Blogs about: Prizewinners
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Glasshopper - Isabel Ashdown
13-year old Jake’s mother is an alcoholic wreck. Her husband, Jake’s father has recently given up and moved out, while her eldest son, Matthew, has absconded entirely. The question that … more →
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The Outlander - Gil Adamson
1linereview wrote 1 week ago: You are being chased across the wilderness by brothers who want you dead, bedding hunky wanderers, a … more →
wolf hall - hilary mantel
1linereview wrote 1 week ago: So thick with splendid words it makes one wish desperately that they, too could hang with Thomas Cro … more →
Glasshopper - Isabel Ashdown
lizzysiddal wrote 1 month ago: 13-year old Jake’s mother is an alcoholic wreck. Her husband, Jake’s father has recentl … more →
BBC National Short Story Award 2008
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lizzysiddal wrote 2 months ago: Short Story September Week One The BBC National Short Story Award is the biggest prize of its kind i … more →
Julia Franck - The Blind Side of the Heart
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lizzysiddal wrote 5 months ago: Following in the steps of the Prix Goncourt and the Booker, the German Book Prize was established in … more →
Wind turbines inside power line towers - a prizewinner
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eideard wrote 5 months ago: A French team of an engineer and two architects have won this year’s prestigious Metropolis Ne … more →
Book Group: The Road Home - Rose Tremain
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lizzysiddal wrote 9 months ago: I could not have predicted that my book group would have been reading Rose Tremain this month or tha … more →
Favorite Banana Cake
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quilt32 wrote 9 months ago: I found the recipe for this cake in a magazine in 1986 and the cake became a family favorite. I h … more →
The Two Faces of January - Patricia Highsmith
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lizzysiddal wrote 9 months ago: 1964 Crime Writers Association Best Foreign Novel Chester MacFarland is on the run, the American ag … more →
Royal Highness - Thomas Mann
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lizzysiddal wrote 10 months ago: Choosing what to read after a 5-star experience is always difficult. What can possibly follow witho … more →
Movie to Book: What A Carve Up! - Jonathan Coe
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lizzysiddal wrote 10 months ago: It’s a mark of the rapid rise of Jonathan Coe’s “What A Carve Up!” to contem … more →
Apricot Cheese Dainties
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quilt32 wrote 10 months ago: I found this recipe in 1990 in a publication called Blue Ribbon Gazette, a collection of winners fro … more →
The Crossroads - Niccolo Ammaniti
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lizzysiddal wrote 10 months ago: Paperback: 496 pages Publisher: Canongate Books (8 Jan 2009) Language English ISBN-10: 1847670377 IS … more →
Nobel concert in Oslo
Muhammad Faisal Jawaid Attari wrote 11 months ago: OSLO: Global stars paid a visit to Oslo to take part in the Nobel Peace Prize Concert. The impressiv … more →
Birdwing vines and other things
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^^usu wrote 11 months ago: Today I was at Griffith Uni for some Science lecture thing that ran from 8:30 till 3:00ish. I got th … more →
Best Light Bread
quilt32 wrote 12 months ago: Many of my childhood Thanksgivings were spent in my Grandma’s kitchen where she cooked a big f … more →
The Chocolate War - Robert Cormier
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lizzysiddal wrote 12 months ago: Three months ago while I was bloggish feverishly about my adventures at the EBF, I was also reading … more →
Helpless - Barbara Gowdy
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lizzysiddal wrote 1 year ago: Barbara Gowdy likes to push the boundaries of fiction. Her backlist includes The White Bone, writte … more →
Catholics - Brian Moore
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lizzysiddal wrote 1 year ago: Brian Moore lost his Catholic faith as a young man and proceeded to carve a literary career out of i … more →
