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This week I read six books. 16. The Great Good Thing (Sylvie Cycle #1) Roderick Townley. 2001?
reprinted 2025. 224 pages. [Source: Library] [3 stars, mg fiction, […]

The Watermark by Sam Mills is a truly wacky and audacious piece of metafiction which tells the story of celebrated reclusive author Augustus Fate who kidnaps Jaime […]

Welcome to the February issue of The Romance Edit. It’s the month of love 💗 and from instant-chemistry Regency romance … Continued

A boy with his head in the clouds; a Kurdish refugee’s tale; helicopter heists, a dancer’s dreams, a mission to save Mars and moreCloud Boy by Greg Stobbs, Oxf […]

A wide-ranging and thoroughly entertaining portrait not just of Queen Elizabeth II but of the psyche of her subjectsThe funeral of Queen Elizabeth II in 2022 was […]

This week’s Friday Poem is ‘The Migration of Ghosts’ by Maggie Harris from her collection ‘I Sing to the Greenhearts’.
The post Friday Poem – ‘The Migration of […]

TERMS AND CONDITIONS. Secrets of the Toffee Factory Girls

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The poet and novelist on having his heart broken by Animal Farm, imagining Ibsen and Chekhov characters as Nigerian, and ditching physics for PlatoMy earliest […]

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A young academic travels to Iraq to help a British Asian who joined IS at 15, in this rollicking account of a UN deradicalisation programmeQuestions around our […]