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• The Wrong Boy – Suzy Zail

  

  What’s it all about?:The story of a Jewish girl sent to Auschwitz with her family. She falls in love with the wrong boy – the German son of the camp commander. Read more

  Posted on 23 July 2015 BOOKS, CULTURE

• A Want Of Kindness – Joanne Limburg

  

  What’s it all about?:Every time I see the King and the Queen, I am reminded of what it is I have done, and then I am afraid, I am beyond all expression afraid. Read more

  Posted on 21 July 2015 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Short Stories Challenge – A Telephone Call by Dorothy Parker from the...

  

  What’s A Telephone Call all about?:A woman over-obsesses about a telephone call she is waiting for from a man she is seeing to the point where she seems to... Read more

  Posted on 20 July 2015 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Talking About A Man Called Ove by Fredrik Backman with Chrissi Reads

  

  What’s it all about?:In this bestselling and delightfully quirky debut novel from Sweden, a grumpy yet loveable man finds his solitary world turned on its head... Read more

  Posted on 16 July 2015 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Rooftoppers – Katherine Rundell

  

  What’s it all about?:Everyone thinks that Sophie is an orphan. True, there were no other recorded female survivors from the shipwreck which left baby Sophie... Read more

  Posted on 13 July 2015 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Golden Boy – Abigail Tarttelin

  

  What’s it all about?:Max Walker: blue-eyed boy or girl next door?To the outside world, Max Walker is a golden boy: a loving son and brother, the perfect student... Read more

  Posted on 09 July 2015 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Short Stories Challenge – The Giant’s Boneyard by Lucy Wood from the Collection...

  

  What’s The Giant’s Boneyard all about?:The Giant’s Boneyard explores the end of childhood and the onset of puberty between two friends, Gog and Sunshine as... Read more

  Posted on 08 July 2015 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Author Interview – Sarah Hilary on Her New Crime Novel No Other Darkness...

  

  SARAH HILARY – A BIOGRAPHYSarah Hilary lives in Bath with her daughter, where she writes quirky copy for a well-loved travel publisher. She’s also worked as a... Read more

  Posted on 07 July 2015 BOOKS, CULTURE

• No Other Darkness (DI Marnie Rome #2) – Sarah Hilary

  

  What’s it all about?:From the Richard and Judy bestselling author Sarah Hilary. The phenomenal Marnie Rome returns in the outstanding follow up to the criticall... Read more

  Posted on 06 July 2015 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Short Stories Challenge – Camp Sundown by Nathan Englander from the Collection...

  

  What’s Camp Sundown all about?:In the outlandishly dark “Camp Sundown” vigilante justice is undertaken by a group of geriatric campers in a bucolic summer... Read more

  Posted on 05 July 2015 BOOKS, CULTURE

• A Change In The Schedule – Real Book Month – July 2015

  

  My “real book” month feature wouldn’t usually be rolling out until August but I’ve brought it forward a month in gleeful anticipation of the holiday I am... Read more

  Posted on 03 July 2015 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Talking About No Safe House by Linwood Barclay with Chrissi Reads

  

  What’s it all about?:#1 international bestselling author Linwood Barclay delivers an electrifying novel of suspense in which a family’s troubled past is about t... Read more

  Posted on 02 July 2015 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Short Stories Challenge 2015 – July to September

  

  Welcome to another three months of short stories! This little lot should see me through into the autumn.Week beginning 6th JulySmall Degrees by Kevin... Read more

  Posted on 01 July 2015 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Beth and Chrissi Do Kid-Lit 2015 – JUNE READ – The Velveteen Rabbit by Margery...

  

  What’s it all about?:Nursery magic is very strange and wonderful, and only those playthings that are old and wise and experienced like the Skin Horse... Read more

  Posted on 30 June 2015 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Banned Books #12 Bridge To Terabithia by Katherine Paterson with Chrissi Reads

  

  What’s it all about?:Jess Aarons’ greatest ambition is to be the fastest runner in his grade. He’s been practicing all summer and can’t wait to see his... Read more

  Posted on 29 June 2015 BOOKS, CULTURE

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

  

  What’s The Jaunt all about?:The Jaunt follows a family about three hundred years in the future on their re-location to Mars as the father tells the story of whe... Read more

  Posted on 28 June 2015 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Everneath (Everneath #1) – Brodi Ashton

  

  What’s it all about?:Last spring, Nikki Beckett vanished, sucked into an underworld known as the Everneath. Now she’s returned—to her old life, her family, her... Read more

  Posted on 27 June 2015 BOOKS, CULTURE

• The Ghost Bride – Yangsze Choo

  

  What’s it all about?:“One evening, my father asked me if I would like to become a ghost bride…”Though ruled by British overlords, the Chinese of colonial... Read more

  Posted on 20 June 2015 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Short Stories Challenge – Kew Gardens by Virginia Woolf from the Collection...

  

  What’s Kew Gardens all about?:Kew Gardens is the first of two short stories under the heading: Stories to help you rejoice in the beauty of nature and follows... Read more

  Posted on 19 June 2015 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Talking About Funny Girl by Nick Hornby with Chrissi Reads

  

  What’s it all about?:Funny Girl – the latest novel from Nick Hornby, the million-copy bestselling author of About a BoyMake them laugh, and they’re yours foreve... Read more

  Posted on 18 June 2015 BOOKS, CULTURE