QUEEN ESTHER , by John Irving I’m a counselor at a summer camp in the upper reaches of Wisconsin in July 1990. It’s after lights-out and I’m 15 pages from finishing a worn paperback edition of John Ir...
11.02.2025 Nytimes.com and 1 sites
BBC News has an article on the initiative of the Brontë Birthplace of selling slices off discarded beams in order to raise funds. Timbers from the childhood home of the Brontë family are to be sold of...
10.30.2025 Bronteblog.blogspot.com
November 2, 2025 Unexpected Classics: How TikTok and Existential Angst Are Driving Book Sales The book market historically observed predictable sales patterns for classic novels. Yearly bestsellers ty...
11.02.2025 Archyde.com
Explore top things to do in Naperville this weekend. Enjoy Halloween, local theatre, family-friendly fundraisers, and delicious eats at Rosie’s, Kreger’s, Mesón Sabika and more. Celebrate fall with fl...
10.30.2025 Positivelynaperville.com
The Yorkshire Post features Shaun Usher and his compilation Diaries of Note: 366 Lives, One Day at a Time. Diaries of Note: 366 Lives, One Day at a Time was finally published last month. The book gathers 366 diary entries, one for each day of the leap year, written by people from all walks of life, from Virginia Woolf to Alan Rickman, Elton John to Nelson Mandela, and countless others not touched by fame. It’s a reminder, says Manchester-based Usher, that the act of keeping a diary, however ordi...
11.04.2025 Bronteblog.blogspot.com
Robeson County Public Libraries is excited to welcome Lauren Tubbs as the new adult services librarian. Originally from North Alabama, Lauren brings with her a deep love of books, library outreach, le...
10.31.2025 Robesonian.com
What to do when the world changes beyond all recognition, when life as you know it grinds to a halt. For Shaun Usher, the answer was to write. Like many who lived through the lockdowns of the global C...
11.03.2025 Yorkshirepost.co.uk