Author Archives
Blogger, theatre goer, nature lover and an avid reader of books.
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Winding Up the Week #109
This week we look at books read and reviewed, discover some of the best writing about literature on the blogosphere and highlight fascinating features from across the Internet.
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Winding Up the Week #108
This week we look at books read and reviewed, discover some of the best writing about literature on the blogosphere, announce a fellow book blogger’s exciting publishing venture and highlight fascinating features from across the Internet.
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Winding Up the Week #107
This week we look at books read and reviewed, discover some of the best writing about literature on the blogosphere, announce the One Hundred Years of Solitude ReadAlong and highlight fascinating features from across the Internet.
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Are You Ready for Wales Readathon 2020?
Ahead of Dewithon 2020, which commences on 1st March and runs throughout the month, we announce the official book for this year’s event!
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Winding Up the Week #106
This week we look at books read and reviewed, discover some of the best writing about literature on the blogosphere, announce a new set of Moomin postage stamps, pause for a podcast and highlight fascinating features from across the Internet.
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BOOK REVIEW: The Stepney Doorstep Society
While the men were at war women ruled the streets. Kate Thompson tells the vivid and moving stories of the matriarchs who remain the backbone of London’s East End to this day.
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Winding Up the Week #105
In this mini wind-up, we discover some of the best writing about literature on the blogosphere and highlight fascinating features from across the Internet.
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Winding Up the Week #104
This week we look at books read and reviewed, discover some of the best writing about literature on the blogosphere, look forward to Fitzcarraldo Editions Fortnight, pause for a podcast and highlight fascinating features from across the Internet.
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#OURSEA: Help the Moomins Save the Baltic Sea
The year 2020 marks 75 years since Tove Jansson wrote her first story about the Moomins. To celebrate the anniversary, Moomin Characters Ltd is launching a one-year campaign called #OURSEA to help save the Baltic Sea.
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Winding Up the Week #103
This week we examine books read and reviewed, discover some of the best writing about literature on the blogosphere, look forward to the Winter 2020 Mini Persephone Readathon and highlight fascinating features from across the Internet.
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TOVE TROVE: Moominland Midwinter by Tove Jansson
My second Janssonian contribution to the Tove Trove Library is the fifth book in the Moomin series, first published in 1957.
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Winding Up the Week #102
In this first wind up of 2020 we examine books read and reviewed, discover some of the best writing about literature on the blogosphere, look at the Historical Fiction Reading Challenge and the Russian Literature Challenge and highlight fascinating features from across the Internet.
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2019 Reading Year in Review
2019 may not have been the most prolific year in terms of the number of books ticked off my TBR, but I hugely enjoyed those I read.
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#Winding Up the Week #101
In the final wind up of 2019 we look at books read and reviewed, discover some of the best writing about literature on the blogosphere, look forward to the 2020 War and Peace Chapter-a-Day Read-along and highlight fascinating features from across the Internet.
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Christmas Book Bonanza 2019
Father Christmas left these beauties under my tree. Did you receive any long-coveted titles in your stocking today?
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Winding Up the Week #100
A special celebratory bumper edition of Winding Up the Week!
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#Winding Up the Week #99
This week we look at books read and reviewed, discover some of the best writing about literature on the blogosphere, look forward to World Book Night 2020, pause for a podcast and highlight fascinating features from across the Internet.
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#Winding Up the Week #98
This week we look at books read and reviewed, discover some of the best writing about literature on the blogosphere, pause for a podcast and highlight fascinating features from across the Internet.
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#Winding Up the Week #97
This week we examine books read and reviewed, discover some of the best writing about literature on the blogosphere, look forward to the Christmas 24 Hour Readathon and highlight fascinating features from across the Internet.
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BOOK REVIEW: In the Dream House: A Memoir
Carmen Maria Machado’s absorbing and brilliantly unorthodox account of an abusive relationship is due for publication in the UK on 2nd January 2020.
