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Do You Know These Novels With Academic Settings?
A strong sense of place can deeply influence a story, and in some cases, the setting can even feel like a character itself. This week’s literary geography quiz is about 21st-century novels with characters on on college campuses around the United States. To play, just make your selection in the multiple-choice list and the correct…
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Do You Know These Novels With Academic Settings?
A strong sense of place can deeply influence a story, and in some cases, the setting can even feel like a character itself. This week’s literary geography quiz is about 21st-century novels with characters on on college campuses around the United States. To play, just make your selection in the multiple-choice list and the correct…
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Book Review: Raised by Moths, by Charlie Archbold and Michelle Conn
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Scotland’s best 25 books of the last 25 years – what do you think of this choice?
Of course, all of these novels need readers to bring them alive and children who have access to books are far more likely to grow up to be readers than those without. That’s why we ask for your support in our Christmas appeal to give books to families accessing food banks this winter. 1998: TrumpetJackie…
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The Best Reviewed Fiction of 2023
The points are tallied, the math is done, and the results are in. Yes, all year long the diligent and endearingly disgruntled Book Marks elves have been mining reviews from every corner of the literary internet. Brows furrowed, stomachs growling, they’ve worked from break of dawn to blink of dusk, seven days a week, scouring…
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Book Release: KU promotes indigenous literature, encourages young writers: VC
Srinagar, Dec 08: To promote indigenous literature, broadening its audience and to establish a prominent place for Kashmiri literature on the global literary landscape, the Department of English, Kashmir University (KU) Friday unveiled three books focusing on literary translations from Kashmiri into English and Persian into Urdu. The event is a tribute to the literary…
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Whodunnit: Why were novels by a famous Australian author forgotten by history?
Normal text sizeLarger text sizeVery large text size It was quite the unexpected cliffhanger. Detective fiction aficionado Dr Derham Groves was curating Murderous Melbourne – an exhibition about Australian crime novels – when he stumbled across five books featuring an eccentric amateur sleuth called Professor Ronald Challis. Dr Derham Groves with rare Shane Martin crime…
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The Globe 100: The best books of 2023
CHRISTIE VUONG/THE GLOBE AND MAIL Every recommendation on this list has been selected by The Globe and Mail’s contributors and editors. If you choose to purchase any books through our links, The Globe and Mail may earn a commission. International Fiction When you purchase an independently selected book through our site, we may earn an…
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New Medieval Books: Introducing the Medieval Fox
Introducing the Medieval Fox By Paul Wackers University of Wales PressISBN: 978-1-78683-988-6 A look into how medieval people viewed the fox, through religious writings, bestiaries, hunting manuals, and literature, most notably the stories revolving around the famous literary character Reynard the Fox. Excerpt: The medieval stories about Reynard the fox are a new phenomenon in…
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The 10 Best Fiction Books of 2023
These are independent reviews of the products mentioned, but TIME receives a commission when purchases are made through affiliate links at no additional cost to the purchaser. The best works of fiction published this year took us on all manner of journeys. There were big, physical trips across countries and continents, and, in one case,…
