I am thrilled to welcome D.J. Kirkby to The Nut Press today. D.J. is here as part of a blog tour to promote her debut novel Without Alice. I was lucky enough to meet D.J. Kirkby at a book launch* in May. Since then, I’ve read D.J.’s first book, From Zaftig to Aspie, which is [...]
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Like Bees to Honey by Caroline Smailes
You know that feeling you sometimes get when you step off an aeroplane in a Mediterranean country? When the warm air envelops you like a deep sigh? Your whole body relaxes and that’s the moment when you realise that you’re in a foreign country, and now properly on holiday. That’s how it feels to open the pages of Like Bees to Honey and start reading.
Posted by kath on August 13, 2010
http://nutpress.co.uk/2010/08/like-bees-to-honey-by-caroline-smailes/
Wasted by Nicola Morgan
Chance. Luck. Fate. Destiny. Choices. Reactions. Timing. Much like Jack’s coin, my head is still spinning days after reading Nicola Morgan’s excellent Wasted. But this is a good thing. The book throws up a lot of questions and ideas and it’s made me look at some of these with fresh perspective.
Posted by kath on May 22, 2010
http://nutpress.co.uk/2010/05/wasted-by-nicola-morgan/
Unter deinem Stern (Flights of Angels) by Victoria Connelly
I always thought one of the benefits of becoming proficient in a foreign language would be that I’d be able to read another country’s literature in the original language, rather than in translation. (In fact, if I chose the language wisely, I’d be able to read that of more than one country.) I never thought for a moment that it would enable me to read a novel set in England, originally written in English by an English author but which has, so far, only been published in translation.
Posted by kath on May 17, 2010
http://nutpress.co.uk/2010/05/unter-deinem-stern-by-victoria-connelly/
The Reader by Bernhard Schlink
I’m hoping that Bernhard Schlink’s thought-provoking novel The Reader doesn’t become a footnote to Kate Winslet’s Oscar success in the film adaptation. It is a book that deserves far more that the sorry footnote of simply becoming the book of the film.
Posted by kath on May 5, 2010
http://nutpress.co.uk/2010/05/the-reader-by-bernhard-schlink/
The Dating Detox by Gemma Burgess
I am fast coming around to the idea that I should either get my book recommendations from Twitter or work my way through the Avon Imprint titles for the foreseeable future. So far this year, I’ve read two of their books found through the social networking site (the first of which was Miranda Dickinson’s Fairytale [...]
Posted by kath on March 19, 2010
http://nutpress.co.uk/2010/03/the-dating-detox-by-gemma-burgess/
My travels with Jeremy Northam
Jeremy Northam is proving to be an interesting travelling companion. In 2008, after first splitting our time between languidly idling among the dreamy spires of Oxford and staying at an imposing stately home in the English countryside, we flitted off together for a brief sojourn on the Venetian lagoon, before later wandering the souks of Morocco.
Posted by kath on February 26, 2010
http://nutpress.co.uk/2010/02/my-travels-with-jeremy-northam/
Fairytale of New York by Miranda Dickinson
I was fortunate enough to win a signed copy of Miranda Dickinson’s wonderful debut novel Fairytale of New York. The author herself ran a competition on Twitter – I’ve alluded to the wonders of social networking in an earlier post – and, just before Christmas, it arrived, together with a lovely card and some yummy [...]
Posted by kath on February 17, 2010
http://nutpress.co.uk/2010/02/fairytale-of-new-york-by-miranda-dickinson/
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