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• Balthasar’s Gift

  

  There’s a back story to this one. Once upon a time, now many years ago, a group of women writers, all friends online, came together over a feminist blog: What W... Read more

  Posted on 24 November 2014 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Last Minute on Friday

  I am so sorry for my absence from the blogworld this week; things have just been really busy around here. But I’m hoping that next week will be a lot better. I... Read more

  Posted on 21 November 2014 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Thursday Reading Notes

  

  Looking back over the past month or so I see that my reading has been all over the place, rather like the golden rose in our back garden that will suddenly shoo... Read more

  Posted on 13 November 2014 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Wish I Could Be There

  

  The feeling of panic that overwhelms the sufferer of a phobia must be one of the most unpleasant feelings that we are routinely forced to endure. Read more

  Posted on 10 November 2014 BOOKS, CULTURE

• House Party

  When I was a very small child and happened to be off school for the day, my mother and I would watch a television programme in the early afternoon that was... Read more

  Posted on 06 November 2014 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Mentor

  

  This memoir of the tortured trajectory of the writer’s life was completely fascinating, if not always for the right reasons. Tom Grimes’ brave and excruciatingl... Read more

  Posted on 30 October 2014 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Strangers on a Train

  

  Too many psychological thrillers these days think they’ve done sufficient work by placing their female heroine under multiple threats of peril. Read more

  Posted on 28 October 2014 BOOKS, CULTURE

• On Patrick Modiano

  

  Yesterday I put two and two together and realised that the reason I’d seen a lot of brief but extremely unusual mentions of Patrick Modiano online was that... Read more

  Posted on 24 October 2014 BOOKS, CULTURE

• The Yellow-Lighted Bookshop

  

  In contrast to the modern caricature of the bookseller – in cardigan with cat and tea – for centuries the bookseller was regarded as a rogue, a hell-raiser,... Read more

  Posted on 22 October 2014 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Gossip

  

  The question of whether we ever know when we are being cruel runs through this darker-than-you’d-expect novel by Beth Gutcheon. Read more

  Posted on 20 October 2014 BOOKS, CULTURE

• On Teaching Literature

  The following is something I wrote initially for SNB before thinking that it really didn’t suit the magazine at all. And so I thought I might as well stick it u... Read more

  Posted on 15 October 2014 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Two Brief Reviews

  

  I was very curious to read Lisa See, having seen her previous books travel around the blog world to mixed, but mostly positive reviews. Read more

  Posted on 13 October 2014 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Mr Litlove and the Animals

  A little while back, Mr Litlove and I were in the study chatting, when a look came over his face that I recognised very well. In translation it reads: Oh. My.... Read more

  Posted on 09 October 2014 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Issue 3 Is Out!

  

  And finally, our brand new issue of Shiny New Books goes live today! I think we’ve probably done the most work for this one of any of our issues so far,... Read more

  Posted on 06 October 2014 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Death of an Avid Reader

  

  As we near the publication date of our next full edition of Shiny New Books, you might reasonably fear that the title of this post referred to me. But no! Read more

  Posted on 01 October 2014 BOOKS, CULTURE

• The Fantasy Book Group

  

  Eric over at Lonesome Reader started it, and then my friend and co-editor, Annabel, carried it on (and included George Clooney) and I found I just couldn’t... Read more

  Posted on 22 September 2014 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Of False Correlations

  I’ve been trying to think what’s been happening around here lately to tell you all, and can only come up with events that involve unusual modal tenses. There ar... Read more

  Posted on 17 September 2014 BOOKS, CULTURE

• The Destroyer

  

  Back in the mists of time, well, July, I was offered a book as part of a blog tour. It was billed as similar in style to Jack Reacher and I thought, hmm,... Read more

  Posted on 13 September 2014 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Why Childish Pleasures Are Best Left Alone

  

  Going to lectures by childrens’ authors is not something I normally do, but I have a good friend with an eagle eye for these events, who is writing children’s... Read more

  Posted on 12 September 2014 BOOKS, CULTURE

• A Funeral and Two Near-Misses

  Early one morning a few days back, Mr Litlove came into our room in a state of some concern. ‘Harvey hasn’t come in for his breakfast,’ he said. Read more

  Posted on 04 September 2014 BOOKS, CULTURE