Category Archives: Bernardine Evaristo

book haul, january 2022

Posted on February 1, 2022 by wordsandpictures2016

Hare House – Sally Hinchcliffe. A woman relocates to the south west of Scotland, living next to Hare House, named after the stuffed hares which, it is claimed were created to ward off witches. A dead brother, creepy neighbour, set … Continue reading →

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Books of the year…so far

Posted on July 9, 2019 by wordsandpictures2016

It’s been a funny, strange and often disturbing year so far and it started with a bit of a book drought for me – I couldn’t seem to settle on anything until, that is, Tracey Thorn’s Another Planet came along … Continue reading →

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‘Girl, Woman, Other’ – Bernardine Evaristo

Posted on June 30, 2019 by wordsandpictures2016

‘Girl, Woman, Other’ is a novel which the many in the British literary ‘canon’ would  sell their souls to write: a profound, subtle, human state-of-the-nation cum history of living memory Britain. The fact that it is told through the interlocking … Continue reading →

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This week’s book haul

Posted on June 22, 2019 by wordsandpictures2016

I bought Kerry Hudson‘s ‘Lowborn’ last week and I’m almost finished already. It is powerful book about growing up in some of the most poverty stricken areas of the country and about how it feels to escape that poverty, leaving … Continue reading →

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