Blogs in January 2021

Snowflake, AZ 19th January 2021

A timely, contemporary novel challenging ideas around health – our own and our planet’s – and the stigma that persists around illness, by Printz Medallist and internationally bestselling novelist, Marcus Sedgwick. Ash has lived in eight states in as...

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Brighty of the Grand Canyon 18th November 2020

This is a sweet story of a spunky burro named Brighty who roams the Grand Canyon region. It’s a great story for children, but adults will enjoy it too.

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The Wood Wife 13th November 2020

A magical realist novel set in the Rincon Mountains of Tucson, Arizona, involing poetry, art and the mythic spirits of the desert. (I bought my copy in the shop of the Tucson Desert Museum.) The author has won 9...

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Going Back to Bisbee 23rd October 2020

The poet Richard Shelton uses the 100-mile road trip from Tucson to the small community of Bisbee to marvel at the natural beauty of southeastern Arizona. Shelton animates the natural and cultural histories of the region through beautiful prose.

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The Andromeda Strain 19th August 2020

Five prominent biophysicists give the United States government an urgent warning: sterilisation procedures for returning space probes may be inadequate to guarantee uncontaminated re-entry to the atmosphere. Two years later, Project Scoop sends seventeen satellites into the fringes of...

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