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• Short Stories Challenge – I Am An Executioner by Rajesh Parameswaran from the...

  

  What’s I Am An Executioner all about?:The title story in this collection is about a newly wed executioner who isn’t exactly living in “marital bliss” after his... Read more

  Posted on 04 October 2014 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Delusions Of Gender: How Our Minds, Society, and Neurosexism Create Difference...

  

  What’s it all about?:A vehement dismantling of the latest pseudo-scientific claims about the differences between the sexes.Sex-based discrimination is supposedl... Read more

  Posted on 03 October 2014 BOOKS, CULTURE

• The Shock Of The Fall – Nathan Filer

  

  What’s it all about?:‘I’ll tell you what happened because it will be a good way to introduce my brother. His name’s Simon. I think you’re going to like him. I... Read more

  Posted on 02 October 2014 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Short Stories Challenge – The Agency by Sarah Hall from the Collection The...

  

  What’s The Agency all about?:From Man Booker Prize-shortlisted author Sarah Hall comes a collection of unique and disturbing short fiction hailed as a... Read more

  Posted on 01 October 2014 BOOKS, CULTURE

• October 2014 – Book Bridgr/NetGalley/Kindle Month!

  

  I can’t believe it’s October already, where has the year gone? Okay, so this month I will be attempting to read very specifically, books that I have been sent b... Read more

  Posted on 01 October 2014 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Beth and Chrissi Do Kid-Lit 2014 – SEPTEMBER READ – Swallows and Amazons by...

  

  What’s it all about?:John, Susan, Titty and Roger sail their boat, Swallow, to a deserted Island for a sumer camping trip. Exploring and playing sailors is an... Read more

  Posted on 30 September 2014 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Banned Books #3 – The Absolutely True Diary Of A Part-Time Indian by Sherman...

  

  What’s it all about?:Sherman Alexie tells the story of Junior, a budding cartoonist growing up on the Spokane Indian Reservation. Read more

  Posted on 29 September 2014 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Talking About The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August by Claire North with...

  

  What’s it all about?:The extraordinary journey of one unforgettable character – a story of friendship and betrayal, loyalty and redemption, love and loneliness... Read more

  Posted on 28 September 2014 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Do No Harm: Stories of Life, Death and Brain Surgery – Henry Marsh

  

  What’s it all about?:What is it like to be a brain surgeon?How does it feel to hold someone’s life in your hands, to cut into the stuff that creates thought,... Read more

  Posted on 27 September 2014 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Short Stories Challenge – The Boscombe Valley Mystery by Arthur Conan Doyle...

  

  What’s The Boscombe Valley Mystery all about?:Lestrade summons Holmes to a community in Herefordshire, where a local land owner has been murdered outdoors. The... Read more

  Posted on 25 September 2014 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Seduction – M.J. Rose

  

  What’s it all about?:From the author of The Book of Lost Fragrances comes a haunting novel about a grieving woman who discovers the lost journal of novelist... Read more

  Posted on 24 September 2014 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Criminal – Karin Slaughter (Will Trent #6)

  

  What’s it all about?:Karin Slaughter’s new novel is an epic tale of love, loyalty, and murder that encompasses forty years, two chillingly similar murder... Read more

  Posted on 23 September 2014 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Short Stories Challenge – Proving Up by Karen Russell from the Collection...

  

  What’s Proving Up all about?:In a family’s disastrous quest for land in the American West, the monster is the human hunger for acquisition, and the victim is al... Read more

  Posted on 16 September 2014 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Daughter – Jane Shemilt

  

  What’s it all about?:When a teenage girl goes missing her mother discovers she doesn’t know her daughter as well as she thought in Jane Shemilt’s haunting... Read more

  Posted on 15 September 2014 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Too Much Happiness – Alice Munroe

  

  What’s it all about?:Ten superb new stories by one of our most beloved and admired writers—the winner of the 2009 Man Booker International Prize. Read more

  Posted on 14 September 2014 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Short Stories Challenge – Child Of Light by Randy Taguchi from the Collection...

  

  What’s Child Of Light all about?:Child of Light is a story about a nurse who struggles as she comes to terms with her role in the oft-brutal cycle of birth,... Read more

  Posted on 13 September 2014 BOOKS, CULTURE

• The Ship Of Brides – Jojo Moyes

  

  What’s it all about?:The year is 1946, and all over the world, young women are crossing the seas in the thousands en route to the men they married in wartime –... Read more

  Posted on 11 September 2014 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Scarlet (The Lunar Chronicles #2) – Marissa Meyer

  

  What’s it all about?:Cinder, the cyborg mechanic, returns in the second thrilling installment of the bestselling Lunar Chronicles. Read more

  Posted on 10 September 2014 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Short Stories Challenge – Lights In Other People’s Houses by Lucy Wood from the...

  

  What’s Lights In Other People’s Houses all about?:Lights In Other Peoples’s Houses is about a young couple who receive the ghost of a ship wrecker in their... Read more

  Posted on 08 September 2014 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Beth and Chrissi Do Kid-Lit 2014 – AUGUST READ – The Swiss Family Robinson by...

  

  What’s it all about?:One of the world’s best-loved stories of shipwreck and survival, The Swiss Family Robinson portrays a family’s struggle to create a new lif... Read more

  Posted on 07 September 2014 BOOKS, CULTURE