The Help by Kathryn Stockett

It’s clichéd but The Help by Kathryn Stockett is an unputdownable book: I was immersed in the story and despite all the books that I read it is still rare for a book to captivate me so fully that I can think of nothing else but read the book. I was a little averse to [...]

Library Loot: the Longlisted

Of this year’s twenty longlisted titles for the Orange Prize for fiction I have read four of the titles, own a further five, and will borrow a few of the others that appeal from friends and from the library. Those books that my library had immediately available to borrow are photographed above. I have too [...]

Recent Acquisitions

When I arrived home from London earlier this week I was greeted to a number of book parcels, which cheered me some after a dreadful train (well, six trains) journey and five-hour delay due to signal failure on the west-coast and and then a smashed car window awaiting us. There are a couple more proof [...]

Claire’s Corner

Apologies for my absence; I have been a bad blogger this week but I intend to fully catch up on blog comments, reviews and reading your blogs over the weekend. I was at home in Glasgow, had a lovely time with family and friends, but ever since the train rolled across the border it has [...]

Claire’s Corner

*the above photograph features a handful of previous Orange Prize winners that I have to hand. The longlist for the 2010 Orange Prize for Fiction has been announced and I am delighted/dismayed/disconcerted (delete where appropriate) that 1) I only managed to predict 5/20 of the titles on the list 2) I have read 3.5 (I’m [...]

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