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• Short Stories Challenge – The Cat That Walked By Himself by Rudyard Kipling...

  

  What’s The Cat That Walked By Himself all about?:This is a short story about the beginning of domesticated life and in Kipling’s inimitable style we see a host... Read more

  Posted on 24 October 2015 BOOKS, CULTURE

• A Spool Of Blue Thread – Anne Tyler

  

  What’s it all about?:‘It was a beautiful, breezy, yellow-and-green afternoon…’This is the way Abby Whitshank always begins the story of how she and Red fell in... Read more

  Posted on 22 October 2015 BOOKS, CULTURE

• YA SHOT – 28th October 2015, Uxbridge, London

  

  What’s it all about?:YA Shot is a one day event for young adult and middle grade fiction in London where seventy-one authors will participate in talks and book... Read more

  Posted on 21 October 2015 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Short Stories Challenge – Care by Julie Orringer from the Collection How To...

  

  What’s Care all about?:Care focuses on a woman called Tessa who is entrusted with the care of her niece for a day yet due to a drug addiction she can barely tak... Read more

  Posted on 20 October 2015 BOOKS, CULTURE

• YA SHOT REVIEW – How To Fly With Broken Wings – Jane Elson

  

  What’s it all about?:‘If Finn Maison shouts jump you jump or you are dead.’Twelve-year-old Willem has Aspergers Syndrome and two main aims in life: to fly and t... Read more

  Posted on 19 October 2015 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Author Interview – Jane Elson on Her Second Novel, How To Fly With Broken Wings...

  

  Jane Elson with staffie Shireen from The Dogs Trust at Harefield – photo provided by authorJANE ELSON – A BIOGRAPHYAfter performing as an actress and comedy... Read more

  Posted on 15 October 2015 BOOKS, CULTURE

• YA SHOT REVIEW – The Wild Beyond (The Last Wild #3) – Piers Torday

  

  What’s it all about?:FROM THE WINNER OF THE GUARDIAN CHILDREN’S FICTION PRIZE.The final heart-stopping instalment of the bestselling, award-winning The Last Wil... Read more

  Posted on 14 October 2015 BOOKS, CULTURE

• YA SHOT REVIEW – The Dark Wild (The Last Wild #2) – Piers Torday

  

  What’s it all about?:Twelve-year-old Kester thought he had discovered the last wild animals in the land. He thought his adventure was over. He was wrong. Read more

  Posted on 13 October 2015 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Author Interview – Piers Torday on His Last Wild Series for YA SHOT

  

  PIERS TORDAY – A BIOGRAPHYPiers Torday’s bestselling first book, The Last Wild, was shortlisted for the Waterstones Children’s Book Award and nominated for the... Read more

  Posted on 12 October 2015 BOOKS, CULTURE

• YA SHOT REVIEW – The Last Wild (The Last Wild #1) – Piers Torday

  

  What’s it all about?:This is a story about a boy named Kester. He is extraordinary, but he doesn’t know that yet. All he knows, at this very moment, is this:1.... Read more

  Posted on 11 October 2015 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Blog Friends Forever Tour – BLOGGER INTERVIEW – Bibliobeth Visits Chrissi Reads

  

  This post is part of the Blog Friends Forever Tour, first developed by Fiction Fare and Swoony Boys podcast aka Erin, Jaime, Kassiah and Meg to spread some... Read more

  Posted on 10 October 2015 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Author Interview – A. J. Scudiere on the First Book in The NightShade Forensic...

  

  A.J. SCUDIERE – A BIOGRAPHYIt’s AJ’s world. A strange place where patterns jump out and catch the eye, very little is missed, and most of it can be recalled wit... Read more

  Posted on 09 October 2015 BOOKS, CULTURE

• The NightShade Forensic Files: Under Dark Skies by A.J. Scudiere

  

  What’s it all about?:In NightShade nothing is as it seems . . .Eleri Eames didn’t think she’d ever be allowed to work for the FBI again, so the special FBI... Read more

  Posted on 08 October 2015 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Fifty Shades Of Feminism – Lisa Appignanesi, Rachel Holmes and Susie Orbach...

  

  What’s it all about?:The antidote to the idea that being a woman is all about submitting to desire. There are many more shades than that and here are fifty wome... Read more

  Posted on 07 October 2015 BOOKS, CULTURE

• All The Birds Singing – Evie Wyld

  

  What’s it all about?:Jake Whyte is the sole resident of an old farmhouse on an unnamed British island, a place of ceaseless rains and battering winds. It’s... Read more

  Posted on 06 October 2015 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Short Stories Challenge – The Rat In The Attic by Brian McGilloway from the...

  

  What’s The Rat In The Attic all about?:When a police inspector goes to investigate a crime reported by an older member of his community he gets a lot more than... Read more

  Posted on 04 October 2015 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Talking About The Kind Worth Killing by Peter Swanson with Chrissi Reads

  

  What’s it all about?:A devious tale of psychological suspense involving sex, deception, and an accidental encounter that leads to murder. Read more

  Posted on 03 October 2015 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Night Film – Marisha Pessl

  

  What’s it all about?:A page-turning thriller for readers of Stephen King, Gillian Flynn, and Stieg Larsson, Night Film tells the haunting story of a journalist... Read more

  Posted on 02 October 2015 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Short Stories Challenge 2015 – October to December

  

  Image from http://www.slideshare.net/ernella32/teaching-the-short-storyIt’s nearly the end of the year and here’s what I’ll be reading short story wise to see... Read more

  Posted on 02 October 2015 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Short Stories Challenge – The Whisperer in Darkness by H.P. Lovecraft from the...

  

  What’s The Whisperer In Darkness all about?:The Whisperer In Darkness tells of some strange, other-worldly creatures that wreak havoc with the mental states of... Read more

  Posted on 01 October 2015 BOOKS, CULTURE