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• Short Stories Challenge – The Blessing of Brokenness by Karin Slaughter...

  

  What’s The Blessing of Brokenness all about?:Mary Lou Dixon works at the Christ Holiness Baptist Church. She’s overseeing the repair of the cross above the alta... Read more

  Posted on 20 September 2013 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Anne of Avonlea (Anne of Green Gables #2) – L.M. Montgomery

  

  What’s it all about?:At sixteen, Anne is grown up…almost. Her gray eyes shine like evening stars, but her red hair is still as peppery as her temper. Read more

  Posted on 19 September 2013 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Man Booker Prize 2013 Shortlist Announced

  

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  Posted on 17 September 2013 BOOKS, CULTURE

• The Humans – Matt Haig

  

  What’s it all about?:Body-snatching has never been so heartwarming . . .The Humans is a funny, compulsively readable novel about alien abduction, mathematics an... Read more

  Posted on 16 September 2013 BOOKS, CULTURE

• The Comedy of Errors – William Shakespeare

  

  What’s it all about?:The Comedy of Errors tells the story of two sets of identical twins that were accidentally separated at birth. Read more

  Posted on 15 September 2013 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Books Are My Bag – My Bookish Life So Far…

  

  Books Are My Bag is a nationwide celebration of bookshops, calling on all bookworms to purchase a book from their local bookshop on Saturday 14th... Read more

  Posted on 14 September 2013 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Something Red – Douglas Nicholas

  

  What’s it all about?:During the thirteenth century in north-west England, in one of the coldest winters in living memory, a formidable yet charming Irish healer... Read more

  Posted on 13 September 2013 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Short Stories Challenge – Christmas In Silver Street, Michel Faber from the...

  

  What’s Christmas In Silver Street all about?:In this collection, Michael Faber revisits the world of his bestselling novel, “The Crimson Petal & White”,... Read more

  Posted on 12 September 2013 BOOKS, CULTURE

• WWW Wednesday #17

  

  WWW Wednesday is hosted by MizB at Should Be Reading, thank you MizB!To join in you need to answer 3 questions..•What are you currently reading?•What did you... Read more

  Posted on 11 September 2013 BOOKS, CULTURE

• NW – Zadie Smith

  

  What’s it all about?:This is the story of a city.The northwest corner of a city. Here you’ll find guests and hosts, those with power and those without it, peopl... Read more

  Posted on 10 September 2013 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Unearthly – Cynthia Hand

  

  What’s it all about?:In the beginning, there’s a boy standing in the trees . . . . Clara Gardner has recently learned that she’s part angel. Read more

  Posted on 08 September 2013 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Life After Life – Kate Atkinson

  

  What’s it all about?:On a cold and snowy night in 1910, Ursula Todd is born, the third child of a wealthy English banker and his wife. Sadly, she dies before sh... Read more

  Posted on 05 September 2013 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Talking About The Sea Sisters by Lucy Clarke with Chrissi

  

  What’s it all about?:Two sisters, one life-changing journey…There are some currents in the relationship between sisters that run so dark and so deep, it’s bette... Read more

  Posted on 04 September 2013 BOOKS, CULTURE

• WWW Wednesday #16

  

  WWW Wednesday is hosted by MizB at Should Be Reading, thank you MizB!To join in you need to answer 3 questions..•What are you currently reading?•What did you... Read more

  Posted on 04 September 2013 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Short Stories Challenge – Leningrad Nights by Graham Joyce from the Collection...

  

  What’s Leningrad Nights all about?:A story of human dignity , the hunger for survival and a possibly angelic intervention set during the 900 day siege of... Read more

  Posted on 03 September 2013 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Tell Me Who I Am – Alex and Marcus Lewis with Joanna Hodgkin

  

  What’s it all about?:A true story of false memory and lost innocence in one of England’s most respectable familiesImagine waking up one day to discover that... Read more

  Posted on 02 September 2013 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Richard and Judy Announce Their Autumn Reads 2013

  

  Richard and Judy are back for the Autumn with eight new titles for the Book Club. I always enjoy seeing what they have to offer, and again there’s a great... Read more

  Posted on 01 September 2013 BOOKS, CULTURE

• The Ice House – Nina Bawden

  

  What’s it all about?:At fifteen, Daisy, confident and cherished, is appalled to hear that Ruth’s father locked her in the old garden ice house as a childhood... Read more

  Posted on 01 September 2013 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Walking Home – Simon Armitage

  

  What’s it all about?:In summer 2010 Simon Armitage decided to walk the Pennine Way. The challenging 256-mile route is usually approached from south to north,... Read more

  Posted on 31 August 2013 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Tender Morsels – Margo Lanagan

  

  What’s it all about?:Tender Morsels is a dark and vivid story, set in two worlds and worrying at the border between them. Liga lives modestly in her own persona... Read more

  Posted on 30 August 2013 BOOKS, CULTURE