This week I delve into books newly read and reviewed, roam through some of the most compelling literary commentary on the blogosphere, mark a variety of celebrations (from Tove Jansson & Moomin Month to the birthdays of Walter Scott, Charles Bukowski, Diana Wynne Jones and others) and shine a light on intriguing pieces from across the Internet.
This week’s round up moves from recently read and reviewed books to notable pieces of literary writing across the blogosphere, alongside a handful of anniversaries worth marking (including the birthdays of George Bernard Shaw and Aldous Huxley). It also gathers a selection of intriguing book related features from around the Internet.
This week I focus on books read and reviewed, discover some of the best writing about literature on the blogosphere, keep up with a variety of literary anniversaries (including Helen Keller Day and Global Smurf Day), spotlight past posts deserving to be rediscovered and call attention to fascinating features from across the Internet.
This week I look at books read and reviewed, discover standout literary writing across the blogosphere, keep pace with a host of anniversaries (including National Biographers Day and the birth of Adrienne Rich), announce Paris in July 2026, revisit past posts ripe for rediscovery and highlight fascinating features from around the Internet.
This week I seek out books read and reviewed, discover some of the best writing about literature on the blogosphere, keep up with a variety of literary anniversaries (including Shakespeare Week and the birth of Welsh poet R. S. Thomas), look forward to Wyrd & Wonder ’26, revisit past posts deserving rediscovery and highlight fascinating features from across the Internet.
This week I look at books read and reviewed, discover some of the best writing about literature on the blogosphere, keep up with a variety of literary anniversaries (including International Book Giving Day and National Library Lover’s Day), focus on past posts deserving to be rediscovered and highlight fascinating features from across the Internet.
This week we look at books read and reviewed, discover some of the best writing about literature on the blogosphere, announce Aus Reading Month 2023, look forward to Margaret Atwood Reading Month in November, prepare to blast off for SciFiMonth 2023 and highlight fascinating features from across the Internet.
This week we read a poem by Sara Teasdale, look at books read and reviewed, discover some of the best writing about literature on the blogosphere, announce the upcoming readalong of Jane of Lantern Hill by L. M. Montgomery and highlight fascinating features from across the Internet.
For this year’s Margaret Atwood Reading Month, I reflect on the author’s 1969 proto-feminist debut novel.
Margaret Atwood’s sequel to ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’ begins fifteen years after Offred makes her final appearance in the original novel. I share my thoughts on this highly anticipated dystopian tale.
We look back at the 1981 political thriller ‘Bodily Harm’ for Margaret Atwood Reading Month.
A fun tag in which I share a picture (or ‘shelfie’) of a favourite bookshelf and answer ten associated questions. This time I celebrate Margaret Atwood Reading Month.
A comprehensive checklist of Margaret Atwood’s publications from 1961 to the present day.
Based on the true story of one of the most enigmatic and notorious women of the 1840s, Margaret Atwood has created an extraordinarily potent tale of sexuality, cruelty and mystery.
My sixth and final day at Hay Festival 2018.
Can we ever be wholly free? In this book Margaret Atwood holds a mirror up to our own world. The reflection we are faced with, of men and women in prisons literal and metaphorical, is frightening but not without hope.
At 162 pages, Ru is a short but intense potpourri of vignettes – powerful, superbly realized and well worth reading.
I reflect on Atwood’s 1988 Booker-nominated novel about a controversial artist grappling with the tangled knots of her life.