Tag: Biography

• Reading Diary: January 2022

  Recently I’ve been exploring the role and function of book blogging and how I want to fit into it. For a while I’ve just reviewed each book I read individually, and I think for me that format was getting a little stale, and I wasn’t sure how appealing it actually was to readers – especially […]

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  January 30, 2022

  Fiction, Non-Fiction, Reviews

  2021, 2022, A.K. Blakemore, Beth Underdown, Biography, Book review, Fiction, Granta Books, Hardback, Hild, Historical fiction, Hutchinson Heinemann, John Keats, Jonathan Cape, Keats, Lauren Groff, Lucasta Miller, Matrix, Monthly wrap up, Nicola Griffith, Non Fiction, Paperback, Reading diary, Reading wrap up, The Key in the Lock, The Manningtree Witches, The Witchfinder’s Sister, Viking

• Five books that changed the way I read

  Some books you read, and then you just sort of forget; they don’t make any difference in your life. Some you think about for a while after, but then they fade from your memory and you move on to the next thing. But there are some books that just get their hooks into you and […]

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  January 17, 2022

  Articles, Comment, Fiction, Non-Fiction, Personal, Reviews

  20th Century, Alone in Berlin, Biography, Daphne du Maurier, Daphne DuMaurier, Donna Tartt, Fiction, GoodReads, Hans Fallada, Hardback, History, Jane Austen, Jenny Williams, Julius, Literature, Little Man What Now, Lord of the Flies, More Lives Than One, My Cousin Rachel, Non Fiction, Paperback, Penguin, Penguin English Library, Persuasion, Rebecca, Sarah Waters, Second World War, The Goldfinch, The Paying Guests, The Secret History, William Golding

• House of Glass by Hadley Freeman (2020)

  Let me preface this review by saying that I have not written a book review, or any blog post, for months now so please bear with me… in June I went back to work after maternity leave, but due to lockdown my little one’s nursery was not open at the time and so my husband […]

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  August 29, 2020

  Non-Fiction, Reviews

  2020, 20th Century, Biography, Family, Fourth Estate, Hadley Freeman, Hardback, History, House of Glass, Memoir, Second World War, Simon & Schuster, World War II

• Catching up on reviews…

  I don’t often do multiple reviews in one post, but, as I mentioned here, I am a bit behind with reviews, including a couple of books I read several months ago, so this time around it’s easier to put a few together in one post. Let me know what you think! Little by Edward Carey […]

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  June 18, 2019

  Fiction, Non-Fiction, Reviews

  Biography, Brunhilde Pomsel, Edward Carey, Fiction, Graphic novel, Historical Ficiton, Historical fiction, Kate Mosse, Ken Krimstein, Little, Memoir, Non Fiction, Ophelia Field, Paperback, The Burning Chambers, The Favourite, The Three Escapes of Hannah Arendt, The Work I Did, World War II

• Shirley Jackson: A Rather Haunted Life by Ruth Franklin (2016)

  I first read Shirley Jackson a few years ago, and saw this biography advertised shortly after – and immediately wanted to read it. Even before I’d read Jackson’s work I was intrigued by her and her life, and of course a biography is the perfect way to explore that. If you’ve ever read any of […]

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  August 14, 2018

  Non-Fiction, Reviews

  2016, A Rather Haunted Life, Biography, LIveright, Non Fiction, Paperback, Ruth Franklin, Shirley Jackson, Stanley Edgar Hyman, WW Norton

• Half-year review: best books of 2018 so far!

  I’m back! As you may have seen on my Instagram, I was recently on holiday (again) and so everything was a bit quiet… but I’m now back and ready to get back into blogging. I am right at the end of Emma by Jane Austen, so I will be writing about that soon, as well […]

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  July 14, 2018

  Fiction, Non-Fiction, Reviews

  2018, Adrienne Mayor, Alicia Drake, Best Of, Biography, Fiction, Hans Fallada, I Love You Too Much, I’ll Be Gone in the Dark, Jane Austen, Jane Austen at Home, Little Man What Now, Lucy Worsley, Memoir, Michelle McNamara, Non Fiction, Nyna Giles, The Amazons, The Bridesmaid’s Daughter, True Crime

• Jane Austen at Home by Lucy Worsley (2017)

  I bought my copy of Jane Austen at Home while on holiday in Devon, when I ran out of reading material (first time in my life that I only packed one book, silly me). I ended up reading it mostly after the holiday, but starting it in picturesque Devon only added to my joy at […]

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  June 26, 2018

  Non-Fiction, Reviews

  1700s, 1800s, 18th century, 19th Century, 2018, Biography, History, Hodder, Hodder & Stoughton, Jane Austen, Lucy Worsley, Non Fiction, Paperback, Women

• Joan: The Remarkable Life of Joan Leigh Fermor by Simon Fenwick (2017)

  I honestly didn’t know much about Joan Leigh Fermor when I asked for this book for Christmas last year, but I knew a little about her travel writer husband Paddy,  and the blurb intrigued me. I decided to take the book in holiday with me to Devon, where I read it in two days, mostly […]

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  June 13, 2018

  Non-Fiction, Reviews

  Biography, Hardback, Joan Leigh Fermor, Macmillan, Non Fiction, Paddy Leigh Fermor, Simon Fenwick

• The Bridesmaid’s Daughter by Nyna Giles (2018)

  I discovered this book through the wonder that is GoodReads recommendations, which are surprisingly good at times. I have found a number of unknown-to-me books this way that I ended up loving. I’ve been on a non-fiction kick recently, and have always loved reading unusual or off-beat memoirs, especially by women. The Bridesmaid’s Daughter has […]

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  June 4, 2018

  Non-Fiction, Reviews

  2018, Biography, Eve Claxton, GoodReads, Grace Kelly, Memoir, Non Fiction, Nyna Giles, Paperback, September Publishing, St Martin’s Press, The Bridesmaid’s Daughter

• WWW Wednesday, 19th April 2017

  I’m sure you have now heard about WWW Wednesday (even I know about it), but to recap, this is what it entails – you must post about three books: What you most recently finished reading What you are currently reading What you will read next Here are mine! What I recently finished reading: Young and […]

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  April 19, 2017

  Articles, Fiction, Non-Fiction

  Beth Underdown, Biography, Catherine Howard, Fiction, Gareth Russell, Historical fiction, Min Kym, Non Fiction, Penguin, Review copy, The Witchfinder’s Sister, WWW Wednesdays