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Best European Fiction 2010: My Series

the wanderer wrote 1 day ago: I believe in conversations. And the conversations I always learn the most from are those I have with … more →

Tags: Best European Literature 2010, aleksandar hemon, Alice Munro, Arnaldur Indridason, Best European Fiction 2010, Best European Fiction series, Chicago writers, Chinua Achebe, Dalkey Archive Press

Looking forward to February5 comments

Eliza wrote 3 weeks ago: One of the odd things about working for a publication is that your monthly timeline gets out of whac … more →

Tags: Fiction, Cathleen Schine, February 2010, heidi durrow

Review of Faceless Killers3 comments

Karoline wrote 1 month ago: I’m on a total murder mystery phase here right now. I’m trying to catch up on the Suspen … more →

Tags: 7, Reading Challenges, Review, faceless killers

Wallander-Krister2 comments

bookwitch wrote 1 month ago: You have to love Swedish tabloids. Well, you don’t, and I don’t, but as I googled Kriste … more →

Tags: Television, Books, Crime, Kenneth Branagh, Krister Henriksson, Rolf Lassgård

Who let the dogs out?

Paul wrote 1 month ago: The Dogs of Riga by Henning Mankell Second in the Wallander series – and some exceptional chal … more →

Tags: book, Review, wallander

70 It's an Autumn book bonanza

billpurdue wrote 1 month ago: October is the time of year when many publishers release their blockbuster titles with a view to hop … more →

Tags: Crime Fiction, crime novels, David Attenborough, Hilary Mantel, Martina Cole, Masterchef, Millenium trilogy, Stieg Larsson, Wolf Hall

The Giants

petal47 wrote 2 months ago: Second hand paperbacks in charity shops seem to have been upgraded of late.  No more Maeve Binchy, C … more →

Tags: Cats Protection, charity shop books, Clockwork Orange, squeamish, Thomas Keneally

Dysenchanted Worlds: Rationalisation, Dystopia, and Therapy Culture in Ninni Holmqvist’s The Unit6 comments

Eric Repphun wrote 2 months ago: Proving that we here in the Dunedin School are interested in books other than the Bible, we turn our … more →

Tags: texts, Literature, Religion, Living, language, Rhetoric, History, Death, Jean Baudrillard

bad writing

dianesherlock wrote 2 months ago: No need to annotate Dan Brown. While many – and I am not among them – like his storytell … more →

Tags: Bad writing, Craft of Writing, Dan Brown, Fiction, Geoffrey Pullum, Novels, writing

Aphasia

Tench Ringgold wrote 2 months ago: Currently one of my favorite authors is Henning Mankell, the Swedish author of the Kurt Wallander se … more →

Tags: Aphasia, The Man who Smiled, Kurt Wallander, Kenneth Brannagh, Aphonia

Favourite books (as of today)6 comments

blackwatertown wrote 2 months ago: If I thought too much about this my head would explode, so, as if leaping over the alley between two … more →

Tags: What I'm Reading, blackwatertown, blackwater, books i like, Books, What I am reading, Favourite books, Philip Kerr, Sipho Sepamla

Some more photos for you...4 comments

bookwitch wrote 3 months ago: if you haven’t already had enough. In fact, here are more photos even if you have. And that … more →

Tags: Books, Authors, Jacqueline Wilson, Adele Geras, Philip Ardagh, michael morpurgo, Travel, Elizabeth Laird, Julia Jarman

Denise Mina, "Garnethill"

carolwallace wrote 3 months ago: Nothing to do with what I feel sure the characters would call the “poncy” home-furnishin … more →

Tags: Mystery, Stieg Larsson, Denise Mina, glasgow, Ian Rankin, manda scott, Tartan Noir

'This boy will never amount to anything'15 comments

bookwitch wrote 3 months ago: Well, he did. Last week he received the Medal of Freedom from President Obama, accompanied by his da … more →

Tags: Adele Geras, Authors, Awards, blogs, Books, Bookshops, Crime, Education, History

Henning Mankell: The Pyramid (paperback)

Thomas wrote 3 months ago: Forthcoming paperback release: The Pyramid: The Origins of Kurt Wallander Henning Mankell Vintage IS … more →

Tags: 2009/10, Crime Fiction, English translation, Svenska, Kurt Wallander

'Do you know Donna?'

bookwitch wrote 3 months ago: I do. Sort of. I was going to meet Donna Moore, author of Go To Helena Handbasket, and the best blog … more →

Tags: Authors, blogs, Books, Bookshops, Crime, Education, michael morpurgo, picture book, Reading

Wallander is the new ABBA2 comments

bookwitch wrote 3 months ago: Coincidence being what it is, when we went to Space school on Sunday to retrieve Daughter, we met a … more →

Tags: blogs, film, Television, Music, Books, Travel, Crime, ABBA, Kenneth Branagh

and still more from the smorgasbord1 comment

Barbara wrote 4 months ago: There’s an interesting article on Maj Sjowall and Per Wahloo by Jack Bumsted in the lastest ne … more →

Tags: Film and Television, Norway, Reviews, Sweden, Gunnar Stalessen, maj sjöwall, per wahlöö, Stieg Larsson, The Girl Who Played with Fire

more bits and bobs

Barbara wrote 4 months ago: A travel feature on visiting Stockholm while on a Stieg Larsson pilgrimage appeared in The Mail.  Ap … more →

Tags: Stuff, Iceland, Sweden, Norway, Articles, Reviews, Film and Television, issues, Stieg Larsson


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