Category Archives: Paul Magrs
Joan Bakewell & Bookmarked
I’m having a rather quiet week and just settling down and reading when I can rather than blogging. I thought I would pop in though and let you know just whats by the bedside. I have a fair few ‘research … Continue reading
Filed under Ben Aaronovitch, Bookmarked Literary Salon, Joan Bakewell, Paul Magrs
Reading With Authors #3: Valley of the Dolls – Jacqueline Susann; With Paul Magrs
So Paul only a day late, oops, blame the Transpeak (I actually almost got stranded in Matlock last night, not funny)…we’ve nicely invited ourselves (Savidge Reads and it’s readers) to your house, well your Summer house actually. Are Fester and … Continue reading
Filed under Jacqueline Susann, Paul Magrs, Reading With Authors 2011
Hell’s Belles – Paul Magrs
I ummed and ahhhed about if I should post about the fourth in Paul Magrs Brenda & Effie series ‘Hell’s Belles’ because as some of you will know Paul has become a firm friend (and a fabulous coffee and charity shopping … Continue reading
Filed under Brenda & Effie, Headline Review, Paul Magrs, Review
Exchange – Paul Magrs
I have to say I really ummed and ahhed for a while as to whether I should review this book. As some of you will know Paul Magrs is the Chair of The Green Carnation Prize (the shortlist will be … Continue reading
Filed under Books About Books, Paul Magrs, Review, Simon & Schuster
Should Have Reads 2009
It’s odd to believe that we have two weeks left of the year to go. It is especially irksome when I look at my shelves and see the wonderful books that came out in 2009 that I simply haven’t read … Continue reading
Filed under Ali Smith, Anne Tyler, Book Thoughts, Books of 2009, Jake Arnott, Kate Grenville, Paul Magrs, Sophie Hannah
Simon’s Bookish Bits #1
So it’s already Saturday once more and I thought I would do another Simon’s Bookish Bits (thanks for all your votes and comments last week) featuring all things bookish that has caught my eye this week. I have to admit … Continue reading
Conjugal Rites – Paul Magrs
I decided in the lead up to Halloween that rather than read a ‘chilling tale’, I would wait for that on the actual night and instead in the lead up to All Hallows Eve I would read something with a … Continue reading
Filed under Brenda & Effie, Headline Review, Paul Magrs, Review
Something Borrowed – Paul Magrs
One of my favourite books as a youth was The Whitby Witches by Robin Jarvis and indeed the rest of the Whitby series; it was always The Whitby Witches that I returned to again and again however. It was a … Continue reading
Filed under Brenda & Effie, Headline Review, Paul Magrs, Review
Never The Bride – Paul Magrs
After my difficult times through Twilight earlier in the month I hadn’t planned on reading any fiction that had any spooky goings on for a while. However I will be doing an interview in February with Paul Magrs and so … Continue reading
Filed under Books of 2008, Brenda & Effie, Headline Review, Paul Magrs, Review
