When The Age of Miracles came out last year it was a very 'buzzy' book that got a lot of good reviews, both in media and the blogosphere. It was also very popular and much talked-about because it was Karen Thompson Walker's first novel, and was written in the mornings before she went to work as a book… Continue reading The Age of Miracles by Karen Thompson Walker
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Review: Wild by Cheryl Strayed
Wild was published last year and I read quite a lot about it at the time. I like a good memoir, and since reading Martha Gellhorn for the first time last year I've wanted to read more travel memoirs and travelogues, and Wild by Cheryl Strayed seemed like a book for me. However, I always… Continue reading Review: Wild by Cheryl Strayed
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Review: A World of Love by Elizabeth Bowen
Elizabeth Bowen is widely considered to be one of the greatest novelists of the 20th century, but she only came to my attention about a year ago when one of my favourite bloggers, Book Snob, AKA Rachel, wrote a review of her novel The House In Paris. Rachel has reviewed several of Bowen's novels and… Continue reading Review: A World of Love by Elizabeth Bowen
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Review: Mad, Bad and Sad by Lisa Appignanesi
The full title of this book is Mad, Bad and Sad: A History of Women and the Mind Doctors from 1800 to the Present. Despite what this may imply, I do not think of it as a specifically feminist book. As far as I can tell it does not set out with a feminist agenda;… Continue reading Review: Mad, Bad and Sad by Lisa Appignanesi
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Review: Almost English by Charlotte Mendelson (Man Booker Prize 2013 Longlist)
Almost English came to me by chance, and I was instantly taken with its cover (they are so, so important, aren't they?). It is not only striking but carefully designed, and modern too. 'Modern' - what I mean by that really is that it does not look like a lot of other book covers knocking… Continue reading Review: Almost English by Charlotte Mendelson (Man Booker Prize 2013 Longlist)
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Review: The State We’re In by Adele Parks
This is the first Adele Parks book that I have read; her work has always seemed a bit too 'chick lit' for me and I was never attracted. Headline very kindly sent me a review copy of The State We're In, and there's a lot of buzz around it, so I thought it was worth… Continue reading Review: The State We’re In by Adele Parks
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Kipling and Trix by Mary Hamer (2012)
The premise for this novel is simple - that the story of Rudyard Kipling's sister Trix is fascinating. Who even knew he had a sister, the blurb exclaims. Author Mary Hamer wrote a blog post for me about why she chose to write about Trix (read it here) and I loved the idea of exploring… Continue reading Kipling and Trix by Mary Hamer (2012)
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When I Fell From The Sky: The True Story of One Woman’s Miraculous Survival by Juliane Koepcke
Juliane Koepcke was born in 1954, in Lima, Peru, to German parents. Her father was a biologist and her mother was an ornithologist; they had moved to Peru to study the wildlife, and young Juliane was brought up between the city of Lima and their home in the jungle, Panguana. Panguana is a remote spot… Continue reading When I Fell From The Sky: The True Story of One Woman’s Miraculous Survival by Juliane Koepcke
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Bone Ash Sky by Katerina Cosgrove
Like most people I hear about the ongoing conflicts in the Middle East on the news, and see them in the paper, and people's comments all over the internet. But am I really engaged with it? To be honest I never have been, as I have no personal connection to the Middle East and have… Continue reading Bone Ash Sky by Katerina Cosgrove
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Leave of Absence by Tanya J. Peterson
This review is part of the blog tour for Tanya J. Peterson's new novel Leave of Absence, published in April this year by Inkwater Press. When Leave of Absence was offered to me by Inkwater Press, it immediately appealed to me because of the subject matter. Author Tanya J. Peterson is a qualified counsellor and chose… Continue reading Leave of Absence by Tanya J. Peterson
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