The Bees – Laline Paull
For someone who always bangs on about how much they dislike horses in fiction, as I am so suspicious of them in real life, you might think I am not a lover of nature. Actually I am a bit of a nature...
View ArticleA Wild Swan and Other Tales – Michael Cunningham
“And then what?” How many times have we been asked that by a small child or indeed remember asking it as a small child ourselves? Yet when we are young and are first read fairy tales you never ask that...
View ArticleDear Ijeawele, Or A Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions – Chimamanda...
As if the Baileys Women’s Prize for Fiction longlist wasn’t enough for you today there is also the release of a new Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie book. No, not the novel that we have all been waiting so...
View ArticleThe Sport of Kings – C.E. Morgan
Those of you who have visited this blog for some time (it will be ten years old this year which seems madness) will know that I have a slight aversion to horses both in real life and in fiction. So...
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