Beth's Books (and other bits and bobs)
Feel free to judge this book by its cover, it does what it says on the tin
Author: Celeste Ng Title: Little Fires Everywhere Press: Abacus Date of Publication: 2017 Date of Purchase: December 2018 RRP: £8.99 Price of Purchase: £4 Reading Time: 4 days Rating: 8 Little Fires Everywhere succeeded in transporting me straight to Shaker Heights and bang into Ohio in the nineties. Given I was five at the millennium …
Title: Life of a Banana Author: PP Wong Press: Legend Press Prizes: Longlisted for the Baileys Women's Fiction Prize Date of Publication: 2014 Date of Purchase: November 2018 RRP: £7.99 Price of Purchase: £7.99 Reading Time: 3 days Rating: 8 This novel was a bit of a departure for me for several reasons. 1. it’s commercial fiction …
Author: Irvine Welsh Title: Filth Press: Vintage Prizes: Date of publication: 1998 Date of purchase: September 2018 RRP: £5.99 Price of purchase: £2.50 Reading time: 2 Week Rating: 6 As a Scot currently playing at contributing to the diaspora in the sunny South of England it seemed appropriate to return to my roots, read a …
Chamamanda Adichie’s TED Talk on ‘the danger of the single story’ is incredibly powerful and was an excellent introduction for me into the issue of ethnic diversity in publishing. The point: how important it is for people to read themselves in stories but also the power of publishing to reinforce narratives and the moral imperative …
Yesterday evening I attended a panel discussion at The Stationers Company in central London. The building itself was beautiful and the panel consisted of representatives from Pluto Press, The New Statesman and Bloomsbury Publishing. All speakers left leaning and all taking a positive attitude to the current political climate. In particular they were keen to …
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Beth's Books (and other bits and bobs) 