Welcome to the first of April's Poetry Wednesdays. Please don't go anywhere. I know at least some of you were thinking of just marking this post "read" because it's not about prose. And maybe I say that because part of me is thinking of not even trying to write it.
My first Angela Carter read was The Magic Toyshop. Somewhere I'd gotten the idea that I would like this novel without any real understanding of its author, so I was surprised by just how magical that toyshop really was, but I recognized something about Angela Carter that led me to
M.J. Hyland's This is How (Canongate, 2009) This is not the first of M.J. Hyland's novels that I've read. How the Light Gets In (2004) is the story of a Sydney teenager transplanted into an American family as an exchange student and Carry Me Down (2006) is the story of
I'm so incredibly excited about Persephone Reading Week that I think I'll need to take the week off work to celebrate it properly. That was a temptation when I first heard about the event, and I started thinking "themes" and then spotted a collection of films about wartime England at
Judy Blume's Blubber (1974) Jean Little's One to Grow On (1969) Sheila Greenwald's It All Began with Jane Eyre (1980) Louise Fitzhugh's Harriet the Spy (1964) Previous shelf-discovery posts I've made have focussed on historical fiction (here, here and here) and post-apocalyptic fiction, mysteries (here) and fantasies, but the majority of my
