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Month: July 2014

July 9, 2014

Five Fascinating Facts About… Alexander Pushkin

Written by Karen Langley 1. His matrilineal great grandfather was a Black African Page brought over to Russia as a slave. Abram Petrovich Gannibal (1696–1781)…

Lost Luggage by Jordi Punti
July 8, 2014

Lost Luggage by Jordi Punti

Translated from the Catalan by Julie Wark Reviewed by Annabel Gaskell This is the story of Gabriel Delacruz, orphan, international furniture remover, lover and…

July 8, 2014

An Island Odyssey by Hamish Haswell-Smith

Reviewed by Lizzy Siddal It is a piece of weakness and folly merely to value things because of the distance from the place where…

The Goldfinch Donna Tartt
July 8, 2014

The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt

Review by Harriet Have you ever had the experience of finishing a book and feeling as if you will never find another one that…

July 8, 2014

August Folly, Summer Half and The Brandons by Angela Thirkell

Reviewed by Claire/The Captive Reader When I started blogging in early 2010, I had never heard of Angela Thirkell.  Then, slowly, I started hearing…

July 8, 2014

Sworn Virgin by Elvira Dones

Translated by Clarissa Botsford Reviewed by Susan Osborne Reading fiction in translation offers us a glimpse into different worlds, cultures that we can never experience…

July 7, 2014

Thursday’s Children by Nicci French

Reviewed by Harriet Devine People who know and love Nicci French will know at once that this is the fourth outing into the world…

July 7, 2014

The Stillman by Tom McCulloch

Reviewed by Andrew Blackman Follow your dreams. It’s a phrase beloved of self-help authors and motivational speakers, but what if you can only follow…

July 7, 2014

The Girl Who Was Saturday Night by Heather O’Neill

Reviewed by Victoria Best I firmly believe you can never dismiss any genre of book or any particular fictional setting as not your cup…

July 7, 2014

An Interview with Heather O’Neill

Interview by Victoria Best I was fortunate enough to catch up with Canadian Heather O’Neill, author of The Girl Who Was Saturday Night, over a…

July 7, 2014

The Fifty Year Sword by Mark Z. Danielewski

Reviewed by Max Dunbar I first read House of Leaves as a teenager and fell in love with it: a grunge-emocore memory palace of a novel,…

July 4, 2014

Philipp Meyer and Linda Spalding talk to Kirsty Wark at Hay

By Linda Spalding The Hay Festival is mythic to Canadians. What I mean is that we all covet an invitation. Mine came by email…

July 4, 2014

The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August by Claire North

Reviewed by Harriet Devine. “The world is ending,” she said. “The message has come from child to adult, child to adult, passed back down…

July 3, 2014

A Short Interview with Bethan Roberts

Interview by Annabel Shiny’s Fiction Editor Annabel catches up with Bethan Roberts, author of Mother Island reviewed here. Annabel: Baby-snatching, child abduction, particularly when a child…

Bethan Roberts Mother Island
July 3, 2014

Mother Island by Bethan Roberts

Reviewed by Annabel Gaskell Bethan Roberts’s fourth novel takes on one of the primal fears of all parents – that of someone abducting your…

elizabeth gilbert signature of all things
July 3, 2014

The Signature of All Things by Elizabeth Gilbert

Reviewed by Harriet Devine She was her father’s daughter. It was said of her from the beginning. For one thing, Alma Whittaker looked precisely…

July 2, 2014

Reading Cornwall

Written by Jane Carter It’s holiday reading time, so we asked a Cornish blogger to look at some of her favourite books set in…

July 1, 2014

Spotlight on Publishers: Peirene Press

Written by Meike Ziervogel Glittering Gems in the Sea of the Human Imagination “I read, therefore I write, therefore I publish.” Before I started…

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