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Top Ten: 2013 Reads (so far…)

28 June 2013 by Louise 2 Comments

Last week I wrote about my Top Ten Films of 2013 (so far), now it’s time for my Top Ten Reads. Unlike the films list this one isn’t confined to books released this year. I hardly ever read books in the year that they are first published, partly because of the cost of hardback books compared to their paperback counterparts…

Filed Under: Top 10 Tagged With: Alfie, Alfie Boe, Astray, Attack of the Unsinkable Rubber Ducks, autobiographies, Christopher Brookmyre, Clare Balding, Emma Donoghue, Jackie Kay, Jojo Moyes, Jonas Jonasson, Kate Winslet, Leonardo DiCaprio, Martina Cole, Me Before You, memoirs, Michael Wombat, My Animals and Other Family, Nigel Farndale, Red Dust Road, Revolutionary Road, Richard Yates, Room, short stories, The Blasphemer, The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out of the Window and Disappeared, Two Women, Warren Peace

Astray

18 June 2013 by Louise Leave a Comment

One of the best books that I’ve read in the last couple of years was Emma Donoghue’s amazing Booker nominated Room – the story of a young woman kidnapped and imprisoned and her son, a child has only ever known life in one small room. I adored the book…

Filed Under: Books Tagged With: Astray, Emma Donoghue, Room, short stories, short story collections

Galaxy National Book Awards Announced

5 November 2011 by Louise Leave a Comment

A star-studded ceremony at the Mandarin Oriental in London last night saw the winners of the Galaxy National Book Awards crowned. Celebrating the best in British books and writing, the list of winners contains something for every reader and has some great ideas for Christmas presents. The winners are….

Filed Under: Book News Tagged With: A Monster Calls, A Tiny Bit Marvellous, A Visit From the Goon Squad, Alan Hollinghurst, Before I Go To Sleep, Caitlin Moran, Charles Dickens, Claire Tomalin, Dawn French, Emma Donoghue, Galaxy Book Awards, Galaxy National Book Awards, How To Be A Woman, Jennifer Egan, literary prizes, Louisa Young, My Dear I Wanted To Tell You, Outstanding Achievement Award Jackie Collins, Patrick Ness, Room, S J Watson, Sarah Winman, Simon Hopkinson, The Good Cook, The Stranger’s Child, When God Was A Rabbit

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

Room

18 August 2011 by Louise Leave a Comment

The harrowing story of a child born into horror

Like lots of people there’s part of me that believes that I could write a best-selling novel. I read the papers or watch the news and get inspiration for stories but I never actually seem to get anywhere with writing them. That wasn’t the case for novelist Emma Donoghue ….

Filed Under: Books Tagged With: Elizabeth Fritzl, Emma Donoghue, Jaycee Lee Dugard, Man Booker Prize, Natasha Kampusch, news, real-life inspiration, Room