Thursday March 14, 2024 at 9:49pm
Paul Murray’s The Bee Sting wins inaugural Nero book of the year prizeIrish author’s ‘suspenseful and linguistically astonishing’ fourth novel praised for its ‘great wit and humanity’ by judge Bernadine EvaristoAuthor Paul Murray, whose fourth novel The Bee Sting won the inaugural £30,000 Nero Gold book of the year prize. Paul Murray’s The Bee Sting wins inaugural Nero book of the year prizeIrish author’s ‘suspenseful and linguistically....
Thursday March 7, 2024 at 9:53pm
Anne Enright triumphs in fiction category for The Wren, Three women have triumphed in this year’s Writers’ prize, formerly known as the Rathbones Folio prize, with poet Liz Berry winning the overall book of the year award, worth £30,000.Berry won the £2,000 poetry prize as well as the overall award for her collection The Home Child, a novel-in-verse inspired by the poet’s great-aunt, who at 12 years old was forced to move from the Black Country to Canada as part of ....
Monday January 22, 2024 at 4:35pm
Philip Pullman, the author of the His Dark Materials trilogy, has joined fellow celebrated British writers Michael Morpurgo and Julia Donaldson this weekend in calling on government to legislate immediately to ensure all schools in Britain have libraries.“The school library is absolutely essential at every level of education, and it needs legal protection and status,” said Pullman. “It is too easy to think that books and reading for pleasure are not essential, whereas nothing i....
Wednesday December 27, 2023 at 3:40pm
Street Fighting ManBy John Knight View Book Extract'Street Fighting Man’ is the 7th novel in the 1960s Jimmy Mack series and the second novel in the 1968 trilogy. The 1968 trilogy follows the 1967 trilogy. ‘Alice’, a parallel story, is also part of the series. The series follows the rise of James ‘Mack’ MacKinnon, a young Mod, to top London fashion photographer. Mack shares his love with three young women who live with ....
Friday August 11, 2023 at 1:18pm
Normal0falsefalsefalseEN-GBX-NONEX-NONE When you are on the Cover Creator step of publishing, you can easily upload your own images on our Cover Creator page by its menu buttons. The Cover Creator sizes your images to your chosen book size for you to view straight away in seconds on the screen. It also enables you to easily add cover text if your images do not have text on them - for the front cover, back cover and spine text.FeedARead's new template choices are also displayed below and ar....
Saturday December 24, 2022 at 12:15pm
We hope everyone has a happy, enjoyable Christmas and a peaceful New Year. Many thanks to all our authors for their great books and we look forward to 2023 and all your further creativity.
Tuesday October 4, 2022 at 4:08pm
From the Authors: "This is an anthology in four parts by members and friends of our group. We chose WATER for our main theme, with our mermaid voices expressing thoughts, relating tales, and speaking of many places real and imagined."All profits from the book go to the motor neurone disease association.View Book on FeedARead
Friday September 9, 2022 at 3:43pm
Blog from Jessica MajewskiObviously, a short story is the shortest form of prose. But how long or short is a short story?This isn’t an easy question—of course we know that a short story is typically a ‘short’ piece, but so is a novelette. What’s the unique and appropriate scope (word count and brevity) for a short story.View whole blog article
Monday August 1, 2022 at 5:48pm
August 1st 2022 Top Ten - Publish your own Book for free on on FeedARead.com. Includes a free cover creator where you can upload your own images or choose a template cover.1 Escape to AuschwitzBy Sonia Ann WaterfallIt was 2004, and a cache of letters was found when our parents house was cleared in preparation for sale. Ilse, our mother, had kept them safe for 50 years, never mentioning them nor telling their story. Hulda, her mother Gisela and daughter Ilse, all born into a Viennese J....
Thursday July 28, 2022 at 5:34pm
On his very first holiday to Italy, other than a day trip to Venice from the former Yugoslavia, Graham comes back to the UK with more than just any ordinary souvenir; he returns having bought a house. With nothing more than phrase book Italian, excited and uncertain of what he’s done, it’s the biggest gamble of his life.Click here to view more including an extract of Lorenzo's Vest on FeedARead.comPublish your own book for free by joining FeedARead.com, including you can use your own....
Friday June 17, 2022 at 2:10pm
FeedARead is very pleased to publish Community at Heart by Marie O'Connell View Book"This is a book on the decline of religious practice in Ireland and the impact of this on local communities. It is based on the change in church authority and community from our grandparents time to the present day. It concentrates on my observations over years working in the community especially as Pastoral Worker with the Diocese of Killaloe."Community at Heart
Thursday May 26, 2022 at 5:22pm
“Tootie Rainbow” by FeedARead author J C Milne, is a collection of short stories drawn from real life written for young children who are experiencing illness and bereavement in their family. The stories are written from the point of view of a little girl over the three years of her life between five and eight years old. "The book has been read and approved by a retired Health Visitor, who considers that it is entirely suitable for young children."View book on Fe....
Wednesday December 1, 2021 at 7:46pm
After two years of careful reading, moving backwards through time, Robert McCrum has concluded his selection of the 100 greatest nonfiction books. Take a quick look at five centuries of great writing ..Might your present or future book be a contender? Books published by our authors on the FeedARead.com site have made bestseller lists, including No Ordinary Life by Peter Stokes - an Amazon top ten book: the story of a founding member of the SAS who only told his children he'd been a Second World ....
Wednesday October 27, 2021 at 2:12pm
Book sites search engines often consider book titles in a variety of ways, including to recommend similar books with the familiar refrain of 'If you enjoyed this book you may enjoy ..'Both your book title and subtitle are ways to get your book additional recognition - both on book sites and on search engines. The more information you add, the more opportunity for your book to come to readers attention if readers search particular subjects on book sites, or on search engines, and words in y....
Saturday October 9, 2021 at 11:10am
Flashman's Winter – the latest in the Flashman series by Robert Brightwell with Thomas Flashman, the new generation of the Tom Brown’s School Days character. View on FeedARead.com The notorious Flashman emerged in Tom Brown’s schooldays, this book carries on a new generation of the family: Thomas Flashman, whose career covers the Napoleonic and Georgian era.In 1806 Prussia decl....
Monday January 4, 2021 at 9:30pm
She published her first book in her 40s and became the biggest selling author of the past decade in any genre – The Gruffalo alone has sold 13m copies. How did this former busker make it so big?The room where the children’s author Julia Donaldson writes – the heart of her vast picture book empire – is down a winding staircase, in the cellar of her grand white house in Steyning, West Sussex. Her desk looks out on the street at knee height. “I’m thinking of writ....
Tuesday December 29, 2020 at 9:27pm
Details of historic decision-making amid growing racist resentment feature in this elegant, if restrained, account of life inside the White Hous.To read Barack Obama’s autobiography in the last, snarling days of Donald Trump is to stare into an abyss between two opposite ends of humanity, and wonder once again at how the same country came to choose two such disparate men.Somewhere at the top of a long list of contrasts is their grasp of language and facts. On the eve of the book’s pu....
Tuesday December 15, 2020 at 9:33pm
The novelist’s hit debut, a witty spin on race, feminism and sex based on her time as a nanny in New York, has even won fans among her former employers…This time last year, Kiley Reid was a tantalising rumour, the truth of which was known only to her publishers and to the film company that had optioned her debut novel two years before it was ready to see the light of day. When Such a Fun Age was published – on New Year’s Eve in the US and a week later in the UK – t....
Thursday October 22, 2020 at 9:35pm
After two years of careful consideration, Robert McCrum has reached a verdict on his selection of the 100 greatest novels written in English. Take a look at his list1. The Pilgrim’s Progress by John Bunyan (1678)A story of a man in search of truth told with the simple clarity and beauty of Bunyan’s prose make this the ultimate English classic.2. Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe (1719)By the end of the 19th century, no book in English literary history had enjoyed more editions, spin-of....
Tuesday July 30, 2019 at 3:23pm
The winning entrant of the following competition from the correct entries was Liz Hill. Many congratulations to Liz on her competition win!Free to Enter Competition - Win a Bloomsbury Editor critique of your novel's opening chapters How To Enter: Simply read a brief extract from the books below by clicking on the View Extract links of the book titles below and then click the button you will see to view the extracts. Then, enter your favourite 2 book extracts from all the books as outlined below.....
Wednesday August 15, 2018 at 1:52pm
To view more of David Bowie's Top 100 Reads view the article link belowHawksmoor by Peter AckroydInferno by Dante AlighieriMoney by Martin AmisThe Fire Next Time by James BaldwinFlaubert’s Parrot by Julian BarnesHerzog by Saul BellowView Complete List of David Bowie Top Reads
Thursday July 12, 2018 at 1:14pm
Congratulations to FeedARead.com children's book author Paul Delaney who headlines on this month's issue of the New Educational Magazine for teachers HWRKMagazine Link: http://www.hwrkmagazine.co.uk/Paul has now published several great books for children with FeedARead.com and you can view all his books here:https://www.feedaread.com/search/books.aspx?keywords=delaney