Springsteen: Deliver me from Nowhere
Slim pickings at this year’s London Film Festival. We struggled with the appalling BFI website, spending many hours lost in its labyrinthine highways and byways, before finally managing to acquire tickets for just two films: Hamnet, directed by Chloe Zhao, and Springsteen: Deliver me from nowhere, directed by Scott Cooper. Hamnet was a juicy treat - a wonderful book that deserved and got, a wonderful film, but it’s not released until January, so you’ll have to wait until then for the review.
Springsteen: Deliver me from Nowhere
Slim pickings at this year’s London Film Festival. We struggled with the appalling BFI website, spending many hours lost in its labyrinthine highways and byways, before finally managing to acquire tickets for just two films: Hamnet, directed by Chloe Zhao, and…
06.11.2025 20:06 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
All the deranged ones, one by one
15.09.2025 10:20 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Review of A Cold Wind Blows - reviewer Rebecca De Figueiredo - OnlineBookClub.org forums.onlinebookclub.org/viewtopic.ph...
A fabulous five star review!
26.08.2025 10:13 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
The Land in Winter – by Andrew Miller
I’ve always believed the hierarchy of fictional respectability is just another manifestation of keeping the oiks in their place. Like the concept of a fine palate when it comes to food, having good literary taste is a device to be able to confidently feel and express your own superiority over the lumpen masses. At the top of this pyramid of worth, sits Literary Fiction, smoking a fat cigar, and flicking the ash at the lower classes s/he straddles: reading group fiction, detective novels, romance, horror, sci fi, through an ever-multiplying collection of genres and subgenres, ending in the sludge of graphic novels and comics.
The latest novel by Andrew Miller, The Land In Winter, is a reminder that sometimes, literary fiction still matters
09.07.2025 18:21 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
At last! The Kindle version of A Cold Wind Blows is finally available. Click the link to buy and please leave a review. Book lovers, readers, teachers, book bloggers - please repost this and spread the word.
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03.07.2025 09:57 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
New books have arrived (apologies about the cough!) Check out these links to buy:
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21.06.2025 16:58 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
So pleased that The Safe Keep has finally been recognised with the award of the Women's prize for Fiction. Should have won the Booker too. Time for another airing of my review, tucked in amongst some other things I was reading at the time.
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16.06.2025 14:56 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Ripeness by Sarah Moss
What a lovely novel this is, from someone writing at the top of their game. Structurally and stylistically, it’s a treat, with alternating sections telling the stories of the same character, Edith, fifty years apart. The younger Edith tells her own story, in the first person, through the device of a lengthy letter to a child, to be read in the future, explaining the circumstances of the child’s birth and subsequent life.
A Review of Sarah Moss' latest novel , Ripeness. It will be the book of the Summer
05.06.2025 18:40 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Publication Day! Teachers, librarians, book folk, YA fantasy lovers ,writers - please repost!
30.05.2025 14:43 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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No problem! And to repeat, it’s a fab book.
02.05.2025 09:13 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Exciting news. The sequel to The Watcher and The Friend is published on May 30th by Burton Mayers Books. More to come , but here's a sneak look at the cover. A Cold Wind Blows #childrensbooks #writingcommunity
24.04.2025 19:01 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Writers! Unsure about the early drafts of your novel? Get a manuscript assessment here: www.fiverr.com/s/3845DEL
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23.04.2025 12:34 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
The brilliant Scarlett and Browne trilogy comes to an end, with an exciting adventure that’s thrilling and emotional in equal measure. Thanks. Jonathan Stroud- I’ll miss Scarlett and Albert. #writingcommunity #booksky
24.02.2025 20:54 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Big pants, small tortoises
14.02.2025 12:42 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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