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Blog: My Good Bright Wolf by Sarah Moss audiobook review – a life shaped by anorexia and literature from
Books | The Guardian in the group The Guardian book reviews 11 months, 1 week agoThe Scottish actor Morven Christie draws out the forlorn beauty of the prose in this haunting memoirA haunting exploration of a life shaped by literature and […]
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Blog: Friday Poem – ‘The Darkening’ by Kathryn Bevis from
Seren in the group Seren Books 11 months, 1 week agoThis week’s Friday Poem is ‘The Darkening’ by Kathryn Bevis from her collection ‘The Butterfly House’.
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Blog: Anthony Horowitz: ‘I’m too nervous to reread The Lord of the Rings – it might reveal how jaded I’ve become’ from
Books | The Guardian in the group The Guardian book reviews 11 months, 1 week agoThe Alex Rider author on being put off Dickens for a decade, why he reads poetry in the mornings, and how reading Sherlock Holmes made him want to be a crime […]
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What’s the best software for organising your writing? in the forum Aspiring Authors 11 months, 1 week agoWhat’s the best software for organising your writing? I’m using LibreOffice. Is there something better? Something that understands chapters and subsections?
Any one?
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Blog: The Possibility of Tenderness by Jason Allen-Paisant review – a Jamaican childhood from
Books | The Guardian in the group The Guardian book reviews 11 months, 1 week agoThe poet and writer returns to the May Day mountains in a gentle rumination on family and natureGo these days to any independent bookshop or art gallery or zine […]
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Blog: Call Me Ishmaelle by Xiaolu Guo review – a gender-swapped Moby-Dick from
Books | The Guardian in the group The Guardian book reviews 11 months, 1 week agoA runaway orphan from coastal Kent is the protagonist in this tightly plotted reimagining of Herman Melville’s whaling classic“‘And now here I was, an accid […]
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Where to start reading in the forum Brandon Sanderson Fans 11 months, 1 week ago -
Blog: The Women’s Prize for Fiction 2025 shortlist is here – these are my must-reads in the running from
The Independent Books in the group The Independent book reviews 11 months, 1 week agoFrom coming-of-age stories to sexual awakenings, these six titles have been recognised as future classics
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Blog: Scandal-hit creative writing website NaNoWriMo to close after 20 years from
Books | The Guardian in the group The Guardian book reviews 11 months, 1 week agoThe US nonprofit, whose online community encouraged members to write a novel in a month, has been rocked by controversy in recent yearsNaNoWriMo, the US-based […]
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Blog: Yoko by David Sheff review – a queasily one-sided defence from
Books | The Guardian in the group The Guardian book reviews 11 months, 1 week agoThe artist and musician is a brilliant subject for an epic, in-depth biography, but this is merely hagiographyIn 1966 a woman sat down at the Destruction in Art […]
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Blog: This month’s best paperbacks: Elif Shafak, Richard Ayoade and more from
Books | The Guardian in the group The Guardian book reviews 11 months, 1 week agoLooking for a new reading recommendation? Here are some brilliant new paperbacks, from an engrossing study of Chinese women to a fun, loveable novel Continue reading…
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Blog: The Strange Case of Jane O by Karen Thompson Walker review – an impossible tale from
Books | The Guardian in the group The Guardian book reviews 11 months, 1 week agoA New York librarian is discovered unconscious in a park with no memory, in a mystery that challenges consensual realityWe first meet Jane O in the consulting room […]
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Blog: Miranda July and Elizabeth Strout shortlisted for the Women’s prize for fiction from
Books | The Guardian in the group The Guardian book reviews 11 months, 1 week agoAmerican authors of All Fours and Tell Me Everything are competing for the 30th award alongside four other novels highlighting ‘the importance of human c […]
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Blog: Women’s Prize for Fiction unveils 2025 shortlist featuring four debut novelists tackling identity, history and self-discovery from
The Independent Books in the group The Independent book reviews 11 months, 1 week agoThe category is dominated by new voices, joined by previous nominees Miranda July and Elizabeth Stout
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Blog: Story of a Murder by Hallie Rubenhold review: the real Cora Crippen from
Books | The Guardian in the group The Guardian book reviews 11 months, 1 week agoThe author of The Five, about the Ripper murders, turns her attention to another tragically misunderstood victimIn the canon of British true crime, the case of Dr […]
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Blog: Bullaun Press wins Republic of Consciousness prize for ‘rollicking picaresque’ novel from
Books | The Guardian in the group The Guardian book reviews 11 months, 1 week agoIrish publisher receives award for small presses for Gaëlle Bélem’s There’s a Monster Behind the DoorIrish publisher Bullaun Press has won the Republic of Consc […]
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Blog: What we’re reading: writers and readers on the books they enjoyed in March from
Books | The Guardian in the group The Guardian book reviews 11 months, 1 week agoAuthors and Guardian readers discuss the titles they have read over the last month. Join the conversation in the commentsWhen HHhH by Laurent Binet came out in […]
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Blog: The big idea: should you trust your gut? from
Books | The Guardian in the group The Guardian book reviews 11 months, 1 week ago‘Follow your instincts’ has become a modern mantra. But what if they lead you astray? ‘What should I do?” Whether openly stated or implicit, this is the questio […]
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Blog: Gatsby by Jane Crowther; The Gatsby Gambit by Claire Anderson-Wheeler – Jay’s eternal hold from
Books | The Guardian in the group The Guardian book reviews 11 months, 1 week agoTwo enjoyable debut novels put fresh meat on Fitzgerald’s deathless classic – one a modern-day retelling in which Gatsby becomes a female influencer, another a pac […]
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Semicolons in the group Thanet Creative: Writers: 11 months, 2 weeks agoSemicolons
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Blog: Friday Poem – ‘On Mother’s Day’ by Vanessa Lampert from
Seren in the group Seren Books 11 months, 2 weeks agoThis week’s Friday Poem is ‘On Mother’s Day’ by Vanessa Lampert from her collection ‘Say It With Me’.
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Blog: The Romance Edit: March from
Mills & Boon Blog in the group Mills and Boon fans 11 months, 2 weeks agoWelcome to the March issue of The Romance Edit. Spring has sprung 🌼 and from sweeping historical romance to slow … Continued
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Blog: Summer 2025 Preview from
Daunt Books Publishing in the group Daunt Books 11 months, 2 weeks agoJULY I Remember by Joe Brainard | With a new foreword by Olivia Laing | Introduction by Paul Auster | Non-Fiction | £7.99 | 3 July 2025 An enduring gem, I Remember […]
