Desert Island Books: Daisy Alpert Florin
The campus novel against which all others are compared. I first read Prep when I was…
My Last Innocent Year by Daisy Alpert Florin
Enter R.H. Connelly: a once-famous poet and Isabel’s married writing professor, a man with secrets of…
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Together, Again by Milly Johnson | Book Review | #TogetherAgain
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Today’s #AuthorInTheSpotlight is Christopher Bowden in #publicationweek for Mr Magenta
The work in progress is publicising the new book. When the dust has settled, I’ll start…
My Life in Books: David Wade
On TikTok he is known for sunrise and sunset predicting and viral videos showcasing the colourful…
Six Degrees of Separation – Notes on a Scandal to Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf
The starting book this month is Notes on a Scandal by Zoe Heller in which a…
#AuthorInTheSpotlight Amy B Moreno | A Billion Balloons of Questions | @Amy_B_Moreno @florisbooks
What are you reading just now? Am I on the island on my own? In that…
John Fullerton – Q&A
In the first, ‘Spy Game’, he works a ‘contract labourer’ for British intelligence in Afghanistan and…
WWW Wednesday 4th October 2022 | #WWWWednesday #booktwitter #amreading
And yet this same Sancho will go on to tread the boards of London’s theatres, become…
Balancing the Books – September 2022
The very end of September saw me attend Capital Crime, a 3 day book festival celebrating…
On the First Day of Christmas by Faith Hogan | Blog Tour Extract | #OnTheFirstDayOfChristmas | @GerHogan @AriaFiction
A couple leaving the hospital with two babies in matching navy carry seats bustled by her….
The Edinburgh Skating Club by Michelle Sloan | #bookreview | @michlsloan @polygonbooks
I will looking at the painting of The Skating Minister much more closely the next time…
Desert Island Books: Emma Forrest
I’ll read anything by Guo – her work is so tender and graceful and ribboned with…
Wrong Place Wrong Time Book Review
Having more than one perspective also aided the mystery because there was a lot of information…
Discipline is Destiny by Ryan Holiday – extract
Ryan Holiday’s latest book, Discipline is Destiny, was published by Profile Books on 27 September 2022….
A Golden Cornish Summer by Phillipa Ashley | #bookreview | @PhillipaAshley @AvonBooksUK
Phillipa lives in an English village with her husband, has a grown-up daughter and loves nothing…
ShortBookandScribes #BookReview – Before the Crown by Flora Harding
Before the Crown is such an enjoyable read. I thought the characters were written perfectly and…