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Month: Jun 2011

Challenge Writing Competition: 3rd Prize!

Very excited that my story The Swimmer has been awarded 3rd Prize in the 2011 Challenge Writing Competition judged by Professor Robert Winston! 

The three winning stories will be published on the website soon: http://www.challengewriting.co.uk/index.html

The competition was organised to raise funds for Women for Women (further details on the website).

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Past Posts

  • Post: Bookish Intentions for 2021
  • Review: Amari and the Night Brothers by B.B. Alston (2021) @bb_alston @egmontbooksuk @The_WriteReads #UltimateBlogTour
  • Review: The Unravelling of Maria by F J Curlew (2020)
  • Post: My Top Reads of 2020
  • Review: Understanding Children and Teens by Judy Bartkowiak (2020) @JudyBart @LiterallyPR @FAB_Publishing
  • Review: How the One-Armed Sister Sweeps Her House by Cherie Jones (2021)
  • Review: Forget Russia by L. Bordetsky-Williams (2020)
  • Review: Panenka by Ronan Hession (2021)
  • Review: Exit Management by Naomi Booth (2020)
  • November 2020 Reading: In The Sweep of the Bay; Everything Inside; Everything Is Fine; A Necessary Blessing; The Miseducation of Evie Epworth; Three Rival Sisters; The Servant; Cat Step; Exit Management; Panenka; Rebecca; Forget Russia
  • Review: Tomorrow Sex Will Be Good Again by Katherine Angel (2021)
  • Review: Cat Step by Alison Irvine (2020)
  • Review: The Servant by Maggie Richell-Davies (2020)
  • Review: Three Rival Sisters by Marie-Louise Gagneur translated by Anna Aitken and Polly Mackintosh
  • Review: The Miseducation of Evie Epworth by Matson Taylor (2020)
  • Review: A Necessary Blessing by Sarah Head (2020)
  • Review: In the Sweep of the Bay by Cath Barton (2020) @CathBarton1 @LouiseWalters12 @damppebbles #damppebblesblogtours #InTheSweepOfTheBay
  • Review: Everything Is Fine by Gillian Harvey (2020)
  • Review: The Doll Factory by Elizabeth Macneal (2019)
  • Review: Everything Inside by Edwidge Danticat (2019)
  • Review: I Am Not Your Baby Mother by Candice Brathwaite (2020)
  • Review: Sway by Pragya Agarwal (2020)
  • Review: Nudibranch by Irenosen Okojie (2019)
  • October 2020 Reading: The Same Ledge; PMSL; Bringing Up Race; Running the Orient; The Night of the Flood; Nudibranch; Sway; The Doll Factory; I Am Not Your Baby Mother; Tomorrow, Sex Will Be Good Again
  • Review: The Same Ledge by Daniel James (2020) #TheSameLedge @DanJamesWriting @damppebbles #damppebblesblogtours
  • Review: The Night of the Flood by Zoe Somerville (2020)
  • Review: Running the Orient by Gavin Boyter (2020)
  • Review: Bringing Up Race by Uju Asika (2020)
  • Info Post on Margate Bookie: The Friendly Litfest, and a Short Digression on Silver Linings
  • Review: Love Orange by Natasha Randall (2020)
  • Review: PMSL by Luce Brett (2020)
  • September 2020 Reading: The Girl From the Hermitage; A Girl Made of Air; Girl; Exercises in Control; The Secret of Creek Cottage; Should We Fall Behind; Love Orange; A Place Remote
  • September 2020 Reading: The Girl From the Hermitage; A Girl Made of Air; Girl; Exercises in Control; The Secret of Creek Cottage; Should We Fall Behind; Love Orange; A Place Remote
  • Review: A Place Remote by Gwen Goodkin (2020)
  • Review: Should We Fall Behind by Sharon Duggal (2020)
  • Review: The Girl From the Hermitage by Molly Gartland (2020) @molbobolly @rararesources @EyeAndLightning
  • Review: The Secret of Creek Cottage by Tina M Edwards (2020)
  • #SquadPod Boost: Let’s Hear It For…Louise Walters Books
  • Review: Exercises in Control by Annabel Banks (2020)
  • Review: A Girl Made of Air by Nydia Hetherington (2020)
  • Review: Girl by Maria Straw-Cinar (2020)
  • Review: Long Live the Post Horn! by Vigdis Hjorth translated by Charlotte Barslund (2020)
  • August 2020 Reading: Small Pleasures; Echo Hall; The Vanishing Half; A Different Drummer; The Naseby Horses; For When I’m Gone; Inside The Beautiful Inside; Long Live the Post Horn!
  • Review: Inside the Beautiful Inside by Emily Bullock (2020)
  • Review: #TheNasebyHorses by @DominicBrownlow (2020) @LouiseWalters12 @damppebbles #damppebblesblogtours
  • Review: For When I’m Gone by Rebecca Ley (2020)
  • Review: The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett (2020) and A Different Drummer by William Melvin Kelley (1962; republished 2018)
  • TBR Special: Eight #3rdSeptembers On My TBR List!
  • Review: Echo Hall by Virginia Moffatt (2017) #EchoHall @aroomofmyown1 @unbounders @damppebbles #damppebblesblogtours
  • Post: Bookshelf Nostalgia Part One
  • Review: Small Pleasures by Clare Chambers (2020)
  • July 2020 Reading: The Mercies; Tapestry; Dancers on the Shore; The Almost Mothers; Famished; Why I’m No Longer Talking to White People About Race; The Book of Cairo; The Familiars
  • Review: Famished by Anna Vaught (2020)
  • Review: Tapestry by Beth Duke (2020) @bethidee @damppebbles #damppebblesblogtours
  • Blog Tour: Champion by Stephen Deutsch (2020) – EXTRACT #Champion #StephenDeutsch @Bookollective @UnicornPubGroup
  • Review: Dancers on the Shore by William Melvin Kelley (1964; republished 2020)
  • Review: The Almost Mothers by Laura Besley (2020)
  • Review: Sea Wife by Amity Gaige (2020) @fleetreads #ReadFleet #SeaWife #SeaWifeTour
  • June 2020 Reading: The Sound Mirror; Sky Light Rain; Conjure Women; The Dressing-Up Box; The Distance From Four Points; Sea Wife; What’s Left of Me is Yours; How to Be an Antiracist
  • January to June 2020: The Big 50 List!
  • Short Stories: The Beggar Maid; Heads of the Colored People; You Will Never Be Forgotten; The Book Of Shanghai; Sky Light Rain; The Dressing-Up Box
  • Review: The Distance From Four Points by Margo Orlando Littell (2020)
  • Review: The Dressing-Up Box by David Constantine (2019)
  • Top Ten Reads of 2020 (So Far!)
  • Review: Conjure Women by Afia Atakora (2020)
  • Review: Sky Light Rain by Judy Darley (2019)
  • Review: The Sound Mirror by Heidi James (2020)
  • May 2020 Reading: Ordinary People; Watermarks; You Will Be Safe Here; Love Me To Death; This is Not a Book About Charles Darwin; Saving Lucia; What Doesn’t Kill You; I Wanted You to Know
  • Review: What Doesn’t Kill You by Elitsa Dermendzhiyska and Others (2020)
  • Review: Saving Lucia by Anna Vaught (2020)
  • PM Press Submission Call: New Crime, Thriller and Dystopian Fiction Imprint @PMPress1 @damppebbles
  • Review: Watermarks: Life, Death and Swimming by Lenka Janiurek (2020) #Watermarks @LenkaJ12 @AllisonandBusby @EmmaFinnigan @damppebbles #damppebblesblogtours
  • Review: You Will Be Safe Here by Damian Barr (2019)
  • April 2020 Reading: Girl, Woman, Other; The Truth Must Dazzle Gradually; We Are Animals; Leonard And Hungry Paul; You Will Never Be Forgotten; The Book of Shanghai; A Bookshop in Algiers; Silver Sparrow; The Silence And The Roar; The Codes of Love
  • Review: The Codes of Love by Hannah Persaud (2020)
  • COVER REVEAL: Midtown Huckster by Leopold Borstinski #MidtownHuckster @borstinski @damppebbles @DamppebblesBTs
  • Review: The Book of Shanghai, edited by Dai Congrong and Dr Jin Li (2020)
  • Review: You Will Never Be Forgotten by Mary South (2020)
  • Review: Leonard And Hungry Paul by Rónán Hession (2019)
  • Review: We Are Animals by Tim Ewins (2020)
  • Review: The Truth Must Dazzle Gradually by Helen Cullen (2020)
  • The Stay-at-Home! Literary Festival
  • Books Read So Far 2020
  • March 2020 Reading: The Silence of the Girls; Milkman; Spark; The Animals at Lockwood Manor; Middle England; Where the Crawdads Sing; Kilo; Finding Clara
  • Review: Kilo: Life and Death Inside the Secret World of the Cocaine Cartels by Toby Muse (2020) #Kilo @tobymuse @EburyPublishing @EmmaFinnegan @damppebbles #damppebblesblogtours
  • Review: Finding Clara by Anika Scott (2020)
  • Guest Post by Paul Hawkes: Reading List Top Ten
  • Review: The Animals at Lockwood Manor by Jane Healey (2020)
  • Review: Spark by Naoki Matayoshi, Translated by Alison Watts (2019)
  • February 2020 Reading: The Incendiaries; Freshwater; Motherhood; Tin Man; Melmoth; The Golden State; Crudo; Fruit of the Drunken Tree
  • Review: Upturned Earth by Karen Jennings (2019)
  • January 2020 Reading: Old Filth; The Beggar Maid; The Yacoubian Building; Lullaby; Flights; The Friend; Heads of the Colored People
  • 2019 Top Ten
  • Books Read in 2019
  • December 2019 Reading: Winesburg, Ohio; Cape May; Conversations With Friends; The Green Road; All My Puny Sorrows; Disobedience; Hope: A Tragedy; Late in the Day
  • November 2019 Reading: The Heart is a Lonely Hunter; Plainsong; Shotgun Lovesongs; Where All Light Tends To Go; The Whole Town’s Talking
  • October 2019 Reading: Our Town and Other Plays; Spoon River Anthology; The Waves
  • September 2019 Reading: The Overstory; The Art of Being Normal; What We Lose; My Year of Rest and Relaxation; The Great Believers; Multiple Choice; Her Body and Other Parties
  • August 2019 Reading: I’m Fine, But You Appear to Be Sinking; Something I’ve Been Meaning to Tell You; The Monsters of Templeton; Little Fires Everywhere
  • July 2019 Reading: Something Fierce; His Monkey Wife; The Girl on the Train; Washington Black; Solar; Sing, Unburied, Sing; You Are Having A Good Time
  • Review: A Pair of Sharp Eyes by Kat Armstrong (2019)
  • June 2019 Reading: Moonglow; The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas; The View from Castle Rock; Little Exiles
  • May 2019 Reading: Gingerbread; Arcadia; A Horse Walks into a Bar; Runaway; Delicate Edible Birds; The Buddha of Suburbia; All That Man Is
  • April 2019 Reading: Let the Great World Spin; The Outlander; Home Fire; Day; The Moons of Jupiter; Fates and Furies; Vinegar Girl
  • March 2019 Reading: There, There; The Largesse of the Sea Maiden; Warlight; The Toymakers; Lost Boy; A Man Called Ove; Eleanor Olifant is Completely Fine
  • February 2019 Reading: The Only Story, Bitter Orange, An American Marriage, Asymmetry, Feel Free, Florida, Immigrant, Montana, A Grain of Wheat
  • January 2019 Reading: Circe, The Needle’s Eye, See What Can Be Done, The Mars Room, Children of Blood and Bone, Gorilla, My Love
  • February 2014 Reading: Satantango, On Black Sisters’ Street, Pigeon English, Every Secret Thing
  • January 2014 Reading: Flight Behaviour, The Husband’s Secret, Tangled Lives, Bring Up The Bodies
  • Where Did 2013 Go?/December Reading
  • Happy New(ish) Year!
  • November 2012 Reading: The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay, Starter for Ten, The Mammoth Book of Nebula Awards SF, The Things We Did for Love, Mittee, Fingersmith
  • October 2012 Reading: A Life in Full and Other Stories, Room, The Secret Agent, Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell
  • September 2012 Reading: Affinity, Burger’s Daughter, Small Island, American Gods, Two in a Boat
  • August 2012 Reading: 1Q84 Book Three, Sabra Zoo, From the Mouth of the Whale, The Story of an African Farm, The Memory Keeper’s Daughter, The Song of Achilles, Tuesdays with Morrie, Quilt, Pedro Paramo
  • July 2012 Reading: Cannery Row, Sister, Afterwards, The King’s Last Song, Human Diastrophism, Freedom, Don’t Run,Whatever You Do, Fifty Shades Trilogy
  • June 2012 Reading: Ghosts and Lightning, The Stranger’s Child, 1Q84 Books 1 & 2, Eating Animals
  • May 2012 Reading: Tiny Sunbirds,Far Away, The Thing Around Your Neck, The Whore’s Asylum, Tipping the Velvet, Incredible Bodies, One World, Jawbreakers, Knockemstiff
  • April 2012 Reading: Remainder, Falling Man, Saturday, The Reluctant Fundamentalist
  • March 2012 Reading: Cloud Atlas, Diary of a Bad Year, Heartbreak Soup, Bristol Anthology Volume 3, 31
  • Books On Writing: Part One
  • February 2012 Reading: Diaries of a Dead African, The Night Watch, An Elegy for Easterly, GB84, Purple Hibiscus
  • January 2012 Reading: The Sea, On Beauty, Austerlitz, The Accidental
  • Happy 2012!
  • November and December 2011 Reading
  • October 2011 Reading: This is How, The Empty Family, The Sense of an Ending, Anagrams
  • September 2011 Reading: The Comforters, By Night in Chile, Mrs Dalloway, Madame Bovary, The Good Soldier
  • August 2011 Reading: The Blind Assassin, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, Norwegian Wood
  • Stylist Microfiction Competition
  • July 2011 Reading: Blood Meridian, Bill Bryson, Daisy Miller and Other Stories
  • June 2011 Reading: Life on Air, Ransom, Bel Canto
  • Challenge Writing Competition: 3rd Prize!
  • May 2011 Reading: The Elephant Vanishes, Incendiary, Zeitoun, Speaking with the Angel, The Dog Who Came in from the Cold, The Finkler Question
  • April 2011 Reading: number9dream, The Last King of Scotland, The Harmony Silk Factory
  • Writing Course at City
  • March 2011 Reading: The Road, Birthday Stories, Child of God, Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close, Bright Lights, Big City, Jesus’ Son
  • February 2011 Reading: Kafka on the Shore, American Pastoral, Then We Came to the End
  • January 2011 Reading: One Day, The Five People You Meet in Heaven, The Big Sleep, Wolf Hall, The Corrections
  • My Name’s Ellie…

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  • Post: Bookish Intentions for 2021
  • Review: Amari and the Night Brothers by B.B. Alston (2021) @bb_alston @egmontbooksuk @The_WriteReads #UltimateBlogTour
  • Review: The Unravelling of Maria by F J Curlew (2020)
  • Post: My Top Reads of 2020
  • Review: Understanding Children and Teens by Judy Bartkowiak (2020) @JudyBart @LiterallyPR @FAB_Publishing
  • Review: How the One-Armed Sister Sweeps Her House by Cherie Jones (2021)
  • Review: Forget Russia by L. Bordetsky-Williams (2020)
  • Review: Panenka by Ronan Hession (2021)
  • Review: Exit Management by Naomi Booth (2020)
  • November 2020 Reading: In The Sweep of the Bay; Everything Inside; Everything Is Fine; A Necessary Blessing; The Miseducation of Evie Epworth; Three Rival Sisters; The Servant; Cat Step; Exit Management; Panenka; Rebecca; Forget Russia
  • Review: Tomorrow Sex Will Be Good Again by Katherine Angel (2021)
  • Review: Cat Step by Alison Irvine (2020)
  • Review: The Servant by Maggie Richell-Davies (2020)
  • Review: Three Rival Sisters by Marie-Louise Gagneur translated by Anna Aitken and Polly Mackintosh
  • Review: The Miseducation of Evie Epworth by Matson Taylor (2020)
  • Review: A Necessary Blessing by Sarah Head (2020)
  • Review: In the Sweep of the Bay by Cath Barton (2020) @CathBarton1 @LouiseWalters12 @damppebbles #damppebblesblogtours #InTheSweepOfTheBay
  • Review: Everything Is Fine by Gillian Harvey (2020)
  • Review: The Doll Factory by Elizabeth Macneal (2019)
  • Review: Everything Inside by Edwidge Danticat (2019)
  • Review: I Am Not Your Baby Mother by Candice Brathwaite (2020)
  • Review: Sway by Pragya Agarwal (2020)
  • Review: Nudibranch by Irenosen Okojie (2019)
  • October 2020 Reading: The Same Ledge; PMSL; Bringing Up Race; Running the Orient; The Night of the Flood; Nudibranch; Sway; The Doll Factory; I Am Not Your Baby Mother; Tomorrow, Sex Will Be Good Again
  • Review: The Same Ledge by Daniel James (2020) #TheSameLedge @DanJamesWriting @damppebbles #damppebblesblogtours
  • Review: The Night of the Flood by Zoe Somerville (2020)
  • Review: Running the Orient by Gavin Boyter (2020)
  • Review: Bringing Up Race by Uju Asika (2020)
  • Info Post on Margate Bookie: The Friendly Litfest, and a Short Digression on Silver Linings
  • Review: Love Orange by Natasha Randall (2020)
  • Review: PMSL by Luce Brett (2020)
  • September 2020 Reading: The Girl From the Hermitage; A Girl Made of Air; Girl; Exercises in Control; The Secret of Creek Cottage; Should We Fall Behind; Love Orange; A Place Remote
  • September 2020 Reading: The Girl From the Hermitage; A Girl Made of Air; Girl; Exercises in Control; The Secret of Creek Cottage; Should We Fall Behind; Love Orange; A Place Remote
  • Review: A Place Remote by Gwen Goodkin (2020)
  • Review: Should We Fall Behind by Sharon Duggal (2020)
  • Review: The Girl From the Hermitage by Molly Gartland (2020) @molbobolly @rararesources @EyeAndLightning
  • Review: The Secret of Creek Cottage by Tina M Edwards (2020)
  • #SquadPod Boost: Let’s Hear It For…Louise Walters Books
  • Review: Exercises in Control by Annabel Banks (2020)
  • Review: A Girl Made of Air by Nydia Hetherington (2020)
  • Review: Girl by Maria Straw-Cinar (2020)
  • Review: Long Live the Post Horn! by Vigdis Hjorth translated by Charlotte Barslund (2020)
  • August 2020 Reading: Small Pleasures; Echo Hall; The Vanishing Half; A Different Drummer; The Naseby Horses; For When I’m Gone; Inside The Beautiful Inside; Long Live the Post Horn!
  • Review: Inside the Beautiful Inside by Emily Bullock (2020)
  • Review: #TheNasebyHorses by @DominicBrownlow (2020) @LouiseWalters12 @damppebbles #damppebblesblogtours
  • Review: For When I’m Gone by Rebecca Ley (2020)
  • Review: The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett (2020) and A Different Drummer by William Melvin Kelley (1962; republished 2018)
  • TBR Special: Eight #3rdSeptembers On My TBR List!
  • Review: Echo Hall by Virginia Moffatt (2017) #EchoHall @aroomofmyown1 @unbounders @damppebbles #damppebblesblogtours
  • Post: Bookshelf Nostalgia Part One
  • Review: Small Pleasures by Clare Chambers (2020)
  • July 2020 Reading: The Mercies; Tapestry; Dancers on the Shore; The Almost Mothers; Famished; Why I’m No Longer Talking to White People About Race; The Book of Cairo; The Familiars
  • Review: Famished by Anna Vaught (2020)
  • Review: Tapestry by Beth Duke (2020) @bethidee @damppebbles #damppebblesblogtours
  • Blog Tour: Champion by Stephen Deutsch (2020) – EXTRACT #Champion #StephenDeutsch @Bookollective @UnicornPubGroup
  • Review: Dancers on the Shore by William Melvin Kelley (1964; republished 2020)
  • Review: The Almost Mothers by Laura Besley (2020)
  • Review: Sea Wife by Amity Gaige (2020) @fleetreads #ReadFleet #SeaWife #SeaWifeTour
  • June 2020 Reading: The Sound Mirror; Sky Light Rain; Conjure Women; The Dressing-Up Box; The Distance From Four Points; Sea Wife; What’s Left of Me is Yours; How to Be an Antiracist
  • January to June 2020: The Big 50 List!
  • Short Stories: The Beggar Maid; Heads of the Colored People; You Will Never Be Forgotten; The Book Of Shanghai; Sky Light Rain; The Dressing-Up Box
  • Review: The Distance From Four Points by Margo Orlando Littell (2020)
  • Review: The Dressing-Up Box by David Constantine (2019)
  • Top Ten Reads of 2020 (So Far!)
  • Review: Conjure Women by Afia Atakora (2020)
  • Review: Sky Light Rain by Judy Darley (2019)
  • Review: The Sound Mirror by Heidi James (2020)
  • May 2020 Reading: Ordinary People; Watermarks; You Will Be Safe Here; Love Me To Death; This is Not a Book About Charles Darwin; Saving Lucia; What Doesn’t Kill You; I Wanted You to Know
  • Review: What Doesn’t Kill You by Elitsa Dermendzhiyska and Others (2020)
  • Review: Saving Lucia by Anna Vaught (2020)
  • PM Press Submission Call: New Crime, Thriller and Dystopian Fiction Imprint @PMPress1 @damppebbles
  • Review: Watermarks: Life, Death and Swimming by Lenka Janiurek (2020) #Watermarks @LenkaJ12 @AllisonandBusby @EmmaFinnigan @damppebbles #damppebblesblogtours
  • Review: You Will Be Safe Here by Damian Barr (2019)
  • April 2020 Reading: Girl, Woman, Other; The Truth Must Dazzle Gradually; We Are Animals; Leonard And Hungry Paul; You Will Never Be Forgotten; The Book of Shanghai; A Bookshop in Algiers; Silver Sparrow; The Silence And The Roar; The Codes of Love
  • Review: The Codes of Love by Hannah Persaud (2020)
  • COVER REVEAL: Midtown Huckster by Leopold Borstinski #MidtownHuckster @borstinski @damppebbles @DamppebblesBTs
  • Review: The Book of Shanghai, edited by Dai Congrong and Dr Jin Li (2020)
  • Review: You Will Never Be Forgotten by Mary South (2020)
  • Review: Leonard And Hungry Paul by Rónán Hession (2019)
  • Review: We Are Animals by Tim Ewins (2020)
  • Review: The Truth Must Dazzle Gradually by Helen Cullen (2020)
  • The Stay-at-Home! Literary Festival
  • Books Read So Far 2020
  • March 2020 Reading: The Silence of the Girls; Milkman; Spark; The Animals at Lockwood Manor; Middle England; Where the Crawdads Sing; Kilo; Finding Clara
  • Review: Kilo: Life and Death Inside the Secret World of the Cocaine Cartels by Toby Muse (2020) #Kilo @tobymuse @EburyPublishing @EmmaFinnegan @damppebbles #damppebblesblogtours
  • Review: Finding Clara by Anika Scott (2020)
  • Guest Post by Paul Hawkes: Reading List Top Ten
  • Review: The Animals at Lockwood Manor by Jane Healey (2020)
  • Review: Spark by Naoki Matayoshi, Translated by Alison Watts (2019)
  • February 2020 Reading: The Incendiaries; Freshwater; Motherhood; Tin Man; Melmoth; The Golden State; Crudo; Fruit of the Drunken Tree
  • Review: Upturned Earth by Karen Jennings (2019)
  • January 2020 Reading: Old Filth; The Beggar Maid; The Yacoubian Building; Lullaby; Flights; The Friend; Heads of the Colored People
  • 2019 Top Ten
  • Books Read in 2019
  • December 2019 Reading: Winesburg, Ohio; Cape May; Conversations With Friends; The Green Road; All My Puny Sorrows; Disobedience; Hope: A Tragedy; Late in the Day
  • November 2019 Reading: The Heart is a Lonely Hunter; Plainsong; Shotgun Lovesongs; Where All Light Tends To Go; The Whole Town’s Talking
  • October 2019 Reading: Our Town and Other Plays; Spoon River Anthology; The Waves
  • September 2019 Reading: The Overstory; The Art of Being Normal; What We Lose; My Year of Rest and Relaxation; The Great Believers; Multiple Choice; Her Body and Other Parties
  • August 2019 Reading: I’m Fine, But You Appear to Be Sinking; Something I’ve Been Meaning to Tell You; The Monsters of Templeton; Little Fires Everywhere
  • July 2019 Reading: Something Fierce; His Monkey Wife; The Girl on the Train; Washington Black; Solar; Sing, Unburied, Sing; You Are Having A Good Time
  • Review: A Pair of Sharp Eyes by Kat Armstrong (2019)
  • June 2019 Reading: Moonglow; The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas; The View from Castle Rock; Little Exiles
  • May 2019 Reading: Gingerbread; Arcadia; A Horse Walks into a Bar; Runaway; Delicate Edible Birds; The Buddha of Suburbia; All That Man Is
  • April 2019 Reading: Let the Great World Spin; The Outlander; Home Fire; Day; The Moons of Jupiter; Fates and Furies; Vinegar Girl
  • March 2019 Reading: There, There; The Largesse of the Sea Maiden; Warlight; The Toymakers; Lost Boy; A Man Called Ove; Eleanor Olifant is Completely Fine
  • February 2019 Reading: The Only Story, Bitter Orange, An American Marriage, Asymmetry, Feel Free, Florida, Immigrant, Montana, A Grain of Wheat
  • January 2019 Reading: Circe, The Needle’s Eye, See What Can Be Done, The Mars Room, Children of Blood and Bone, Gorilla, My Love
  • February 2014 Reading: Satantango, On Black Sisters’ Street, Pigeon English, Every Secret Thing
  • January 2014 Reading: Flight Behaviour, The Husband’s Secret, Tangled Lives, Bring Up The Bodies
  • Where Did 2013 Go?/December Reading
  • Happy New(ish) Year!
  • November 2012 Reading: The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay, Starter for Ten, The Mammoth Book of Nebula Awards SF, The Things We Did for Love, Mittee, Fingersmith
  • October 2012 Reading: A Life in Full and Other Stories, Room, The Secret Agent, Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell
  • September 2012 Reading: Affinity, Burger’s Daughter, Small Island, American Gods, Two in a Boat
  • August 2012 Reading: 1Q84 Book Three, Sabra Zoo, From the Mouth of the Whale, The Story of an African Farm, The Memory Keeper’s Daughter, The Song of Achilles, Tuesdays with Morrie, Quilt, Pedro Paramo
  • July 2012 Reading: Cannery Row, Sister, Afterwards, The King’s Last Song, Human Diastrophism, Freedom, Don’t Run,Whatever You Do, Fifty Shades Trilogy
  • June 2012 Reading: Ghosts and Lightning, The Stranger’s Child, 1Q84 Books 1 & 2, Eating Animals
  • May 2012 Reading: Tiny Sunbirds,Far Away, The Thing Around Your Neck, The Whore’s Asylum, Tipping the Velvet, Incredible Bodies, One World, Jawbreakers, Knockemstiff
  • April 2012 Reading: Remainder, Falling Man, Saturday, The Reluctant Fundamentalist
  • March 2012 Reading: Cloud Atlas, Diary of a Bad Year, Heartbreak Soup, Bristol Anthology Volume 3, 31
  • Books On Writing: Part One
  • February 2012 Reading: Diaries of a Dead African, The Night Watch, An Elegy for Easterly, GB84, Purple Hibiscus
  • January 2012 Reading: The Sea, On Beauty, Austerlitz, The Accidental
  • Happy 2012!
  • November and December 2011 Reading
  • October 2011 Reading: This is How, The Empty Family, The Sense of an Ending, Anagrams
  • September 2011 Reading: The Comforters, By Night in Chile, Mrs Dalloway, Madame Bovary, The Good Soldier
  • August 2011 Reading: The Blind Assassin, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, Norwegian Wood
  • Stylist Microfiction Competition
  • July 2011 Reading: Blood Meridian, Bill Bryson, Daisy Miller and Other Stories
  • June 2011 Reading: Life on Air, Ransom, Bel Canto
  • Challenge Writing Competition: 3rd Prize!
  • May 2011 Reading: The Elephant Vanishes, Incendiary, Zeitoun, Speaking with the Angel, The Dog Who Came in from the Cold, The Finkler Question
  • April 2011 Reading: number9dream, The Last King of Scotland, The Harmony Silk Factory
  • Writing Course at City
  • March 2011 Reading: The Road, Birthday Stories, Child of God, Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close, Bright Lights, Big City, Jesus’ Son
  • February 2011 Reading: Kafka on the Shore, American Pastoral, Then We Came to the End
  • January 2011 Reading: One Day, The Five People You Meet in Heaven, The Big Sleep, Wolf Hall, The Corrections
  • My Name’s Ellie…
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