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Blog: Week In Review #7 from
Becky's Book Reviews in the group Book bloggers 10 months agoI read six books this week. 14. First State of Being. Erin Entrada Kelly. 2024. 272 pages.
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Blog: 15. Buster Keaton: A Filmmaker's Life from
Becky's Book Reviews in the group Book bloggers 10 months ago15. Buster Keaton: A Filmmaker’s Life. James Curtis. 2022. 810 pages. [Source: Library] [5 stars, adult nonfiction, biography]First sentence: The man in the pork […]
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Blog: The best recent crime and thrillers – review roundup from
Books | The Guardian in the group The Guardian book reviews 10 months agoThe Impossible Thing by Belinda Bauer; The Frozen People by Elly Griffiths; Victorian Psycho by Virginia Feito; The Inheritance by Trisha Sakhlecha; The Weekenders […]
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Blog: I Feel Bad About My Neck by Nora Ephron audiobook review – bold truth-telling from
Books | The Guardian in the group The Guardian book reviews 10 months agoGrowing older, culinary mishaps and meeting JFK are among the subjects in this fiercely funny collection of essays, narrated by the authorThere is a lot about […]
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Blog: ‘Let’s start a chapter of our own’: the couples who found love in bookshops from
Books | The Guardian in the group The Guardian book reviews 10 months agoLovers living out their Notting Hill fantasies, shy readers whose eyes met at a book club … readers give us a tour of the romance section for Valentine’s Day […]
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Blog: Friday Poem – ‘The Golden Hour’ by Lorcán Black from
Seren in the group Seren Books 10 months agoThis week’s Friday Poem is ‘The Golden Hour’ by Lorcán Black from his collection ‘Strange Husbandry’.
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Blog: Andrew McMillan: ‘As an atheist, the poetry of Mary Oliver is the closest I come to prayer’ from
Books | The Guardian in the group The Guardian book reviews 10 months agoThe poet on his early love of horror and the transformative power of Thom GunnMy earliest reading memory
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Blog: One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This by Omar El Akkad review – a cathartic savaging of western hypocrisy over Gaza from
Books | The Guardian in the group The Guardian book reviews 10 months agoThe novelist and reporter delivers a passionate indictment of complacent liberal responses to Israel’s brutal campaign“Where’s the Palestinian Martin Luther King? […]
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Blog: Base Notes by Adelle Stripe review – an olfactory trip down memory lane from
Books | The Guardian in the group The Guardian book reviews 10 months agoThe novelist uses perfume to conjure scenes from a working-class upbringing in this funny, bleak memoirWhen Adelle Stripe was 23, she got a job working on a sex […]
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Blog: Ex-England manager Gareth Southgate to publish new book on leadership from
Books | The Guardian in the group The Guardian book reviews 10 months agoDear England: Lessons on Leadership, which ‘transcends football’ and offers advice on resilience and performance for individuals and organisations, will come out […]
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Blog: Dengue Boy by Michel Nieva review – revenge of the giant humanoid mosquito from
Books | The Guardian in the group The Guardian book reviews 10 months agoA tale of radioactive mutation and bloodlust takes flight in the Argentinian author’s wild anti-capitalist satireArgentina, 2272. The Argentine Pampas, the g […]
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Blog: Alice Chadwick’s Book Events from
Daunt Books Publishing in the group Daunt Books 10 months agoThrilled to share this exciting line up of events marking the publication of Dark Like Under, the beautiful debut novel by Alice Chadwick. Wednesday 19 February – […]
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Blog: A House for Miss Pauline by Diana McCaulay review – family secrets in Jamaica from
Books | The Guardian in the group The Guardian book reviews 10 months agoThis big-hearted tale sees a 99-year-old woman reckoning with the inheritance of the pastBefore I introduce you to our narrator, a few weeks shy of her 100th […]
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Blog: The South by Tash Aw review – an intimate epic begins from
Books | The Guardian in the group The Guardian book reviews 10 months agoTwo boys on the brink of adulthood in 1990s Malaysia, in the opening volume of a Proustian quartetPicture a farm that has been in a family for generations and can […]
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Blog: Happy Valentine’s Day! from
Stella Riley in the group Fans of Stella Riley 10 months agohttps://books2read.com/u/mB1LOR & https://books2read.com/u/m271pk “Clever, well researched, good characters and a story that keeps up the pace. If I ever need a […]
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Blog: The Charlie Method Pre-Order Competition from
Hachette UK in the group We love Sarah Waters' writing 10 months agoThis is a prize draw for one lucky reader to win a set of beautiful bound copies of Elle Kennedy’s books: The Graham Effect, The Dixon Rule, and The Charlie M […]
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Blog: Angelo Tijssens UK Book Tour from
Daunt Books Publishing in the group Daunt Books 10 months agoWe are delighted to welcome Angelo Tijssens and award-winning translator Michele Hutchison to the UK to promote Angelo’s debut novel The Edges. Monday 17 March – […]
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Blog: 14. First State of Being from
Becky's Book Reviews in the group Book bloggers 10 months, 1 week ago14. First State of Being. Erin Entrada Kelly. 2024. 272 pages. [Source: Library] [4 stars, Newbery Medal, MG Speculative Fiction, MG Fiction, Time Travel]First […]
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Blog: Avon acquires two more from Harper Ford from
Press Releases Archive – HarperCollins Publishers – HCUK Corporate in the group Harper Collins 10 months, 1 week agoThe post Avon acquires two more from Harper Ford appeared first on HarperCollins Publishers – HCUK Corporate.
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Blog: Entries open for the HarperCollins Reading for Pleasure Awards 2025, in association with the Open University and the UK Literacy Association from
Press Releases Archive – HarperCollins Publishers – HCUK Corporate in the group Harper Collins 10 months, 1 week agoThe post Entries open for the HarperCollins Reading for Pleasure Awards 2025, in association with the Open University and the UK Literacy Association appeared first […]
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Blog: 4th Estate to publish Notes to John by Joan Didion from
Press Releases Archive – HarperCollins Publishers – HCUK Corporate in the group Harper Collins 10 months, 1 week agoThe post 4th Estate to publish Notes to John by Joan Didion appeared first on HarperCollins Publishers – HCUK Corporate.
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Blog: Electric Monkey ensnares enchanting YA debut The Wicked Lies of Habren Faire from
Press Releases Archive – HarperCollins Publishers – HCUK Corporate in the group Harper Collins 10 months, 1 week agoThe post Electric Monkey ensnares enchanting YA debut The Wicked Lies of Habren Faire appeared first on HarperCollins Publishers – HCUK Corporate.
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Blog: Trailblazers Awards 2025 Shortlist Revealed from
The Hub by The London Book Fair | Publishing News in the group The London Bookfair Hub Blog 10 months, 1 week agoDate: 11 February 2025 LONDON, Tuesday 11 February 2025: The London Book Fair (LBF) has today revealed the shortlist for the Trailblazers Awards 2025, celebrating […]
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Blog: HarperCollins Children’s Books acquires laugh-out-loud diary book series from ‘superstar’ author, Rashmi Sirdeshpande from
Press Releases Archive – HarperCollins Publishers – HCUK Corporate in the group Harper Collins 10 months, 1 week agoThe post HarperCollins Children’s Books acquires laugh-out-loud diary book series from ‘superstar’ author, Rashmi Sirdeshpande appeared first on HarperCollins […]
