…very silly traditional Welsh costume (it included a bonnet – I’m not kidding), wearing leeks and daffodils, and taking part in some Welsh folk dancing. Today though, I think I…

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Ever since I wrote a blog confessing that I just didn’t understand the acclaim for Jack Kerouac’s On the Road (which, by the way, my brother was scandalised at –…

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…finished (Anna Karenina took me weeks and On Chesil Beach a couple of days). So now I’m itching for some more new books – here are a few I really…

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…I found this book at the bottom of the box, I couldn’t help but smile. That one is definitely going on Rowan’s to-read pile! Sophie Robinson, Editorial Administrator Recommend This:…

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…Longfellow associates snow with grief; in his poem Snow-Flakes, snow is ‘the secret of despair’ – in snowfall ‘The troubled sky reveals / The grief it feels’. Emily Dickinson, in…

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…creature . . . There’s even the opportunity for you to dress up and have your photograph taken – who would you dress up as? Sophie, Editorial Administrator. Recommend This:…

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…has had great success and brilliant reviews – in case you haven’t heard of it, it’s the frank, moving, and (I hear) sometimes funny story of a boy born with…

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…recommend some of my favourite reads for autumn – books with a bit of mystery, suspense and Gothicism to match the oncoming gloomy weather… Sara Magness, Editorial Administrator Recommend This:…

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…of my favourite posters here, so you can all enjoy their 140-character words of wisdom. This week’s Twitter Favourite has another literary theme – it’s Professor Severus Snape, Potions Master…

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…J.K Rowling’s book in a tower and play Harry Potter Jenga! What would you do if you were shut in a bookshop for a night? Sophie, Editorial Administrator Recommend This:…

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    Winner of The SAHR Prize for Military Fiction.   September 1810. British forces have used the utmost secrecy and stealth to cross the Straits of Messina and infiltrate…

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  Following a personal tragedy, florist Persimmon ‘Simmy’ Brown has moved to the beautiful region of the Lake District. The peace she is searching for is quickly disturbed as a…

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It is 1932 and the remains of a young American are found in a former battlefield in France. The autopsy proves the body is that of missing cartographer Michael Clifton,…

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…Luc and Lisette hadn’t counted on was meeting each other. Who, if anyone, can be trusted – and will their own emotions become the greatest betrayers of all? Recommend This:…

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London, 1933. Some two months after an Indian woman, Usha Pramal, is found murdered in the brackish water of a south-London canal, her brother, newly arrived in England, turns to…

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As undertaker Drew Slocombe drove to Greta Simmonds’ burial in Broad Campden, deep in the heart of the Cotswolds, thoughts of his troubles at home and at work played on…

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It is 1910 and life in Wiltshire is far from pleasant for Mattie Willitt and her sisters. Bullied by her stepfather, who attempts to force her into an unwelcome marriage,…

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…countryside, and a local woman is reported missing, Rose finds herself suddenly caught at the centre of a police investigation. With so many people who trust her, Rose is –…

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  1917. The Lotus Hotel offers sanctuary for its exclusively female clientele, attracting the cream of London’s society. But a dead body found in one of its rooms is hardly…

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…lavish wedding parties unfold, the Binats wait breathlessly to see if Jena will land a proposal – and Alys begins to realise that Darsee’s manner may hide a very different…

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…taking place in full view of the world’   In his long-awaited and provocative new book, George Friedman turns his eye on the future – offering a lucid, highly readable…

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