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LATEST ARTICLES ( 1312 )

• The Spinning Heart – Donal Ryan

  

  What’s it all about?:In the aftermath of Ireland’s financial collapse, dangerous tensions surface in an Irish town. As violence flares, the characters face a... Read more

  Posted on 22 October 2013 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Short Stories Challenge – Mr E.Morse, BA OXon (Failed) by Colin Dexter, from...

  

  What’s Mr E. Morse.. all about?:This story was originally entitled Morse and The Mystery of the Drunken Driver, and was released in three parts by the Daily Mai... Read more

  Posted on 21 October 2013 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Voyage In The Dark – Jean Rhys

  

  What’s it all about?:Autobiographically inspired, Rhys created stories of the slightly adrift every woman looking for an anchor in a cold, hostile landscape. Read more

  Posted on 20 October 2013 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Vicious Little Darlings – Katherine Easer

  

  What’s it all about?:Sarah Weaver wasn’t looking forward to starting at an all-girls school. But that was before she met Maddy. Read more

  Posted on 18 October 2013 BOOKS, CULTURE

• WWW Wednesday #20

  

  It’s that time again… WWW Wednesday. Thanks as ever to MizB at Should Be Reading for hosting.To join in you need to answer 3 questions..•What are you currently... Read more

  Posted on 16 October 2013 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Anna Karenina – Leo Tolstoy

  

  What’s it all about?:Described by William Faulkner as the best novel ever written and by Fyodor Dostoevsky as “flawless,” Anna Karenina tells of the doomed... Read more

  Posted on 15 October 2013 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Short Stories Challenge – The Nameless City by H.P. Lovecraft from the Collectio...

  

  What’s The Nameless City all about?:“The Nameless City” is a horror story written by H. P. Lovecraft in January 1921 and first published in the November 1921... Read more

  Posted on 13 October 2013 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Divergent – Veronica Roth

  

  What’s it all about?:In Beatrice Prior’s dystopian Chicago world, society is divided into five factions, each dedicated to the cultivation of a particular... Read more

  Posted on 10 October 2013 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Talking About Instructions For A Heatwave by Maggie O’Farrell with Chrissi

  

  What’s it all about?:The stunning new novel from Costa Award winning novelist Maggie O’Farrell: a portrait of an Irish family in crisis in the legendary heatwav... Read more

  Posted on 09 October 2013 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Dr Sleep – Stephen King

  

  What’s it all about?:Stephen King returns to the characters and territory of one of his most popular novels ever, The Shining, in this instantly riveting novel... Read more

  Posted on 06 October 2013 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Challenge: Short Stories October to December

  

  What better way to end the year then by enjoying some more short stories? Here  is how I plan to spend the next three months:Week beginning 7th OctoberMr E. Read more

  Posted on 04 October 2013 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Short Stories Challenge – The Little Green God of Agony by Stephen King, from th...

  

  What’s The Little Green God of Agony all about?Stephen King’s short story, the opener of Stephen Jones’s 2011 anthology, A Book of Horrors, and included in Elle... Read more

  Posted on 03 October 2013 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Confessions of Two Bibliophiles #3

  

  CHAPTER THREE: OLD VERSUS NEW?Beth,I had such a great time at Foyles with you. I think we could’ve spent more hours in there. We’ll have to go again soon for... Read more

  Posted on 01 October 2013 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Beth and Chrissi Do Kid-Lit – SEPTEMBER READ – A Wrinkle In Time by Madeleine...

  

  What’s it all about?:It was a dark and stormy night; Meg Murry, her small brother Charles Wallace, and her mother had come down to the kitchen for a midnight... Read more

  Posted on 30 September 2013 BOOKS, CULTURE

• The Shining Girls – Lauren Beukes

  

  What’s it all about?:The girl who wouldn’t die, hunting a killer who shouldn’t exist…A terrifying and original serial-killer thriller from award-winning... Read more

  Posted on 29 September 2013 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Hand Me Down World – Lloyd Jones

  

  What’s it all about?:A woman washes ashore in Sicily. She has come from north Africa to find her son, taken from her when he was just days old by his father... Read more

  Posted on 28 September 2013 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Short Stories Challenge – Crooner by Kazuo Ishiguro, from the Collection...

  

  What’s Crooner all about?:In this sublime story cycle, Kazuo Ishiguro explores love, music and the passage of time. This quintet ranges from Italian piazzas to... Read more

  Posted on 26 September 2013 BOOKS, CULTURE

• The Cuckoo’s Calling – Robert Galbraith

  

  What’s it all about?:After losing his leg to a land mine in Afghanistan, Cormoran Strike is barely scraping by as a private investigator. Strike is down to one... Read more

  Posted on 25 September 2013 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Extras – Scott Westerfeld

  

  What’s it all about?:It’s a few years after rebel Tally Youngblood took down the uglies/pretties/specials regime. Without those strict roles and rules, the worl... Read more

  Posted on 24 September 2013 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Ballistics – D.W. Wilson

  

  What’s it all about?:It is summer and the Canadian Rockies are on fire. As the forests blaze, Alan West heads into their shadows, returning from university to... Read more

  Posted on 22 September 2013 BOOKS, CULTURE