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  1. georginaK

    Review Books you love

    I’ve raced through my stack of books and need some recommendations! My preferred genre is novels: recent favorites that I highly recommend are Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens, Sing Unburied Sing by Jesmyn Ward, and Spill Simmer Falter Wither by Sara Baume. All three of these use language...
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    • authors books favorite reading recommendations
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    • Forum: Café Life
  2. Katie-Ellen

    Podcast: The M Word (Book Marketing)

    Further to recent excellent insights via @Carol Rose Received as email, free sign up. The M Word
  3. Katie-Ellen

    Beautiful dust jackets and a bit of book history

    Further to a recent discussion of contemporary book jaceket designs, this link from second hand bookseller Abe Books features original vintage jackets. Any faves?
  4. Katie-Ellen

    Paperback Heroes

    Last night UK BBC 4 at 9 PM....'Paperback Heroes 'with Andrew Marr. What makes a paperback compulsive reading? Last night they looked at the detective story. Val McDermid was on to Jimmy Savile and put him in a novel...disguised by being handsome and charming or he might have recognised himself...
  5. Katie-Ellen

    Podcast: How To Write a London Novel

    PODCAST With Will Self and other London writers. Ben Aaronovitch could get a mention. Reviewers who say they don't read fantasy have also said they have read Rivers of London for his wonderful portraiture of streets they know: London Books are big business, and London's open for Business...
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    • @gw3 aaronovitch books gollancz literature litopia london peter cox sadiq khan writers
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    • Forum: Café Life
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