Title: Halcyon Author: Rio Youers Publisher: Titan Books Purchase: Amazon UK*/Book Depository** It’s Day One of the Halcyon Blog Tour and we’re opening with something exciting! But first a bit about the book. Halcyon is a dark and disturbing book by Rio Youers. I was intrigued as it is not a dystopian novel as such – […]
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Happy Sunday everyone! In keeping with my theme from last Sunday, this week’s blog post is a review of another book looking at WWI and Armistice Day. On the 11th November 2018, it will be 100 years since Armistice Day – the day WWI came to an end. There are no veterans left to tell […]
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Welcome back! So, it has been a couple of weeks since I was at the Cheltenham Literature Festival but I am finally getting around to my posts about the festival, starting with the Raven Proof Party. For those of you who are not familiar with proof parties, broadly speaking, they are an opportunity to go […]
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Welcome back Today’s blog post is something a bit different. In three weeks time, it will be 11th November 2018 and marks the centenary of Armistice Day. It signifies the end of World War I (the eleventh hour, in the eleventh day of the eleventh month) and commemorates all of the lives lost during this […]
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Happy Wednesday everyone! Welcome back to WWW Wednesday. WWW Wednesday is a meme hosted by Sam over at Taking on a World of Words. As I didn’t post last week I am going to cover two weeks’ of books. I am planning to get back to regular posting so this should very much be a […]
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Title: Little Wise Wolf Author(s): Gijs van der Hammen, Hanneke Siemensma (Translated by Laura Watkinson) Genre: Children’s fiction (Age 4-7 years) Publisher: Book Island Publication date: Out now Review As usual, when the lovely Greet from Book Island dropped me an email asking me if I wanted copies of the latest publications I couldn’t respond fast […]
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Welcome! It’s been a week since my last post and in between, I’ve been incredibly busy. I’ve had two hectic day trips to Cheltenham Literature Festival and also had an intense week at work. I am flagging, to say the least, but looking forward to sharing my experiences of Cheltenham Literature Festival with you all. […]
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Happy Sunday everyone! Tomorrow I am off to Cheltenham Literature Festival for the first of two days (not consecutive) I’ll be spending there. I’m lucky enough to live just over an hour away by train (although going by the train prices it’s probably cheaper to get to Mars). Here I’m going to lay out my […]
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Happy Thursday! Earlier this week I was tagged by the super lovely Jo over at Online Blanket Fort (thank you, Jo!) and I have never seen this tag before! I am a NetGalley addict and love the questions featured so I am totally onboard with this tag. I hope you enjoy! The Rules Link back to […]
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Happy Wednesday everyone! Welcome to the first WWW Wednesday of October! WWW Wednesday is a meme hosted by Sam over at Taking on a World of Words. I hope you enjoy and have a great week! What is WWW Wednesday? For WWW Wednesday you answer the following questions: What are you currently reading? What have […]
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