I know I’m no longer officially reviewing books, but I am still reading and I’ve actually managed to read quite a lot this year. I’ve got myself an addiction to audiobooks, which helps me continue reading when I’m too tired or headachey to visually read. The thing with the audiobooks is that I seem to […]
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The Year of Living Danishly by Helen Russell Genre; non-fiction travel. When she was suddenly given the opportunity of a new life in rural Jutland, journalist and archetypal Londoner Helen Russell discovered a startling statistic: the happiest place on earth isn’t Disneyland, but Denmark, a land often thought of by foreigners as consisting entirely of […]
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Nail Your Novel: Why Writers Abandon Books And How You Can Draft, Fix and Finish With Confidence by Roz Morris Genre; non fiction Are you writing a novel? Do you want to make sure you finish? Will you get lost and fizzle out? Will you spend more time reading about how to write than actually getting […]