Hear me speak about British Library Women Writers
Next Wednesday, at 7pm, I’m delighted to say I’ll be chatting with Gill at Lindum Books about the British Library Women Writers series. Lindum Books is based on Lincoln – but, of course, the event will...
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Announcing two new British Library Women Writers titles!
As it’s International Women’s Day, the British Library publishing team have been putting an especial focus on the Women Writers series today – hurrah! And that has culminated in unveiling the next two...
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Two-Part Invention by Madeleine L’Engle
Ever since I read Claire’s review of Two-Part Invention by Madeleine L’Engle (1988), I’ve been keen to read it. That was back in 2012, and I bought a copy while I was in Washington D.C. in 2015 – and...
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Brat Farrar by Josephine Tey
My old housemate, and dear friend, Kirsty has three abiding passions: dogs, lexicography, and talking about how great Josephine Tey is. It was she who gave me a copy of Brat Farrar (1949) last year, as...
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Things That Fall From the Sky by Selja Ahava – EUPL
The team behind the European Prize for Literature (EUPL) got in touch to ask if I’d highlight some of the winners of the prize over the past few years, and I was really interested in exploring the list...
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Tea or Books? #94: Do We Care Where Authors Live? and Dusty Answer vs Frost...
Rosamond Lehmann, Antonia White, and authors’ houses – welcome to episode 94! https://www.stuckinabook.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/tea-or-books-episode-94.mp3 In the first half of this episode, we...
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#1936Club: Reminder!
It’s now less than two weeks until the next club year, where Karen and I encourage everybody to read books published in the same year. I’ve lost track but we’ve done LOADS of them. This time – it’s...
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The Great Victorian Collection by Brian Moore
2021 is 100 years since the novelist Brian Moore was born – and 22 since he died – and Cathy at 746 Books is helping lead a year of celebrations in the blogging world. You can read the details of that...
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#1936Club – links round-up
I’m very excited that the 1936 Club starts tomorrow – a week, run by me and Karen, where we invite everyone to read and review books published in 1936. It’s definitely been a bumper year of choices for...
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Miss Linsey and Pa by Stella Gibbons – #1936club
Lots of Stella Gibbons’ novels have come back into print in recent years – from Vintage and from Dean Street Press – but Miss Linsey and Pa (1936) has been notably missing from their lists. Having...
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Thirteen Guests by J. Jefferson Farjeon – #1936Club
There are a whole bunch of British Library Crime Classics from 1936, and I have quite a few of them on my shelves. Which to choose? Murder in Piccadilly, The Sussex Downs Murder, and The Santa Klaus...
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The Enchanted Voyage by Robert Nathan – #1936Club
Reading Robert Nathan is one of the relatively rare times when I know what it must be like to be an Anglophile-bibliophile outside of the UK. His books are pretty easy to stumble across in the US and...
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Laughing Gas by P.G. Wodehouse – #1936Club
When I wrote about Strange Journey by Maud Cairnes, a body-swap comedy, I was wondering which others there were. Malie and Constance both mentioned Laughing Gas by P.G. Wodehouse which, as luck would...
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Little G by E.M. Channon – #1936Club
Little G is a terrible title but rather a lovely book. It is a 1936 title from E.M. Channon who is apparently well-known as a children’s writer and a detective novelist – this was one of her few adult...
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Begin Again by Ursula Orange – #1936Club
Of all the authors Scott at Furrowed Middlebrow has talked about over the years, Ursula Orange is the one who appealed most. So it was very exciting when he got three of her novels reprinted through...
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Two final #1936Club titles
I’ve never read more books for a club year – for the first time, I’ve read more than there are days in the club week. (Or, indeed, in any week.) So I’m going to double up with a couple of reads that I...
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Announcing the next club!
What a fun week it has been! The 1936 Club has been so fruitful – fascinating to see what the world was reading on the cusp of war, and what variety there is, as always. For the next club in October,...
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Tea or Books? #95: Woolf vs Austen and The Foolish Gentlewoman vs The...
Jane Austen, Virginia Woolf, Margery Sharp, Helen Ashton – welcome to episode 95. https://www.stuckinabook.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/tea-or-books-episode-95.mp3 In the first half, we take a detour...
View ArticleBookTube Spin #2: My List
You might remember Rick MacDonnell’s BookTube Spin earlier in the year – in brief, make a list of 20 books you want to read – he’ll get a random number from one to twenty, and you have a couple months...
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The Unexpected Professor by John Carey
My friends Lorna and Will gave me a copy of The Unexpected Professor by John Carey in 2014, the year it came out – fast forward seven years and its time has finally come. I took it away on holiday with...
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