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Blog: Special Announcement for Dragonsteel 2024 + Weekly Update from
Brandon Sanderson in the group Brandon Sanderson Fans 1 year, 10 months agoSpecial Announcement for Dragonsteel 2024 + Weekly Update
Hey, Brandon here with your Weekly Update. I am back, kind of. I’m actually a […]
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Blog: More than a quarter of readers of YA are over the age of 28 research shows from
Books | The Guardian in the group The Guardian book reviews 1 year, 10 months agoReport commissioned by HarperCollins shows that uptake in YA fiction in older readers is due to behavioural changes described as ‘emerging adulthood’ or del […]
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Blog: Swearing, snogging and spying: Cherub’s cool teenage secret agents hit 20 from
Books | The Guardian in the group The Guardian book reviews 1 year, 10 months agoRobert Muchamore’s series of novels about young undercover intelligence operatives with troubled lives shook up the sanitised world of early noughties YA l […]
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Starting something like CSS Zen Garden but for WordPress: Customisation of colours in the group The Fantastic (Group) of Lord Matt, Super Geek: 1 year, 10 months agoStarting something like CSS Zen Garden but for WordPress: Customisation of colours
In my last post, I asked if anyone remembered CSS Zen Garden. Then I suggested that we should have something like that for WordPress – a standard HTML […] -
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A sad old man is walking on the beach. He has an ancient sword in his hand. in the group The Muse of Last Resort: 1 year, 10 months ago -
Blog: Children’s and teens roundup – the best new chapter books from
Books | The Guardian in the group The Guardian book reviews 1 year, 10 months agoLauren Child brings a light touch to big issues, Elle McNicoll explores autism – and a secret society is at work in Paris’s sewersThe inimitable Lauren Child rev […]
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Blog: Everything Must Go by Dorian Lynskey review – why is it always apocalypse now? from
Books | The Guardian in the group The Guardian book reviews 1 year, 10 months agoThis entertaining study of our obsession with Armageddon and its energising impact on the arts shows that every generation believes it will witness the world’s e […]
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Blog: ‘He craved an Oscar’: James Baldwin’s long campaign to crack Hollywood from
Books | The Guardian in the group The Guardian book reviews 1 year, 10 months agoHe pitched slave-ship dramas to Ingmar Bergman, cast Marlon Brando as a bisexual man and wrote a Malcolm X screenplay that horrified the FBI. Why was this […]
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Blog: The big idea: what would culture look like without nightlife? from
Books | The Guardian in the group The Guardian book reviews 1 year, 10 months agoLive music venues, clubs and bars feed creativity and drive social change. But they’re increasingly in dangerA few weeks ago, I decided to walk from London B […]
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Blog: CJ Sansom, author of the Shardlake novels, dies aged 71 from
Books | The Guardian in the group The Guardian book reviews 1 year, 10 months agoThe creator of the highly successful crime series, set in Tudor England, was a private person who ‘preferred to be known through his novels’CJ Sansom, the bes […]
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Blog: A Day in the Life: Adam Ridgway, Director of The London Book Fair from
The Hub by The London Book Fair | Publishing News in the group The London Bookfair Hub Blog 1 year, 10 months agoWelcome to our ‘A Day in the Life’ blog series, where we’ll be interviewing members of the LBF team, industry professionals, and special guests attending our ne […]
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Blog: Deep Water: The World in the Ocean by James Bradley review – a compelling sea view of civilisation from
Books | The Guardian in the group The Guardian book reviews 1 year, 10 months agoThis provocative and engrossing history of marine life identifies its role in shaping us – and the future crisis we faceThe science fiction writer Arthur C C […]
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Blog: Enlightenment by Sarah Perry – a tale of cosmic beauty on the Essex marshes from
Books | The Guardian in the group The Guardian book reviews 1 year, 10 months agoThe Essex Serpent author’s fourth novel, about a newspaper columnist who lives a double life, mixes themes of faith and physics to powerful effectSarah Perry’s thi […]
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Matthew Brown replied to the topic How long is a novel? in the forum Aspiring Authors 1 year, 10 months ago
The short answer is that it depends. The long answer, is here:
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CSS as the entire WordPress theme, on the groupblog The Fantastic Site of Lord Matt 1 year, 10 months agoAh, the old days of coding in notepad. That takes me back a bit.
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Blog: The Garden Against Time by Olivia Laing review – an Eden project of her own from
Books | The Guardian in the group The Guardian book reviews 1 year, 10 months agoWhile a cast of literary heavyweights grace Laing’s account of her garden restoration, the real joys lie in her detailed description of the pruning and the p […]
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Buying back your soul one share at a time in the group The Muse of Last Resort: 1 year, 10 months agoBuying back your soul one share at a time
Due to a drunken deal you once made, your soul is not your own. Since that day you have had incredible good luck and an array of niche but potent […] -
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CSS as the entire WordPress theme in the group The Fantastic (Group) of Lord Matt, Super Geek: 1 year, 10 months agoCSS as the entire WordPress theme
Does anyone remember CSS Zen Garden? An example of using only CSS to make visually striking designs for the exact same HTML. I love this idea as a fresh […] -
Blog: Hay Festival 2024: our guide to this year’s highlights from
The Independent Books in the group The Independent book reviews 1 year, 10 months agoJudi Dench talking Shakespeare, conversations with bestsellers Marian Keyes and David Nicholls, and a deep dive into the day’s news with Independent journalists a […]
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Blog: Moses McKenzie: ‘I was thinking about the predicament of the black British diaspora’ from
Books | The Guardian in the group The Guardian book reviews 1 year, 10 months agoThe award-winning Bristol-raised novelist on his new book about a teenage Rastafarian living in the city in volatile times, how he was influenced by The Catcher in […]
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Blog: Jilly Cooper recounts ‘terrifying’ attempted rape by a fellow author from
The Independent Books in the group The Independent book reviews 1 year, 10 months agoVeteran romance novelist did not name the man in question
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Blog: ‘My favourite stories are love stories’: Emily Henry on her enemies-to-lovers relationship with romance fiction from
Books | The Guardian in the group The Guardian book reviews 1 year, 10 months agoWith four million copies sold and three books in adaptation, the Beach Read author is riding high. She talks about hope, TikTok tropes and escapismA few weeks […]
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Blog: Safe haven or symbol of injustice? What our gardens tell us about the world we live in from
Books | The Guardian in the group The Guardian book reviews 1 year, 10 months agoFrom manicured, exclusive retreats built on slave money to common ground in which to seed utopian dreams, gardens occupy a fertile space in our lives and […]
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Blog: Tom Gauld on the two authors illusion – cartoon from
Books | The Guardian in the group The Guardian book reviews 1 year, 10 months agoContinue reading…
