Holland Park Press Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

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Much of what Ayres has to say about youthful exuberance, teenage angst and finding ones place in the world are universal. I thought of Virginia Woolf’s A Room of One’s Own as I read of a boy surveying his room. #TopoftheSixties #shortstories #1960s https://t.co/Z2SWKYCUBt https://t.co/rLTtUWqJcD

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Much of what Ayres has to say about youthful exuberance, teenage angst and finding ones place in the world are universal. I thought of Virginia Woolf’s A Room of One’s Own as I read of a boy surveying his room. #TopoftheSixties #shortstories #1960s https://t.co/Z2SWKYCUBt https://t.co/rLTtUWqJcD

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The Yellow House gives a well researched, sympathetic and realistic sense of the man Vincent. It’s a great read, and is a must buy for those of you who love #painters and #artists. Beautiful. The #YellowHouse a #novel about #VincentvanGogh https://t.co/yhhUqfvRxU https://t.co/yoU5oTZhjF

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The slapstick humor works well: ‘No one has ever apologised to street furniture as often as I did.’ The institutional setting and quirky cast reminded me of The Secret Diary of Hendrik Groen. #TheInstitute a #novel set in a school for #blind @Vincent_Bijlo https://t.co/LAF9oMdGpS https://t.co/v3AAQ7xQ9K

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In bringing to life real people from the past, Hold Still is in the tradition of Paula McLean’s The Paris Wife and Nancy Horan’s Loving Frank, and is as compelling and fascinating as these popular novels.’ #HoldStill #novel #JamesWhistler & #GustaveCourbet https://t.co/uyCW1omh17 https://t.co/y0lKj43fZg

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Braille, that’s what they taught me well there. I was already good at it when I was six. Since then, I’ve embossed tons of paper with dots. I wrote about life outside the gates of the Institute, the life I didn’t know. #TheInstitute @Vincent_Bijlo https://t.co/2HCQy801ef https://t.co/8Is0fppagD

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In bringing to life real people from the past, Hold Still is in the tradition of Paula McLean’s The Paris Wife and Nancy Horan’s Loving Frank, and is as compelling and fascinating as these popular novels.’ #HoldStill #novel #JamesWhistler & #GustaveCourbet https://t.co/uyCW1omh17 https://t.co/y0lKj43fZg

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‘The mysticism of the Romantics and of modern #physics are drawn together in this impressive #philosophical essay disguised as a very funny book.’ #Winegarden a #novella @AnthonyFerner #SavedByOneBook https://t.co/XqHuSkF8GG https://t.co/B3xxoahgif

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I’ve just sold the first book of the day: A Diamond in the Dust, a #novel about Charles I portrayed as a patron of the arts, by Michael Dean. Just published! First novel in a trilogy about The Stuarts: Love, Art and War #TheStuarts https://t.co/OAxYoeYedt https://t.co/R3hUwl1Go6

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This is the last house on the river, Tucked where an angle of mud resigns And where a remnant of the dun dune grass Shivers onto shore. The #HousesAlongtheWall a #Pembrokeshire #poetry cycle by Karen Hayes #SavedByOneBook https://t.co/nIYjpdfGMC https://t.co/WfJLvQ5u02

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