more

  Posted on 09 February 2016 BOOKS, CULTURE

• February 2016 – Real Book Month

  

  Every other month I set myself a little challenge to complete which alternates depending on the month from Chrissi Cupboard Month and Real Book Month to... Read more

  Posted on 07 February 2016 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Between The Assassinations – Aravind Adiga

  

  What’s it all about?:Welcome to Kittur, India. Of its 193,432 residents, only 89 declare themselves to be without religion or caste. Read more

  Posted on 04 February 2016 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Short Stories Challenge – Under The Pylon by Graham Joyce from the Collection...

  

  What’s Under The Pylon all about?:A group of young children spend their last summer before secondary school playing under a gigantic electricity pylon which... Read more

  Posted on 02 February 2016 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Beth And Chrissi Do Kid-Lit 2016 – JANUARY READ – The Demon Headmaster by Gillia...

  

  What’s it all about?:Dinah moves in with the Hunter family and starts going to the same school as her foster-brothers Lloyd and Harvey. It’s not easy, as they... Read more

  Posted on 31 January 2016 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Banned Books 2016 – JANUARY READ – Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi

  

  What’s it all about?:Here, in one volume: Marjane Satrapi’s best-selling, internationally acclaimed memoir-in-comic-strips.Persepolis is the story of Satrapi’s... Read more

  Posted on 25 January 2016 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Author Interview – Helen Grant on Her Forbidden Spaces YA Trilogy

  

  HELEN GRANT – A BIOGRAPHYHelen Grant was born in London. She read Classics at St.Hugh’s College, Oxford, and then worked in Marketing for ten years in order to... Read more

  Posted on 20 January 2016 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Urban Legends (Forbidden Spaces Trilogy #3) – Helen Grant

  

  What’s it all about?:A group of story-tellers are disappearing one by one.A young woman is haunted by her past.A serial killer has one target he is desperate... Read more

  Posted on 19 January 2016 BOOKS, CULTURE

• The Demons Of Ghent (Forbidden Spaces Trilogy #2) – Helen Grant

  

  What’s it all about?:Veerle has moved to Ghent to start a new life with her father and his girlfriend, she’s isolated and alone. But not as alone as she had... Read more

  Posted on 18 January 2016 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Silent Saturday (Forbidden Spaces Trilogy #1) – Helen Grant

  

  What’s it all about?:Seventeen-year-old Veerle is frustrated with life in suburban Brussels. But a chance encounter with a hidden society, whose members... Read more

  Posted on 17 January 2016 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Author Interview – Jason Starr on His New Novel Savage Lane

  

  JASON STARR – A BIBLIOGRAPHYJason Starr was born in Brooklyn, New York in 1966. He grew up playing sports, such as tennis and baseball, and dreaming of... Read more

  Posted on 15 January 2016 BOOKS, CULTURE

• This Is Where It Ends – Marieke Nijkamp

  

  What’s it all about?:10:00 a.m. The principal of Opportunity, Alabama’s high school finishes her speech, welcoming the entire student body to a new semester... Read more

  Posted on 13 January 2016 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Short Stories Challenge – The Chamois by Daphne Du Maurier from the Collection...

  

  What’s The Chamois all about?:The penultimate story in this collection follows a married couple as they trek up the mountains in Greece to hunt down the... Read more

  Posted on 11 January 2016 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Bella Broomstick (Bella Broomstick #1) – Lou Kuenzler

  

  What’s it all about?:This delightful new series, full of doodle illustrations and themes of friendship and fitting in, will have young readers bewitched from th... Read more

  Posted on 10 January 2016 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Blog Tour – Interview with Lou Kuenzler, Author of the New Children’s Series...

  

  LOU KUENZLER – A BIOGRAPHYLou Kuenzler likes to write stories which make children laugh.Her popular SHRINKING VIOLET books are funny, action-packed adventures... Read more

  Posted on 10 January 2016 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Short Stories Challenge 2016 – January to March

  

  Image from http://quotes.lifehack.org/quote/ali-smith/short-stories-consume-you-faster-theyre-connected/Hooray for a new year and more short stories! This is... Read more

  Posted on 09 January 2016 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Leaving Berlin – Joseph Kanon

  

  What’s it all about?:From the bestselling author of Istanbul Passage, called a “fast-moving thinking man’s thriller” by The Wall Street Journal, comes a... Read more

  Posted on 09 January 2016 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Aw… Bibliobeth Turns 3!

  

  It’s my blogoversary today and I can’t believe I’ve been blogging now for three years – just where has the time gone? 2015 was one of my best years to date, I... Read more

  Posted on 05 January 2016 BOOKS, CULTURE