Tag: quick read

• The Kensington Kidnap

  

  The first of writing duo Kate Sidley and Gail Schimmel’s cozy mystery series.

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  17th Nov 2021

  Book Review: Fiction

  Cozy mystery, Gail Schimmel, Kate Sidley, Katie Gayle, mystery, quick read, Thri

• Geraldine Verne’s Red Suitcase

  

  Geraldine Verne’s Red Suitcase: the perfect Summer read.

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  16th Jul 2021

  Book Review: Fiction

  Amazon, blog tour, Fiction, Geraldine Verne's Red Suitcase, Jane Riley, Lake Union, quick read

• Why Rebel

  

  “Why rebel? Because our footprint on the Earth has never mattered more than now. How we treat it, in the spirit of gift or of theft, has never been more important.”

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  20th Jun 2021

  Book Review: Non-Fiction

  climate change, extinction rebellion, Jay Griffiths, Non-fiction, Penguin, quick read, sustainability, Why Rebel

• Tongues of Fire

  

  Poetry anthology by Sean Hewitt and one of the shortlisted books for the Young Writer’s Award 2020.

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  19th Nov 2020

  Book Review: Poetry

  Anthology, Poetry, quick read, Sean Hewitt, Sunday Times, Sunday Times University of Warwick Young Writers Award, Tongues of Fire, University of Warwick, Young Writer Award 2020

• The Swallowed Man

  

  “I am writing this account, in another man’s book, by candlelight, inside the belly of a fish. I have been eaten.”

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  19th Nov 2020

  Book Review: Fiction

  Edward Carey, Fairy Tales, Fatherhood, Fiction, Gallic Books, magical realism, Novella, Pinocchio, quick read, The Swallowed Man

• How Love Actually Ruined Christmas (Or Colourful Narcotics)

  

  “Still no explanation, even in the terms of an absurdist joke, why there are so many sea creatures at the nativity”

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  4th Nov 2020

  Book Review: Non-Fiction

  christmas, film, Gary Raymond, How Love Actually Ruined Christmas, love actually, non fiction, Parthian Books, quick read, Welsh literature

• 7 Ghost Books To Devour This Halloween

  

  7 of my favourite ghost books to get you in the spooky-spirit…

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  31st Oct 2020

  Round-Up

  Carmilla, Celia Fremlin, Emily Bronte, Featured, Fiction, ghost, Ghost Poetry, Ghost Walk, Ghostly Stories, Gothic, horror, Kate Bush, Kate Mosse, Novella, Oscar Wilde, Penguin Modern Classic, Poetry, quick read, Sarah Wragg, Sheridan Le Fanu, Shirley Jackson, Short Stories, The Canterville Ghost, The Cave, The Haunting of Hill House, The Winter Ghosts, Vampire Fiction, World Book Day 2009, Wuthering Heights

• The Cave

  

  An 1928 ghost story which will make you immediately hungry for more of Kate Mosse’s stories…

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  31st Oct 2020

  Book Review: Fiction

  ghost fiction, ghost stories, Ghostly Stories, Historical Fiction, Kate Mosse, Novella, quick read, Short Stories, The Cave

• A Year In The Wild

  

  Email exchanges between two brothers having a rather different experience of the South African bush…

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  31st Oct 2020

  Book Review: Fiction

  diary, Fiction, quick read, South African Literature, Travel

• We Are Animals

  

  “A cow looks out to sea, dreaming of a life that involves grass.”

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  3rd Jun 2020

  Book Review: Fiction

  Ebook, escapism, Fiction, Independent Publisher, quick read, Tim Ewins, We Are Animals