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Monthly Archives: April 2015
Wellcome Trust Book Prize – winner announced 28th April 2015, and “The Iceberg: A Memoir” by Marion Coutts (2014) – book review
The 2015 winner of the perhaps not so well known “Wellcome Book Prize” has just been announced from its shortlist. Established all the way back in 1936, the Trust is the UK’s largest non-governmental source of funds for biomedical research, … Continue reading
Posted in Book Prizes, Book Reviews, Non-fiction
Tagged Andrea Gillies, Bill Bryson, book review, books, Do No Harm, Henry Marsh, Keeper: Living with Nancy, Marion Coutts, Mark Haddon, Rebecca Skloot, The Guardian, The Iceberg: A Memoir, The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, The Observer, Tom Lubbock, Wellcome Book Prize
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“Americanah” by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (2013) – book review
Not my first, but the third read from Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, and am hoping by the next review I will be able to confidently type her name without needing to double check each word before I write. Daft thought: this … Continue reading
“A Spell of Winter” by Helen Dunmore (1995) – book review
As well as her poetry, Helen Dunmore has so far written thirteen ‘grown up’ books and a whole bookshelf of children’s works, and in fact I first became aware of her when Offspring Number 2 fell in love with the Ingo … Continue reading
Posted in Book Reviews
Tagged A Spell of Winter, Baileys Prize, book review, books, Helen Dunmore
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BBC’s ‘The Big Read’ – the best loved novels of all time
‘There is nothing like a dame, Jane…with a lengthy book list’… ‘Hear, hear, Elizabeth…’ Thanks to Clare’s recent posting on A Little Blog of Books, I learnt that tonight is World Book Night, celebrating reading and sharing good reads with people … Continue reading
Posted in Book Lists, Reading Challenge
Tagged BBC's The Big Read, books, Daphne du Maurier, Middlemarch, Rebecca
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“The Children Act” by Ian McEwan (2014) – book review
Oops, broke my resolve and bought this latest slim tome at the airport, dropping my boy back off on his return ‘home’ (agh, dagger to heart) to university life – it’s always a very dangerous thing to buy even a … Continue reading
Pulitzer Prize 2015 – announced today 20th April
Last year the goose with the genuinely golden egg was “The Goldfinch”; just today the American prize has gone to Anthony Doerr for the greatly acclaimed “All The Light We Cannot See”, set in World War II and moving from … Continue reading
Posted in Book Prizes
Tagged All the Light We Cannot See, Anthony Doerr, books, Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, the goldfinch
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“Thérèse Raquin” by Émile Zola (1867) – book review
One of the few books I have read three times –first as a fairly impressionable student, then in my early far-flung thirties and now recently again once I reluctantly hit the 50 mark and the point of no return. I … Continue reading
Posted in Book Reviews
Tagged Alison Steadman, Au Bonheur des Dames, Émile Zola, book review, books, L'Oeuvre, Livres en français, Nana, Thérèse Raquin
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