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Blog: Poem of the Week: Rejection by Rudyard Kipling from
Books | The Guardian in the group The Guardian book reviews 1 year, 2 months agoA 21st-century reader might find a parable in this disturbing Kipling poem, in which a drowned man is dehumanised and has become a displaced […]
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Your imaginary friend has been kidnapped. The kidnappers demand a strange ransom… in the group The Muse of Last Resort: 1 year, 2 months ago -
Blog: Question 7 by Richard Flanagan review – the Booker winner’s beautiful, unclassifiable memoir-cum-novel from
Books | The Guardian in the group The Guardian book reviews 1 year, 2 months agoIn seeking to understand his parents and his life, Flanagan merges memory and fiction to ponder the random nature of existence, resulting in a masterpiece of […]
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Blog: Endgame 1944: How Stalin Won the War by Jonathan Dimbleby review – the Red army’s advance into history from
Books | The Guardian in the group The Guardian book reviews 1 year, 2 months agoA fresh take on Operation Bagration, the colossal eastern front offensive in the second world war, is the author and broadcaster’s best book yet – and shows how […]
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Blog: Private Revolutions by Yuan Yang review – the women who tried to carve a path in a new China from
Books | The Guardian in the group The Guardian book reviews 1 year, 2 months agoIn this intimate study of a period of upheaval, a Chinese-born writer uncovers the stories of four young citizens whose lives were transformed by Deng Xiaoping’s r […]
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Blog: Impossible City: Paris in the Twenty-First Century by Simon Kuper review – chronicle of a French revelation from
Books | The Guardian in the group The Guardian book reviews 1 year, 2 months agoThis revealing memoir about the author’s 20 years in the City of Light identifies the complex codes of behaviour that newcomers are obliged to masterIn 1990 the S […]
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Blog: What a Fool Believes by Michael McDonald review – the nicest dude in soul takes centre stage from
Books | The Guardian in the group The Guardian book reviews 1 year, 2 months agoFrom falling foul of Ray Charles to writing with Burt Bacharach and singing with Steely Dan, McDonald has led a fascinating, if addiction-fuelled, life, but his […]
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Blog: One Ukrainian Summer by Viv Groskop review – young love in the birthplace of Zelenskiy from
Books | The Guardian in the group The Guardian book reviews 1 year, 2 months agoIn this evocative, amusing memoir, the author and podcaster recounts her 1990s fling with a guitarist – and considers whether the Russia-Ukraine conflict could h […]
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Blog: Parade by Rachel Cusk review – a brilliant and unsettling feat from
Books | The Guardian in the group The Guardian book reviews 1 year, 2 months agoWith this freewheeling examination of creation, gender and art, the bold and original Cusk is ever more determined to write about life precisely as she finds itOne […]
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Burty Burtman replied to the topic Any one for Manga? in the forum General Chat 1 year, 2 months ago
Oh, oh! Me, me! I do. What’s your favourite?
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Blog: Bridget Jones 4 has started filming – here’s how to read the books in order from
The Independent Books in the group The Independent book reviews 1 year, 2 months agoRenee Zellweger and Hugh Grant are returning in ‘Mad About The Boy’ alongside newcomer Leo Woodall
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Blog: Friday Poem – ‘Sun, Earth and Moon scale model (Oxford Natural History Museum)’ by Glyn Edwards from
Seren in the group Seren Books 1 year, 2 months agoTo celebrate ‘In Orbit’ by Glyn Edwards making the shortlist for Wales Book of the Year 2024, this week’s Friday Poem is Glyn’s poem ‘Sun, Earth and Moon scale mod […]
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What secret or forgotten aspect ties your character to the history of your setting? in the group The Muse of Last Resort: 1 year, 2 months agoWhat secret or forgotten aspect ties your character to the history of your setting?
This could be an ancestor involved in a historic event, a similarity to a person of legend, or something else that you have invented. Even if this […] -
Blog: Sally Rooney unveils cover of new novel Intermezzo and plot that explores ‘ethical complexity’ from
The Independent Books in the group The Independent book reviews 1 year, 2 months agoThe author’s new book will hit UK shelves in SeptemberÂ
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Blog: Crawley Heroics Can’t Stop Somerset from
Hachette UK in the group We love Sarah Waters' writing 1 year, 2 months agoWhile the seventh round of the Vitality County Championship may have produced many close-fought, tense outcomes, that was not the case at The Oval, where […]
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Blog: Job opportunity: Desk Editor / Golygydd Desg from
Seren in the group Seren Books 1 year, 2 months agoWe’re looking for a Desk Editor to join our team. Applications are open until the 17th June 2024. Check this post for full details including how to apply.
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Jason Latnar started the topic Any one for Manga? in the forum General Chat 1 year, 2 months ago
Who here reads Manga?
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Blog: Nathan Munday shortlisted for the Betty Trask Prize from
Seren in the group Seren Books 1 year, 2 months agoCongratulations to Nathan Munday whose debut novel ‘Whaling’ has been shortlisted for the Society of Authors Betty Trask Prize.
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I’ve started planning a game where you play as a sentient slime in the group The Fantastic (Group) of Lord Matt, Super Geek: 1 year, 2 months agoI've started planning a game where you play as a sentient slime
I’ve started planning a game where you play as a slime. I would like to have a good mix of action and storytelling but in such a way that those who ignore […] -
Blog: Mills & Boon RNA winners! from
Mills & Boon Blog in the group Mills and Boon fans 1 year, 2 months agoLast night, six of our nominated authors attended the Romantic Novelists’ Association’s Romantic Novel Awards ceremony for a night in celebration of brilliant rom […]
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Blog: Salman Rushdie says a new Palestinian state would be ‘Taliban-like’ from
The Independent Books in the group The Independent book reviews 1 year, 2 months agoAuthor argues ‘it’s very strange for young, progressive student politics to kind of support a fascist terrorist group’ in Hamas
