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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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Novelist as a vocation by Haruki Murakami
The minds of writers fascinate me because they are so different to mine. Often after reading book I will consider what a writer must have…
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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…
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Ahhh. The comfort of a well-known and liked series. Sam Wyndham and Surendranath Banerjee, English and Indian, solving a despicable crime in the case of…
Trying to read all the good books 