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The Lit List – Mad as a March Hare
Top 10: books about insanity This month, we descend into madness with the best of fiction and non-fiction exploring insanity. Fiction Non-fiction
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Lit List: Burton Book Club 10th Anniversary
This month the Lit List has been taken over by the Burton Book Club as they celebrate their tenth anniversary. When the Book Club first came together in March 2014, who knew that we’d still be going strong ten years later. Over that time we have read everything from enduring Read more
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Burton Book Club – group read for February 2024
Love Untold (2023) by Ruth Jones Summary Grace is about to turn ninety and she doesn’t want parties or presents or fuss. She just wants a quiet celebration: her daily swim in the sea and a cup of tea with granddaughter Elin and great-granddaughter Beca. More than anything, she wants to Read more
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Burton Book Club – group read for January 2024
Everything is Everything (2023) by Clive Myrie Summary As a Bolton teenager with a paper round, Clive Myrie read all the newspapers he delivered from cover to cover and dreamed of becoming a journalist. In this deeply personal memoir, he tells how his family history has influenced his view of the Read more
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The Lit List – Best of 2023
Top 10: best reads of the year A retrospective of our favourite reading during 2023, not necessarily published this year, in fiction and non-fiction. These are books that stay with you long after the last page is read.
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The Lit List – Alternate History
Top 10: counterfactual novels A top ten of fiction that takes a point in history and diverges from it, exploring what if an historical event had taken a different course. Bubbling Under
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Burton Book Club – group read for December 2023
The Maid (2023) by Nita Prose Summary It begins like any other day for Molly Gray, silently dusting her way through the luxury rooms at the Regency Grand Hotel. But when she enters suite 401 and discovers an infamous guest dead in his bed, a very messy mystery begins to unfold. And Read more
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The Lit List – Ice and Snow
Top 10: wintery reads A top ten of fiction and non-fiction set in ice and snow – best read by the fire.
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The Lit List – Witcherature
Ten of the best books about witches and witchcraft for Halloween. The witching hour is nigh, so grab your broomstick and fly to your nearest bookshop or library. Beware, my pretties, these books may cast a spell on you. Bubbling under in a bubble, bubble, toil and trouble kind of Read more
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Burton Book Club – group read for November 2023
Widowland (2023) by CJ Carey Summary To control the past, they edited history. To control the future, they edited literature. London, 1953, Coronation year – but not the Coronation of Elizabeth II.Thirteen years have passed since a Grand Alliance between Great Britain and Germany was formalized. George VI and his family Read more