The Orange Juice

The Lacuna by Barbara Kingsolver (published by Faber) has won the 2010 Orange Prize for Fiction. Have you read it? I have a copy on hand to read but haven’t managed to yet; truth be told, I was uninspired by the shortlist this year and some of the remaining longlisted titles were calling to me [...]

Reliable Recommendations

Do you, like me, have that one blogger whose posts you are at times cautious about reading because you know that they will undoubtedly add to your wish-list? Book bloggers in general do that for me but there is one blogger who regularly introduces me to books I have never heard of before or cements [...]

Magic Toyshops

This post was originally a guest post for Verity’s Virago Venture last year that focuses on The Magic Toyshop by Angela Carter, a copy of which you can win here. The post provides a brief overview of Carter’s relationship with Virago Books and how they have marketed the novel since they began to publish it [...]

Scottish Fiction

A blogging friend mentioned at the weekend that she didn’t know I was Scottish; I was quite surprised by that as I thought I was always rambling on about trips home to Glasgow and the books that are left there but apparently I have not been as upfront about my heritage as I had thought. [...]

Literary Adaptations

2010 appears to be the year for books on-the-big-screen. The forthcoming Oscars have highlighted a number of recently made literary adaptations: An Education; Precious (based on the novel, Push); A Single Man; The Lovely Bones; The Last Station; Bright Star; Julie & Julia; Coraline; Fantastic Mr Fox; The Princess and the Frog. That’s only the [...]

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