Category: book club
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BOOK CLUB: OF WOMEN AND SALT BY GABRIELA GARCIA
This week Hannah Whittaker is looking at the historical fiction novel Of Women and Salt by American writer, poet, and journalist, Gabriela Garcia. I truly think that certain works of historical fiction are hugely underrated by readers. Although being fictional, these historical novels will often draw upon major events from the past when developing their stories. History […]
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BOOK CLUB: FAILOSOPHY: A HANDBOOK FOR WHEN THINGS GO WRONG BY ELIZABETH DAY
This week Hannah Whittaker is looking at Failosophy: a handbook for when things go wrong, by award-winning journalist and author Elizabeth Day. When January 2022 briskly arrived, I once again decided to jot down some of my reading goals for the year. My reading patterns consist largely of fiction novels, so, this year, I decided […]
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BOOK CLUB: ANXIOUS PEOPLE BY FREDRIK BACKMAN
This week Hannah Whittaker is looking at 2019 novel Anxious People from the bestselling Swedish author Fredrik Backman. I would be lying if I didn’t say the reason I picked up this book in Waterstone’s was because I too am an anxious person. In this instance, I think my actions reflected how much power a […]
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BOOK CLUB: BEWILDERMENT BY RICHARD POWERS
This week Hannah Whittaker is looking at the extraordinary new release Bewilderment by the multi-award-winning American novelist Richard Powers. As the world has continued to readjust from the effects of COVID-19 we have been inundated with amazing novels from some incredible authors who, luckily for us readers, spent their quarantine time writing some absolute masterpieces. […]
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BOOK CLUB: WATERCOLOUR FASHION ILLUSTRATION BY FRANCESCO LO IACONO (& GIVEAWAY)
Each month, our resident book club reviews a new must-read volume that will help to educate, inform, entertain, and thrill you. This issue, Rhiannon D’Averc gets stuck into the tutorials provided in fashion illustrator Francesco Lo Iacono’s new book – Watercolor Fashion Illustration: Step-by-step techniques for illustrating fashion and figures in watercolors. The first thing […]