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Miette's Bedtime Story Podcast

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Lay yourself down to sleep with the soothing soporific of Miette\'s purr as she reads you the...

Paris Mon Amour

Isabel Costello

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When Alexandra discovers that her husband Philippe is having an affair, she can't believe he'd risk...

Nigella Lawson recommended Middlemarch in Books (curated)

Middlemarch

Rosemary Ashton, George Eliot | 2003 | Fiction & Poetry

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"Despite its grand place in the literary canon, “Middlemarch” is really a rich, gossipy boxed set of a novel. I first read this as a teenager in short bursts nightly with a torch after lights-out, and it gripped me like a soap opera. The foolishness of the human condition, the urgency of its whims and fancies, and the often blinding need to find meaning are unsparingly chronicled in this feast of a book."

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Alan Cumming recommended Christopher and His Kind in Books (curated)

Christopher and His Kind

Christopher Isherwood | 2013 | Fiction & Poetry

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"This is the unedited and unadulterated version of the stories that made up Isherwood’s books Goodbye To Berlin and Mr Norris Changes Trains, which were the source material for the play I Am A Camera and later the musical Cabaret. I find it fascinating that Isherwood still writes about himself in the third person. An interesting literary device, yet it feels like a smokescreen and leaves you wondering how much more there is to tell."

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Jo Nesbo recommended Gentlemen in Books (curated)

Gentlemen

Klas Ostergren | 2020

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"This has been a cult novel in Sweden ever since it was published in 1980, and has to some degree been discovered in Norway, too. It steals from both the classics and pulp fiction and has this couldn’t-care-less-attitude combined with literary talent that reminds me of Jim Carrol's “Basketball Diaries.” Both have this special sense of time and place that makes you want to move to Stockholm or New York."

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The Chocolate Lady (94 KP) rated My Counterfeit Self in Books

Oct 5, 2020

What does poetry have to do with social activism? A whole lot, actually, as you'll find out in Jane Davis's novel "My Counterfeit Self" and through my #bookreview of this historical, contemporary, women's literary fiction novel on my blog now. (I think this has just become my favorite of her books, as it just edged out "Smash All the Windows" by a whisker!)<br/>https://tcl-bookreviews.com/2019/05/11/a-poetically-explosive-story/<br/>;