The TV Book Club

Paperback Reader; Simon of Stuck in a Book; Candice from MEC Media Agency; Jo Brand, comedienne, writer and The TV Book Club presenter and Meera Syal, presenter, actress, comedienne and writer Early last month I was invited (thanks to Simon, who likes to have company to these types of things) to attend the recording session [...]

July's People

July’s People by Nadine Gordimer, her imagined end to apartheid through civil war, was banned in South Africa after its publication in 1981; her predicted end was a violent revolution in which blacks are killing whites in order to regain control of the country and overturn the system of racial segregation. Bam and Maureen Smales, [...]

Les Liaisons Dangereuses

I love Classic literature; I love books in translation; I love controversial novels with scandal and intrigue so when Polly of Novel Insights chose Les Liaisons Dangereuses (Dangerous Liaisons) by Pierra Choderlos de Laclos for the Riverside Readers to discuss, I was delighted. An eighteenth century epistolary novel, Les Liaisons Dangereuses concerns two bored aristocrats [...]

Nineteen Eighty-Four

I was in a bookshop with Simon T of Stuck in a Book last month and one of us picked up or pointed out the newly reissued, latest dust-jacket art of Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell. I commented that I read it about a decade ago but that it was fairly fresh in my mind. [...]

Round About a Pound a Week

In my wrap-up post for Persephone Reading Week, I mentioned that one of a number of Persephone Books that I subsequently wanted to read was Round About a Pound a Week by Maud Pember Reeves. Reading reviews written by Verity and Swati inspired me to read a title from the catalogue that hadn’t previously appealed. [...]

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