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Top 10 Books That Changed Our World

Favourite Books We all have our favorite books and novels, but every once in awhile, we come across a book that boasts a strong, lasting… Read More »Top 10 Books That Changed Our World

If you’re an avid reader, you likely grew up reading everything you could get our hands on. From fairytales to wild fantasies, no page was… Read More »INFOGRAPHIC: Inspiring Bedtime Stories For Young Girls

As regular readers of this blog know, I love reading books as much as I love writing them. I also love female characters, which is… Read More »INFOGRAPHIC: Lessons We Learned From Female Literary Characters

Gone, But Not Forgotten Many thanks to Rebecca from McGowan Transcriptions who has been in touch with this fascinating infographic, which details the most mentioned… Read More »Writers Of Instagram – Which Famous Author Is The Most Mentioned?

My Goodreads Challenge A bit later than last year, I thought I would post My Year In Books! For the last few years I have… Read More »My Year In Books: 68 Fantastic Reads!

Iconic Journeys Some of the most famous novels are character journeys, not just metaphorically but literally too … They are ROAD TRIPS! I love this… Read More »Classic Literary Journeys: Which Have YOU Read?

1) So, who are you & what have you written? Belinda Bauer. I’ve written eight crime novels – Blacklands, Darkside, Finders Keepers, Rubbernecker, The Facts… Read More »CRIMINALLY GOOD: interview with author Belinda Bauer

1) So, who are you and what have you written? I’m Val Penny and I am an American author living in SW Scotland where I… Read More »CRIMINALLY GOOD: interview with author Val Penny

1) So who are you and what have you written? I’m a debut author who has just written a book called The Man on the Middle… Read More »CRIMINALLY GOOD: Interview with author Elizabeth S. Moore

I watched the old BBC version with Sir Alec Guinness in my childhood. Soon after I had my first experience with Eastern Germany, en route… Read More »BOOK VERSUS FILM: Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy Showdown

Adaptation So, this time I thought I’d take a look at the revisionist history novel, The Revenant and its subsequent adaptation, which earned Leonardo DiCaprio… Read More »BOOK VERSUS FILM: The Revenant – Dead Truth