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Breakfast At Libraries: February 2015
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Stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you - Ray Bradbury. Saturday, 28 February 2015. The Cuckoo's Calling by Robert Galbraith. Unless you avoid the news to the extent that you have actually been walking around wearing ear-plugs and blinkers for the past two years, you are probably already aware that crime writer Robert Galbraith. Whose debut novel The Cuckoo's Calling. Was published in 2013, is in fact JK Rowling. Lots of people have already written reviews. Of The Cuckoo's Calling. Are increa...
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Breakfast At Libraries: March 2015
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Stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you - Ray Bradbury. Friday, 27 March 2015. Station Eleven by Emily St John Mandel. As I write this blog post, Sierra Leone has just been placed on lockdown. Emily St John Mandel's Station Eleven. Moving, thoughtful, sad and often quietly terrifying, Station Eleven. Links to this post. Emily st john mandel. Wednesday, 18 March 2015. The Buried Giant by Kazuo Ishiguro. It’s already been widely publicised that Kazuo Ishiguro's The Buried Giant. 8217; being cas...
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Breakfast At Libraries: After The Crash by Michel Bussi
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Stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you - Ray Bradbury. Monday, 29 June 2015. After The Crash by Michel Bussi. Is she Lyse-Rose de Carville, born into an immensely wealthy and powerful family? Or is she Emilie Vitral, whose working-class socialist grandparents scrape a living selling chips and crepes from a van on the seafront at Dieppe? According to the blurb on the front of the book, The Sunday Times compared After The Crash. Is very, very Swedish. More to the point, both of them have s...
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Breakfast At Libraries: July 2015
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Stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you - Ray Bradbury. Thursday, 30 July 2015. The Child by Sebastian Fitzek. Originally published in 2008 as Das Kind. By the hugely successful German author Sebastian Fitzek. Is now available in an English translation - it can already be downloaded for Kindle, and is out in paperback on 13 August. My copy was provided by the publisher through NetGalley in return for an honest review. Although much of The Child. Is wildly implausible, it does have some intere...
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Breakfast At Libraries: December 2014
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Stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you - Ray Bradbury. Monday, 29 December 2014. The Visitors by Simon Sylvester. By Simon Sylvester won the Guardian’s reader-voted ‘Not The Booker’ prize in 2014, despite this mixed review. Bancree itself, and the sea that surrounds it, are almost characters in their own right, and the setting of the story is one of its greatest strengths. There were times during The Visitors. Links to this post. Sunday, 7 December 2014. Everything I Never Told You. S first ...
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Reading and Spelling Channel - Home
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Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD). Mental and Physical Disabilities. Crime and Learning Disabilities. Literature transforms lives in poor NY neighbourhood. From Still Waters in a Storm. Welcome to the Reading and Spelling Channel. Since the adoption of the. Universal Declaration of Human Rights. At the Reading and Spelling Channel, we showcase a range of information on literacy and numeracy, as well as the available strategies and programmes in our. Interesting articles and information.
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Agatha Raisin Kindle Store
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Welcome to the Agatha Raisin Kindle Store. Agatha Raisin is the cranky but lovable Cotswolds detective created by the New York Times Bestselling author MC Beaton. If you enjoy the. Novels of Agatha Christie or Alexander McCall Smith's. Ladies No.1 Detective Agency. Then we are sure you're going to love following the adventures of Agatha Raisin. In the Kindle Store you will be able to download all of the Agatha Raisin novels instantly. Praise for the Agatha Raisin series:. Agatha Raisin and the Vicious Vet.
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Regina the Book Spinner: To blurb or not to blurb
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Regina the Book Spinner. A miscellany of all things related to books. Ye Decrepit Olde books. Old Books In Between. June 21, 2015. To blurb or not to blurb. I had a good chuckle at this great post at Writer Unboxed. And got to thinking about. I’ve never been asked to write one (although always open to requests) but they are another riddle of book publishing world. So many questions:. Q1 How do you get a famous or respected author to blurb for you? Q4 Are lots of blurbs a good thing? A4 No You get suspici...
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A Borderline Genius: December 2011
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A collection of articles and other scribblings by music writer James Waldron. Get in touch at james wldrn@hotmail.com or follow me at @JJWaldron. Friday, 16 December 2011. Book review: 'Disaster Was My God' by Bruce Duffy. Another book review from my time at We Love This Book. Magazine. You can view the original here. Disaster Was My God. Bruce Duffy charts the meteoric rise and fall of 19th century poetic prodigy Arthur Rimbaud. Disaster Was My God. Wednesday, 14 December 2011. Top Five Unlikely Authors.
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