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Iām happy to be able to share my thoughts today on a book from a really interesting indie press ā Corylus Books. As I mentioned when I reviewed another title they released, āBlackā¦
Itās hard to believe weāve just said farewell to April because weāre in the midst of a spell of exceptionally hot weather. The thermometer reached 24C this week which would be high even in mid summer...
Iāve had mixed experiences with Elizabeth Taylorās novels over the years. Maybe my expectations were set too high by all the praised heaped upon her in the blogosphere but of the three novels Iāve...
Pexels.com Itās in the title ā CalmgroveBooks is a book blog. Other than as a record of my reading itās not a diary in any but a general sense, nor is it posted online to persuade you tā¦
I was keen to read Under The Bridge by Rebecca Godfrey for a couple of reasons. I enjoy true crime and I was impressed by her fictionalised account of the life of Peggy Guggenheim which was posthumā¦
Reading Wales Month has been full of surprises with many people finding authors and books that are new to me. I hope youāve spotted titles youād love to add to your TBR ā ā maybe in time for Readin...
Iām cutting this fine as today is the last day of theĀ Reading Wales Month 2025Ā hosted by Karen atĀ BookerTalk.Ā Yesterday I posted my review of Resistance by Owen Sheers. Iāve also read ā¦
According to a report I read recently, the British explorer Preet Chandi is putting the final touches to an expedition which she hopes will make her the firstĀ womanĀ to travelĀ soloĀ to theĀ North Pole....
I have Karen to thank for highlighting the fact that Ethel Lina White was Welsh ā Karen contributed a review ofĀ Fear Stalks The Village to Reading Wales Month, which is run by a different bloā¦
Itās my first time participating in Reading Wales Month, hosted this year by Karen of BookerTalk. I happened to be reading a collection by a Welsh-Gujarati poet, and added a Welsh hill farming memoā¦
Paula at BookJotterĀ launched Reading Wales in 2018 because ā in her words ā sheĀ āwanted to wanted to introduce as many non-Welsh-speaking readers as possible to the literature of my country.āĀ This ā¦
āThe Attainment: The Vision of the Holy Grailā designed by Edward Burne-Jones. The Great Return (1915) by Arthur Machen, in The White People and Other Weird Stories;foreword by Guillermā¦
Choosing a book for the Reading Wales/Dewithon event is always such fun! This year itās being run by Booker Talk, and itās an event Iām keen to join; so I had a bit of a rummage oā¦
Photo: C A Lovegrove. The Unbroken Beauty of Rosalind Boneby Alex McCarthy.Penguin Books, 2024 (2023). āFor there is no friend like a sister In calm or stormy weatherā¦ā For shade ā¦