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Blog: Boris Johnson’s Unleashed: A memoir that’s twisted, sour and full of yet more lies from The Independent Books in the group The Independent book reviews 1 day, 10 hours ago
In his shameless and predictable 772-page account of events, the former PM forgoes the truth to paint a preposterous picture of himself as a man of destiny, too […]
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Blog: Reese Witherspoon’s book club pick is a gripping thriller worthy of spooky season from The Independent Books in the group The Independent book reviews 1 day, 14 hours ago
The actor has selected ‘Society of Lies’ by Lauren Ling Brown for October’s pick
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Matthew Brown wrote a new blog post Thanet Creative’s website gets a fresh new look in the group Thanet Creative: Writers: 1 day, 20 hours ago
Thanet Creative's website gets a fresh new look Late last night, I gave the website a nice fresh new look. My aim was to simplify things which I hope you might agree, I did. Hopefully, […]
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Blog: Reese Witherspoon announces her debut novel written with Harlan Coben from The Independent Books in the group The Independent book reviews 1 day, 21 hours ago
The thriller novel is set for release in autumn 2025
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Matthew Brown edited the blog post Revising Blog Themes in the group Help and Support: 2 days, 7 hours ago
Revising Blog Themes I have started the process of revising the themes on offer to our bloggers. In particular, I want to remove themes that hide their best features […]
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Blog: My Animals, and Other Animals by Bill Bailey review – dogs and monsters from Books | The Guardian in the group The Guardian book reviews 2 days, 16 hours ago
The comedian’s endearingly zany tribute to the creatures that populate his life, from guinea pigs to peacocksAh, Bill Bailey, mate, you didn’t: you didn’t just […]
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Blog: All My Precious Madness by Mark Bowles review – biting humour from Books | The Guardian in the group The Guardian book reviews 2 days, 17 hours ago
This keenly observed debut brilliantly captures the internal monologue of a misanthrope, in a portrait of intellectual melancholiaHenry, the middle-aged narrator of […]
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Matthew Brown wrote a new blog post Three retired ladies share a secret. in the group The Muse of Last Resort: 2 days, 18 hours ago
Three retired ladies share a secret. They know what happened here 18 years ago. They keep it to themselves as no one would believe them anyway.
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Blog: This month’s best paperbacks: Werner Herzog, Karl Ove Knausgaard and more from Books | The Guardian in the group The Guardian book reviews 2 days, 19 hours ago
Looking for a new reading recommendation? Here are some brilliant new paperbacks, from unusual novels to insightful histories Continue reading…
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Blog: The Third Realm by Karl Ove Knausgård review – a visionary epic from Books | The Guardian in the group The Guardian book reviews 2 days, 20 hours ago
Book three in the Norwegian novelist’s Morning Star series takes in devils, black metal and revelation, and provides a masterclass in what fiction can o […]
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Blog: Ross Raisin’s Ghost Kitchen wins 2024 BBC national short story award with dark gig economy tale – read it here from Books | The Guardian in the group The Guardian book reviews 3 days, 8 hours ago
Raisin takes £15,000 prize with ‘a brilliantly rendered glimpse into life in the edge-lands’• Read the story belowBritish novelist Ross Raisin has won the 2024 B […]
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Matthew Brown wrote a new blog post How do I become a better writer when I hate reading? in the group The Fantastic (Group) of Lord Matt, Super Geek: 3 days, 12 hours ago
How do I become a better writer when I hate reading? I like telling stories, but I don’t care so much for reading them. It’s not for me. But the number one advice to become a better author is to read a […]
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Blog: The Waterstones Podcast – Kate Summerscale from Waterstones Blog in the group Waterstones’ blog headlines 3 days, 13 hours ago
What the Rillington Place murder trial tells us about 1950s Britain.
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Blog: TS Eliot prize for poetry shortlist contains ‘a strong strain of elegy’ from Books | The Guardian in the group The Guardian book reviews 3 days, 17 hours ago
The authors include Gboyega Odubanjo, whose debut collection was published posthumously, Carl Phillips and Karen McCarthy WoolfRaymond Antrobus, Carl Phillips and Ka […]
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Matthew Brown edited the blog post Python data and variable types in the group The Fantastic (Group) of Lord Matt, Super Geek: 4 days, 4 hours ago
Python data and variable types I am a great believer in “blog your homework”. By homework, I mean (in this case) what I am learning about Python for my visual novel. In addition to my […]
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Blog: Where to start with: Truman Capote from Books | The Guardian in the group The Guardian book reviews 4 days, 11 hours ago
Want to get stuck in to the work of the Breakfast at Tiffany’s author? Here are some good ways inToday marks 100 years since the birth of Truman Capote, the a […]
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Blog: The big idea: how to use your senses to help beat depression from Books | The Guardian in the group The Guardian book reviews 4 days, 15 hours ago
Our research suggests that it’s not sadness per se that leads to poor mental health, but shutting down input from the body. ‘Sense foraging’ offers a way out of th […]
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Bob Bobson wrote a new blog post What do you want from life? in the group Shall we talk?: 4 days, 16 hours ago
What do you want from life? Our lives are limited. what do you want from yours?
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Burty Burtman wrote a new blog post Today you learned a disturbing secret. in the group The Muse of Last Resort: 4 days, 18 hours ago
Today you learned a disturbing secret. The town you grew up in doesn’t exist.
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Blog: Our Evenings by Alan Hollinghurst review – one for the ages from Books | The Guardian in the group The Guardian book reviews 4 days, 19 hours ago
Key moments in an actor’s life over seven decades are illuminated with skill and quiet power in this languid and stately novel There’s an Alice Munro story, Tra […]
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Matthew Brown wrote a new blog post An Arrogance of Angels in the group The Muse of Last Resort: 5 days, 18 hours ago
An Arrogance of Angels A handful of youngsters blessed with divine abilities fight to defend the world from an army of angels trying to conquer the Earth in the name of […]
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Blog: Novelist Robert Harris on uncovering the most scandalous secret love affair in British political history from The Independent Books in the group The Independent book reviews 6 days, 22 hours ago
For his latest bestseller, ‘Precipice’, Robert Harris trawled secret letters to bring to life the hidden relationship between prime minister HH Asquith and a bea […]
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Matthew Brown commented on the post, WITNESS: Distopia or useful? A story idea., on the groupblog Matthew D Brown 1 week ago
Yeah, that is a bit of a weakness. WITNESS can only trestify to the car or bike. That said, for reasonable doubt it could be helpful (which could make it less apealing to governments).
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Matthew Brown edited the blog post WITNESS: Distopia or useful? A story idea. in the group Matthew D. Brown (Author): 1 week ago
WITNESS: Distopia or useful? A story idea. WITNESS is a theoretical system that logs number plates in an encrypted database that can later give you a WITNESS statement if it saw a target car or bike at a given time. I could make it for real but I am mostly exploring the idea for fiction. I had an idea looking for a story: WITNESS. WITNESS…Read more
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Blog: Friday Poem – ‘Everyone Will Be There’ by Kathryn Bevis from Seren in the group Seren Books 1 week ago
This week’s Friday Poem is ‘Everyone Will Be There’ by Kathryn Bevis from her collection ‘The Butterfly House’.
The post Friday Poem – ‘Everyone Will Be There’ by […]