Debut novelist, Madeline Miller was announced the surprise winner of Orange’s coveted fiction prize for 2012 last night. Her novel The Song of Achilles was the fourth consecutive title from…
The Queen of Teen award honours those authors that make teenage girls squeal in a none ‘Edward Cullen’ sort of way. Young Adult (or YA) fiction has become the ultimate…
Happy 448th birthday of everyone’s favourite playwright, poet and quote generator, William Shakespeare! Of course its regarded as his birthday but that may just be a neat trick orchestrated by…
Although I assure that most of the time you’ll find me reading your typical ‘boring’, ‘worthy’ books that grace the coffee tables of pretentious people sometimes I like to distract myself with…
As usual, I’m about a year too late. Although this book was published about a year ago being rather poverty stricken and normally having a pile of unread books waiting…
I choose the already over sold 200th birthday of one of Britain’s literary greats to announce the temporary retirement of this blog. I have always tried to maintain a steady…
I’ve come to the end of my twelve days of Christmas books and I cannot help but feel glad the way most people do when they realise they’ve come to…
A lot of Chris Van Allsburg’s literature gets adapted for the big screen including this, Jumanjii and Zathura making him of the most successful non-J.K.Rowling writers for children. This book,…
*Ok so it’s basically a review of It’s A Wonderful Life. Can you name twelve Christmas books you’ve read and can remember or can read in a day? The Great…
*For the record, I’m getting sick of doing this. I already explored the problem of gift giving to a loved one on Day 4 of this series of blogposts and…
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