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Film of the book: ‘Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children’ (2016)

09/02/2021 nsford 2 Comments

I had mixed feelings when I read Ransom Riggs’ book but I was interested to see what Tim Burton did…

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Posted in: Film & TV Filed under: books, fiction, films, Ransom Riggs, reviews, YA fiction

Review of ‘Stormchaser’ by Paul Stewart and Chris Riddell

07/02/2021 nsford 2 Comments

The sequel to Beyond the Deepwoods and the second published book in the Edge Chronicles series, Stormchaser is very exciting…

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Posted in: Book Reviews Filed under: books, children's fiction, Chris Riddell, Paul Stewart, reviews, YA fiction

Review of ‘Jane Eyre’ by Charlotte Brontë

05/02/2021 nsford 17 Comments

I’ve read this book so many times, it’s like an old friend. It’s difficult to know what to say about…

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Posted in: Book Reviews Filed under: books, Charlotte Brontë, fiction, reading, reviews

Review of ‘Monkey King: Journey to the West’ by Wu Cheng’en

03/02/2021 nsford 9 Comments

I knew nothing about this 16th century Chinese classic before reading, so it was quite an adventure for me. A…

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Posted in: Book Reviews Filed under: books, fiction, reviews, translations, Wu Cheng'en

The time-travelling bookworm: ‘2061: Odyssey Three’ by Arthur C Clarke

01/02/2021 nsford 2 Comments

The sequel to the magnificent 2001 and the excellent 2010, the third instalment in Arthur C Clarke’s series was a…

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Posted in: Reading Filed under: Arthur C Clarke, books, fiction, reading

Let’s go read a book: a poem

30/01/2021 nsford 11 Comments

Weather’s bad, the news is bleak, It’s been a bloody awful week, So fed up you can barely speak… Let’s…

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Posted in: Poetry, Writing Filed under: poetry, writing

Review of ‘Entangled Life’ by Melvin Sheldrake

28/01/2021 nsford 4 Comments

I was hoping that this book would put the ‘fun’ in ‘fungi’. The subject is so fascinating but unfortunately I…

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Posted in: Book Reviews Filed under: books, Merlin Sheldrake, non-fiction, reviews

Review of ‘Girl A’ by Abigail Dean

26/01/2021 nsford 12 Comments

This is a disturbing novel about a girl who survived terrible abuse in a ‘house of ‘horrors’ and as an…

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Posted in: Book Reviews Filed under: Abigail Dean, books, fiction, reviews

On this day: Margaret begins her prison sentence

24/01/2021 nsford 2 Comments

24th January 1849. Margaret Cullinane, aged 30, was admitted to jail in Cork, Ireland, for stealing potatoes. Her sentence was…

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Posted in: Writing Filed under: history, research, resources, writing

Why I re-read books

23/01/2021 nsford 26 Comments

There are millions of books out there which I haven’t read. Lately I’ve been re-reading more than usual, with the…

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Posted in: Reading Filed under: books, reading

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