Lockdown: Looking forward
Apr27

Lockdown: Looking forward

With all of the things we are due to miss this year (mainly sport) due to lockdown, I keep looking forward to what I hope we will manage to do this summer. It feels like coronavirus and lockdown could completely wipe out the summer. Which isn’t the end of the world, of course, and we all have to do what we have to do to keep people and the NHS safe. But I really would like a holiday. I don’t ask for much. I just want to go...

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Silent Sunday 26.4.20
Apr26

Silent Sunday 26.4.20

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How to be Famous by Caitlin Moran
Apr24

How to be Famous by Caitlin Moran

How to be Famous is the sequel to Caitlin Moran’s How to Build a Girl, which I read a few years ago. After reading The Mirror & the Light, I was looking for something much lighter to read and I’ve always enjoyed Caitlin Moran’s style of writing. Johanna Morrigan, better known as the music journalist, Dolly Wilde, is now 19 and starting to realise that music is fundamentally sexist. While her unrequited love, John...

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Silent Sunday 19.4.20
Apr19

Silent Sunday 19.4.20

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The Mirror & the Light by Hilary Mantel
Apr17

The Mirror & the Light by Hilary Mantel

The Mirror & the Light is the final part of Hilary Mantel’s trilogy about Thomas Cromwell, following Wolf Hall and Bring Up the Bodies. It is fictional, but based on fact, and tells the story of the final years of Cromwell’s life, working for an increasingly erratic King Henry VIII. The Mirror & the Light follows straight on from where Bring Up the Bodies left off. Cromwell is promoted again to Lord Privy Seal and...

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