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• Short Stories Challenge – Martin Misunderstood by Karin Slaughter (stand-alone)

  

  What’s it all about?:A darkly comic tale about Mr Less-Than-Average in an average world from the No. 1 Bestseller.Crime fiction obsessive Martin Reed is the... Read more

  Posted on 03 May 2015 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Beth and Chrissi Do Kid-Lit 2015 – APRIL READ – Flour Babies by Anne Fine

  

  What’s it all about?:Let it be flour babies. Let chaos reign. When the annual school science fair comes round, Mr Cartwright’s class don’t get to work on the... Read more

  Posted on 30 April 2015 BOOKS, CULTURE

• A Colder War – Charles Cumming

  

  What’s it all about?:MI6’s Head of Station in Turkey is killed in a mysterious plane crash. Amelia Levene, chief of the Secret Intelligence Service, wants the... Read more

  Posted on 29 April 2015 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Banned Books #10 The Chocolate War by Robert Cormier with Chrissi Reads

  

  What’s it all about?:Jerry Renault ponders the question on the poster in his locker: Do I dare disturb the universe? Refusing to sell chocolates in the annual... Read more

  Posted on 27 April 2015 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Short Stories Challenge – The Apple by Michel Faber from the Collection The...

  

  What’s The Apple all about?:Michel Faber revisits the world of his best-selling novel The Crimson Petal and the White, conjuring tantalising glimpses of its... Read more

  Posted on 26 April 2015 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Special Guest Post from Lisa Jackson, Author of Close To Home

  

  Hello everyone! Today I bring you a guest post from author Lisa Jackson whose incredible thriller I read a little while ago – to see my post please click HERE. Read more

  Posted on 21 April 2015 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Plague Land – S.D. Sykes

  

  What’s it all about?:Oswald de Lacy was never meant to be the Lord of Somerhill Manor. Despatched to a monastery at the age of seven, sent back at seventeen whe... Read more

  Posted on 20 April 2015 BOOKS, CULTURE

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

  

  What’s The Oversoul all about?:The Oversoul is about an eighteen year old boy called Frank who spends most of his time smoking with his friend at the quarry pon... Read more

  Posted on 11 April 2015 BOOKS, CULTURE

• A Discovery Of Witches (All Souls Trilogy #1) – Deborah Harkness

  

  What’s it all about?:A richly inventive novel about a centuries-old vampire, a spellbound witch, and the mysterious manuscript that draws them together. Read more

  Posted on 09 April 2015 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Blog Tour – Close To Home by Lisa Jackson

  

  What’s it all about?:Sarah McAdams needs a fresh start. So she’s come home to the shores of Oregon’s wildColumbia river, to renovate the old Victorian mansion... Read more

  Posted on 07 April 2015 BOOKS, CULTURE

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

  

  What’s The Archduchess all about?:The Archduchess is the story of a fictional kingdom called Ronda that appears to have everything one could ever want, includin... Read more

  Posted on 06 April 2015 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Short Stories Challenge 2015 – April to June

  

  Image from http://www.msauret.com/have-short-stories-become-irrelevant/I’m so glad I started this challenge, I’ve discovered some real gems of stories and... Read more

  Posted on 03 April 2015 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Beth and Chrissi’s Points of View on Point Horror – The Boyfriend by R.L. Stine

  

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

  Posted on 02 April 2015 BOOKS, CULTURE

• April 2015 – Book Bridgr/NetGalley/Kindle/ARC Month

  

  It’s that time again. One whole month devoted to catching up with some review copies, books I’ve received from Book Bridgr and NetGalley and those poor forgotte... Read more

  Posted on 01 April 2015 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Beth and Chrissi Do Kid-Lit 2015 – MARCH READ – Diary Of A Wimpy Kid by Jeff...

  

  What’s it all about?:Boys don’t keep diaries—or do they?The launch of an exciting and innovatively illustrated new series narrated by an unforgettable kid... Read more

  Posted on 31 March 2015 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Banned Books #9 Crank by Ellen Hopkins with Chrissi Reads

  

  What’s it all about?:In Crank, Ellen Hopkins chronicles the turbulent and often disturbing relationship between Kristina, a character based on her own... Read more

  Posted on 30 March 2015 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Short Stories Challenge – Keeping Watch Over The Sheep by Jon McGregor from the...

  

  What’s Keeping Watch Over The Sheep all about?:Keeping Watch Over The Sheep is about a father who is desperate to see his child in her first nativity at school. Read more

  Posted on 29 March 2015 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Stay Where You Are And Then Leave – John Boyne

  

  What’s it all about?:The day the First World War broke out, Alfie Summerfield’s father promised he wouldn’t go away to fight – but he broke that promise the... Read more

  Posted on 28 March 2015 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Miss Carter’s War – Sheila Hancock

  

  What’s it all about?:It is 1948 and Britain is struggling to recover from the Second World War. Half French, half English, Marguerite Carter, young and... Read more

  Posted on 27 March 2015 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Short Stories Challenge – The Ceiling by Kevin Brockmeier from the Collection...

  

  What’s The Ceiling all about?:In the O. Henry Award winning “The Ceiling,” a man’s marriage begins to disintegrate after the sky starts slowly descending.What... Read more

  Posted on 26 March 2015 BOOKS, CULTURE