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Hello! My name is Clare, I live near London and I have been running this blog since March 2012. I like books and I read quite a lot of them - mostly contemporary, literary, and translated fiction and non-fiction covering history, politics and popular science amongst other things. In this blog, you can read my book reviews and other literacy-related musings.
A Little Blog Of Books » Non fiction
4d ago
A Tomb With a View by Peter Ross is a fascinating book about graveyards in Britain and Ireland and the stories of some well-known and forgotten residents as well as the work of those who care for them. The famous ..read more
A Little Blog Of Books » Non fiction
1M ago
A Life of One’s Own by Joanna Biggs is a blend of literary criticism and mini biographies of eight female authors and how they carved out creative freedoms for themselves, alongside Biggs’s personal reflections on her experience of going through ..read more
A Little Blog Of Books » Non fiction
2M ago
Wellness by Nathan Hill is set in the 1990s when Jack and Elizabeth meet as college students amid a vibrant art scene in Chicago. The novel follows the ups and downs of their relationship over the next 20 years through ..read more
A Little Blog Of Books » Non fiction
3M ago
My list of books to read continues to expand and there are lots to look forward to in 2024. All publication dates where known apply to the United Kingdom only. Wellness by Nathan Hill is published ..read more
A Little Blog Of Books » Non fiction
3M ago
One of the stand-out novels I read in 2023 was Romantic Comedy by Curtis Sittenfeld which is a fun and refreshingly original take on the genre. I also really enjoyed The Running Grave by Robert Galbraith ..read more
A Little Blog Of Books » Non fiction
3M ago
I often seek out the books which receive rare positive reviews in Private Eye magazine and Wasteland by Oliver Franklin-Wallis is a truly eye-opening look at where our waste actually ends up. Franklin-Wallis probes a lot of uncomfortable truths about ..read more
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4M ago
Nine Pints by Rose George is a non-fiction about “the mysterious, miraculous world of blood”. The title refers to the approximate amount of blood we have in our bodies, and George explores various blood-related topics across nine chapters covering disease ..read more
A Little Blog Of Books » Non fiction
5M ago
The Running Grave by Robert Galbraith is the seventh outing for Cormoran Strike and Robin Ellacott’s private detective agency. When they are approached by the family of a young man feared to have been brainwashed by a religious cult, Robin ..read more
A Little Blog Of Books » Non fiction
6M ago
The Fraud by Zadie Smith weaves together three storylines based on true events in the 19th century. A Cockney butcher arrives in London from Australia claiming to be Sir Roger Tichborne, the heir to a baronetcy and previously thought to ..read more
A Little Blog Of Books » Non fiction
8M ago
The Marriage Portrait by Maggie O’Farrell is a fictionalised account of the marriage of 15-year-old Lucrezia di Cosima de’Medici to Alfonso, Duke of Ferrera in sixteenth century Florence, merging two powerful family dynasties. Lucrezia would be dead barely a year ..read more