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A sweet picture book for ages 2-6 that shows how, with some imagination and creativity, you can have a wonderful holiday without ever leaving home.
Welcome to what I think is going to become a regular part of Book Birdy, and that is, a weekly check-in where I share my best short and long reads of the week, and do a little self-analysis about what I’ve been writing (apart from this blog).
I hope you enjoy it..
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Miles Franklin Award winner, Anna Funder turns her lens on domestic life with a novella that brims with acute observations about what it means to enter into middle age
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Tegan Bennett Daylight puts her extraordinary writing skills to full use in a short story collection that powerfully captures the messiness of life and the awkward transition to adulthood.
There is no doubt, ‘The Other Side of the World‘ is one of my top picks of the year so far. Author, Stephanie Bishop, has the most beautiful, poetic writing style and the book, as a whole, has much to say about nostalgia and the way in which people long for a place and time in their lives they can…
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A powerful novel that resonates with emotional authenticity in challenging some universally held ‘truths’ about how and why people hurt newborn babies
A book launch is a slightly fraught occasion. There are nerves. There is excitement. There is celebration. There is anxiety. But overlaying all of this is a tremendous feeling of inspiration. Get a crowd of readers and writers in a room and the love of books starts to feel palpable. At least, that was the feeling in the room at…
I’ll be honest. I am not a massive fan of editing. I put a lot of thought and effort into first drafts and in many ways, I edit as I go. But as I mentioned in my last post on editing, even the most amazing first draft is going to need revising. And so I doggedly persist. If you want…
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A sensitive and beautifully illustrated picture book for 2-5 year olds that focuses on the special relationship between grandparent and child and touches lightly on the subject of loss.
Thanks to this blog, I’ve recently diversified my reading habits to include genres and titles I wouldn’t normally pick up, like young adult fiction. What a revelation! Re-visiting your teenage self is both an exhilarating and confronting experience – which pretty much sums up the reaction I had to Trinity Doyle’s Pieces of Sky (read the review here). So, I’m absolutely…