NetGalley: a book described by one reviewer as historical fiction. It’s set in 1974.
The Folio Society sale: The Story of Babar. A snip at £235.00.

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While I was watching The Tempest the other evening, I kept hearing book titles. These are the ones which sprang to mind.
Prospero’s Cell, Lawrence Durrell
This Rough Magic, Mary Stewart
Brave New World, Aldous Huxley

I bet there are more; can you think of them?

Promoting Indistractable, a new book by Nir Eyal, Bloomsbury Books send me an email containing the following unlikely-sounding ‘facts ( Read more... )

Simon’s little game is proving popular.

The last book I gave up on
Last September: Battlestar Suburbia by Chris McCrudden. I wrote, ‘Battlestar Suburbia is a great title and a good idea, yet I couldn’t get through it. The premise is that humans live in floating colonies and seem to spend all their time cleaning. The universe is controlled by ( Read more... )

Just a heads up for a programme on Radio 4 today, at 1.30. In Too Many Books Sarah Cudden meets people who have to get rid of some books and looks at how they choose which ones can go. There's also a visit to The Bookbarn ( Read more... )

Quite a bookfest on the BBC at the moment and I’ve been joining in with some of it. All the programmes are mentioned on the linked page. I started with Faulks on Fiction, in which the curly-haired one began with ‘The Hero’. This plodded along on the lines of : "Faulks is a hero on account of his barnet, his ability to walk and talk at the same time ( Read more... )

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Looking out of the window: green grass, golden leaves, grey clouds scudding, rain dripping from the thatch.
Indoors:

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