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• Comfort Crime

  

  Three crime novels from the ever-growing ranks of unreviewed books around here:Lisa Gardner – The Survivors ClubThis was a scary one. Read more

  Posted on 15 October 2013 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Three Great Novelists

  

  I’ve been reading as much as ever but writing very little about it here – a most unusual turn of events! What it means, though, is that I can cherry pick the... Read more

  Posted on 09 October 2013 BOOKS, CULTURE

• The Week at Litlove’s

  Wednesday afternoon found me ringing up the local doctors’ surgery asking for an appointment. They could fit me in Saturday morning, or if it was an emergency, ... Read more

  Posted on 05 October 2013 BOOKS, CULTURE

• How To Survive Your University Course

  It’s that time of year when the students go back, and partly because I am bio-rhythmically set up to expect students requiring help across the autumn, I... Read more

  Posted on 30 September 2013 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Mr Litlove Strikes Again

  

  Just a quick post with a not-terribly-good photo of the new bookcase that Mr Litlove has made me. It’s in Arts & Crafts style for those of you who like to know... Read more

  Posted on 26 September 2013 BOOKS, CULTURE

• All Change

  So, my son left today for university and it is such a happysad event that I can’t even begin to know how I feel. He’s excited and keen and very ready now for hi... Read more

  Posted on 21 September 2013 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Bleugh

  With exquisite timing, I have caught the virus that my son and his girlfriend brought back from the Reading music festival. It began with 36 hours of the worst... Read more

  Posted on 18 September 2013 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Of Tents, Colds and Courses

  Hello dear blogging friends, it’s been a while, hasn’t it? The past few weeks have been both hectic and stressful chez Litlove but I can at least report some... Read more

  Posted on 10 September 2013 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Two Brief Reviews

  

  I had the week from Hell last week. No, don’t ask, I’m not in a place where I can talk about any of it yet, although I can say it included in its minor reaches ... Read more

  Posted on 13 August 2013 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Beautiful Ruins

  

  April 1962, Porto Vergogna, a tiny village straggling up the cliff in the least famous of the Cinque Terre resorts. In the sun-drenched waters, Pasquale Tursi i... Read more

  Posted on 08 August 2013 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Awesome Indies

  

  For a while now, I’ve been speculating that what we need is a kind of sorting house for the wealth of self-published material that’s now available. There I... Read more

  Posted on 05 August 2013 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Me, Elsewhere

  

  I seem suddenly to have a little rush of essays out on the internet.In the latest edition of Cerise Press, two essays on authors and their sordid love... Read more

  Posted on 04 August 2013 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Reading Slumps: What’s That All About?

  Don’t you just adore the first book that pulls you out of a reading slump? After an interminable period when nothing’s been quite right, I am falling over mysel... Read more

  Posted on 01 August 2013 BOOKS, CULTURE

• The Woman Upstairs

  

  Nora Eldridge is an angry woman, a 42-year-old elementary school teacher and would-be artist looking back on the events of five years ago that have brought her... Read more

  Posted on 30 July 2013 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Holiday Books and Films

  

  Wednesday, Thursday, and the Slow Death of the Present TenseI have always felt that the most powerful guiding force of my life is irony. Read more

  Posted on 26 July 2013 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Holiday Diary II

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  Posted on 24 July 2013 BOOKS, CULTURE

• My Holiday Diary

  FridayMr Litlove and I make surprisingly good time up the motorway to Yorkshire. In fact we cover 160 of the 170 miles in a couple of hours. Read more

  Posted on 22 July 2013 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Holiday!

  You know what? I’m going to throw in the towel rather than bust a gut trying to get my outstanding reviews written.  We’re off on holiday in a few days, Mr... Read more

  Posted on 08 July 2013 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Flora

  

  In an effort to get through my reviews, a series of short ones starting with Gail Godwin’s latest novel, Flora. Writing from her present position as an elderly... Read more

  Posted on 07 July 2013 BOOKS, CULTURE

• A Thousand Pardons

  

  If you asked me what cocktail of ingredients made up the novels of Jonathan Dee, I would say they were four parts Richard Yates, two parts postmodern hyperreal... Read more

  Posted on 05 July 2013 BOOKS, CULTURE