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This year is the first in a few years that I’ve got any excitement up about the Booker Prize, and I’ve now read four titles with a fifth just published (Switzy by Emma Cline) arriving immentently, but I won’t necessarily get that one read before the shortlist announcement on Sept 22. Here are my thoughts on two I’ve read….

I didn’t remember until late last night, but yesterday on September 15th, my blog reached 18 years old! Gosh, I never thought when I dipped my blogging toe into the water back on Blogspot in 2008 that I’d still be going – but I just love talking about and sharing books, the best kind of hobby. Thank you as always to everyone who visits, whether a lurker...

Source: Review copy from Corylus Books – thank you !

I loved the first of Catatan author Teresa Solana’s Barcelona Nights series of novels from Corylus Books,

Source: Proof copy from Bonnier/Eriu books for the Random Things blogtour – thank you.

Hourican’s novel is based on real events. In January 1965, Princess Margaret and her husband Tony, Lord Snowdon, visited Abbeyleix House, County Laois, the home of his sister Susan, Lady di Vesci). This was a private family holiday, without their two ...

My reading for both challenges got off to a good start with this book of short stories which also fits in with the RIP xxi challenge. It was first published in German in 1974 and in English in 1977. The edition I read was part of the pocket-sized Penguin 60s series published to celebrate their 60th anniversary – and unlike ...