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I never had my favourite edition of Frost's poetry, happy to just look up his works online or in cheap paperbacks โ until very recently when I got a copy of Selected Poems of Robert Frost - Illustrated Edition.
There is a film adaptation, but read the book first: you wonโt be able to put this page-turner down until the very end!
Eowyn Iveyโs debut novel The Snow Child, first published in 2012, is a genre-bending tale of longing, conflict and struggle, set in the majestic wilderness of Alaska. An interesting wintertime read, but probably not for everyone. Having lost their first and only baby, Jack and Mabel - already middle-aged - move from Pennsylvania all the …
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Over the past three years, possibly as an unexpected effect of the COVID-19 pandemic, lockdowns and social distancing, Iโve found myself exploring something Iโd never expressed much interest in: mushrooms. It began innocently enough: as I started taking my solitary nature walks, I also started noticing these silent and elusive creatures of vastly different colour, …
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