Blogs about Fiction books

Sales of Australian author Charlotte Wood’s latest novel Stone Yard Devotional have enjoyed a boost, as a result of being both long and short listed for this year’s Booker Prize. The phenomena is sometimes called …

Love is sacrifice, sacred land life-affirming (Gunnison River Valley, Colorado; 1948—1970): Crying can soothe us. All the more reason to let Shelley Read take you on this absolutely beautiful and sad journey. “There is a …

The long-awaited day has arrived! It's been a while since we've had a Release Day celebration for a new Furrowed Middlebrow title, but as of today Eleanor Farjeon's delightful Miss Granby's Secret is officially out …

I’ve had an email from a setup called Feedspot which says that Great War Fiction is ranked second among military book blogs. Which is very flattering, though a bit bothering. I’ve neglected the blog horribly …

I disappeared again – I’m sorry. I’m trying to decide whether I’m done with this whole blogging malarky – there are aspects I miss – but I get overwhelmed with the effort it takes me …

It’s time to vote in the latest Best of the Best poll! How do we decide on the sapphic books to include in these polls? We value reader input, so we ask them on Facebook …

As I hinted in my review of “Queer” by William S. Burroughs, there was another review to come! This is of a slim book which I personally now consider the third part of an early …

Having a fluey cold masquerading as Covid is horrible, but it does keep me reading in my chair for longer than I might normally endure (I fidget). Much sooner than expected I finished Richard Buckle’s …

brandon brown’s flash “Faultline” contains a ball in the dirt, smoke in the lungs, two people in the backseat of a car, an opening. Here they share just one thing about the piece:“I wrote ‘Faultline’ …

I wrote a bit about the war of the zettlekasten as my last entry, and have been keeping two separate ones; one is a set of notes on Philosophy, thus far really just notes and …

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In this day and age, you would think that with a push of a button a book could be released simultaneously all over the world, in all formats. Annoyingly enough, we are not at that …

Victory for the Sewing Factory Girls by Posy Lovell This is a powerful novel set during the First World War, in 1916, but makes very few passing references to the ground battle in France. This …

i leaped, feeling the rush of wind against my bare back as i slid cleanly into the pool. another perfect dive. i let my head gently ease above the water, resting for a moment. then, …

About a year after we got the first Straw-Man book, we get the second from Barry Reese. This series is set in modern times within Reese’s Sovereign City universe, in a small town known as …

Book Review by George S: David Garnett was one of the younger members of the Bloomsbury set. His father was Edward Garnett, the critic and publisher, and his mother was Constance Garnett, the translator of …

Lily – Rose Tremain Chance find in Belmont Library. A less rosy view of the life of young girl / woman abandoned at birth and taken into the care of Thomas Coram’s Foundling Hospital. Victorian …

In 1942, the literary critic and Princeton graduate, Edmund Wilson, then forty-seven, made friends with a scholar of Russian literature slightly younger than himself, Helen Muchnic. Born in Baku in 1902, Helen emigrated to the …

The narrator of Sharon Bolton’s new novel is the very definition of a nosy neighbour. Living in the middle of three adjoining cottages with very thin walls makes it easy to hear the people on …

For my oldest WIP, at least.I started with roughly 82-84k, but during my revisions, whittled that down to a solid 80k. Not bad, considering I've chopped and/or added more to previous books. This one needed …