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LATEST ARTICLES ( 52 )

• A New Blogging Adventure

  

  come and see me at ponder pieces! My words have packed up their little word suitcases and are moving! For a while now I have wanted to expand on the topics I... Read more

  Posted on 11 March 2015 BOOKS, CULTURE

• How To Stay Sane – Philippa Perry

  

  So yeah, in my last reading challenge post I said my next review would be for a book written by a female under the age of 30. Well, that isn’t going to happen. ... Read more

  Posted on 01 March 2015 BOOKS, CULTURE

• New Harper Lee!!! Maybe She Hadn’t Said Everything After All!

  I literally never thought the day would come when Lee released another book! But according to today that very thing will be happening this year! stunned. Read more

  Posted on 03 February 2015 BOOKS, CULTURE

• The Young Visiters – Daisy Ashford

  

  Yup. I crochet what I read now. And so onto my A Book in A Day challenge. For this I chose a book that has been sat on various shelves rather impatiently for a... Read more

  Posted on 02 February 2015 BOOKS, CULTURE

• The Goldfinch – Donna Tartt

  

  Book. Bird. Cushion. Bird. Right, I’m going to get this out the way right now. A disclaimer if you will, a confession early on that hopefully leads to an... Read more

  Posted on 30 January 2015 BOOKS, CULTURE

• 2015 – When I Got Angred by a Reading List So Read It. Also, Crochet.

  

  *taps internet* hello? hmmm…been a while again hasn’t it? Life huh? It has no place getting in the way of books and blogging, but alas, it does anyway. But hey! Read more

  Posted on 28 January 2015 BOOKS, CULTURE

• A Meal in Winter – Hubert Mingarelli (Sam Taylor Translator)

  

  The Blurb: One morning, in the dead of winter, three German soldiers are dispatched into the frozen Polish countryside. They have been charged by their... Read more

  Posted on 12 November 2014 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Playing to The Gallery – Grayson Perry

  

  Like with my previous review of Us I feel I should prologue this review with some major bias. I love Grayson Perry. I too was raised in Chelmsford and it took a... Read more

  Posted on 27 October 2014 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Us – David Nicholls

  

  The Blurb: Douglas Petersen understands his wife’s need to ‘rediscover herself’ now that their son is leaving home. He just thought they’d be doing their... Read more

  Posted on 08 October 2014 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Wild Ink – Richard Smyth

  

  The Blurb: Albert Chaliapin is dead – or at least, he feels like he ought to be. He lives in a world occupied only by the ghosts of his former life (and his... Read more

  Posted on 01 October 2014 BOOKS, CULTURE

• In Plain Sight: The Life and Lies of Jimmy Savile – Dan Davies

  

  When the news began to break about the black side to Jimmy Savile’s life, like most people, I was utterly disgusted. But I grew up regarding him as a fairly... Read more

  Posted on 15 September 2014 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Blog Snooze

  

  Art by Moga* Hello followers and casual browsers. I have had a couple of rather full weeks and as such my blog has been having a snooze. Some distractions have... Read more

  Posted on 01 September 2014 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Mother Island – Bethan Roberts

  

  The Blurb: “Maggie Wichelo, a lonely young woman, arrives at the comfortable Oxford house in which she works as a nanny. Everything appears normal. Her glamorou... Read more

  Posted on 11 August 2014 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Judge a Cover Thursday! – Penguin’s New Charlie and The Chocolate Factory Design

  

  As Twitter melted a bit yesterday over a cover reveal, I have decided to bring Judge a Cover forward a day! On Wednesday, Penguin Books released an image for a... Read more

  Posted on 07 August 2014 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Moranthology – Caitlin Moran

  

  The last time I finished a Moran book I hardly slept. I was so shaken up by not having really liked it, I felt like I’d had a massive falling out with a friend. Read more

  Posted on 06 August 2014 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Bridget Jones’s Diary – Helen Fielding

  

  The wonderful cover by Tara McPherson I was inspired to pick this up during fellow book blogger Emma Louise’s recent #sunathon. Read more

  Posted on 05 August 2014 BOOKS, CULTURE

• #Bookadayuk Doubleday Final Round-up

  

  The topics for July 2014 So this marks the end of Doubledays’ tenure at the helm of #BookofadayUK. I just want to thank them for a fun and really inspiring... Read more

  Posted on 04 August 2014 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Letter to an Unknown Soldier

  

  I have just added my letter to the remarkable Letter to an Unknown Soldier project. There is still time to send one, so what would you say to him if you had... Read more

  Posted on 31 July 2014 BOOKS, CULTURE

• The Book That Reminds Me of My English Teacher, as Pondered by #BookadayUK

  

  Macbeth Theater Company poster by Daniel Warren Art http://www.danielwarrenart.com/ Last week, #bookadayUK asked “What book reminds you of your English teacher? Read more

  Posted on 29 July 2014 BOOKS, CULTURE

• I’m BACK! With a Little Late Week Four #BookadayUK Round-up

  

  Not sure what happened last week. I didn’t publish a single post and left a writing project deserted on my desk. It got quite hot. My “actual work” days changed... Read more

  Posted on 28 July 2014 BOOKS, CULTURE