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• Cruel Summer – James Dawson

  

  What’s it all about?:A year after Janey’s suicide, her friends reunite at a remote Spanish villa, desperate to put the past behind them. However, an unwelcome... Read more

  Posted on 27 May 2014 BOOKS, CULTURE

• The Science Magpie – Simon Flynn

  

  What’s it all about?:From the Large Hadron Collider rap to the sins of Isaac Newton, The Science Magpie is a compelling collection of scientific curiosities. Read more

  Posted on 26 May 2014 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Talking About Longbourn by Jo Baker with Chrissi

  

  What’s it all about?:• Pride and Prejudice was only half the story • If Elizabeth Bennet had the washing of her own petticoats, Sarah often... Read more

  Posted on 25 May 2014 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Sheltering Rain – Jojo Moyes

  

  What’s it all about?:Joy is estranged from her only daughter, Kate, and knows little of her sixteen-year-old granddaughter Sabine. Read more

  Posted on 24 May 2014 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Short Stories Challenge – She Was Looking For This Coat by Jon McGregor from...

  

  What’s She Was Looking For This Coat all about?:Set in the flat and threatened fenland landscape, where the sky is dominant and the sea lurks just beyond the... Read more

  Posted on 22 May 2014 BOOKS, CULTURE

• WWW Wednesday #42

  

  Welcome to another WWW Wednesday, and thanks as ever to MizB for hosting.To join in you need to answer 3 questions..•What are you currently reading?•What did yo... Read more

  Posted on 21 May 2014 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Allegiant (Divergent #3) – Veronica Roth

  

  What’s it all about?:The faction-based society that Tris Prior once believed in is shattered—fractured by violence and power struggles and scarred by loss and... Read more

  Posted on 20 May 2014 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Requiem (Delirium #3) – Lauren Oliver

  

  What’s it all about?:Battling against a society in which love has been declared a disease, Lena now finds herself at the centre of a fierce revolution. Read more

  Posted on 19 May 2014 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Short Stories Challenge – Apples by Kevin Brockmeier from the Collection Things...

  

  What’s Apples all about?:Weaving together loss and anxiety with fantastic elements and literary sleight-of-hand, Kevin Brockmeier’s richly imagined Things That... Read more

  Posted on 17 May 2014 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Beth and Luna Discuss Mother, Mother by Koren Zailckas

  

  What’s it all about?:Josephine Hurst has her family under control. With two beautiful daughters, a brilliantly intelligent son, a tech-guru of a husband and a... Read more

  Posted on 15 May 2014 BOOKS, CULTURE

• WWW Wednesday #41

  

  Welcome to another WWW Wednesday, and thanks as ever to MizB for hosting.To join in you need to answer 3 questions..•What are you currently reading?•What did yo... Read more

  Posted on 14 May 2014 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Talking About Sisterland by Curtis Sittenfeld with Chrissi

  

  What’s it all about?:Curtis Sittenfeld, New York Times bestselling author of American Wifeand Prep, returns with a mesmerizing novel of family and identity,... Read more

  Posted on 13 May 2014 BOOKS, CULTURE

• The Ascent of Woman – Melanie Phillips

  

  What’s it all about?:The story of the fight to gain the vote for women is about much more than a picturesque skirmish around the introduction of universal... Read more

  Posted on 12 May 2014 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Entry Island – Peter May

  

  What’s it all about?:When Detective Sime Mackenzie boards a light aircraft at Montreal’s St. Hubert airfield, he does so without looking back. Read more

  Posted on 11 May 2014 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Short Stories Challenge – Four Rajeshes by Rajesh Parameswaran from the...

  

  What’s Four Rajeshes all about?:An explosive, funny, wildly original fiction debut: nine stories about the power of love and the love of power, two urgent... Read more

  Posted on 09 May 2014 BOOKS, CULTURE

• The Fishing Fleet: Husband Hunting in the Raj – Anne De Courcy

  

  What’s it all about?:From the late 19th century, when the Raj was at its height, many of Britain’s best and brightest young men went out to India to work as... Read more

  Posted on 08 May 2014 BOOKS, CULTURE

• WWW Wednesday #40

  

  Welcome to another WWW Wednesday, and thanks as ever to MizB for hosting.To join in you need to answer 3 questions..•What are you currently reading?•What did yo... Read more

  Posted on 07 May 2014 BOOKS, CULTURE

• The Rosie Project – Graeme Simsion

  

  What’s it all about?:An international sensation, this hilarious, feel-good novel is narrated by an oddly charming and socially challenged genetics professor on... Read more

  Posted on 05 May 2014 BOOKS, CULTURE

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

  

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

  Posted on 04 May 2014 BOOKS, CULTURE

• WWW Wednesday #39

  

  Welcome to another WWW Wednesday, and thanks as ever to MizB for hosting.To join in you need to answer 3 questions..•What are you currently reading?•What did yo... Read more

  Posted on 30 April 2014 BOOKS, CULTURE