Groups
Reach more people
Reach an audience of writers, authors, and book lovers with your own fully customisable (free) profile including a special section for business offerings.
-
Blog: The Leviathan by Rosie Andrews review – a potent brew of civil war and witch trials from
Books | The Guardian in the group The Guardian book reviews 3 years, 5 months agoMystery and fantasy weave a tangled web in this richly atmospheric debut novel set in turbulent 17th-century NorfolkWitch trials, with their heady mix of religious […]
-
Blog: When We Were Birds by Ayanna Lloyd Banwo review – a deeply satisfying debut from
Books | The Guardian in the group The Guardian book reviews 3 years, 5 months agoThis spirited Trinidadian love story about a gravedigger and a medium has echoes of DickensA love story, a ghost story, a thriller: Ayanna Lloyd Banwo’s radiant f […]
-
Blog: Five of the best books about Russia and Ukraine from
Books | The Guardian in the group The Guardian book reviews 3 years, 5 months agoAs Russia wages war, the historian Orlando Figes offers a guide to the literature that illuminates the tensions and the myths of the regionRussia and Ukraine share […]
-
Blog: True Story review – drama lessons from reality TV from
Books | The Guardian in the group The Guardian book reviews 3 years, 5 months agoA sociologist binge watches the genre that dominates the schedules. But do her findings ring true?“Humankind,” in TS Eliot’s opinion, “cannot bear very much re […]
-
Matthew Brown wrote a new blog post
Just go already in the group The Muse of Last Resort: 3 years, 5 months ago“Keep your goodbye,” he said. “Save it for those you have put in danger. I invited you here to kill him not save his life.”
-
Blog: I Read Books: The Prefect from
Night of the Hats in the group Night of the Hats 3 years, 5 months agoThe Prefect Alistair Reynolds takes us to the heart of the belle epoque of his Revelation Space universe, the Glitter Band, ten thousand habitats in orbit around […]
-
Blog: Nine Quarters of Jerusalem by Matthew Teller review – a new map of a contested city from
Books | The Guardian in the group The Guardian book reviews 3 years, 5 months agoThe journalist and documentary-maker draws on interviews and millennia of history to challenge traditional models of Jerusalem’s Old CityIn modern times – at lea […]
-
Blog: Karen Joy Fowler: ‘I’m a bossy writer; I’m not going to not tell you’ from
Books | The Guardian in the group The Guardian book reviews 3 years, 5 months agoThe 2014 Booker nominee on her new novel about the family of Abraham Lincoln’s assassin, the ‘horrible secret’ of her sci-fi writing and her long period of despa […]
-
Matthew Brown wrote a new blog post
Colin Blaze and the Magical Malady in the group The Muse of Last Resort: 3 years, 5 months agoBlaze has come down with a nasty cold. Just his luck – this is a magical flu. Every time Blaze sneezes, weird things happen.
Presently, his desk lamp is a fluffy rabbit that refuses to be picked up.
That’s […]
-
Blog: ‘I felt different as a child. I was nearly mute’: Elena Ferrante in conversation with Elizabeth Strout from
Books | The Guardian in the group The Guardian book reviews 3 years, 5 months agoThe author of the Neapolitan quartet and the Pulitzer prize-winning novelist discuss identity, ambition, truth – and the ‘convulsive’ urge to writeThank you for a […]
-
Blog: I Watch Films: Secret Rites from
Night of the Hats in the group Night of the Hats 3 years, 5 months agoSecret Rites This is a short 1971 documentary film about some of the rites of the Wicca coven led by Alex Sanders. Sanders became famous, or perhaps notorious in […]
-
Matthew Brown wrote a new blog post
A prophecy of dragons in the group The Muse of Last Resort: 3 years, 5 months agoBill had a late lunch appointment with a teenager. The teenager treated Bill to a cheap cheeseburger and a soft drink. Bill was not impressed but kept that to himself.
Bill gave the teenager a prophecy that […]
-
Blog: Viet Thanh Nguyen: ‘I didn’t notice the racism of Tintin’ from
Books | The Guardian in the group The Guardian book reviews 3 years, 5 months agoThe Pulitzer prize-winning novelist on the depiction of Vietnamese people, the fun in Voltaire’s Candide and memorable masturbation scenesMy earliest reading m […]
-
Matthew Brown wrote a new blog post
Never underestimate humans in the group The Muse of Last Resort: 3 years, 5 months agoVegnault Grats was frozen in place. No amount of captain’s training could have prepared him for this. The Grand Destroyer Sword of Slaughter was no more.
Grats had been sent back to system 109799. These […]
-
Blog: I Read Stories: Quantum Diaper Punks from
Night of the Hats in the group Night of the Hats 3 years, 5 months agoQuantum Diaper Punks by Stuart Buck in Expat Lit I studied Physics when I was younger, to the extent that I have the accreditation to put BSc after my name on […]
-
Blog: 33. The Naked Sun from
Becky's Book Reviews in the group Book bloggers 3 years, 5 months agoThe Naked Sun. (Robot #2) Isaac Asimov. 1958. 271 pages. [Source: Library]First sentence: Stubbornly Elijah Baley fought panic. For two weeks it had been building […]
-
Blog: How to Create Digital Products (That People Actually Want) from
Copyblogger in the group Copy Blogger Fans 3 years, 5 months agoA digital product that sells while you sleep is the ultimate dream, but you might be wondering how to create…
Continue Reading
The post How to Create Digital […] -
Blog: The Stasi Poetry Circle by Philip Oltermann review – paper spies from
Books | The Guardian in the group The Guardian book reviews 3 years, 5 months agoThe strange true story of how East Germany’s secret service tried to win the cold war with verseThis book sounds like a quirky piece of fiction, to set beside The G […]
-
Matthew Brown wrote a new blog post
The case of the homesick rhinoceros in the group The Muse of Last Resort: 3 years, 5 months agoAfter a solid six months of doing little else other than searching for the Curse Breaker, Colin Blaze is broke, tired, and despondent. The rent is due so Blaze needs cash fast.
That was when the letter […]
-
Blog: The Wonders by Elena Medel review – a poetic portrait of Spanish womanhood from
Books | The Guardian in the group The Guardian book reviews 3 years, 5 months agoThe lives of two working-class women are interleaved in a bold debut novel with flashes of beautyThere are two stories in this novel, but each one has been cut up, […]
-
Blog: I Watch Films: Godzilla Vs Kong from
Night of the Hats in the group Night of the Hats 3 years, 5 months agoGodzilla Vs Kong Godzilla became king of the monsters in Godzilla King Of The Monsters. Kong is still on Skull Island, which has been domed over by MONARCH, the […]
-
Matthew Brown wrote a new blog post
Here are some #PotentialSettings for a dark or suspenseful story in the group The Muse of Last Resort: 3 years, 5 months agoAbout #PotentialSettings: Potential Settings is a hashtag we use on Twitter to share images that might make for great settings in your writing. Sometimes a vivid picture can help you bring a location to […]
-
Blog: I Read Books: Three Weeks from
Night of the Hats in the group Night of the Hats 3 years, 5 months agoThree Weeks This was considered pretty racy at the time, the Fifty Shades of its day. Paul Verdayne is sent abroad after he falls in love with an unsuitable woman […]
-
Matthew Brown wrote a new blog post
Anonymous declares necromancy war in the group The Muse of Last Resort: 3 years, 5 months agoIn a world much like ours but powered by magic, Anonymous has declared necromancy war on the Eastern Mages Federation.
-
jeannietv60 became a registered member 3 years, 5 months ago
