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Review of ‘Chrysalis’ by Harrison Murphy

11/03/2023 nsford Leave a comment

A sophisticated dystopian / conspiracy thriller which was horribly plausible. Some of it is set only a decade in the…

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Posted in: Book Reviews Filed under: books, dystopias, fiction, Harrison Murphy, reviews

Review of ‘Swing Time’ by Zadie Smith

18/02/2023 nsford 3 Comments

A complex, thought-provoking novel which kept me reading on, despite being nearly 500 pages and tending towards giant paragraphs! The…

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Posted in: Book Reviews Filed under: books, fiction, reviews, Zadie Smith

Do you read romance?

14/02/2023 nsford 6 Comments

Romance is one of the most popular genres of fiction and yet I have never been able to get into…

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Posted in: Reading Filed under: books, fiction, reading, romance, Valentine's Day

Review of ‘People Person’ by Candice Carty-Williams

03/01/2023 nsford Leave a comment

I had mixed feelings about Carty-Williams’ debut Queenie but I was interested to read her next book. I think it’s…

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Posted in: Book Reviews Filed under: books, Candice Carty-Williams, fiction, reviews

Review of ‘The Butterfly Christmas’ by William McDonald

23/12/2022 nsford Leave a comment

A beautifully-written novel about grief, hope and miracles. It had the feel of a Christmas movie but on the right…

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Posted in: Book Reviews Filed under: books, Christmas, fiction, reviews, William McDonald

What I was reading 5 years ago

15/12/2022 nsford Leave a comment

In 2017, I read 104 books, which is more like my average. Considering that I had a lot going on…

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Posted in: Reading Filed under: books, fiction, non-fiction, reading, YA fiction

Film of the book: ‘Little Women’ (1994)

09/12/2022 nsford 6 Comments

This is a lovely and spirited adaptation of Louisa May Alcott’s classic novel, directed by Gillian Armstrong with a screenplay…

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Posted in: Film & TV Filed under: books, children's fiction, classics, fiction, films, Louisa May Alcott, reviews

Review of ‘Breathless’ by Amy McCulloch

08/12/2022 nsford Leave a comment

An ice-cold thriller set on the eighth-highest mountain in the world, Manaslu in Nepal. It didn’t encourage me to go…

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Posted in: Book Reviews Filed under: Amy McCulloch, books, fiction, reviews, thrillers

Review of ‘How Green Was My Valley’ by Richard Llewellyn

03/12/2022 nsford 4 Comments

This classic novel was first published in 1939. I hadn’t read it before, although I’d heard of it. I wasn’t…

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Posted in: Book Reviews Filed under: books, classics, fiction, reviews, Richard Llewellyn

Review of ‘Passing’ by Nella Larsen

24/11/2022 nsford 2 Comments

I’m glad I finally got around to reading this short classic of the 1920s-30s Harlem Renaissance. It’s quite an intense…

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Posted in: Book Reviews Filed under: books, classics, fiction, Nella Larsen, reviews

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