The Classics Club: Spin#43
February 4, 2026
it’s time for another round of the classic club spin and this time I’m hoping to get something from Wales or Ireland
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Reading Wales Month 2026 — The Countdown Begins
February 3, 2026
Reading Wales Month will be back for its ninth year in March, giving readers around the world a chance to celebrate literature from this Celtic nation. If you’ve ever wondered if there is more to Welsh writing than Dylan Thomas and Roald Dahl, then now is your chance to find out. The answer, of course, […]
The Silence In Between by Josie Ferguson — legacy of war
January 31, 2026
The Silence in Between was inspired by a true story of a mother separated from her baby when the border between West and East Berlin was closed in 1961. In Josie Ferguson’s version, the separation of mother and child is used as a jumping off point for a novel about the legacy of war and […]
What I’m Reading : Episode 62, January 2026
January 28, 2026
“What I’m Reading” is my contribution to the WWW Wednesday meme run by Sam from Taking On a World of Words. The Ws represent three questions: What I’m reading now I’m two thirds of the way through Human Acts by Han Kang, the book I selected as a result of my TBR Book Jar lucky […]
Top Ten Tuesday: New-To-Me Authors Discovered in 2025
January 27, 2026
For Top Ten Tuesday this week I’ve been refreshing my memory about the authors I read last year for the first time. There were 19 of them, but only some of them interested me enough to want to read more of their work. Here are my 10 most interesting discoveries. I’ve included links to the […]