Monthly Archives: December 2024

2024 in Books

Posted on 31/12/2024 by Roseanna

New Year’s Eve arrives, and it is once again time for the traditional round up my year in reading. Except this year, I’ll actually be doing two. This will be the usual one, full of graphs, stats and silly awards, … Continue reading →

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Private Rites – Julia Armfield

Posted on 29/12/2024 by Roseanna

My overwhelming impression of this book is rain. Constant, undramatic, pervasive, it haunts the margins of the story so effectively that it has overwhelmed my memory of it, forming a damp sheen over the foregrounded aspects of the story. It’s … Continue reading →

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Three Eight One – Aliya Whiteley

Posted on 22/12/2024 by Roseanna

Three Eight One by Aliya Whiteley is the story of Fairly, a young girl setting out on a quest away from home for the first time, on something called the Horned Road. The story comes with annotations by a reader … Continue reading →

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