Blogs in October 2022

WOW. Free Books! For life! Really? YES!

WOW. Free Books! For life! Really? YES! 10th October 2022

Wow. Free books. For life. Really? Yes! This opportunity run by BOOKSHOP.ORG is really too good to miss. Everything you need to know below: Inspired by the Golden Ticket from the much-loved children’s book Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald...

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Talking Location With author Paul Westmoreland – the notion of travel

Talking Location With author Paul Westmoreland – the notion of travel 9th October 2022

#TalkingLocationWith…. Paul Westmoreland, children’s author of Rudy and the Wolf Cub and Rudy and the Monster at School How Travelling Adventures Inspire my Books When I was a kid, our family holidays were always the same. Every summer, we’d...

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Novel set in 1930s BARCELONA

Novel set in 1930s BARCELONA 7th October 2022

In Diamond Square by Mercè Rodoreda, novel set in 1930s Barcelona. Translated by: Peter Bush Young Natalia attends the festival in Diamond Square, hoping to win something in the raffle and to have fun with her friends. She gets more...

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Spy thriller set in ODESA

Spy thriller set in ODESA 5th October 2022

Odesa at Dawn by Sally McGrane, spy thriller set in ODESA. “As befits any book set in Odesa, Sally McGrane’s smart new thriller bristles with dark humour, slinking along and zigzagging through its plot like one of the city’s...

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Psychological thriller set mainly around BOURNEMOUTH

Psychological thriller set mainly around BOURNEMOUTH 4th October 2022

The Millionaire’s Wife by Shalini Bolan, psychological thriller set mainly around Bournemouth. #audiobook I enjoyed listening to this thriller as an audiobook. It opens with the violent death of a woman in Barbados, mown down by a speed boat....

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