Looking for Luddites grew out of author and illustrator John Hewitt’s student interest in the Pennine landscape in the 1970s. It gathers together fourteen sites associated with the Luddite uprisings in 1812, drawn by John in their 21st century contexts and presented with a brief history of their significance. Out of his daily stuff, posted […]| What I Think About When I Think About Reading
Frankie Miren’s novel The Service follows three women involved in the sex industry in different ways. Lori is an illegal sex worker trying to forge a better life for herself and her daughter.…| What I Think About When I Think About Reading
In Manya Wilkinson’s tragicomedy Lublin, three teenage boys walk from Medritsch (Międzyrzec Podlaski) to Lublin along a road none of them have traversed before, in more ways than one. It is August 1907. Elya, Kiva and Ziv are taking brushes manufactured by Kiva’s uncle to market. Elya has made himself leader of the expedition. He […]| What I Think About When I Think About Reading
This is an opinion. I’ve provided links to information available online, most of which is open to interpretation due to a lack of transparency on the part of the main actors. I’m not ac…| What I Think About When I Think About Reading
Yuri Herrera is a new author to me. Season of the Swamp is his imagining of an 18 month period between December 1853 and June 1855 when Benito Juárez was in exile in New Orleans. The novel is descr…| What I Think About When I Think About Reading
We’ve had a hot couple of weeks in Manchester. It has felt like summer and the cover of Adam S Leslie’s Lost in the Garden called to me from Book Mountain. I wanted an adventure that wo…| What I Think About When I Think About Reading
It is 1982 and Swanna Swain is 14 years old. Her parents, both academics in their forties, both having a midlife crisis, have separated. They send Swanna and her younger brother Madding to summer c…| What I Think About When I Think About Reading
Adam Scovell’s third novel is loosely based on his own memories of growing up on the Wirral, Merseyside, and, through his usual mix of prose and photographic fragments, examines how a place a…| What I Think About When I Think About Reading
Lucie McKnight Hardy’s debut novel weaves together a smattering of personal experience with folk horror tropes to create a quiet novel about revenge, belonging and control. It’s an unse…| What I Think About When I Think About Reading
Henry and Astrid: a psychiatrist and a singer, drawn together at one of her gigs into an unequal relationship. Told in alternating chapters, Henry’s relayed in the first person, Astrid’…| What I Think About When I Think About Reading
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE VISTA, California, February 18, 2025—Torchflame Books launches a new imprint, Torchflame Books Large Print, to increase accessibility for readers of books produced by independent publishing houses. After intensive research, Teri Rider (CEO and Acquisitions Manager) and Jori Hanna (Director of Marketing and Public Relations) discovered a gap in the books available to […]| Torchflame Books
Death Comes for the Archbishop is a retelling of the story of Catholic priests Jean-Baptiste Lamy and Joseph Projectus Machebeuf and their mission to New Mexico. Set in the period shortly after New…| What I Think About When I Think About Reading
Split Tooth follows the fortunes of an unnamed Inuk girl from Nunavut, Canada. Her story is a first person narration, combining prose chapters with poetry and art. The novel begins in 1975, with a …| What I Think About When I Think About Reading
“What on earth shall I do when I get home? Read? All books are the same – about beautiful girls who get married or married women who fall in love with their husbands. In books things al…| What I Think About When I Think About Reading