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Blog: Sand with everything: writer Catherine Newman on family summers at the beach from
Books | The Guardian in the group The Guardian book reviews 1 year, 7 months agoGrowing appetites and changing tastes … how summers at the beach capture the flavour of family lifeIt starts with a baby, as is the way with human life. He’s a bre […]
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Blog: ‘I wanted to do pulpy, hyper-violent action’: Keanu Reeves on his novel with China Miéville and the afterlife of The Matrix from
Books | The Guardian in the group The Guardian book reviews 1 year, 7 months agoWhat happens when a Hollywood actor and SF author join forces on a novel? The pair talk about their literary bromance – and their quest to turn Reeves’s comic boo […]
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Blog: Tom Gauld on the novelist’s exoskeleton suit – cartoon from
Books | The Guardian in the group The Guardian book reviews 1 year, 7 months agoContinue reading…
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Blog: Banal Nightmare by Halle Butler review – witty millennial angst from
Books | The Guardian in the group The Guardian book reviews 1 year, 7 months agoA young woman returns to the university town where she grew up in this biting satire of precarity and privilegeHalle Butler is one of the funniest and most exacting […]
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Blog: Jo Callaghan wins crime novel of the year with story of an AI detective from
Books | The Guardian in the group The Guardian book reviews 1 year, 7 months agoIn the Blink of an Eye was praised at the Theakston Old Peculier crime writing festival as ‘changing the way we think about policing forever’A “bo […]
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Blog: The Best Greek Myth Retellings from
Waterstones Blog in the group Waterstones’ blog headlines 1 year, 7 months agoIn celebration of Ferdia Lennon’s Glorious Exploits scooping this year’s Waterstones Debut Fiction Prize, we highlight our favourite Greek myth retellings.
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Blog: Ed Conway on the Vital Importance of the Material World from
Waterstones Blog in the group Waterstones’ blog headlines 1 year, 7 months agoTaking readers on a globetrotting tour, Ed Conway’s Material World delves deep into the substances that power the modern age, from sand and salt to oil and lithium. […]
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Blog: Friday Poem – ‘Time Lapse at Porthmeor’ by Lorcán Black from
Seren in the group Seren Books 1 year, 7 months agoThis week’s Friday Poem is ‘Time Lapse at Porthmeor’ by Lorcán Black from his Poetry Book Society recommended collection ‘Strange Husbandry’.
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Blog: Lorrie Moore: ‘I would never read literature for comfort’ from
Books | The Guardian in the group The Guardian book reviews 1 year, 7 months agoThe American author on finding sympathy for Ted Hughes, a Palestinian take on Hamlet, and the joy of cookery booksMy earliest reading memory
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Blog: A Twist in the Tail by Christopher Beckman – worth their salt from
Books | The Guardian in the group The Guardian book reviews 1 year, 7 months agoFrom ancient Roman condiment to vitamin-packed super food, how anchovies made a culinary splashThe anchovy is the Marmite of the aquatic world. Love it or hate it, […]
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Blog: Five of the best body horror novels from
Books | The Guardian in the group The Guardian book reviews 1 year, 8 months agoTackling social issues with often grisly violence, you’ll need a strong stomach for these stories by authors from Han Kang to Stephen King, but they make an i […]
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Where your character lives (or lived) under their bed is a forgotten item, what is the significance and story of this item? in the group The Muse of Last Resort: 1 year, 8 months agoWhere your character lives (or lived) under their bed is a forgotten item, what is the significance and story of this item?
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Blog: Fi: A Memoir of My Son by Alexandra Fuller review – to the edge of reason from
Books | The Guardian in the group The Guardian book reviews 1 year, 8 months agoA mother’s unvarnished portrait of grief after the death of her 21-year-old sonAlexandra Fuller was in a pickup truck in Wyoming with her girlfriend, Till, when h […]
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Should writers avoid AI?, on the groupblog Shall we talk? 1 year, 8 months agoLike most tools AI is good for some tasks but not all of them.
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Python bits in Renpy for my visual novel in the group The Fantastic (Group) of Lord Matt, Super Geek: 1 year, 8 months agoPython bits in Renpy for my visual novel
In this post, I am going to share some Python stuff I have written for my visual novel written in Renpy. The novel is set in my Three Kingdoms setting […] -
Blog: On Turning 60 from
Joanne Harris in the group Fans of Joanne Harris 1 year, 8 months agoWhen I was a child, someone told me: “Every life is a story.” I used to wonder what mine would be like; what adventures I would have. My favourite stories were fro […]
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Blog: Friday Poem – ‘Fickle Lover’ by Katrina Naomi from
Seren in the group Seren Books 1 year, 8 months agoThis week’s Friday Poem is ‘Fickle Lover’ by Katrina Naomi from her collection ‘Battery Rocks’.
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Blog: 17 AI Content Tools You Need To Try from
Copyblogger in the group Copy Blogger Fans 1 year, 8 months agoMost people know about ChatGPT, but I recently discovered many other AI content tools that are more effective at scaling…
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Matthew Brown wrote a new blog post
Tell us something unexpected about your character in the group The Muse of Last Resort: 1 year, 8 months agoTell us something unexpected about your character
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Blog: Seren Books is open to submissions from
Seren in the group Seren Books 1 year, 8 months agoWe are thrilled to share the news that we are re-opening to submissions. Read on for more information about what this means and how to submit to our open call-outs. […]
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Blog: Gallery Books to Publish Josh Gad Memoir, In Gad We Trust: A Tell-Some from
News and Corporate Information about Simon & Schuster in the group Simon and Schuster 1 year, 8 months agoNEW YORK, July 9, 2024—Comedian and entertainer Josh Gad, known for his portrayal of Olaf in Disney’s Frozen franchise and his award-winning turn as Elder Cun […]
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Blog: Guest Post: Katrina Naomi on nature, risk, poetry, swimming and the sea from
Seren in the group Seren Books 1 year, 8 months agoTo celebrate publication of her collection ‘Battery Rocks’, today’s guest post sees Katrina Naomi muse on some of the themes which inspired the book and how sea s […]
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Blog: Friday Poem – ‘All Souls’ Saturday Night’ by Carol Rumens from
Seren in the group Seren Books 1 year, 8 months agoThis week’s Friday Poem is ‘All Souls’ Saturday Night’ by Carol Rumens from her collection ‘Animal People’.
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