Blogs about Fiction books

Let’s flashback a year. Australian telecommunications company Telstra might have hit the right note with its Christmas theme advertising in 2023, by way of this ninety second commercial. The song excerpted in the ad is …

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 …

Where did 2024 go? It’s hard to believe that we’ve featured all 100 categories for the 2024 Reading Challenge. We hope you had a fantastic time finding new books to devour and cherish. Your reading …

Having enjoyed the “Metropolitan Mysteries” collection from BL Publishing, I quickly picked up a second book from the recent batch of Crime Classics they kindly sent me, and it was from another new-to-me author. “Dramatic …

I bought this collection of essays about the wool that one keeps in cupboards and boxes (one’s yarn stash) when I was in Shetland this summer. It leapt out at me from the wool craft …

Our December 2024 edition of Now Playing features watchables that transport and fascinate, all from our contributors!Brooke RandelI’ve been on a Miyazaki kick as of late. Most recently, I watched Kiki’s Delivery Service. One of …

I am, by choice, a member of the Orthodox Church, though no longer active in it. I was a catechumen for a year, regularly attending classes and Church, and received the sacraments, and continued to …

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Readers have asked how to get signed copies of my books. If you’re unable to attend one of my book events, you might want to get in touch with a bookstore affiliated with it. For …

Christmas for the Home Front Girls by Susanna Bavin This is the third book in the Home Front Girls series and it is a really good novel, even if read as a standalone. It begins …

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, …

This will be one of three postings on U.K. author John S. Glasby (1928-2011). Glasby, surprisingly, had two parallel careers. After graduating from college, he had a long career as a research chemist and mathematician. …

Review by Frances S: Violet Trefusis, (1894-1972), was the daughter of Alice Keppel, wife of George Keppel, a son of the 7th Earl of Albemarle. When Violet was four years old, her mother became the …

The Outcast Dead – Elly Griffiths Back to Norfolk, where Dr Ruth Galloway has written a book and becomes involved in a TV show investigating the legend of Mother Hook. This novel centres on mothers …

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 …

Christmas is always a good time to read ghost stories, I think! This one is even set in December – and is also a novella, which makes it a good choice if you’re looking for …

I couldn’t get what I wanted from Sophie, but at least Nikita was there to give me a hand. She had me pinned to the bed for a good hour or two, before my body …