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• Shiny New Books is Out!

  

  The eighth edition of Shiny New Books is out today. Go and read the winning entry in our poetry competition. Plus all the usual reviews and features you expect... Read more

  Posted on 28 January 2016 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Recovery

  

  A week on from our various disasters and Mr Litlove is pretty much healed. Now the only actions that bother his shoulder occur in front of the computer, when to... Read more

  Posted on 24 January 2016 BOOKS, CULTURE

• The American – Better Than Donna Leon?

  

  As I mentioned, I’ve got a couple of reviews outstanding, and this is the first one for which I’m part of a blog tour. The American by Nadia Dalbuono comes... Read more

  Posted on 21 January 2016 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Best Laid Plans

  

  If you do not believe in the workings of a thing called fate (which can be tempted), I suggest you figure out a watertight plan and then see what happens to it. Read more

  Posted on 18 January 2016 BOOKS, CULTURE

• New Year, New Us

  This year I am determined I am actually going to make some changes. Every year it’s the same old resolutions and every year the default setting quietly settles... Read more

  Posted on 10 January 2016 BOOKS, CULTURE

• The Temporary Gentleman

  

  Jack McNulty, the hero and villain of Sebastian Barry’s novel, The Temporary Gentleman, which tells the story of a doomed marriage in the first half of the... Read more

  Posted on 30 December 2015 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Lila

  

  I really must do what I can to tackle the large pile of to-be-reviewed books that have built up over the course of December, not least because I have read... Read more

  Posted on 28 December 2015 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Eat, Pray, Love

  

  I have so many books in the queue to review that I must try and get through some of them by the end of the year, maybe with shorter reviews than usual. Read more

  Posted on 19 December 2015 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Books of the Year 2015

  

  I am woefully behind in my reviewing, and it occurred to me that I had enough posts lined up in prospect to take me to the end of the year. Read more

  Posted on 15 December 2015 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Learning The Hard Way

  

  Why is it that the student-teacher relationship is such a potent and hypnotic one? Inevitably, this is something I’ve thought a lot about over the years, not... Read more

  Posted on 10 December 2015 BOOKS, CULTURE

• A Woman on the Edge of Time

  

  In 1965, shortly before Christmas, a young, ambitious mother of two children on the brink of publishing her first book of sociology let herself into a friend’s... Read more

  Posted on 07 December 2015 BOOKS, CULTURE

• The Extra Shiny!

  

  It’s all go this week, isn’t it? Yes, the Christmas Extra Shiny is upon us, with 30 additional reviews and articles. Also, the Book Club is discussing Lila by... Read more

  Posted on 03 December 2015 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Your Blog Post Might Change The World Yet

  

  It’s been an appropriate time to be reading about the way that war and religion – and especially religious wars – have caused more trouble to mankind than just... Read more

  Posted on 01 December 2015 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Gabriel Josipovici Interview

  

  I had the pleasure and privilege of interviewing Gabriel Josipovici for Numero Cinq magazine; what came out of the weeks we spoke together was a profound, movin... Read more

  Posted on 01 December 2015 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Georges Simenon and Inspector Maigret

  

  When I was first growing serious about learning French, I was advised repeatedly to read Simenon’s Maigret stories. The French was so simple! I was assured,... Read more

  Posted on 25 November 2015 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Close Encounters with Woodworking

  

  Several years ago now, when Mr Litlove was first getting serious about his furniture making, I remember he was sitting propped up against the pillows one... Read more

  Posted on 20 November 2015 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Elizabeth Gilbert’s Big Magic

  

  I am a fully paid-up card-carrying fan of Elizabeth Gilbert, but there is often a moment at the start of her books where I feel like I might have sat next to th... Read more

  Posted on 18 November 2015 BOOKS, CULTURE

• I Call Myself A Feminist

  

  Twenty-five essays collected together with a generous helping of quotes from other well-known women, with the particular slant that the essays are all written b... Read more

  Posted on 16 November 2015 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Dark Tales for Dark Days

  

  The Watchers by Neil Spring is based on a series of real and unexplained events near the coast of Wales in the late 1970s. In the winter of 1977 a spate of UFO... Read more

  Posted on 10 November 2015 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Out of Sheer Enthusiasm: The Prison Book Club

  

  I will confess up front that teaching literature in prisons is something I have long been interested in doing – only whenever I start to think I might have... Read more

  Posted on 02 November 2015 BOOKS, CULTURE