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LATEST ARTICLES ( 4138 )

• The Tales of Beedle the Bard by @jk_rowling

  The Tales of Beedle the Bard, a Wizarding classic, first came to Muggle readers' attention in the book known as Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. Now,... Read more

  Posted on 09 April 2020 BOOKS, CULTURE

• In The Country of Last Things by Paul Auster

  

  That is how it works in the City. Every time you think you know the answer to a question, you discover that the question makes no sense . . .' This is the stor... Read more

  Posted on 08 April 2020 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Bloodlines by @SarahWimbush

  Winner of the MsLexia/Poetry Book Society Women's Poetry Pamphlet Prize 2019 Bloodlines is an exploration of Sarah Wimbush's own Gypsy/Traveller heritage, a... Read more

  Posted on 08 April 2020 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Night by @DavidHarsent1

  David Harsent's latest collection, here read by the author in its entirety, was received with wide critical acclaim when published in early 2011, and was... Read more

  Posted on 07 April 2020 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Coraline by @neilhimself

  

  Coraline has been made into an animated feature film directed by Henry Selick, director of Tim Burton's The Nightmare Before Christmas, with a cast including... Read more

  Posted on 07 April 2020 BOOKS, CULTURE

• The Forbidden Promise by @LornaCookAuthor

  

  War rages across Europe, but Invermoray House is at peace. Until the night of Constance's twenty-first birthday, when she's the only person to see a Spitfire... Read more

  Posted on 07 April 2020 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Eden by @timlebbon

  

  From the bestselling author of The Silence comes a brand-new supernatural eco thriller. In large areas of the planet, nature is no longer humanity's friend... ... Read more

  Posted on 07 April 2020 BOOKS, CULTURE

• In the Lateness of the World by @carolynforche

  Carolyn Forché is one of America's most important contemporary poets - renowned as a 'poet of witness' - as well as an indefatigable human rights activist.... Read more

  Posted on 05 April 2020 BOOKS, CULTURE

• The Friend by @DorothyKoomson

  

  After her husband's big promotion, Cece Solarin arrives in Brighton with their three children, ready to start afresh. But their new neighbourhood has a deadly... Read more

  Posted on 05 April 2020 BOOKS, CULTURE

• A Map of Days by @ransomriggs

  The #1 bestselling series returns with a thrilling new story arc set in America! Vintage photographs reveal the never-before-seen world of peculiar America... Read more

  Posted on 05 April 2020 BOOKS, CULTURE

• #KeeperBook by @jessicammoor

  

  He's been looking in the windows again. Messing with cameras. Leaving notes. Supposed to be a refuge. But death got inside. When Katie Straw's body is pulled... Read more

  Posted on 05 April 2020 BOOKS, CULTURE

• The Mirror and the Light by @hilarymantel

  

  England, May 1536. Anne Boleyn is dead, decapitated in the space of a heartbeat by a hired French executioner. As her remains are bundled into oblivion, Thomas... Read more

  Posted on 04 April 2020 BOOKS, CULTURE

• The Octopus by @tessmslittle

  When Elspeth arrives at her ex-husband's LA mansion for his 50th birthday party, she's expecting a crowd for the British film director. Instead, there are just... Read more

  Posted on 04 April 2020 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Winter Dark by @CallisterAuthor

  When you buy murder online, who is there to stop you? GCHQ agent Winter has just 14 days to bring down the website of a formidable criminal organisation before ... Read more

  Posted on 04 April 2020 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Rough Music by @FionaRSampson

  Rough Music is the old English name for a custom of public scapegoating. This collection, read here by the author, is full of disturbing musical echoes, in whic... Read more

  Posted on 03 April 2020 BOOKS, CULTURE

• March 2020 Round-Up on the Book Lover’s Boudoir

  

  I read 66 books in March. March factoids: How Much I Read / Listened 16,961 pages read Burned through 63 hours 34 minutes of audio Fiction or Nonfiction... Read more

  Posted on 01 April 2020 BOOKS, CULTURE

• A Song for Issy Bradley by @CarysBray

  

  Ian used to think that his life had been disappointingly easy, compared to the pioneers. He had a happy marriage, four children, a satisfactory job and, for jus... Read more

  Posted on 31 March 2020 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Grimm Tales for Young and Old by @PhilipPullman

  

  In this enchanting selection of fairy tales, award-winning author Philip Pullman presents his 50 favourite stories from the Brothers Grimm in a 'clear as... Read more

  Posted on 31 March 2020 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Of Mutability by @JoShapcott

  A Spoken Ink recording of Jo Shapcott reading her prize-winning collection. In 2010, Jo Shapcott published "Of Mutability" with Faber and Faber, her first... Read more

  Posted on 30 March 2020 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Funny, You Don’t Look Autistic by @aspiecomic

  

  Like many others on the autism spectrum, 20-something stand-up comic Michael McCreary has been told by more than a few well-meaning folks that he doesn't... Read more

  Posted on 30 March 2020 BOOKS, CULTURE