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Blog: Matt Haig: ‘I use Winnie-the-Pooh as a pencil sharpener for the mind’ from
Books | The Guardian in the group The Guardian book reviews 11 months agoThe author on how AA Milne and Emily Dickinson helped him through illness, being inspired by Stephen King and why he thinks Graham Greene is one of the bestMy […]
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Blog: Want by Gillian Anderson review – let me be your fantasy from
Books | The Guardian in the group The Guardian book reviews 11 months agoThe star’s compendium of X-rated female wish-fulfilment makes for compelling, if not entirely candid, readingPart of the pleasure of reading Want – a collection of […]
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Christian Writer commented on the post,
What is your local writing group like?, on the groupblog Shall we talk? 11 months agoThe one I used to attend was like a social club where praise not criticism was given. That was not what I was looking for. I’m looking for a group that will challenge me to do better.
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Christian Writer replied to the topic What are yopu reading right now? in the forum General Chat 11 months ago
2 Kings (Bible). Those kings got up to some wild stuff.
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Matthew Brown joined the group
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Jason Latnar replied to the topic Writing courses? in the forum General Chat 11 months ago
I guess I need to figure out which writing courses are any good
Not Writers’ Bureau I guess
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Blog: Five of the best books about trees from
Books | The Guardian in the group The Guardian book reviews 11 months agoFrom true crime tales of tree poaching to a wildlife cameraman’s adventures, this collection enters the endlessly fascinating world of our woodlandsThere are few p […]
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What is your local writing group like? in the group Shall we talk?: 11 months agoWhat is your local writing group like?
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Blog: Our London Lives by Christine Dwyer Hickey review – the Irish diaspora from
Books | The Guardian in the group The Guardian book reviews 11 months agoLife in the capital is vividly evoked, in a tale of love and loss spanning four decades“That first time, she barely saw him at all.” So begins Our London Lives, the […]
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Blog: So Tell Me What You Want by Nicki Chapman review – breaking pop’s glass ceiling from
Books | The Guardian in the group The Guardian book reviews 11 months agoThe TV presenter and former music PR on her eventful rise through the ranks of a male-dominated industryWhen she was in her early 20s, Nicki Chapman worked as […]
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Blog: Elaine by Will Self review – all about my mother from
Books | The Guardian in the group The Guardian book reviews 11 months agoAn extraordinary portrait of a frustrated and furious 1950s American housewife, based on the diaries of Self’s motherWill Self has a history of gonzo premises. He h […]
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Blog: Truss at 10 by Anthony Seldon review – how not to be PM from
Books | The Guardian in the group The Guardian book reviews 11 months agoThe historian turns Liz Truss’s 49-day tenure into a textbook on bad government, writes former Conservative MP Dominic GrieveI have to start this review by d […]
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Blog: Avoidance, Drugs, Heartbreak and Dogs by Jordan Stephens review – not so chill from
Books | The Guardian in the group The Guardian book reviews 11 months agoThe Rizzle Kicks star explores the fallout from fame in this candid portrait of the artist as a struggling young manJordan Stephens’ energetic and unguarded memoir < […]
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Blog: Bookshop.org launches buy-back scheme for secondhand books from
Books | The Guardian in the group The Guardian book reviews 11 months agoBookloop will allow customers to trade books they own for credit to use on the online retailer’s website, with accumulated royalties being distributed to authorsA b […]
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Bob Bobson replied to the topic Is your MC you? in the forum Aspiring Authors 11 months, 1 week ago
Always
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Toni McHadden replied to the topic What are yopu reading right now? in the forum General Chat 11 months, 1 week ago
Textbooks. Boring, but necessary.
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Blog: Becoming Earth by Ferris Jabr review – our planet: a living, breathing, mutating miracle from
Books | The Guardian in the group The Guardian book reviews 11 months, 1 week agoThe US-based journalist has fashioned a wide-ranging and thought-provoking study of how everything from microbes to mammoths transformed our world into a living […]
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Blog: Dogs and Monsters by Mark Haddon review – myth and legend refocused in deft short stories from
Books | The Guardian in the group The Guardian book reviews 11 months, 1 week agoThe author of The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time gives fresh legs to the Minotaur, Actaeon, his hounds and moreThe human characters in Mark […]
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Blog: ‘I feel like when I’m 50 people will take me seriously’: novelists Eliza Clark and Julia Armfield in conversation from
Books | The Guardian in the group The Guardian book reviews 11 months, 1 week agoThe two authors, who became friends during lockdown, discuss their experiences in the UK publishing industry, the day job, and books they loveWhen Eliza Clark’s d […]
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Blog: The Hotel Avocado by Bob Mortimer review – a not so smashing follow-up from
Books | The Guardian in the group The Guardian book reviews 11 months, 1 week agoThe comedian’s flights of fancy are again to the fore in this sequel to his award-winning crime caper, but sadly, momentum and intrigue are a little lackingIn 2 […]
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Blog: The best new novels for autumn 2024, from Sally Rooney to Jonathan Coe and Haruki Murakami from
Books | The Guardian in the group The Guardian book reviews 11 months, 1 week agoThe biggest names are back in a stellar season for fiction, with rip-roaring feminist horror, revenge tales, family sagas, spy romps and more. Here’s our e […]
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Blog: Creation Lake by Rachel Kushner review – double dealing in deepest France from
Books | The Guardian in the group The Guardian book reviews 11 months, 1 week agoLonglisted for this year’s Booker prize, Kushner’s cleverly paced tale of espionage, narrated by a ‘wild and boastful’ agent provocateur, juggles a killer plot wi […]
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Blog: Clare Chambers: Best and worst compliment? ‘My mum loves your books’ from
The Independent Books in the group The Independent book reviews 11 months, 1 week agoThe ‘Shy Creatures’ author on what she learnt from Iris Murdoch, the best book she’s read this year, and the bookshop everyone should go to…
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Blog: Warhol idolised her, Thatcher copied her and Kingsley Amis had a deep fear of farting in her presence: but what was the Queen really like? from
Books | The Guardian in the group The Guardian book reviews 11 months, 1 week agoFrom terrifying guests with invitations to ‘informal’ lunches to her relationship with the first female prime minister – Craig Brown looks for the woman behind the […]
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Blog: Friday Poem – ‘First Job’ by Bryony Littlefair from
Seren in the group Seren Books 11 months, 1 week agoThis week’s Friday Poem is ‘First Job’ by Bryony Littlefair from her debut collection ‘Escape Room’.
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