Wednesday, 28 January 2026

"When Will There Be Good News?" by Kate Atkinson

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An audio book. 30 years after her novelist father left and the rest of her family were savagely killed, Joanna is a married doctor in Edin...
Tuesday, 27 January 2026

"New British Poetry", Don Paterson and Charles Simic (eds), (Graywolf, 2004)

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It's taken me over 20 years to catch up with this. It was written to show Americans what British poetry is like. Here are extracts from ...
Monday, 26 January 2026

"Progress report" by Connie Bensley (Peterloo, 1981)

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Poems from TLS, Poetry Review, Agenda, Cosmopolitan, BBC radio 3, etc. In the first 25 page I didn't find any poems to impress me. ...
Sunday, 25 January 2026

"Verity" by Colleen Hoover

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The first-person protagonist, Loren, has been looking after her mother (now dead) for months. She's a not very successful novelist who h...
Saturday, 24 January 2026

"Dark is the grave" by T.G. Reid

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An audio book set in/near Glasgow. Prologue: Hazel Garvey is tied up. She recalls a pub, Fiona's birthday party. She's buried alive...
Friday, 23 January 2026

"the perfect match" by Dandy Smith

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An audio book. Zara, 28, has blood on her hands. There's a body in the morgue. She'll be asked questions. We go back a few month...
Thursday, 22 January 2026

"Tales From the Cafe" by Toshikazu Kawaguchi

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An audio book. I have trouble remembering names. The book has quite a few, and to add to my diffculties they're Japanese. In Cafe Funi...