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Blog: ‘Men need liberation too’: do we need more male novelists? from
Books | The Guardian in the group The Guardian book reviews 8 months, 3 weeks agoAs a small press launches dedicated to new male fiction, authors including Anne Enright and Nikesh Shukla ask if men are really being pushed out of publishingJude […]
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Blog: Jacqueline Wilson says it would be ‘inappropriate’ to write about Tracy Beaker’s sex life from
The Independent Books in the group The Independent book reviews 8 months, 3 weeks ago‘I would feel very wary about writing about Tracy in an adult book,’ said the author
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Blog: ‘In his company you could not be lazy’: remembering my friend Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o from
Books | The Guardian in the group The Guardian book reviews 8 months, 3 weeks agoA giant of African literature whose best works existed between the political and the personal, Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o was warm, funny and friendly – and liked to bet o […]
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Blog: Jacqueline Wilson ‘very wary’ of writing adult Tracy Beaker novel from
Books | The Guardian in the group The Guardian book reviews 8 months, 3 weeks agoAuthor says she won’t revisit the beloved character because it would seem ‘inappropriate’ to discuss her sex lifeJacqueline Wilson has said she would feel “very […]
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Blog: The best recent translated fiction – review roundup from
Books | The Guardian in the group The Guardian book reviews 8 months, 3 weeks agoThe Propagandist by Cécile Desprairies; Lovers of Franz K by Burhan Sönmez; Back in the Day by Oliver Lovrenski; Waist Deep by Linea Maja ErnstThe Propagandist by C […]
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Blog: What we’re reading: writers and readers on the books they enjoyed in May from
Books | The Guardian in the group The Guardian book reviews 8 months, 3 weeks agoWriters and Guardian readers discuss the titles they have read over the last month. Join the conversation in the commentsThis past semester I taught The Voyage Out […]
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Blog: Friday Poem – ‘Hawthorn’ by Hilary Llewellyn-Williams from
Seren in the group Seren Books 8 months, 3 weeks agoThis week’s Friday Poem is ‘Hawthorn’ by Hilary Llewellyn-Williams from her collection ‘The Little Hours: New and Selected Poems’.
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Blog: Madeleine Thien: ‘I ran in blizzards and -20C – all I wanted was to listen to Middlemarch’ from
Books | The Guardian in the group The Guardian book reviews 8 months, 3 weeks agoThe Canadian author on mountain running to George Eliot, powerful reminders from Omar El Akkad and the translation that brought Homer’s Iliad to lifeMy earliest r […]
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Blog: Ghost Wedding by David Park review – a thought-provoking novel about the power of the past from
Books | The Guardian in the group The Guardian book reviews 8 months, 3 weeks agoThe romance is beautifully drawn in this tale of two couples whose lives overlap at a Northern Irish manor house, a century apartTime is layered in Northern […]
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Blog: Sonny Boy by Al Pacino audiobook review – from the South Bronx to Hollywood from
Books | The Guardian in the group The Guardian book reviews 8 months, 3 weeks agoThe actor warmly narrates this intimate account of his rise to stardom, from the traumas that shaped his childhood to the epiphany that would lead to his glittering […]
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Matthew Brown edited the blog post
How to set a draft WordPress post to Pending in three easy steps in the group The Fantastic (Group) of Lord Matt, Super Geek: 8 months, 3 weeks agoHow to set a draft WordPress post to Pending in three easy steps
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Blog: Kathryn Bevis shortlisted for the Seamus Heaney Prize from
Seren in the group Seren Books 8 months, 3 weeks agoKathryn Bevis’ debut collection ‘The Butterfly House’ has been shortlisted for the Seamus Heaney First Collection Prize 2025.
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Blog: We are giving away three proofs of What the Night Brings by Mark Billingham! from
Hachette UK in the group We love Sarah Waters' writing 8 months, 3 weeks agoAhead of hardback publication of the shocking new thriller from the No.1. Sunday Times bestselling author, we have three proofs to give away.
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Blog: Aftertaste by Daria Lavelle review – what exactly is ‘clairgustance’? from
Books | The Guardian in the group The Guardian book reviews 8 months, 3 weeks agoA chef can taste the favourite foods of the departed, in this debut mash-up of satire, ghost story and slushy romanceReading Aftertaste, I found myself wondering […]
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Blog: The Acid Queen by Susannah Cahalan review – Timothy Leary’s right hand woman from
Books | The Guardian in the group The Guardian book reviews 8 months, 3 weeks agoA key a protagonist of the psychedelic counterculture, Rosemary Woodruff lived a life every bit as fascinating as her husband’sOf Timothy Leary, we know plenty. H […]
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Blog: The Romance Edit: May from
Mills & Boon Blog in the group Mills and Boon fans 8 months, 3 weeks agoWelcome to the May issue of The Romance Edit. Summer is on its way 🌞 and from billionaire romances to … Continued
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Blog: Addicted to Books from
Matrix Dreams in the group Matrix Dreams 8 months, 3 weeks agoDear Jane, which of your books do you suggest I start with? Yours, Addicted to Books
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Tell me something wonderful about the country you live in in the group Shall we talk?: 8 months, 3 weeks agoTell me something wonderful about the country you live in
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Blog: I only cheated a bit from
Matrix Dreams in the group Matrix Dreams 8 months, 4 weeks agoDear Jame, My boyfriend of 7 years left me and he says it is all my fault. It really isn’t. I only cheated a few times. Why is he making so much fuss? I’m so lonely […]
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Blog: Friday Poem – ‘Minutiae’ by Rosalind Hudis from
Seren in the group Seren Books 8 months, 4 weeks agoThis week’s Friday Poem is ‘Minutiae’ by Rosalind Hudis from her collection ‘Restorations’.
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Burty Burtman replied to the topic
What are your best writing tips? in the forum Aspiring Authors 9 months agoIf you do a little writing each day – no matter how small – eventually you will write a book.
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Matthew Brown replied to the topic Has Matt left us for politics? in the forum General Chat 9 months ago
Not much. I stood for election to the local county council.
