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Blog: Five of the best books about trees from Books | The Guardian in the group The Guardian book reviews 1 week, 3 days ago
From 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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Matthew Brown edited the blog post What is your local writing group like? in the group Shall we talk?: 1 week, 3 days ago
What is your local writing group like? Those who attend local writing groups, tell us what yours is 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 1 week, 4 days ago
Life 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 1 week, 4 days ago
The 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 1 week, 4 days ago
An 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 1 week, 4 days ago
The 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 1 week, 5 days ago
The 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 1 week, 5 days ago
Bookloop 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 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 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 weeks ago
The 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 weeks ago
The 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 weeks, 1 day ago
The 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 weeks, 1 day ago
The 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 […]
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Blog: The best new novels for autumn 2024, from Sally Rooney to Jonathan Coe and Haruki Murakami from Books | The Guardian in the group The Guardian book reviews 2 weeks, 1 day ago
The biggest names are back in a stellar season for fiction, with rip-roaring feminist horror, revenge tales, family sagas, spy romps and more. Here’s our e […]
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Blog: Creation Lake by Rachel Kushner review – double dealing in deepest France from Books | The Guardian in the group The Guardian book reviews 2 weeks, 1 day ago
Longlisted for this year’s Booker prize, Kushner’s cleverly paced tale of espionage, narrated by a ‘wild and boastful’ agent provocateur, juggles a killer plot wi […]
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Blog: Clare Chambers: Best and worst compliment? ‘My mum loves your books’ from The Independent Books in the group The Independent book reviews 2 weeks, 1 day ago
The ‘Shy Creatures’ author on what she learnt from Iris Murdoch, the best book she’s read this year, and the bookshop everyone should go to…
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Blog: Warhol idolised her, Thatcher copied her and Kingsley Amis had a deep fear of farting in her presence: but what was the Queen really like? from Books | The Guardian in the group The Guardian book reviews 2 weeks, 2 days ago
From terrifying guests with invitations to ‘informal’ lunches to her relationship with the first female prime minister – Craig Brown looks for the woman behind the […]
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Blog: Friday Poem – ‘First Job’ by Bryony Littlefair from Seren in the group Seren Books 2 weeks, 3 days ago
This week’s Friday Poem is ‘First Job’ by Bryony Littlefair from her debut collection ‘Escape Room’.
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Blog: Novelist Francesca Segal: ‘Wuthering Heights did peculiar things to my romantic expectations’ from Books | The Guardian in the group The Guardian book reviews 2 weeks, 3 days ago
The author on reading Emily Brontë as a teenager, becoming consumed by the Patrick Melrose novels, and the magic of listening to the Midnight’s Children au […]
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Blog: Five of the best books about yearning from Books | The Guardian in the group The Guardian book reviews 2 weeks, 4 days ago
These exceptional tales explore the sweet, infuriating agony of being overwhelmed by passion and desireTo yearn is to feel the pain and pleasure of being alive all […]
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Blog: How Tyrants Fall by Marcel Dirsus review – road to revolution from Books | The Guardian in the group The Guardian book reviews 2 weeks, 5 days ago
A ‘blueprint’ for bringing dictators down that could equally function as a Machiavellian manual for staying in powerJust when I thought I was out, they pull me bac […]
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Burty Burtman joined the group Brandon Sanderson Fans 2 weeks, 5 days ago
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Adam Bassman replied to the topic Writing courses? in the forum General Chat 2 weeks, 5 days ago
Ages ago, I signed up for the Writers’ Bureau. I wish I had not wasted my money. It was a total rip-off.
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Blog: Robert Harris’s Precipice, reviewed: it’s an injustice this great novelist hasn’t won more literary prizes from The Independent Books in the group The Independent book reviews 2 weeks, 5 days ago
During the dawn of the First World War, HH Asquith sent more than 700 letters to an aristocratic young woman almost half his age – but did the Liberal PM actually h […]