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I love reading and listening to music. Lately I have discovered some musicians who are also gifted writers. Tracey Thorn is a magnificent singer and started out in 1980s indie bands The Marine Girls and Everything But the Girl.

Today I have chosen Lean In by Sheryl Sandberg to review. To find this book just log into your Borrowbox account and search by title or author.

Highly worthy of its place on the 2021 Dublin Literary Award Longlist, this début novel by Canadian author Nathaniel Lande (nominated by the Hungarian Katona József Library of Bács-Kiskun County), is a notable addition to the Holocaust fiction canon.

This course is under Hobby and Leisure in Great Courses Plus, accessible through our eResources, and delivered by William Lidwell.

With the Siberian coldsnap and Russia increasingly in the international spotlight due to political tensions, my thoughts turned to a holiday I spent in Russia two years ago with my family.

Three wonderful books available on BorrowBox; all enthralling, one will make you laugh, but at the very least, these titles offer a bit of escapism during these strange days. 

When life feels dark and gloomy, it’s important to find a way to lift our spirits.

A short story is a work of prose fiction that can be read in one sitting. There is no maximum length, but the average short story is 1,000 to 7,500 words, with some outliers reaching 10,000 or 15,000 words.

It’s hard to believe that later on this year sees the 30th anniversary of grunge exploding onto the music scene. While all bands on the Seattle scene apart from Pearl Jam had released albums prior to 1991, it was the release of Smells Like Teen Spirit by Nirvana in September of that year that made Seattle the centre of the rock music scene.

Laura Ingalls Wilder can be remembered this month. She was born in the state of Wisconsin.