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• Revival – Stephen King

  

  What’s it all about?:In a small New England town, in the early 60s, a shadow falls over a small boy playing with his toy soldiers. Jamie Morton looks up to see ... Read more

  Posted on 04 December 2015 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Short Stories Challenge – The New Veterans by Karen Russell from the Collection...

  

  What’s The New Veterans all about?:In, The New Veterans a massage therapist discovers she has the power to heal by manipulating the tattoos on a war veteran’s... Read more

  Posted on 03 December 2015 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Talking About Life After You by Lucie Brownlee with Chrissi Reads

  

  What’s it all about?:‘He crashed on to the pillow next to me, heavy as a felled oak. I slapped His face and told Him to wake up. Read more

  Posted on 02 December 2015 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Banned Books #17 The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison

  

  What’s it all about?:The Bluest Eye is Toni Morrison’s first novel, a book heralded for its richness of language and boldness of vision. Read more

  Posted on 30 November 2015 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Beth And Chrissi Do Kid-Lit 2015 – NOVEMBER READ – The Class That Went Wild by...

  

  What’s it all about?:“Joseph climbed on his desk and began jumping up and down, wild with excitement, screaming at the top of his voice, ‘We’re the greatest!... Read more

  Posted on 29 November 2015 BOOKS, CULTURE

• The Ask And The Answer (Chaos Walking #2) – Patrick Ness

  

  What’s it all about?:We were in the square, in the square where I’d run, holding her, carrying her, telling her to stay alive, stay alive till we got safe,... Read more

  Posted on 28 November 2015 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Short Stories Challenge – A Man And Two Women by Doris Lessing from the...

  

  What’s A Man and Two Women all about?:A Man and Two Women tells the story of two married couples who are also great friends although the arrival of a baby on on... Read more

  Posted on 24 November 2015 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Author Interview – Alexia Casale on Her New YA Novel House Of Windows

  

  ALEXIA CASALE – A BIOGRAPHYShortlisted for the Waterstone’s Children’s Book Prize. Longlisted for The Branford Boase Award. A Book of the Year 2013 for the... Read more

  Posted on 23 November 2015 BOOKS, CULTURE

• House Of Windows – Alexia Casale

  

  What’s it all about?:‘The body is a house of many windows: there we all sit, showing ourselves and crying on the passers-by to come and love us.’ Robert Louis... Read more

  Posted on 22 November 2015 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Short Stories Challenge – Beachcombing by Lucy Wood from the Collection Diving...

  

  What’s Beachcombing all about?:Beachcombing explores the relationship between a grandmother and her grandson, the former having lived in a cave by the sea for... Read more

  Posted on 17 November 2015 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Talking About The Ice Twins by S.K. Tremayne with Chrissi Reads

  

  What’s it all about?:A year after one of their identical twin daughters, Lydia, dies in an accident, Angus and Sarah Moorcraft move to the tiny Scottish island... Read more

  Posted on 16 November 2015 BOOKS, CULTURE

• The Tale Of The Duelling Neurosurgeons: The History Of The Human Brain As...

  

  What’s it all about?:From the author of the best-seller The Disappearing Spoon, tales of the brain and the history of neuroscience. Read more

  Posted on 15 November 2015 BOOKS, CULTURE

• The Bees – Laline Paull

  

  What’s it all about?:The Handmaid’s Tale meets The Hunger Games in this brilliantly imagined debut.Born into the lowest class of her society, Flora 717 is a... Read more

  Posted on 13 November 2015 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Short Stories Challenge – Corrugated Dreaming by Dianne Gray from the...

  

  What’s Corrugated Dreaming all about?:Corrugated Dreaming is the story of a woman in prison, reflecting back on her life and the crime she committed to put her... Read more

  Posted on 08 November 2015 BOOKS, CULTURE

• The People In The Trees – Hanya Yanagihara

  

  What’s it all about?:In 1950, a young doctor called Norton Perina signs on with the anthropologist Paul Tallent for an expedition to the remote Micronesian... Read more

  Posted on 07 November 2015 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Talking About The Teaplanter’s Wife by Dinah Jefferies with Chrissi Reads

  

  What’s it all about?:Nineteen-year-old Gwendolyn Hooper is newly married to a rich and charming widower, eager to join him on his tea plantation, determined to... Read more

  Posted on 04 November 2015 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Short Stories Challenge – The Wedding Gig by Stephen King from the Collection...

  

  What’s The Wedding Gig all about?:This story is told from the point of view of a cornet player in the Roaring Twenties in prohibition America. Read more

  Posted on 02 November 2015 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Beth and Chrissi Do Kid-Lit – OCTOBER READ – Goodnight Mister Tom by Michelle...

  

  What’s it all about?:The story is set during the Second World War, when Tom Oakley, an elderly and unsociable widower, finds himself with a young evacuee on... Read more

  Posted on 31 October 2015 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Banned Books #16 – Forever by Judy Blume

  

  What’s it all about?:Katherine and Michael meet at a New Year’s Eve party. They’re attracted to each other, they grow to love each other. And once they’ve... Read more

  Posted on 26 October 2015 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Miss Peregrine’s Home For Peculiar Children (Miss Peregrine’s Peculiar Children...

  

  What’s it all about?:A mysterious island. An abandoned orphanage. A strange collection of curious photographs.A horrific family tragedy sets sixteen-year-old... Read more

  Posted on 25 October 2015 BOOKS, CULTURE