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• The Wife’s Tale: A Personal History by Aida Edemariam

  

  Born in the northern Ethiopian city of Gondar in about 1916, and a child bride at eight years old, Aida Edemariam's grandmother once stood, shaking, as... Read more

  Posted on 30 January 2018 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Gate of Ivory, Gate of Horn (Mythago Wood #6) by Robert Holdstock

  Several years ago, Christian Huxley's father, George, obsessively documented the strange phenomena emanating from Ryhope Wood at the edge of their property. He... Read more

  Posted on 27 January 2018 BOOKS, CULTURE

• The Abandoned by Sharon Thompson

  

  Peggy Bowden has not had an easy life. As a teenager, her mother was committed to an asylum and then a local priest forced her into an abusive marriage. But whe... Read more

  Posted on 25 January 2018 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Sherlock Holmes: The Definitive Collection by Arthur Conan Doyle

  

  "...it was reading the Sherlock Holmes stories as a boy that first turned me on to the power of writing and storytelling." (Stephen Fry) Ever since he made his... Read more

  Posted on 24 January 2018 BOOKS, CULTURE

• The Art Forger by B.A. Shapiro

  On March 18, 1990, thirteen works of art worth today over $500 million were stolen from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston. It remains the largest... Read more

  Posted on 23 January 2018 BOOKS, CULTURE

• The Toymakers by Robert Dinsdale

  

  The Emporium opens with the first frost of winter. It is the same every year. Across the city, when children wake to see ferns of white stretched across their... Read more

  Posted on 22 January 2018 BOOKS, CULTURE

• The Hazel Wood by Melissa Albert

  

  Seventeen-year-old Alice and her mother have spent most of Alice's life on the road, always a step ahead of the strange bad luck biting at their heels. But... Read more

  Posted on 18 January 2018 BOOKS, CULTURE

• The Childhood of Jesus by J.M. Coetzee

  

  After crossing oceans, a man and a boy - both strangers to each other - arrive in a new land. David, the boy, has lost his mother and Simón vows to look after... Read more

  Posted on 17 January 2018 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Keeping On, Keeping On by Alan Bennett

  'I seem to have banged on this year rather more than usual. I make no apology for that, nor am I nervous that it will it make a jot of difference. I shall... Read more

  Posted on 16 January 2018 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Hookah (Insanity #4) by Cameron Jace

  

  A Plague Scarier than Death Alice and the Pillar have to stop a Wonderland Monster who'd lashed out an incurable disease onto the world. Their biggest... Read more

  Posted on 16 January 2018 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Boardwalk Empire by Nelson Johnson

  Providing the inspiration and source material for the upcoming HBO series produced by Academy Award-winning director Martin Scorsese and Emmy Award-winning... Read more

  Posted on 11 January 2018 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Ariel by Sylvia Plath

  

  The poems in Sylvia Plath's Ariel, including many of her best-known such as 'Lady Lazarus', 'Daddy', 'Edge' and 'Paralytic', were all written between the... Read more

  Posted on 09 January 2018 BOOKS, CULTURE

• In Search of Solace by Emily Mackie

  Jacob Little is in trouble - existential trouble. Ten years ago, in pursuit of a philosophical theory, he ditched his girlfriend Solace and took to the road,... Read more

  Posted on 08 January 2018 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Find Me by J.S. Monroe

  Five years ago, Rosa walked to the end of the pier in the dead of night. She looked into the swirling water, and jumped. She was a brilliant young Cambridge... Read more

  Posted on 07 January 2018 BOOKS, CULTURE

• The Wicked Cometh by Laura Carlin

  

  The year is 1831 Down the murky alleyways of London, acts of unspeakable wickedness are taking place and no one is willing to speak out on behalf of the city's... Read more

  Posted on 06 January 2018 BOOKS, CULTURE

• The Martian by Andy Weir

  

  I'm stranded on Mars. I have no way to communicate with Earth. I'm in a Habitat designed to last 31 days. If the Oxygenator breaks down, I'll suffocate. If the... Read more

  Posted on 06 January 2018 BOOKS, CULTURE

• My Books Of The Year

  

  In 2017, I read 353. I chose one book each month that I enjoyed the most. Here they are below, in reading order from January. Click on the image to read my... Read more

  Posted on 31 December 2017 BOOKS, CULTURE

• My 2017 In Books

  

  I read 353 books in 2017. I'm rather stunned. This is the most books I've read in a year since I started this blog in 2012. I have done little pie charts to... Read more

  Posted on 31 December 2017 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Nejma by Nayyirah Waheed

  

  all of the unsleeping. gold sweeping. poems. i have in my hands. *** [i am writing this book / ii am writing a daughter (NEJMA)} *** (Amazon Digital... Read more

  Posted on 31 December 2017 BOOKS, CULTURE

• The Thief Taker (The Thief Taker #1) by C.S. Quinn

  

  The year is 1665. Black Death ravages London. A killer stalks the streets in a plague doctor's hood and mask... When a girl is gruesomely murdered, thief taker... Read more

  Posted on 30 December 2017 BOOKS, CULTURE