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Jackie Kay - 'What you can survive makes you stronger'1 comment

tazliz wrote 3 days ago: One of the highlights of the Auckland Writers and Readers Festival 2013 for me has been discovering … more →

Tags: Auckland Writers and Readers Festival, Auckland Writers and Readers Festival 2013, Books, Events 2, Feminism, Festivals, Interviews, Women, Writers

Beginning his legacy - Dan Wright

Patricia C. Lee wrote 1 week ago: Stepping out of our comfort zone is always good, so this week I have a guest who has published a nov … more →

Tags: writing, fantasy books, Dan Wright, Manga

The Garrick Year, novel by Margaret Drabble, Read by Paul Newman

silverbirchpress wrote 1 week ago: In the photo at right, Paul Newman reads THE GARRICK YEAR, a 1964 novel by British author Margaret D … more →

Tags: women authors, Books, Reading, Novels 2, Drama, Novels, writing, Writers, novelists

Cornwall, United Kingdom

literaryitinerant wrote 2 weeks ago: Today is the last day of our literary tour of the British Isles. For now. I have read about Cornwall … more →

Tags: Books 2, Books, Daphne du Maurier, Detective novels, Hitchcock, Literature, Manderley, Travel

Dorchester, United Kingdom

literaryitinerant wrote 3 weeks ago: By now, I would imagine that some readers are getting tired of hearing about my journeys through Vic … more →

Tags: Books 2, Books, Far From the Madding Crowd, hunger games, Literature, Nature, Social commentary, Thomas Hardy, Woman in White

Cumberland, United Kingdom

literaryitinerant wrote 3 weeks ago: Today, readers, we are embarking on a journey to Cumberland in the United Kingdom, relatively close … more →

Tags: Books 2, Literature, Books, wordiness, invisible man, Detective novels, Wilkie Collins, Woman in White

Iping, United Kingdom

literaryitinerant wrote 3 weeks ago: “Iping? Where in the world is Iping?” Avid readers of “famous scientific fantasies … more →

Tags: Books 2, Literature, Books, Travel, Teach, Social commentary, H. G. Wells, invisible man, John Hodgman

The Bath Short Story Award and the Very British Authors Tour 2013

Rosie Amber wrote 3 weeks ago: The long list of 46 entries out of 1149 original ones has been released today. Sadly I’m not o … more →

Tags: Favourites, Fun Things, Olympics, Authors, Competitions, Awards, Challenges, Queen's jubilee, Short Stories

Derbyshire

literaryitinerant wrote 3 weeks ago: I have a feeling that some readers will interpret the title of this post as a reference to Jane Aust … more →

Tags: Books 2, Literature, Books, Jane Austen, Travel, Jane Eyre, Charlotte Bronte, Pride and Prejudice, Mr. Rochester

Blog Tour: From the Kitchen of Half Truth Book Review4 comments

bookmagnet wrote 3 weeks ago: From the Kitchen of Half Truth by Maria Goodin (Sourcebooks Landmark; 352 pages; $14.99). When I was … more →

Tags: Blog Tour, Book Review, Books, Contemporary Fiction, Fiction, Literary Fiction, Book Reviews, bookmagnet, bookmagnet's blog

Blog Tour: Mini-Interview with Maria Goodin, Author of From the Kitchen of Half Truth

bookmagnet wrote 3 weeks ago: Jaime Boler: Did you always want to be a writer? Maria Goodin: Yes, among other things. I am quite c … more →

Tags: Books, Fiction, Author Interviews, Blog Tour, Contemporary Fiction, Jaime Boler, bookmagnet, Author Interview, bookmagnet's blog

London, England1 comment

literaryitinerant wrote 3 weeks ago: London is a location that could come from a variety of novels. The one I am writing about today is O … more →

Tags: Books 2, Literature, Books, Travel, Charles Dickens, Great Expectations, Oliver Twist, Social commentary, wordiness

The Kissing Game by Aidan Chambers

Chelsea McDonald wrote 1 month ago: I was really really hoping this was Ian Somerhalder’s biography that I happened across, but al … more →

Tags: Anthology 2, YA Fiction, aiden chambers, Book Review, flash fiction, Short Stories, The Kissing Game

A Very British Blog Tour - post at Authors Electric32 comments

rozmorris @NailYourNovel @ByRozMorris wrote 2 months ago: The files that make up this blog post are a twinkle in a data farm somewhere in the US. My books are … more →

Tags: interviews, Literature, Writing Life, Novels, Fiction, Roz Morris, writing, Publishing, writing a novel - Nail Your Novel

Standing In Another Man’s Grave - Ian Rankin 2 comments

estelle1948 wrote 2 months ago: Cantankerous, bloody-minded retired John Rebus is back… not as a Detective Inspector in the Ed … more →

Tags: Book Reviews, detective stories, TV Series, crime novels, Standing in Another Man's Grave, Ian Rankin

How To Be a Woman8 comments

DoingDewey wrote 2 months ago: Title: How To Be a Woman Author: Caitlin Moran Source: library Rating: ★★★★★ Review Summary: Parts o … more →

Tags: Dewey Decimal Challenge, Book Reviews, Books, book, Humor, memoir, Feminism, Caitlin Moran

My First Article!

Miss Alice wrote 2 months ago: …Well, sort of. I’ve been writing things for years, but a kindred spirit at XO Jane UK g … more →

Tags: writing, UK, Romance, xojane, Great Britain, dorothy l. sayers, lord peter, lord peter wimsey, Harriet Vane

Quotes from across the pond

whimsy and wit wrote 3 months ago: A few quotes on the love of books from British and Irish authors in honour of “I love to Read … more →

Tags: positive quotes - 365 days project, Charles Dickens, Inspirational Quotes, Literature, Books, Jane Austen, C. S. Lewis, Charles Dickens David Copperfield

The Colonial Masters have Fled: British Ruins in Burma (Myanmar)

Generation Passport wrote 3 months ago: “This is Burma and it is unlike any land you know about.” Rudyard Kipling, Letters from the Ea … more →

Tags: Burma, Myanmar, British Colonialism, Myanmar, British Ruins, British Colonies, British colonialism, Yangon, rangoon


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