Have you ever loved a book, and in the rush of life lost your connection with what was special about it?
‘Conversations about Books‘ makes it easy to reflect on what you’ve read and gives you a record of your notes to refer back to, and to use as a starting point for a book review or discussion.
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Police corruption, rigged betting and a syndicate protecting its own means there's a lot going on in Hero, and DS Walker is the...
DebraAugust 2, 2026
By the end of a working day, Constable Hirsch is bloated on cups of tea he didn't want, because he knows he's the...
DebraAugust 2, 2026
One morning Teresa wakes up speaking with a French accent, and her son Paddy – a speech therapist – can't explain it any...
DebraAugust 2, 2026
Eddie disappears from Daphne's life when she's nine, and it takes forty years and a chance meeting in a museum for either of...
DebraAugust 2, 2026
Elizabeth Strout’s The Things We Never Say allows us to do something that remains so elusive in real life: to know what is...
DebraMay 21, 2026
By the time I finished Kiran Desai's The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny, I felt like I'd completed something big – not just...
DebraFebruary 6, 2026
'Born Lippy' doesn't feel like advice so much as a long, honest...
DebraFebruary 6, 2026
"It means starting conversations differently - with curiosity rather than certainty -...
DebraDecember 31, 2025
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