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Yes it’s that time of year again when the literary world descends on Edinburgh and around 600 events take place in the Edinburgh Futures Institute, formerly the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh. As well as events for adults, there is an extensive schools programme too. I am very grateful to the press team for my media …

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Matt Coyne has done it again! I adored his debut novel Frank and Red (find out why here) and I adored The Trouble With Sister Francis too. I’m very grateful to publishers Wildfire for my digital review copy from Netgalley. The book will be published a week today on 27th August in hardback, digital and …

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What am I currently reading? I’m reading the newest Cecelia Ahern book, Love Unlocked, which I’m enjoying. I wanted to reread Sense and Sensibility this year but have actually decided to listen to it so that’s my audiobook for this week. I’ve read another quite long chapter from Paul Auster’s 4321 and there was quite …

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This week’s topic: Books with extraordinary titles This week’s topic should really be ten book series I want to catch up on but I’m not someone who is an avid reader of series so I’m skipping that one! Instead, I’ve gone for an old topic books with extraordinary titles. A lot of book titles just …

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I’m delighted to be joined by Kaitlyn Bankson today, author of Nest. Nest was published in July and available now in paperback, digital and audiobook editions: full details below. Over to Kaitlyn to tell us more. Tell me THREE things about your latest book 1. Nest explores the hidden psychology of pregnancy.Most stories about pregnancy …

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