Review: Big Sky River by Linda Lael Miller

With a fair chunk of romance novels under my belt now, I’ve developed a few tentative hypotheses…

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Writing, place and Anthony Doerr’s Four Seasons in Rome

About a fifth of the way through his travel memoir Four Seasons in Rome Anthony Doerr steps…

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Little to redeem it: DBC Pierre’s Vernon God Little

(contains spoilers, but really, in doing so I’m saving you from having to read this book.)

I’ve…

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Baked beans, flashbacks and The Self-Preservation Society by Kate Harrison

As we speak my mother-in-law is planning for the apocalypse. Or, at least, three days’ worth of…

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The moral of the story? Children are freaky.