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Blog: ‘Writing this book was like a drug high’: Rachel Kushner on her Booker-listed novel from
Books | The Guardian in the group The Guardian book reviews 2 months, 3 weeks agoThe author on her party years in San Francisco, why she loves getting older and her most ambitious novel yetWriting her latest novel, Creation Lake, “was the most f […]
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Blog: Tom Gauld on the optimistic and pessimistic novelists – cartoon from
Books | The Guardian in the group The Guardian book reviews 2 months, 3 weeks agoContinue reading…
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Blog: Dogs and Monsters by Mark Haddon review – brilliant tales of beasts from
Books | The Guardian in the group The Guardian book reviews 2 months, 3 weeks agoGreek myths inspire a masterly short-story collection that takes in ghosts, gods and meditations on mortalityMark Haddon’s 2019 novel The Porpoise draws upon t […]
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Blog: What we’re reading: writers and readers on the books they enjoyed in August from
Books | The Guardian in the group The Guardian book reviews 2 months, 3 weeks agoAuthors, critics and Guardian readers discuss the titles they have read over the last month. Join the conversation in the commentsI have a longstanding beef with […]
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Blog: Friday Poem – ‘Danger’ by Rachel Carney from
Seren in the group Seren Books 2 months, 3 weeks agoThis week’s Friday Poem is ‘Danger’ by Rachel Carney from her debut collection ‘Octopus Mind’.
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Blog: Matt Haig: ‘I use Winnie-the-Pooh as a pencil sharpener for the mind’ from
Books | The Guardian in the group The Guardian book reviews 2 months, 3 weeks agoThe author on how AA Milne and Emily Dickinson helped him through illness, being inspired by Stephen King and why he thinks Graham Greene is one of the bestMy […]
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Blog: Want by Gillian Anderson review – let me be your fantasy from
Books | The Guardian in the group The Guardian book reviews 2 months, 3 weeks agoThe star’s compendium of X-rated female wish-fulfilment makes for compelling, if not entirely candid, readingPart of the pleasure of reading Want – a collection of […]
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Christian Writer commented on the post,
What is your local writing group like?, on the groupblog Shall we talk? 2 months, 3 weeks agoThe one I used to attend was like a social club where praise not criticism was given. That was not what I was looking for. I’m looking for a group that will challenge me to do better.
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Christian Writer replied to the topic What are yopu reading right now? in the forum General Chat 2 months, 3 weeks ago
2 Kings (Bible). Those kings got up to some wild stuff.
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Jason Latnar replied to the topic Writing courses? in the forum General Chat 2 months, 3 weeks ago
I guess I need to figure out which writing courses are any good
Not Writers’ Bureau I guess
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Blog: Five of the best books about trees from
Books | The Guardian in the group The Guardian book reviews 2 months, 3 weeks agoFrom true crime tales of tree poaching to a wildlife cameraman’s adventures, this collection enters the endlessly fascinating world of our woodlandsThere are few p […]
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What is your local writing group like? in the group Shall we talk?: 2 months, 3 weeks agoWhat is your local writing group like?
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Blog: Our London Lives by Christine Dwyer Hickey review – the Irish diaspora from
Books | The Guardian in the group The Guardian book reviews 2 months, 3 weeks agoLife in the capital is vividly evoked, in a tale of love and loss spanning four decades“That first time, she barely saw him at all.” So begins Our London Lives, the […]
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Blog: So Tell Me What You Want by Nicki Chapman review – breaking pop’s glass ceiling from
Books | The Guardian in the group The Guardian book reviews 2 months, 3 weeks agoThe TV presenter and former music PR on her eventful rise through the ranks of a male-dominated industryWhen she was in her early 20s, Nicki Chapman worked as […]
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Blog: Elaine by Will Self review – all about my mother from
Books | The Guardian in the group The Guardian book reviews 2 months, 3 weeks agoAn extraordinary portrait of a frustrated and furious 1950s American housewife, based on the diaries of Self’s motherWill Self has a history of gonzo premises. He h […]
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Blog: Truss at 10 by Anthony Seldon review – how not to be PM from
Books | The Guardian in the group The Guardian book reviews 2 months, 3 weeks agoThe historian turns Liz Truss’s 49-day tenure into a textbook on bad government, writes former Conservative MP Dominic GrieveI have to start this review by d […]
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Blog: Avoidance, Drugs, Heartbreak and Dogs by Jordan Stephens review – not so chill from
Books | The Guardian in the group The Guardian book reviews 2 months, 3 weeks agoThe Rizzle Kicks star explores the fallout from fame in this candid portrait of the artist as a struggling young manJordan Stephens’ energetic and unguarded memoir < […]
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Blog: Bookshop.org launches buy-back scheme for secondhand books from
Books | The Guardian in the group The Guardian book reviews 2 months, 3 weeks agoBookloop will allow customers to trade books they own for credit to use on the online retailer’s website, with accumulated royalties being distributed to authorsA b […]
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Bob Bobson replied to the topic Is your MC you? in the forum General Chat 2 months, 4 weeks ago
Always
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Toni McHadden replied to the topic What are yopu reading right now? in the forum General Chat 2 months, 4 weeks ago
Textbooks. Boring, but necessary.
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Blog: Becoming Earth by Ferris Jabr review – our planet: a living, breathing, mutating miracle from
Books | The Guardian in the group The Guardian book reviews 2 months, 4 weeks agoThe US-based journalist has fashioned a wide-ranging and thought-provoking study of how everything from microbes to mammoths transformed our world into a living […]
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Blog: Dogs and Monsters by Mark Haddon review – myth and legend refocused in deft short stories from
Books | The Guardian in the group The Guardian book reviews 2 months, 4 weeks agoThe author of The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time gives fresh legs to the Minotaur, Actaeon, his hounds and moreThe human characters in Mark […]
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Blog: ‘I feel like when I’m 50 people will take me seriously’: novelists Eliza Clark and Julia Armfield in conversation from
Books | The Guardian in the group The Guardian book reviews 2 months, 4 weeks agoThe two authors, who became friends during lockdown, discuss their experiences in the UK publishing industry, the day job, and books they loveWhen Eliza Clark’s d […]
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Blog: The Hotel Avocado by Bob Mortimer review – a not so smashing follow-up from
Books | The Guardian in the group The Guardian book reviews 2 months, 4 weeks agoThe comedian’s flights of fancy are again to the fore in this sequel to his award-winning crime caper, but sadly, momentum and intrigue are a little lackingIn 2 […]
