I hope the weather is better where you are, dear reader, but here there’s a yellow weather warning and it is absolutely chucking it down. Just as well then that I have some absorbing reading material (in the form of a book proof I won of The Countenance Divine, a spooky and intriguing tale by newcomer Michael… Read More The weekly herding: Man Booker longlist – who’s happy, who’s not?
that time that time when and then there was that time when I went to see Les Misérables in the cinema, and I hadn’t seen the stage version so I wasn’t familiar with it other than hearing Susan Boyle sing I Dreamed a Dream on that terrible talent show and making me cry, so it took a… Read More Solar Bones by Mike McCormack reviewed
Do you notice that the older you get, the harder it is to find something you’re really blown away by? It’s a shame, but with age there comes that jaded sense of having seen and read everything before. So when something new and different does come along, it’s tremendously exciting. A quarter of the way into… Read More Spill Simmer Falter Wither by Sara Baume reviewed
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