Stephanie Butland

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Tuesday reading round-up

Let’s have a reading round-up, shall we? It’s been a while.

‘The Snow Child’ by Eowyn Ivey.
This was a tiny-railway-station-shop panic buy. I had less than 100 pages to go in what I was reading, and although the journey was only supposed to take an hour, you never know what might happen. (Twenty years ago, I [...]

Bah! Tuesday book: any book you like

Tuesday is traditionally the day for recommending books here at Bah!. I like to tell you about books I’ve read that inspire me, make me laugh, make me think, enable me to cook lovely food or make pretty stuff.
But after a weekend which included a visit to the British Library, this Tuesday is a bit [...]

A girl who reads

This has been doing the rounds on Twitter for the last couple of days, and I think it’s an absolutely brilliant poem. (Not only because when I was at school I was often teased, mocked and derided for my unapologetic bookishness and love of the library.)
It’s only two minutes, and I promise you won’t regret [...]