Welcome to One Bright Book! Join our hosts Frances, Dorian, and Rebecca as they discuss THE COUNTRY OF THE POINTED FIRS by Sarah Orne Jewett, and chat about their current reading. For our next epis…

On the eve of the longlist

In this stunning, thoroughly absorbing book, the writer and art critic Laura Cumming weaves together three intimately connected strands in the most captivating of ways. Firstly, we have the life an…

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Anita Brookner is one of my favourite novelists. She writes elegantly and insightfully about loneliness and isolation, typically focusing on unmarried women living quiet, unfulfilled lives while wa…

This is a post I’ve been meaning to put together for a while, but there never seems to be enough time to do everything! (A common complaint, I’m sure.) Anyway, a few years ago, I talked about sett...