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• It Would Be a Crime Not To
  It’s great to see our local Crime writers doing so well with both Steve Cavanagh and Stuart Neville having cracking books out at the moment. Blood Like Mine by Stuart Neville is a thrilling story ab...
  Type: Web Page Date: 09/04/2025
  
  
• Catch the Reading Bug
  I was recently interviewed by a PHD student from Queens who was interested to find out about how children’s reading habits have changed over the years.We know that less children are reading for fun...
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• Agatha Christie in the Library with a Candlestick
  Audio version Having just watched a crime drama series on Channel 4 called Hierro (Spanish with English subtitles and highly recommended 😊) I am having a nostalgic look back to when I lived in a nei...
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• Like Historical Fiction You’ll love this one
  Audio version This is the first Joseph O’Connor book that I have read – I remember when The Star of the Sea came out a few years ago I was put off by the many pages and the bleak subject of the novel...
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• Detective Up Late Adrian McKinty puts Carrickfergus on the Map again
  Audio version It has been a long time coming – but finally we have the last in the Sean Duffy series, Detective Up Late. The seventh in the series – and quite a few years since the last one – Police ...
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• Wuthering Heights Book and Song
  I love it when modern trends connect to life from previous centuries. The song ‘Wuthering Heights’ captured the imagination of more than one generation as Kate Bush wafted her way through a passionate...
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• Thrillers, psychological et al
  Can I confess now that as well as all the books I have mentioned previously I am partial to the odd thriller and police procedural too!  Recently I listened to Lockdown by Peter May – this was a nove...
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• The Test of Time
  Anyone else agree that books chosen as texts for exams are the ultimate turn off for any young teenager? Even as a keen reader I can still remember trying to trawl my way through ‘Far From the Madding...
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• The Pack Horse Library Project
  Recently I was intrigued to read of an initiative supported by Eleanor Roosevelt in 1930’s America of a library service to isolated areas of Kentucky. The books were carried by packhorses or mules an...
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• Taylor Jenkins Reid featuring Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo and Daisy Jones and the Six
  Taylor Jenkins Reid’s books came to the fore in the UK during Lockdown, with multiple TikTok book reviews being made about The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo and then Daisy Jones and the Six. It took m...
  Type: Web Page Date: 09/04/2025