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Friday, 7 August 2026
Review by Sally Shaw of "Under a Pink Sky" by Esther Ghey
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Under A Pink Sky is a memoir written by Esther Ghey, that takes the reader into the darkest depths of growing up and an unimaginable death ...
Wednesday, 5 August 2026
Review by Julie Gardner of "Creative Writing and the Critical Commentary: Reflection, Influence, Process," ed. Karen Stevens and Jonathan Taylor
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Anyone studying Creative Writing at undergraduate or post-graduate level is almost certainly required to write a critical commentary to acco...
Tuesday, 4 August 2026
Review by Christine Hammond of "Small Birds Singing" by Matthew Welton
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Small Birds Singing gently canters across a city’s green spaces covering a twelve-month seasonal period from September to August. Observing...
Saturday, 1 August 2026
Review by Paul Taylor-McCartney of "The Walkative Revolution" by Alec Finlay and "Two Women in a Car Park" by Selima Hill and Moby Hill
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Cornwall-based Guillemot Press specialises in carefully designed, often collaborative poetry editions. Alec Finlay’s The Walkative Revolu...
Friday, 31 July 2026
Review by Jonathan Wilkins of "The Cry of the Icemark" series by Stuart Hill
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It is now twenty years ago that Leicester born-and-bred author Stuart Hill won the first ever Waterstones Children's Book Award with his...
Wednesday, 29 July 2026
Review by Rebecca Nolten of "Yesteryear" by Caro Claire Burke
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Yesteryear is unlike anything I have ever read. Rarely has a protagonist been so immediately, spectacularly unlikeable. Natalie hooks you t...
Tuesday, 28 July 2026
Review by Sally Shaw of "Perfect Circle," ed. Rob Redman, illustrated by Lucy Scott
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Perfect Circle , an illustrated anthology, is volume two in the Uncertain Stories series. The stories tell how life, happenings, folklore, b...
Monday, 27 July 2026
Review by Hannah Kimmins of "Ordinary Saints" by Niamh NĂ Mhaoileoin
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"The first time I kissed a girl, my brother died": Years after her older brother Ferdia’s tragic death, Jay has moved from her ho...
Sunday, 26 July 2026
Review by David Keyworth of "Beyond the Page: Mary Shelley 175 Years On," with Andrew McInnes, Bradford Literature Festival, 6 July 2026
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"There’s more to Mary Shelley than Frankenstein": this was how Dr Andrew McInnes concluded his talk at Bradford’s Festival Hub. H...
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