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• Can We Take a Minute to Appreciate the New Maggie O’Farrell Hardback?!

  

  I recently reviewed Maggie O'Farrell's new book This Must Be The Place, after the publisher kindly sent me a lovely review copy. It was a very attractive... Read more

  Posted on 17 May 2016 BOOKS, CULTURE

• New Maggie O’Farrell! ‘This Must Be The Place’

  I first started reading Maggie O'Farrell when the lovely Georgina Moore from Headline sent me a copy of her 2013 novel Instructions for a Heatwave. I fell in... Read more

  Posted on 13 May 2016 BOOKS, CULTURE

• The Exclusives by Rebecca Thornton

  

  I took a risk with this book - it was a review copy (something I am accepting less and less these days), and I wasn't sure what to expect. I knew there was a... Read more

  Posted on 15 April 2016 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Despite the Falling Snow by Shamim Sarif – Blog Tour!

  

  I was kindly invited to take part in the blog tour for the new edition of this book, first published in 2004, and am very glad I accepted. The new edition was... Read more

  Posted on 12 April 2016 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Exploring Academic Publishing

  As you may know, I work in Editorial at Routledge, an academic publisher. I work mostly on the Classical Studies list, which I love, and right now I am in... Read more

  Posted on 07 April 2016 BOOKS, CULTURE

• In Which I Am So, So Glad I Finally Read The Kindly Ones by Jonathan Littell

  

  In brief, this is the story of a man who was once a Nazi officer, a story of his war; it is a fictional autobiography of an intellectual thrown into the horror... Read more

  Posted on 21 March 2016 BOOKS, CULTURE

• The Second World War: Selected Reading

  

  Note on photos: where possible I have photographed my own books. I own the others mentioned in this post but don't have the books with me, so have used photos... Read more

  Posted on 03 March 2016 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Look at Me by Sarah Duguid

  The premise for Look at Me is simple but effective; and in fact I'd describe most of the book that way too. Our central character Lizzy and her brother Ig... Read more

  Posted on 23 February 2016 BOOKS, CULTURE

• A New Peirene! The Man I Became by Peter Verhelst (tr. David Colmer)

  As a rule I love Peirene Press, but I haven't actually read one of their books for a while. So I was very pleased to be offered a review copy of book no. 19, Th... Read more

  Posted on 04 February 2016 BOOKS, CULTURE

• In Which I Read The Book of Strange New Things by Michel Faber and Had Some...

  My sister gave me this book for my birthday, so I really really wanted to like it. I'd heard a lot of good things. I wasn't sure what I'd think of it. I went... Read more

  Posted on 01 February 2016 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Reading and Watching: Room by Emma Donoghue

  Room is one of those books that 'caused a stir' when it came out, and everyone was talking abou it. I always meant to read it, but never got round to it; and... Read more

  Posted on 26 January 2016 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Witchfinders: A Seventeenth-Century English Tragedy by Malcolm Gaskill

  I decided I wanted to read this book on a bit of an impulse. I'd read Witches: James I and the English Witch Hunts by Tracy Borman and been left unsatisfied,... Read more

  Posted on 18 January 2016 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Christmas and Birthday Haul: New Year, New Books!

  

  Greeting all! I hope Christmas and the New Year have treated you well. So far 2016 for me has been my birthday, and then five days of being ill (today is day... Read more

  Posted on 11 January 2016 BOOKS, CULTURE

• 2015 in Review (official WordPress Report!)

  

  The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2015 annual report for this blog. Here's an excerpt: A New York City subway train holds 1,200 people. This... Read more

  Posted on 02 January 2016 BOOKS, CULTURE

• The Best Books of 2015

  

  My apologies for the mixture of photos in this post - I have lent out some of the books featured so wasn't able to take a nice photo of them and had to find... Read more

  Posted on 01 January 2016 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Oh is It Christmas?

  Hello all just a quick note to say Merry Christmas! I've been a bit off grid as I was away in Copenhagen until Christmas Eve and this is the first moment I... Read more

  Posted on 26 December 2015 BOOKS, CULTURE

• ‘Sagan, Paris 1954’ by Anne Berest

  On the publisher's website, Sagan, Paris 1954 is described as am "intimate narrative" and I think that is the best way to describe it. "Intimate" because it is ... Read more

  Posted on 15 December 2015 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Truth and Identity in ‘Lady Audley’s Secret’

  

  How do we know what is true, and what is not? How do we know that people really are who they say they are? Are you ever only one person? These were questions I... Read more

  Posted on 11 December 2015 BOOKS, CULTURE

• ‘Alias Grace’ and the Concept of the Fallen Woman

  

  Any reader of Victorian literature, or any student of the history of the period, will be aware of the concept of the fallen woman. If not, the Wikipedia page... Read more

  Posted on 06 December 2015 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Kind of a Random Blog Post That’s Kind of Related to Christmas

  

  Hello all, my apologies for not posting for almost a month! I have been busy at work which = super tired, plus I have been reading quite slowly recently for som... Read more

  Posted on 03 December 2015 BOOKS, CULTURE