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White Spines by Nicholas Royle
About a minute after reading Susan’s review of White Spines by Nicholas Royle, I had ordered my copy – directly from the publisher Salt, which perhaps explains why it came with a surprise author...
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Tea or Books? #98: Nature Writing (yes or no) and Favourite Women Prize Winners
Nature writing and some favourite novels by prizewinning women – welcome to episode 98! https://www.stuckinabook.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/tea-or-books-episode-98.mp3 As mentioned in the podcast –...
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British Library Women Writers #9: Mamma by Diana Tutton
Two new British Library Women Writers titles are out YESTERDAY in the UK – Sally on the Rocks by Winifred Boggs and The Love Child by Edith Olivier, which are both up there among my favourites in the...
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Specimen Days by Michael Cunningham
If you click that ‘Cunningham’ tag above, you’ll see how much I love his writing. He is one of my favourite living writers, and I am getting unsettlingly close to having read everything he has...
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The Warning Bell by Lynne Reid Banks
The L-Shaped Room is one of my favourite novels, and I’ve read it and its sequels quite often over the years – but have read oddly little of Lynne Reid Banks’ other novels since a brief spate about...
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British Library Women Writers #10: Sally on the Rocks by Winifred Boggs
It’s less than a year since I first blogged about Sally on the Rocks here (though I read it earlier in 2020, and only blogged after my re-read) – and here we are, it’s the tenth book published in the...
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1976 Club: Post your reviews here! #1976Club
The 1976 Club is here! It’s time for the bi-annual event where Karen and I ask readers across the internet to join together to build up a picture of a particular year in books. This week, we’re asking...
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The Doctor’s Wife by Brian Moore – #1976Club
Sheila Redden has come to France to celebrate her anniversary with Kevin, the doctor of the title. She has come ahead of him, as he has been caught up with work – and they’ve returned to the place...
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Bear by Marian Engel – #1976Club
Some bloggers and books are inextricably linked. Someone talks about a book with such passion, and perhaps often, that they and the book become united. I think that’s probably true of me and Miss...
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Blaming by Elizabeth Taylor – #1976Club
Blaming was Elizabeth Taylor’s final novel, written while she knew she was dying – and death and mourning are very much at the heart of the book. It opens with Amy and Nick on a cruise. It is to...
View ArticleTwo unsuccessful #1976Club reads…
I’ll finish off my reviews for the week with a couple of 1976 books that I didn’t really like or dislike. Both had pluses and minuses, but were really just mediocre [in my opinion] and so I shan’t say...
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1976 Club: Review Round-Up
It’s been another great week of seeing lots of reviews crop up across the blogosphere – thank you everyone for joining in. I haven’t read all the contributions yet, but will make sure to do so. And...
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Announcing the next club…
The 1976 Club has been great fun – and you only have to wait six months until we do it all again. After some discussion, Karen and I have nominated 1954 Club for next time. I don’t know about you, but...
View ArticleSome books I’ve got recently…
This is sort of a haul post, but the books have come from quite a lot of different places on many different occasions over the past month or so. I’ve decided to do Project 24 next year – where I only...
View ArticleI got to be a guest on Backlisted!
If you read my blog, I’m almost certain you already know about the Backlisted podcast. ‘Giving new life to old books’ is their tagline, and Andy and John (and editor/producer Nicky) do a wonderful job...
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Anne Severn and the Fieldings by May Sinclair
It’s not the first time I’ve said it, but there is always such a sense of achievement in reading a book that has been on the shelves for a long time. Particularly if it turns out to be a good’un. I...
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None-Go-By by Mrs Alfred Sidgwick
In Mrs Alfred Sidgwick’s 1923 novel, None-Go-By is the fanciful title of the Cornish cottage that Mary and Thomas decide to move to, to escape the hustle and bustle of relatives, friends and...
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British Library Women Writers 11: The Love Child by Edith Olivier
When the British Library Women Writers series was first suggested, one of the titles I thought about first was The Love Child (1927) by Edith Olivier. Not only is it one of my favourite novels, –...
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K is for Kingsolver
This is part of an ongoing series where I write about a different author for each letter of the alphabet. You can see them all here. I don’t have a lot of candidates for ‘K’ in the alphabet, though...
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Small Wonder: Essays by Barbara Kingsolver
As mentioned in my previous post, I’ve just read Small Wonder, a collection of essays by Barbara Kingsolver published in 2002, some or all of them gathered from the places they’d been published in the...
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