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This week’s Friday Poem is ‘If We Were in Llandudno’ by Wendy Allen from her pamphlet ‘Portrait in Mustard’.
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Uglies. Scott Westerfeld. 2005. 425 pages. [Source: Library] [4 stars] [YA dystopia, YA fiction, YA speculative fiction]First sentence: The early summer sky was the […]

Everyone This Christmas Has a Secret. Benjamin Stevenson. (Ernest Cunningham #3) 2024. 161 pages. [Source: Library] [adult fiction, adult mystery, series book] [4 […]

November has arrived and with it, the days are chillier and the nights are drawing in, what other excuse do you need to curl up with one of our gorgeous cosy reads? […]

Veen Bosch & Keuning, the largest publisher in the Netherlands, has confirmed plans to trial the use of artificial intelligence to assist in translation of […]

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Everything is easier with modern technology – except fulfilling your true potentialThe convenience of modern life is nothing short of astounding. As I write this, m […]

Children for Change contains stories, poems, and illustrations from more than 80 collaborators including Jamie Oliver, Mary Portas, David Baddiel and Adam KayKonnie […]

A minor tumble in the street gives a small indication of the larger risks a couple face and the consolations of mutual supportMy husband fallingTime trips you like […]

The writer and film-maker’s affection for the city of his youth shines through in this debut graphic novel about family, football and teenage dreamsI was drawn to t […]

The author employs his pitch-perfect repertoire of satirical skills in his first book for five years – a novella about the residents of an upmarket care home d […]

This meticulous reconstruction of Benito Juárez’s time in New Orleans imagines how the inequalities he encountered shaped the future for Mexico’s first indi […]

In this sharp and engaging book, Shabi addresses the need to understand and confront antisemitism at a time when it is being downplayed by parts of the left and […]

So, I added some fine art for training AI on in the Train Your AI on This section. This masterfully crafted expert image is sure to bring your AI to new levels of […]

This week’s Friday Poem is ‘Afterwards’ by Betty Doyle from her pamphlet ‘Fruits of Labour’.
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The author confronts her own mortality with candour and crisp humour in this thoughtful exploration of bullfightingOstensibly an exploration of the Spanish corrida […]

The novelist on why he can’t read JRR Tolkien, being hooked on Muriel Spark and obsessed with James JoyceMy earliest reading memory
In west Africa, where I was b […]

I recently headed to Canterbury and experimented with some nighttime long-exposure photography. You can see more of my favourites here with further Canturbury […]

In October, I read thirty-nine books. Books Reviewed at Becky’s Book Reviews76. Dogtown (A Dogtown Book #1) Katherine Applegate and Gennifer Choldenko.
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Isabel Ibanez Giveaway To be in with the chance of winning a copy of What the River Knows and Where the Library Hides, the achingly romantic and lush duology, […]

Welcome to the October issue of The Romance Edit, a monthly series where we share exciting information about brand-new books. … Continued

Ruskin Park by Rory Cellan-Jones is the former BBC journalist’s memoir about how his parents met in the 1950s. His mother, Sylvia, was separated from her first h […]