On Being Brave with Cheryl Strayed, by Marion McGilvary
I’m one of the 943 women and maybe 6 men gathered in a hall in Westminster decorated with bible quot …
28 October 2016
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Scotland – The 1002nd Thing You Need to Know by Edwin Moore
The Declaration of Arbroath is a declaration of Scottish independence, made in 1320. It is in the fo …
27 October 2016
Why Cricket is a Beautiful Game by Mark Nicholas
‘Cricket is the most artistic of all games and, to me, the most beautiful. Thus, the title of this b …
19 October 2016
Not Just Another Book Blog
Welcome to our deep blue Atlantic world. Summer’s over and it’s back to school – or in our case, bac …
10 September 2016
From Tony and Susan to Nocturnal Animals
By any standards, Tony and Susan was definitely something of a slow bloomer. The book was author Au …
10 September 2016
Chris Beckett on Daughter of Eden
Chris Beckett – the writer of simply beautiful fiction and the prize-winning author of the Arthur C …
5 September 2016
The Man Who Spoke Snakish and The Women Who Loved Bears
What a book. Think ‘Game of Thorns’, rather than ‘Thrones’, with talking animals, wars, battles, fr …
1 September 2016
Marion McGilvary on Cheryl Strayed & Tiny Beautiful Things
Cheryl Strayed’s uncompromising, in-your-face ‘live your own truth’, ‘honour the universe’, hippy-di …
18 August 2016
‘No More Betrayal’ Sofi Oksanen on Putin
Reprinted here by permission of House of Anansi and Groundwood Books Russia’s annexation of Crimea, …
18 July 2016
The Joy of Independence by Lauren Finger
An editor speaks… This is my thirteenth year in publishing, and I have spent most of that working …
19 May 2016
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