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• Two Graphic Novels: Everything is Teeth and The Gigantic Beard That Was Evil

  23 Mar, 2016 - 12:03 pm

  The experience of reading a graphic novel is very different to that of reading a text-based one, but I think it is well worth exploring this genre. The illustrations add a different dimension to everything and allow a humorous undercurrent to develop next to the serious subject matter. Everything...

• His Whole Life by Elizabeth Hay

  11 Mar, 2016 - 10:00 am

   Source: Free review copy received from publisher Five words from the blurb: boy, dog, family, Ontario, journey Elizabeth Hay is an author I’ve heard mentioned many times. She won the Giller Prize in 2007 for Late Nights on Air and her name always crops up if you talk about Canadian literature...

• Books in Brief: Unravelling Oliver, When the Floods Came and Meatspace

  02 Mar, 2016 - 07:27 am

  Source: Library Unravelling Oliver by Liz Nugent Five words from the blurb: attacks, wife, secrets, stories, past Unravelling Oliver is a fast-paced whydunit revolving around Oliver, a man who attacked his wife so severally she ended up in a coma. Each chapter is written from the perspective of a...

• Recent Summary and Plans for March

  29 Feb, 2016 - 08:37 am

  I’ve had a stressful few months, but things are beginning to fall into place and I’m starting to read again. We’ve found a beautiful old house in Worcestershire and now have to wait patiently until we find a buyer for our current property – when I’m sure everything will become manic...

• Counting Sheep by Philip Walling

  25 Feb, 2016 - 04:34 am

   Source: Library Five words from the blurb: British, countryside, history, farmers, change Counting Sheep is one of those rare books with the power to interest the reader in a subject of which they previously had little knowledge. The book gives a complete history of sheep in Britain, explaining...