Tag: Sarah Waters

• 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

• An Evening with Sarah Waters at the Bodleian

  Sarah Waters’ new novel, The Paying Guests, came out last week on 28th August, and of course it was amazing. I was very lucky to be sent an early copy, and also that I managed to nab a ticket to the event held last night (2nd Sept) in Oxford. Sarah Waters was in conversation with […]

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  September 3, 2014

  Articles, Events

  2014, Blackwell’s, Events, Oxford, Sarah Waters, The Paying Guests, Virago

• The Paying Guests by Sarah Waters

  Well, well, well… hello again Sarah. We have all missed you. I don’t remember when I first decided I loved Sarah Waters. We studied Affinity for a course about the modern novel at university, so maybe it was then. I’ve since read all of her novels except one, which I plan to read very soon, and though […]

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  August 28, 2014

  Fiction, Reviews

  2014, Historical fiction, Sarah Waters, The Paying Guests, Virago

• The Crimson Ribbon by Katherine Clements

  Katherine Clements takes the real life figure of Elizabeth Poole, and transforms her into her own character in The Crimson Ribbon. Poole was known during her life time (1622 – post 1668) as a religious activist and later as some sort of prophet. Though she began as a tailor’s daughter her religious belief grew and she […]

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  March 29, 2014

  Fiction, Reviews

  2014, Fiction, Headline, Historical fiction, Katherine Clements, Sarah Waters, The Crimson Ribbon

• Best of 2012: The Pleasures of Men by Kate Williams

  The Pleasures of Men was one of the few books this year I actually bought of my own volition, having been too late for the review copies. It appealed to me so much that I wanted to read and review it regardless of its publication date and press campaign. The cover was what struck me […]

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  December 20, 2012

  Fiction, Reviews

  Best of 2012, Fiction, Kate Williams, Penguin, Sarah Waters, The Pleasures of Men, Victorian

• The Pleasures of Men by Kate Williams

  Another great book by a graduate of and now lecturer at Royal Holloway (where I went). Must be something in the water… I’d been eyeing this book for a while on Amazon and GoodReads, and finally bought a copy in Waterstones. As a huge fan of Sarah Waters and a good unreliable narrator, this is just […]

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  July 4, 2012

  Fiction, Reviews

  Historical fiction, Kate Williams, London, Sarah Waters, Spitalfields, Victorian