Helen Grant Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

Helen Grant

"The manuscript of Sir Walter Scott’s novel Rob Roy explains and exemplifies, in a mere glance, the author’s productivity... This was the first and only draft. There are almost no corrections, just the occasional word or sentence mildly revised." The first & only draft?! #GOALS

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Have ordered another Sheridan Le Fanu: The House by the Churchyard. I checked the library catalogue first and there is not one single book by him. Alas.

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Reading GALAXIAS by Stephen Baxter, which is absolutely wild - one day the sun just vanishes. I just love the epic scale of his books. MOONSEED begins with the destruction of a planet! Also Prince's Street gets taken out by a pyroclastic flow.

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The Tale of Samuel Whiskers, or, The Roly Poly Pudding https://t.co/iJrKgfjn0b

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RT @JoxVox: @helengrantsays This might be an interesting reinterpretation of Bram Stoker’s work. Dracula: Prince of Garnier.

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@acephalemagic @_paulroberts @UnrealCitoyenne I wondered about this. It looks amazing but I wasn't sure if it was based on Josh Malerman's book A House at the Bottom of a Lake or was ripping it off? The idea sounds sooooo similar.

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The current Bathroom Book is Peter Straub's GHOST STORY. I have read it so many times that I don't bother going from page 1 to the end any more; I just open it and read whichever bit I fancy.

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Still reading that ancient antho. The Lord Lytton was an absolute trial but I'm now on Sheridan Le Fanu's "Schalken the Painter" which is startlingly much better than nearly everything else.

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Yesterday we stopped off in Inverary on the way home and saw this - the Vital Spark, ex-EILEAN EISDEAL, ex-ELSEDA, ex-VIC 72, renamed in 2006 after the fictional puffer that appeared in the Para Handy books by Neil Munro: https://t.co/lzZlO3eOQZ

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@KrisHolt1 Interesting. The idea of giving someone a face-saving out is not new; cf the golden bridge in Sun Tzu’s The Art of War. Backing someone who may be paranoid into a corner is not going to produce nice results. 😱

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