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		<title>Book Review &#8211; Arcadia by Lauren Groff</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 26 May 2012 16:05:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Isabel Costello</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The question of what literary fiction is, or isn’t, is one that both frustrates and fascinates me.  I’ve read many novels designated literary and not understood what distinguishes them from really well-written commercial fiction (now sometimes referred to as upmarket commercial).  One criterion common to the various definitions of literary fiction is that the writing itself, the &#8230; <a href="http://isabelcostello.wordpress.com/2012/05/26/book-review-arcadia-by-lauren-groff/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#187;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=isabelcostello.wordpress.com&#038;blog=27654901&#038;post=790&#038;subd=isabelcostello&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Top 10 Summer Reads 2012</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 May 2012 09:28:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Isabel Costello</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Welcome to my Top 10 Summer Reads 2012.  Competition has been fierce and the list could have been five times longer, but I hope my selection has something to suit all tastes: from literary to light, a cracking thriller, different periods in history and a wide range of settings from Australia to Canada and many places in between.  I&#8217;ve read most &#8230; <a href="http://isabelcostello.wordpress.com/2012/05/15/top-10-summer-reads-2012/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#187;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=isabelcostello.wordpress.com&#038;blog=27654901&#038;post=720&#038;subd=isabelcostello&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Book Review &#8211; The Light Between Oceans by M L Stedman</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 May 2012 16:26:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Isabel Costello</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sometimes you just get a feeling about a book.  As I mentioned in a recent post Book Titles – (Don’t) Call It What You Like,  I wanted to read The Light Between Oceans from the moment I heard the title:  it is original, it conveys the theme and gives a real taste of the beauty &#8230; <a href="http://isabelcostello.wordpress.com/2012/05/10/book-review-the-light-between-oceans-by-m-l-stedman/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#187;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=isabelcostello.wordpress.com&#038;blog=27654901&#038;post=740&#038;subd=isabelcostello&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A World Away &#8211; Geographical Settings in Fiction</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 05 May 2012 15:24:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Isabel Costello</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Every time I write a new piece for my blog I end up with ideas for two or three more!  I’m now compiling my Top 10 Summer Reads listing (coming 18 May) and I&#8217;m aiming to include a wide variety of settings from Australia to England; coastal, city, country.  This got me thinking about how important &#8230; <a href="http://isabelcostello.wordpress.com/2012/05/05/a-world-away-geographical-settings-in-fiction/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#187;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=isabelcostello.wordpress.com&#038;blog=27654901&#038;post=707&#038;subd=isabelcostello&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Book Review &#8211; The Last Summer by Judith Kinghorn</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Apr 2012 11:31:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Isabel Costello</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When a review copy of Judith Kinghorn’s debut The Last Summer found its way to me just before Christmas, I had only recently published my Fiction Hot Picks for 2012 and immediately felt it should have been included, given the current mania for all things World War I.   If you are a fan of British TV &#8230; <a href="http://isabelcostello.wordpress.com/2012/04/26/book-review-the-last-summer-by-judith-kinghorn/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#187;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=isabelcostello.wordpress.com&#038;blog=27654901&#038;post=698&#038;subd=isabelcostello&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>On Location:  #4 Côte d&#8217;Azur/The French Riviera</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Apr 2012 14:08:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Isabel Costello</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I won’t get into why France is so significant to me (another time), but at a guess, I’ve been there 100-150 times.  I’ve visited most parts of the country, but it’s the Provence-Côte d’Azur Region in the South-eastern corner that pulls me back the most often.   I recently spent a week with my family in &#8230; <a href="http://isabelcostello.wordpress.com/2012/04/20/on-location-4-cote-dazurthe-french-riviera/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#187;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=isabelcostello.wordpress.com&#038;blog=27654901&#038;post=673&#038;subd=isabelcostello&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Book Review &#8211; Life! Death! Prizes! by Stephen May</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Apr 2012 08:51:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Isabel Costello</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I wanted variety in my Fiction Hot Picks for 2012 and this book is certainly different, even down to the way it made it onto the list. Most of the novels are included because I’d heard the author&#8217;s agent/editor raving about them, which they are after all paid to do; thanks to their good judgement I haven’t had a &#8230; <a href="http://isabelcostello.wordpress.com/2012/04/12/book-review-life-death-prizes-by-stephen-may/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#187;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=isabelcostello.wordpress.com&#038;blog=27654901&#038;post=652&#038;subd=isabelcostello&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Lucky 7 &#8211; Seven Lines from New Works</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Apr 2012 07:07:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Isabel Costello</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I returned from my lovely trip to the South of France to find I’d been tagged by Jane Rusbridge in the Lucky 7 &#8211; Seven Lines from New Works.  Here are the rules if you’re not familiar with it: Go to page 7 or 77 in your current manuscript · Go to line 7 · &#8230; <a href="http://isabelcostello.wordpress.com/2012/04/10/lucky-7-seven-lines-from-new-works/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#187;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=isabelcostello.wordpress.com&#038;blog=27654901&#038;post=636&#038;subd=isabelcostello&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A Real Character &#8211; Or in this Case, Me</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Mar 2012 14:33:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Spring is here and it&#8217;s almost time to make a start on my second novel – if nothing else it will take my mind off what’s going to become of the first one, which is currently ‘out there’ in search of its destiny.  For me, writing a book starts with character: this time the main one came first &#8230; <a href="http://isabelcostello.wordpress.com/2012/03/25/a-real-character-or-in-this-case-me/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#187;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=isabelcostello.wordpress.com&#038;blog=27654901&#038;post=606&#038;subd=isabelcostello&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Book Review &#8211; Gillespie and I by Jane Harris</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Mar 2012 10:42:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Six years after the release of Jane Harris’s debut novel The Observations, I still remember the voice of Irish servant girl Bessy with a clarity I wish I could summon for everything that I read.  Her second novel, Gillespie and I had attracted plenty of buzz even before being long-listed for the Orange Prize 2012. &#8230; <a href="http://isabelcostello.wordpress.com/2012/03/20/book-review-gillespie-and-i-by-jane-harris/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#187;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=isabelcostello.wordpress.com&#038;blog=27654901&#038;post=600&#038;subd=isabelcostello&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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