Book news, reviews and recommendations
Back from my travels (more of which later in the week) with the second instalment of May’s paperback preview which kicks off with a book from one of the most inventive British authors I know although I’m pretty sure Helen Oyeyemi’ A New New Me will be a Marmite novel, rather like Parasol Against the […]
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Six Degrees of Separation is a meme hosted by Kate over at Books Are My Favourite and Best. It works like this: each month a book is chosen as a starting point and linked to six others to form a chain. A book doesn’t need to be connected to all the titles on the list,
Six Degrees of Separation – We Have Always Lived in the Castle to These Precious Days Read More »
Not my favourite prize but, for some reason, I can’t resist putting together a wish list for the Booker. To be eligible for this year’s prize all books must be published in the UK or Ireland between 1st October 2024 and 30th September 2025 and have been written in English. The judges usually stick to
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I’d been toying with reading The Book of Guilt for a while thanks to some very positive reviews on NetGallery but it was Laura’s comment about Catherine Chidgey on my New Zealand writers post that tipped the balance. Chidgey’s novel follows a set of triplets living in a children’s home in the New Forest, one
The Book of Guilt by Catherine Chidgey: ‘Sometimes we lie to be kind.’ Read More »
I’m starting off the first instalment of May’s fiction with two novels I’ve already read the first of which is Catherine Chidgey’s The Book of Guilt. Largely set in an alternate version of 1979, close to reality but unsettlingly different, it follows a set of thirteen-year-old triplets living in a children’s home in the New
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