Word Gets Around Magazine covers Taunton and Surrounding areas and a separate magazine for West Somerset. I joined the magazine in March 2019 to provide book reviews. In each issue I will provide reviews for both fiction and non-fiction titles.
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Issue 43: January/February 2021
Fiction Review:
Winterkill by Ragnar Jónasson (Orenda Books)
Non-Fiction Review:
Agent Sonya: Lover, Mother, Soldier, Spy by Ben Macintyre (Viking Books)
Issue 42: November/December 2020
Fiction Review:
The Thursday Murder Club by Richard Osman (Viking Books)
Non-Fiction Review:
The Little Library Christmas by Kate Young (Head of Zeus)
Issue 41: August/September 2020
Fiction Review:
Fresh Water for Flowers by Valérie Perrin (Europe Editions)
Non-Fiction Review:
Into the Tangled Bank by Lev Perikian (Elliott & Thompson)
Issue 40: July/August 2020
Fiction Review:
Miss Benson’s Beetle by Rachel Joyce (Doubleday)
Non-Fiction Review:
100 Birds by Carl Bovis (Little Book Company)
Issue 39: March/April 2020
Fiction Review:
The Silent Patient by Alex Michaelides (Orion Books)
Non-Fiction Review:
The Volunteer: The True Storyof the Resistance Hero Who Infiltrated Auschwitz by Jack Fairweather (WH Allen) Winner of the 2019 Costa Book Award
Issue 38: January/February 2020
Fiction Review:
Nothing Important Happened Today by Will Carver (Orenda Books)
Non-Fiction Review:
Breaking & Mending: A junior doctor’s stories of compassion and burnout by Joanna Cannon (Profile Books)
Issue 37: November/December 2019
Fiction Review:
The Testaments by Margaret Atwood (Chatto & Windus)
Non-Fiction Review:
The Little Library Year: Recipes and reading to suit each season by Kate Young (Head of Zeus)
Issue 36: September/October 2019
Fiction Review:
Sweet Sorrow by David Nicholls (Hodder & Stoughton)
Non-Fiction Review:
The Lost Words: Spell Songs by Robert Macfarlane and Jackie Morris
Issue 35: July/August 2019
Fiction Review:
The Doll Factory by Elizabeth Macneal (Picador)
Non-Fiction Review:
Rosey: My Life in Somerset Cricket by Brian Rose and Anthony Gibson
Issue 34: May/June 2019
Fiction Review:
Wyld Dreamers by Pamela Holmes (Urbane Publications)
Non-Fiction Review:
Underworld by Robert Macfarlane (Hamish Hamilton)
Issue 33: March/April 2019
Fiction Review:
The Hunting Party by Lucy Foley (Harper Collins)
Non-Fiction Review:
The Cut Out Girl by Bart van Es (Fig Tree) Winner of the 2018 Costa Book of the Year.
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