Be Awesome is awesome! Bravo, Hadley Freeman, for writing such a great book and telling the truth, without being dour or preachy, about the effort required to be a sane and healthy modern woman. Because it is quite a task,… Continue reading
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Posts Tagged ‘great read’
Books: Wave, A Memoir of Life After the Tsunami by Sonali Deraniyagala
You’ll have to steel yourself to read Wave, but steel yourself you should, because this is one of those books – like The Year of Magical Thinking or The Diving Bell and the Butterfly – that tells you so much… Continue reading
Listen online: Moby-Dick Big Read
Listen online anytime. Chapter One was read on 16 Sept. Chapter 5 starts today, 20 Sept 2012. Each day another chapter is read. Catch up on chapters anytime.
This is utterly brilliant. Moby-Dick Big Read is a madly ambitious project that launched this week, and if you’ve missed it so far, get on board now – we urge you. Writer Philip Hoare (if you haven’t read his much… Continue reading
Book: Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk by Ben Fountain
This book was recommended to us several times over the summer by friends whose reading tastes we really trust, so we had high expectations when we started it. Author Ben Fountain is probably the most talked about American writer you’ve never… Continue reading
Book: Hilary Mantel’s Bring up the Bodies
Bring up the Bodies published 10 May 2012
It’s arrived! Bring up the Bodies, Hilary Mantel’s sequel to Wolf Hall is published today, and if you loved the latter as much as we did, then you’ll be desperate to get your hands on a copy of Bring up the Bodies.
Books: The Art of Fielding by Chad Harbach
If you haven’t heard the raves about The Art of Fielding - a big, fat, totally brill American novel by first time author Chad Harbach – you soon will. (Vanity Fair published a 16 page article, now an ebook, in its October… Continue reading
Prize draw: win signed copies of Hilary Mantel’s Bring up the Bodies
Bring up the Bodies published 10 May 2012. Prize draw ends Fri 25 May at 5pm.
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It’s arrived! Bring up the Bodies, Hilary Mantel’s sequel to Wolf Hall is published today, and if you loved the latter as much as we did, then you’ll be desperate to get your hands on a copy of Bring up… Continue reading
Talk: book now for Hilary Mantel at the Southbank
18 May 2012, 7.30pm
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Major excitement over this one. An opportunity to hear Hilary Mantel talk is thrilling just in itself (the writer, who lives in Devon, doesn’t do many events), but the fact that she is discussing her new book, Bring up
Prize draw: win The Marriage Plot by Jeffrey Eugenides
Prize draw ends 15 Dec, 5pm
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The Marriage Plot by Jeffrey Eugenides was without doubt our favourite novel of 2011. We loved it. It’s a coming of age story set in the early ’80s at Rhode Island’s Brown University, and though the plot is really
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