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Blog: Great Circle by Maggie Shipstead review – a soaring achievement from
Books | The Guardian in the group The Guardian book reviews 4 years ago
Charting the parallel lives of two women – one an aviation pioneer, the other a modern movie star – this daring novel reaches great heightsA great circle, Mag […]
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Blog: The best recent thrillers – review roundup from
Books | The Guardian in the group The Guardian book reviews 4 years ago
A killer guards her real identity, racial tension at a New York publishing house, and a pilot is presented with a dreadful ultimatumNancy TuckerHutchinson, […]
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Matthew Brown wrote a new blog post
The voices in the group The Muse of Last Resort: 4 years ago
When you were twelve you started hearing voices. They were distant at first but grew louder with time. After several long stays in psychiatric hospitals, many therapists, and a lot of strong prescription […]
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Blog: Julian Barnes on The Sense of an Ending: ‘I learned to do more by saying less’ from
Books | The Guardian in the group The Guardian book reviews 4 years ago
The author on maturing as a writer, the power of concision – and the reviews that claimed he was inspired by Frank KermodeI published The Sense of an Ending in 2 […]
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Blog: I Read Stories: The Starship And The Temple Cat by Yoon Ha Lee from
Night of the Hats in the group Night of the Hats 4 years ago
The Starship And The Temple Cat by Yoon Ha Lee in Beneath Ceaseless Skies The Fleet Lords burned the temple long ago and even the ghosts are fading away. All that […]
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Blog: W-3: A Memoir by Bette Howland review – postcard from the edge from
Books | The Guardian in the group The Guardian book reviews 4 years ago
The American writer’s account of her stay on a psychiatric ward is as dazzling and daring as when it was first published, in 1974In W-3, the psychiatric ward of a […]
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Blog: 51. Siege of the Seven Sins from
Becky's Book Reviews in the group Book bloggers 4 years ago
Siege of the Seven Sins. (Seven Sins #2) Emily Colin. 2021. 300 pages (made up page count because publishers are meanies) [Source: Review copy]First sentence: The […]
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Blog: Batlava Lake by Adam Mars-Jones review – Barry no mates from
Books | The Guardian in the group The Guardian book reviews 4 years ago
A beautifully constructed novella carefully reveals the failings of a hopelessly unperceptive British army engineerAdam Mars-Jones’s new novella – new to us, tha […]
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Blog: Second Nature by Nathaniel Rich; Under a White Sky by Elizabeth Kolbert review – Earth SOS from
Books | The Guardian in the group The Guardian book reviews 4 years ago
Two startling accounts of humanity’s devastating impact on the natural world make it clear that any potential solution will involve huge riskFor most of history, h […]
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Blog: Jackie Collins: the reality of life in Joan’s shadow from
Books | The Guardian in the group The Guardian book reviews 4 years ago
The bestselling author cultivated a confident image. But it belied a personal life dogged by self-doubt, as a new documentary revealsThree sisters suddenly inherit […]
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Blog: The Divorce by César Aira review – ever get the feeling you’ve been cheated? from
Books | The Guardian in the group The Guardian book reviews 4 years ago
The lives of three characters collide outside a Buenos Aires cafe in a literary pile-up with precious little at stakeVelocity and perplexity characterise the work […]
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Matthew Brown wrote a new blog post
Mission to Agarben 4 in the group The Muse of Last Resort: 4 years ago
You have been sent to a seaside city on the southern continent of the temperate planet, Agarben 4. Your mission is to make contact with a human. A human you remember from long ago. Despite the impossibility of […]
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Blog: I Watch Films: The Secret Of Dorian Gray from
Night of the Hats in the group Night of the Hats 4 years ago
The Secret Of Dorian Gray Dorian Grey is a very beautiful young man who has his portrait painted by Basil Hallward, and also falls in love with an actress, Sibyl […]
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Matthew Brown edited the blog post
First Contact in the group The Muse of Last Resort: 4 years ago
Yesterday we learned that we are not alone in the universe. Today humanity will meet envoys from nine alien races. That first meeting is ten minutes away. You have been reviewing the cultural footage of these […]
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Blog: I Read Books: Pashazade from
Night of the Hats in the group Night of the Hats 4 years ago
Pashazade Zac is plucked out of prison in Seattle and taken to El Iskandryia in alternate future Ottoman North Africa, where he discovers he is Ashraf al-Mansur, […]
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Blog: Do you make these two newbie writing mistakes?Do you make these two newbie writing mistakes?These… from
Thanet Creative Writers in the group Thanet Creative: Writers 4 years ago
Do you make these two newbie writing mistakes?Do you make these two newbie writing mistakes?These two writing mistakes which a particular pet peeve of mine. No […]
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Matthew Brown edited the blog post
Do you make these two newbie writing mistakes? in the group Thanet Creative: Writers: 4 years ago
These two writing mistakes which a particular pet peeve of mine. No matter how well everything else is written, these (more often than not) let the whole text down. They both sound too much like “writing” to be […]
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Matthew Brown wrote a new post on the site Author Buzz Promotions 4 years ago
Here is a selection of HTML codes that can be added to custom HTML widgets as well as in theme designs to display ads for Author Buzz. Some themes off ad spaces. Our aim is to support all shapes and […]
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Blog: Liner Notes For Against The Phoenix League from
Night of the Hats in the group Night of the Hats 4 years ago
The Liner Notes for my story Against The Phoenix League There is a Ted Chiang story called The Story Of Your Life (1998) that was later adapted into the film Arriva […]
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Matthew Brown wrote a new post on the site Author Buzz Promotions 4 years ago
At Author Buzz UK, we think your privacy is important. That’s why when we agree to promote someone or something we host the advert ourselves. That way, no third-party stuff should be going on.
For now the only […]
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Jason Latnar joined the group
Waterstones’ blog headlines 4 years ago
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Blog: Leading authors sound alarm over post-Brexit changes to copyright from
Books | The Guardian in the group The Guardian book reviews 4 years ago
Philip Pullman and Kate Mosse among writers warning that changes being considered could flood UK with cheap foreign editions and threaten livelihoodsBestselling […]
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Blog: (M)otherhood by Pragya Agarwal review – on the choices of being a woman from
Books | The Guardian in the group The Guardian book reviews 4 years ago
A candid account of the joys and agonies of becoming a mother takes aim at patriarchal constraintsWhen Pragya Agarwal started her first period, just after her 11th […]
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Blog: Barcelona Dreaming by Rupert Thomson review – heartbreak and hope in the city from
Books | The Guardian in the group The Guardian book reviews 4 years ago
Three linked novellas offer an unearthly, multilayered view of Barcelona, with its beaches and bars, beauty and dark shadowsAt first sight Barcelona Dreaming, […]
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Blog: I Read Stories: Magnificent Maurice, Or The Flowers Of Immortality by Rati Mehrotra from
Night of the Hats in the group Night of the Hats 4 years ago
Magnificent Maurice, Or The Flowers Of Immortality by Rati Mehrota in Lightspeed Magazine Maurice is a cat. He lives with a witch at the bottom of the universal […]