There was a time when I would read a book cover to cover whether I was enjoying it or not. It was as if I was obeying an unwritten rule …
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In our final post for 2019, Mary Burnham rounds up her favourites of the year. See you in 2020! It’s that time of year when so many people give books …
As the year comes to an end, I asked our regular bloggers to pick two books for 2019 — their favourite book published this year, and the best book from …
As the year comes to an end, I asked our regular bloggers to pick two books for 2019 — their favourite book published this year, and the best book from …
When Helen Carr of O’Brien Press approached me to write a book in a new children’s series called Great Irish Sports Stars, I was incredibly excited. It was to be …
… and to be entirely appropriate, Manners Maketh the Woman too! No, I am not being supercilious or patronising, but I do bemoan the death of basic manners. In everyday …
Amid a certain amount of consternation, Bernardine Evaristo shared this year’s Booker Prize with Margaret Atwood. It’s the third time in its history that two authors have shared this most …
I have a friend who is originally from the States and I recently told her that, of all the places in the USA, I’d love to visit Maine first. She …
The London Review of Books turned forty this year. For some twenty of those forty years I have been a subscriber—not just a subscriber, but the kind of fanatic who …
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