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Blog: The 45% Hangover, Stuart MacBride from
RogerBW's Blog: reading in the group Book Reviews by RogerBW feed 1 week, 3 days ago2014 police procedural mystery novella, tartan noir, in the Logan
McRae series. On the night of the Scottish independence referendum,
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Matthew Brown wrote a new blog post
Writer Talk Carnival: Worldbuilding in the group Shall we talk?: 1 week, 3 days agoWriter Talk Carnival: Worldbuilding
In this Writer Blog Carnival for December 2025, we are talking about worldbuilding. Strap in, this could be a big one. Pick whichever aspects of […] -
jeffjohns replied to the topic What are your xmas plans in the forum General Chat 1 week, 4 days ago
I’m so jealous
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Sam Smith replied to the topic What are your xmas plans in the forum General Chat 1 week, 4 days ago
I’m asking myself that too.
What have I let myself in for?
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Adam Bassman replied to the topic What are your xmas plans in the forum General Chat 1 week, 4 days ago
Why would you do that to yourself?
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Adam Bassman replied to the topic What are your xmas plans in the forum General Chat 1 week, 4 days ago
Not a chance
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jeffjohns replied to the topic What are your xmas plans in the forum General Chat 1 week, 4 days ago
Good luck
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jeffjohns replied to the topic What are your xmas plans in the forum General Chat 1 week, 4 days ago
Swap with me?
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Matthew Brown replied to the topic What are your xmas plans in the forum General Chat 1 week, 4 days ago
We’re an odd mix this year. Me, my dad, my two housemates, and any other odds and ends with nothing better to do.
We’ll be eating and watching sci-fi – probably some Doctor Who.
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Sam Smith replied to the topic What are your xmas plans in the forum General Chat 1 week, 4 days ago
I’m hosting my extended family for the first time this year.
Wish me luck.
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Matthew Brown wrote a new blog post
Platform building tip: Create an anthology and give away half of it for free in the group Author Platforms: 1 week, 4 days agoPlatform building tip: Create an anthology and give away half of it for freeGetting readers onto the hype train that is the love of your writing is the hardest part of being an author. To overcome that barrier, […]
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Adam Bassman replied to the topic What are your xmas plans in the forum General Chat 1 week, 4 days ago
Just me and my brother now. We’re going to stuff our faces and watch Die Hard or sumit IDK.
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jeffjohns started the topic What are your xmas plans in the forum General Chat 1 week, 4 days ago
I’m dreading xmas. We’re having a massive family get-together at my parents’ house. It will be noisy and politically heated. Boxing Day, I’m staying home and chilling.
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Blog: Quentin Tarantino blasts The Hunger Games for being a PG ‘rip-off’ of cult classic from
The Independent Books in the group The Independent book reviews 1 week, 5 days ago‘The Hunger Games’ author Suzanne Collins has previously denied the claim
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Blog: ‘If I was American, I’d be worried about my country’: Margaret Atwood answers questions from Ai Weiwei, Rebecca Solnit and more from
Books | The Guardian in the group The Guardian book reviews 1 week, 5 days agoDemocracy, birds and hangover cures – famous fans put their questions to the visionary authorAfter the phenomenal global success, not to mention timeliness, of th […]
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Blog: From Dylan Thomas’ shopping list to a note from Sylvia Plath’s doctor: newly uncovered case files reveal the hidden lives of famous writers from
Books | The Guardian in the group The Guardian book reviews 1 week, 6 days agoExclusive: Hardship grant applications to the Royal Literary Fund, including unseen letters by Doris Lessing and a note from James Joyce saying that he ‘gets n […]
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Blog: The best recent translated fiction – review roundup from
Books | The Guardian in the group The Guardian book reviews 1 week, 6 days agoThe Ferryman and His Wife by Frode Grytten; Woman in the Pillory by Brigitte Reimann; Iran+100, edited by various; Sea Now by Eva MeijerThe Ferryman and His Wife by […]
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Blog: Tessa Hadley: ‘Uneasy books are good in uneasy times’ from
Books | The Guardian in the group The Guardian book reviews 1 week, 6 days agoThe author on Anna Karenina, the brilliance of Anita Brookner and finally getting NabokovMy earliest reading memory
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Matthew Brown wrote a new blog post
The best way to sell books is to sell books in the group Author Platforms: 1 week, 6 days agoThe best way to sell books is to sell booksNothing sells a book to a reader like selling another book to the reader and them loving it. Fiction authors can platform build just by finishing more books.
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Blog: Bog People: A Working-Class Anthology of Folk Horror review – dark tales with a sting from
Books | The Guardian in the group The Guardian book reviews 1 week, 6 days agoThis collection of macabre stories set across England explores class, hierarchy and the enduring nature of inequalityFolk horror may have had a dramatic resurgence […]
