Month: August 2016

My Life as a Bibliophile: Julian Barnes in The Guardian

On By suroor alikhanIn About reading, writing and booksLeave a comment

You will enjoy this paean to books by Julian Barnes: discovering the vast worlds that reading can open up, and the joy of owning books. "I have lived in books, for books, by and with books; in recent years, I have been fortunate enough to be able to live from books. And it was through …

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The Woman in Black: Susan Hill

On By suroor alikhanIn Fantasy / Sci-Fi / Ghosts, Fiction2 Comments

Published by Vintage Random House The best ghost stories were written by Victorian writers, who knew that the most effective way to scare people was to leave something to the imagination: unsettling figures are glimpsed, noises are heard but not accounted for. Susan Hill picks up this tradition, using some of the conventions of the …

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