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WIN a presentation pack of Roald Dahl Royal Mail stamps!

On 10th January this year, Royal Mail launched a brand-spanking new set of stamps beautifully illustrated by Quentin Blake, to remember one of our best loved children’s authors. Roald Dahl. Th...

09 mar 12

The day Little Interpretations fell off the face of the earth…

I whined a couple of posts ago that my new job was keeping my insanely busy – and so I’d neglected my blog. Understatement of the year. I logged into Little Interpretations today to publ...

08 mar 12

Review: Post Office by Charles Bukowski

I love American literature. Especially the stuff that explores the underside of American society. Post Office by Charles Bukowski fits the underside of American society Chinaski is loathable and love...

01 feb 12

The back-to-blogging giveaway!

Happy New Year everyone and once again, thanks for following! For those of you who do follow Little Interpretations, this update will be the first you’ve happened across in recent weeks. Maybe ...

10 jan 12

Armistice Day: MCMXIV by Philip Larkin

Today, 11/11/11, at 11am, most of the world will pause for two minutes to remember the ceasefire on the Western Front in 1918. Last year, I featured what could be considered as one of the best-loved ...

11 nov 11

Angela Carter and the Modern Fairy Tale

Don’t talk to strangers, especially the unassuming, handsome ones! Our parents drum this into our innocent little minds as kids, usually the first time we walk to school ourselves or the first time w...

26 oct 11

Review: Queer – William Burroughs

Queer by William S. Burroughs has been shelved on my bookcase for the best part of five years. I bought it along with other famed Beat Generation pieces: Jack Kerouac’s On the Road and Burrough...

15 sep 11

Quote #2 – remembering 9/11

These are the days after. Everything now is measured by after. – Don DeLillo, Falling Man (2007)

11 sep 11

Capturing 9/11 in literature

I’m writing this on 7th September 2011, acutely aware that it’s almost 10 years to the day that the towers of the World Trade Centre fell like wounded soldiers. In an effort to commemora...

10 sep 11

Quote #1 | love in New York city

Jimmy Herf stood stockstill at the foot of the brownstone steps. His temples throbbed. He wanted to break the door down after her. He dropped on his knees and kissed the step where she had stood. The...

07 sep 11

Back to blogging…

You may (… or may not) have noticed that I’ve been gone for quite a while! It has been a weird and yet wonderful summer; some dramatic moments coupled with some life-affirming moments, wh...

07 sep 11

And the winner is…

And the winner is, drum roll please… Gail Toms! Congratulations Gail on winning all four books shortlisted for the Scottish Book Awards 2011! Be sure to vote for you’re Scottish Book Awar...

13 jul 11

The Scottish Book Awards 2011: The Breakfast Room by Stewart Conn

Stewart Conn’s poetry collection, The Breakfast Room, has been shortlisted for the 2011 Scottish Book Awards (you can vote for it here!). The book is inspired by and titled after the Bonnard pa...

07 jul 11

The Scottish Book Awards 2011: Red Dust Road by Jackie Kay

So let’s kick things off! In July I will be giving away the four titles that have been shortlisted for The Scottish Book Awards 2011 – find out how to enter the giveaway here! In the non-...

22 jun 11

The Scottish Book Awards 2011 Giveaway

To celebrate the 39th year of The Scottish Book Awards, hosted by Creative Scotland, I will be hosting a giveaway! In the month of July, you will be given the chance to win all of the titles shortlis...

22 jun 11

Guest review: The Girl Who Played With Fire by Stieg Larsson

This week, I’m letting my mum loose on Little Interpretations, as she reviews the second book in Larsson’s Millenium Trilogy… Wow! What a fantastic late-into-the-night page turner. ...

31 may 11

Carole Ann Duffy & the royal wedding

I know, I know, I’m so off-trend with this post (the royal wedding? Pfft, so last season). But did you know that our very own Poet Laureate Carole Ann Duffy, who once claimed that “no sel...

26 may 11

Slaughterhouse 5 – Kurt Vonnegut

“you’ll either love it, or push it back in the science-fiction corner”, says the 1969 New York Times review of Kurt Vonnegut’s Slaughterhouse 5. When I purchased it on a whim,...

09 may 11 1 person likes this

Ernest Hemingway – The Old Man and the Sea

I found Hemingway’s The Old Man and the Sea quite dull. At least until page 57. I finished it almost two weeks ago, but I choose not to review it straight away, as I knew I couldn’t give ...

05 apr 11

Penguin gets new threads courtesy of Jillian Tamaki

Now before I begin, these beautiful Penguin Thread editions are not due to be released until October 2011 (I know, I can’t wait that long either!). Illustrator and cartoonist Jillian Tamaki was commi...

29 mar 11

Virginia Woolf’s last letter

I just had to blog about this. Virginia Woolf’s life is a well publicised one. As is her death. On 28th March 1941, sixty-years ago today, she drowned herself by wading into the River Ouse in Y...

28 mar 11

Samuel Beckett – The Expelled & First Love

To reflect the teeny-tiny stature of this Penguin Mini Modern Classic book (which I won courtesy of For Books Sake), I’ll keep this review as brief as possible. That’s not to say that I d...

24 mar 11

So, what’s been happening?

Dear readers, I’m not prone to writing ‘filler’ posts but this is exactly that. I’m feeling increasingly conscious that I’ve been posting less regularly and although I&#...

21 mar 11

World Book Night 2011: The ups & the downs

It’s been almost a week since the hype surrounding World Book Night reached its crescendo, as 20,000 givers prepared to hand out 1 million books across the UK. On the Friday before the book giv...

11 mar 11

Review: The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie by Muriel Spark

There’s something about Brodie! She is perhaps one of the most complex literary characters that I have come across; she is neither likeable (her admiration of Hitler and Mussolini assures this)...

26 feb 11

My Literary Tattoo

Reading As I Lay Dying was arduous task; it isn’t the most gripping plot that you will ever read, the narrative shifts from character to character, and like much of Faulkner’s work, it is stylistical...

20 feb 11 1 person likes this

Penguins Mini Modern Classics: I won!

There’s been a whole lot of hype and Twitter chat recently surrounding Penguin’s Mini Modern Classics, which celebrate 50 years of Penguin Modern Classics (congratulations, Penguin). The ...

14 feb 11

My Penguin: You Do the Covers

A while back, I blogged about Penguin’s irresistible Art-Deco inspired books, released to celebrate the 70th Anniversary of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s death. Knowing me all to well, my mates recentl...

10 feb 11

Save Our Libraries Day: 5th February 2011

Libraries set people free. They’re not a luxury. They’re not a relic. We must fight to save them - Hari Kunzru As part of Cameron’s ‘Big Society’, spending cuts will result in publi...

02 feb 11

Review: Red Dust Road by Jackie Kay

Jackie Kay‘s writing oozes normality, it’s unashamedly honest and at times unapologetically simple. But her personal life has been neither normal nor simple, and her identity has very much infl...

25 jan 11

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