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The Summer Book by Tove jansson
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Every one Still Here by Liadan Ni Chuinn
This is a set of short stories reflecting on the lives of those living after the Northern Irish peace agreement and other places around the…
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Marzahn, Mon Amour by Katjia Oskamp
Translated by Jo Heinrich I am frantically reading shorter novels to find my next book for book club. We have a month to read a…
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The List of Suspicious Things by Jennie Godfrey
I can remember the time when this book is set – the hunt for the Yorkshire Ripper. I was about thirteen years old and used…
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Emergency by Daisy Hildyard
This must be the most plotless, but definitely not pointless, book I have ever read. It is our choice, picked out of a hat of…
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The other side of Mrs Wood by Lucy Barker
A tussle between two mediums in the late 1800s ends with a more mature understanding of women supporting women than their behaviour might have suggested.…
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Despite all the hoohah around this film, I found it totally depressing in the same way that I did for The Full Monty or Billy…
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It is a Christmas tradition that we choose up to 10 films to watch in the lead up to and over Christmas; this year we…
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Set in small town America, this is the story of two families from the 2nd world war to Vietnam and everything that goes on in…
Trying to read all the good books 