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The music practically pours out of the pages of Denny S. Bryce s historical novel, set among the artists and dreamers of the 1920s. Honoree Dalcour is making her way in Chicago s Jazz Age, where she brushes elbows with Louis Armstrong and other aspiring chorus girls. In 2015, a film student has the chance to get to know Honoree then 110! and hear her story.
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amazon.com Most castles are defended by powerful men. This one, by women. So Stephanie Dray s riveting tale of a place where the past still echoes in the stones begins. The saga links multiple women who live in the French castle over the years, from the French Revolution to WWI and WWII. In addition to sharing an address, all three share inconvenient brushes with history. We can learn from Adrienne, Beatrice, and Marthe s stories, even as we re swept away.
Hungerford Bookshop says #Stay-home-and-read
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There are some fantastic new books to look forward to in 2021 and while the lockdown is in place it’s a great time to stay inside and read. We asked EMMA MILNE-WHITE from our award-winning local independent Hungerford Bookshop for the heads-up on fiction to look forward to.
LET’S start with a novel that’s getting a lot of press and radio attention. Mrs Death Misses Death, by the performance poet Salena Godden is published on January 21. Death, in this book, is a black working-class woman. Exhausted from spending eternity doing her job, she unburdens herself to Wolf, who writes down her life story. Highly imaginative and deeply profound, this novel promises to be a meditation on life, death and everything in between.
Eleven novels, four non-fiction books and four plays into her career, it stands to reason that Kate Mosse is a trove of writerly wisdom.
“Every writer will feel at some point isolated and overlooked and under-appreciated, especially when they see things going better for other people,” she says. “It’s part and parcel of being a writer. A writer needs to concentrate on their own work and not compare themselves to others. That way, madness lies.”
Then there’s this: “The brilliant writer Kit de Waal once told me something great: ‘never dip your pen in other people’s pain’.”
Books: The best new reads hitting the bookshelves this year
Turning the page on another year, experts offer their predictions of what s going to be hot in the world of books for 2021. What will you be reading in 2021? 06 January, 2021 01:00
There will be a bumper crop of new books published this year thanks to the pandemic s effect on 2020 s schedule
IT S going to be a sizzling year for new books in 2021, from dazzling debuts and celebrity memoirs to tomes exploring diversity, as well as light-hearted reads and even a revisiting of Bridget Jones.
Many key titles were delayed due to the pandemic, so there should be a bumper crop of books to bag in 2021, but keep an eye on changing publication dates as the year progresses.