Roald Dahl

World Book Night 2014 Books Announced

26 November 2013 by Louise Leave a Comment

The last year has certainly passed by in a flash. It seems only a couple of weeks since I was giving out copies of The No1 Ladies Detective Agency for World Book Night 2013 and now the list of books for World Book Night 2014 has been released. It’s an interesting list…

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Top Ten: Books To Read This Summer

25 May 2012 by Louise Leave a Comment

One of my New Year’s resolutions this year was to read at least 75 books, that works out at about one and a half a week and it seemed perfectly achievable. But unfortunately I’m not quite keeping up to speed…

Filed Under: Top 10 Tagged With: Asa Larsson, Assassin's Apprentice, Booker Prize, Bram Stoker, City of Veils, Dennis Avey, Dracula, From Dictatorship to Democracy, Gene Sharp, Holocaust, Let The Right One In, Matilda, Orange Prize, Patrick DeWitt, Raindance, Roald Dahl, Robin Hobb, Scandinavian crime, Tea Obrecht, The Man who Broke into Auschwitz, The Sisters Brothers, The Tiger's WIfe, Trudi Canavan

The BFG

2 November 2011 by Louise Leave a Comment

An ongoing bone of contention in a couple of the #BookTwub discussions has been the feud between fans of Enid Blyton and Roald Dahl as to which is the greatest children’s author. One week Blyton came out on top but the following week Dahl triumphed…

Filed Under: Books Tagged With: Big Friendly Giant, children's books, Enid Blyton, giants, Malory Towers, Roald Dahl, Secret Seven, The BFG, The Famous Five, The Queen

#BookTwub Review – 27 October 2011

28 October 2011 by Louise Leave a Comment

It was a quiet old night for the #BookTwub. Most people hadn’t read the chosen book Cutting for Stone and so discussion on that was fairly limited. Those who had read it liked it and would recommend to friends, my review is here. I thoroughly enjoyed it….

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#BookTwub Review – 20 October 2011

25 October 2011 by Louise Leave a Comment

Another Thursday and another #BookTwub chat on Twitter. The fallout from last week’s Roald Dahl/Enid Blyton feud continued. This week though there were more boys taking part in the discussion so Dahl topped the poll. If I counted all of the votes that came in the following day…. Dahl would still have won…

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World Book Night 2012

25 October 2011 by Louise Leave a Comment

World Book Night is an opportunity for those of us who love books to share our passion with those who may not be such big reading fans. In just one night 1 million books are distributed by over 20,000 ‘givers’ – a great celebration of adult literature..

Filed Under: Book News Tagged With: A Tale of Two Cities, Andrea Levy, Audrey Niffenegger, Bernard Cornwell, Bill Bryson, Charles Dickens, Cormac McCarthy, Daphne du Maurier, David Peace, Dodie Smith, Emma Donoghue, free books, giveaways, Good Omens, Harlequin, How I Live Now, I Capture The Castle, Iain M Banks, Jane Austen, Joe Simpson, John Ajvide Lindqvist, Kazuo Ishiguro, Let The Right One In, Maggie O'Farrell, Mark Billingham, Markus Zusak, Martina Cole, Meg Rosoff, Misery, Neil Gaiman, Notes from a Small Island, Paulo Coehlo, Pride and Prejudice, Rebecca, Roald Dahl, Room, Sleepyhead, Small Island, Someone Like You, Sophie Kinsella, Stephen King, Terry Pratchett, The Alchemist, The Book Thief, The Damned United, The Player of Games, The Remains of the Day, The Road, The Secret Dreamworld of a Shopaholic, The Take, The Time Traveler's Wife, The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox, Touching the Void, World Book Night

The Collected Short Stories of Roald Dahl

24 October 2011 by Louise Leave a Comment

This entry is part 1 of 12 in the series Hallowe'en Horror Week

I know what you’re thinking. This is horror week – what is a classic children’s writer like Roald Dahl doing here? The BFG wasn’t that scary…. True, but one of the most terrifying things in life is the thought of what humans can do…

Filed Under: Books Tagged With: Lamb to the Slaughter, Roald Dahl, short stories, The BFG, The Collected Short Stories of Roald Dahl, The Landlady, The Last Act, William and Mary

#BookTwub Review – 13 October 2011

18 October 2011 by Louise Leave a Comment

I recently launched #BookTwub, a new Twitter book club. We meet on Thursday nights at 8pm and chat for between an hour and an hour and a half. Once a month we discuss a specific book and in the other weeks we talk generally about books. The number of people joining in each week is growing rapidly – virtually doubling every week…

Filed Under: Book Twub Tagged With: #booktwub, A Week In December, Abraham Verghese, book groups, Cool Hand Luke, Cutting for Stone, discussion, Enid Blyton, Roald Dahl, Sebastian Faulks, Terry Pratchett, Twitter