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BPS Bookclub, Feb 2023 : The End of the World is a Cul De Sac, Louise Kennedy
BPS Bookclub Review : Cloud Cuckoo Land, Anthony Doerr ( January 2023)
BPS Bookclub, March 2023 : The Spy and the Traitor
BPS Review: The Book of Form and Emptiness, Ruth Ozeki ( October 2022)
A couple of weeks after the book is closed and I’m sure many of you are still thinking about it (well, those of you who haven’t burned it to cut down on your gas bills anyway).
(PS. just in case you’re wondering, 17% gave it a terrible score, 35% okay, and 48% good or great)
Review of Sorrow And Bliss, Meg Mason ( June 2022)
BPS Review of Assembly, Natasha Brown ( reviewed Sept 2022)
BPS Book Club ; review of The Promise, Damon Galgut ( May 2022)
Best of the new Paperbacks from Northern Ireland, Summer 2022
New in Paperback : Best of Northern Irish Books Spring Summer 2022
Snowflake : Louise O'Neill
A startling, honest, laugh and cry novel about growing up and leaving home, only to find that you've taken it with you, Snowflake is a novel for a generation, and for everyone who's taken those first, terrifying steps towards adulthood.
The Troubles with Us : Alix O'Neill
A hilarious memoir about growing up in Northern Ireland in the 90s towards the end of the Troubles and a brilliantly propelling narrative of the extraordinary background story of her mother. Her mother's vivid personality and witty colloquialisms dominate the book and help to give a social history of life in Belfast from the 1950s onwards.
Out in Paperback from June 2022
All available via www.bookspaperscissors.co.uk