Category: books
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Top Ten Books
What are your 10 all-time favourite books, and why? asked The Book Club last week on Facebook. Most people said their favourites changed according to mood and time of day, and I agree. It’s a while since we’ve had a ‘books’ post on the blog, so here are my favourites: 1. The School at the…
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Eat, drink, read and be merry…
After a culinary near-disaster yesterday (and it was almost a near-culinary disaster, too), when I became so involved in working out how to conclude chapter ten of my wip that I completely forgot about the pasta sauce I was cooking, I started to think about food – and drink – in books. Food is one…
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In memory of summers past…
Remember back in the day, when the long school holidays started, and weeks and weeks of sunshine stretched in front of us, and we had nothing to do but play – and read? Remember building caterpiller zoos in jam jars, and catching bees (to the horror of our mothers…) and letting them go again? And…
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Let’s play book bingo!
…and here’s our bingo card. (Thank you Cleo Bannister for another great blog idea!) In my version, they’re all books I’ve read. We start top left: A book with more than 500 pages: I tend to stick to shorter books, as I don’t have much reading time, but several of Elizabeth George’s books are this…
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The complete Fifty Shades…
… of being published. Your life is never the same again. Whether you’re an indie writer publishing your own work, or have a traditionally published book, when you pass the point of no return – in my case, signing on the dotted line – you are a different person. And as soon as your book…
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