Tag: best books of the year

• Looking back on the books of 2016

  This is another overdue blog post, but one that I’ve really been looking forward to writing. I read 31 books in 2016, of varying quality, but overall it was a good reading year. I tried to branch out, accepting a total of eight review copies from publishers – which is a lot for me these […]

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  January 20, 2017

  Articles, Fiction, Non-Fiction, Reviews

  2016, 2017, A Woman in Berlin, best books of the year, Best Of, Blogging, Gone to Ground, History, If This is a Woman, Jonathan Littell, Maggie O’Farrell, Marie Jalowicz Simon, Penguin Modern Classics, Reviews, Sarah Helm, Sarah Schmidt, Shamim Sarif, Shirley Jackson, Short Stories, Susan Fletcher, The Kindly Ones, The Lottery and Other Stories, Tinder Press

• The best books of 2015

  

  My apologies for the mixture of photos in this post – I have lent out some of the books featured so wasn’t able to take a nice photo of them and had to find images of the covers online. Not ideal, but there you go…   Somehow 2015 is over, and I have naturally been […]

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  January 1, 2016

  Fiction, Non-Fiction, Reviews

  19th Century, 2015, 20th Century, Adam Nicolson, Alias Grace, Ben McIntyre, best books of the year, Bonjour Tristesse, Forgotten Fatherland, Françoise Sagan, GoodReads, Hangsaman, Homer, Margaret Atwood, Margot Mifflin, Robyn Davidson, Shirley Jackson, The Blue Tattoo, The Haunting of Hill House, The Mighty Dead, Tracks, Vicotrian, We Have Always Lived in the Castle

• Oh is it Christmas?

  

  Hello all just a quick note to say Merry Christmas! I’ve been a bit off grid as I was away in Copenhagen until Christmas Eve and this is the first moment I have had to myself since then! Not that I’m complaining, we have had a lovely Christmas. I recently finished After You’d Gone by […]

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  December 26, 2015

  Articles

  2015, best books of the year, Best Of, Christmas