The Wicked Boy by Kate Summerscale — a Victorian crime célèbre
In The Wicked Boy, Kate Summerscale delves behind the headlines that gripped readers of British newspapers In the summer of
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Top Ten Tuesday: 10 Books to Mark Women In Translation Month
I’m going rogue with this week’s Top Ten topic. I’m meant to be listing “Books I Love That Were Written
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The Book of Memory by Petina Gappah — rewriting a life from prison
My first taste of Petina Gappah’s fiction came via her short story collection, An Elegy for Easterly. Though short stories
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In Celebration of Reading The Classics
The Classics Club is celebrating its 10th anniversary with a series of questions designed to tease out our experiences of reading classics. 1.
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Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury — can books survive?
Fahrenheit 451 was written almost seventy years ago but the issues it tackles are still frighteningly relevant today. Bradbury imagines
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