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• The Crown – Nancy Bilyeau

  

  What’s it all about?:When novice nun Joanna Stafford learns her rebel cousin is condemned by King Henry VIII to be burned at the stake, she makes the decision t... Read more

  Posted on 10 August 2013 BOOKS, CULTURE

• The Post-Birthday World – Lionel Shriver

  

  What’s it all about?:Using a playful parallel-universe structure, The Post-Birthday World follows one woman’s future as it unfolds under the influence of two... Read more

  Posted on 09 August 2013 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Challenge: Short Stories August to September

  

  The Challenge:The first two months of my short story challenge (please see my previous post HERE) have been quite fruitful! I have discovered new authors and... Read more

  Posted on 01 August 2013 BOOKS, CULTURE

• The Sea Change – Joanna Rossiter

  

  What’s it all about?:Yesterday was Alice’s wedding day. She is thousands of miles away from the home she is so desperate to leave, on the southernmost tip of... Read more

  Posted on 30 July 2013 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Short Stories Challenge – Butcher’s Perfume, Sarah Hall from the Collection The...

  

  What’s Butcher’s Perfume 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 29 July 2013 BOOKS, CULTURE

• The Boleyn King – Laura Andersen

  

  What’s it all about?:The Boleyn King is the first novel in an enthralling new trilogy. Re-imagining history in sumptuous detail, Laura Anderssen takes readers... Read more

  Posted on 28 July 2013 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Man Booker Prize Longlist 2013 Announced

  I try to keep up to date with literary happenings, and the Man Booker Prize is one of my favourites. I am currently in the middle of trying to get through all o... Read more

  Posted on 27 July 2013 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Beth and Chrissi Do Kid-Lit – JULY READ – Charlotte’s Web – E.B. White

  

  What’s it all about?:The tale of how a little girl named Fern, with the help of a friendly spider, saved her pig Wilbur from the usual fate of nice fat little... Read more

  Posted on 26 July 2013 BOOKS, CULTURE

• A Child of The Jago – Arthur Morrison

  

  What’s it all about?:Dicky Perrott, born into the Jago’s casual crime and violence, has inarticulate yearnings towards other possibilities. Read more

  Posted on 25 July 2013 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Flesh House – Stuart MacBride

  

  What’s it all about?:The city is in a state of fear. Some 20 years ago, the Grampian police nailed a particularly vicious serial killer known as The Flesher, a... Read more

  Posted on 22 July 2013 BOOKS, CULTURE

• The Time Machine – H.G. Wells

  

  What’s it all about?:“I’ve had a most amazing time….”So begins the Time Traveller’s astonishing firsthand account of his journey 800,000 years beyond his own... Read more

  Posted on 21 July 2013 BOOKS, CULTURE

• The President’s Hat – Antoine Laurain

  

  What’s it all about?:Dining alone in an elegant Parisian brasserie, accountant Daniel Mercier can hardly believe his eyes when President François Mitterrand sit... Read more

  Posted on 20 July 2013 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Shatter Me – Tahereh Mafi

  

  What’s it all about?:Juliette hasn’t touched anyone in exactly 264 days.The last time she did, it was an accident, but The Reestablishment locked her up for... Read more

  Posted on 19 July 2013 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Torn – Cat Clarke

  

  What’s it all about?:Four girls. One dead body. A whole lot of guilt.Alice King isn’t expecting the holiday of a lifetime when she sets off with her classmates... Read more

  Posted on 18 July 2013 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Short Story Challenge – A Scandal in Bohemia, Arthur Conan Coyle from the...

  

  What’s it all about?:The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes is the series of short stories that made the fortunes of the Strand magazine, in which they were first... Read more

  Posted on 17 July 2013 BOOKS, CULTURE

• The Bolter: Edwardian Heartbreak and High Society Scandal in Kenya – Frances...

  

  What’s it all about?: In an age of bolters–women who broke the rules and fled their marriages–Idina Sackville was the most celebrated of them all. Read more

  Posted on 14 July 2013 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Talking About The Light Between Oceans by M.L. Stedman with Chrissi

  

  What’s it all about?: Richard and Judy summer bookclub read 2013, Goodreads category winner, and longlisted for the Women’s Prize for Fiction 2013, stunning... Read more

  Posted on 14 July 2013 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Antonia Lively Breaks The Silence – David Samuel Levinson

  

  What’s it all about?: One writer’s mysterious death, another’s relentless quest for fame, and a bitter literary critic’s passion for manipulation drive the stor... Read more

  Posted on 12 July 2013 BOOKS, CULTURE

• The Casual Vacancy – J.K. Rowling

  

  What’s it all about?: When Barry Fairbrother dies in his early forties, the town of Pagford is left in shock. Pagford is, seemingly, an English idyll, with a... Read more

  Posted on 11 July 2013 BOOKS, CULTURE

• WWW Wednesday #10

  

  Another week has flown by, I haven’t had a chance to do much reading this week, and its WWW Wednesday time. Thanks as ever to MizB at Should Be Reading for... Read more

  Posted on 10 July 2013 BOOKS