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Life after Twilight…
With the release of the last Twilight film this week, bookseller Cara Fielder helps you to fill the wooden stake shaped hole in your heart… So the sad time is finally upon us and Stephanie Meyer‘s...
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Introducing graphic novels: a top ten…
With graphic novels moving into the mainstream, Cara Fielder offers her top ten recommended reads for new-comers to the genre… Over the last decade graphic novels have gone from strength to strength....
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Laughing all the way: ten comic, quirky, and curious books…
Cara Fielder has pulled together her top ten most amusing books – from perennial classics to topical parodies and… dogs underwater? Every winter the market for humour books explodes, with new titles...
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Four Christmas favourites…
Cara Fielder picks out four Christmas favourites to warm your hearts as the cold sets in… Heading to work in the freezing cold and returning home in the pitch black can make for a pretty miserable time...
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Geek gifts…
Cara Fielder is flying the geek flag high and proud as she gives you her selection of the very best Geek-mas presents… A few years ago, “geek” was a term I was completely comfortable with. I knew where...
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Overlooked books…
As the publishing world waves goodbye to 2012 most people will be mulling over their favourite novels of the year. Newspapers will run breakdowns of their top 10s and bestsellers but Cara Fielder...
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Cold weather, hot paperbacks…
January can sometimes be a quiet time in the world of publishing but 2013 is bucking the trend and seeing the release of some truly fantastic paperbacks. But where do you begin when there is so much...
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Fire-starters: Tinder Press highlights
As snippets of information are being released on new novels from Helen Fielding, James Salter and Dan Brown, it looks like it is going to be a storming year for the world of books. One bit of news that...
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Quirky crafting
Pastimes such as knitting, making your own clothes and jewellery, or upholstering your own furniture has moved into the mainstream, but Cara Fielder‘s taking a look at the quirkier side of modern-day...
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The Soldier’s Wife: Meet Joanna Trollope
Since her début novel Eliza Stanhope was released in 1978, Joanna Trollope has gone from strength to strength with her heart-felt women’s fiction. Her paperback, The Soldier’s Wife is not only set to...
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Introducing Quick Reads…
Bookseller and regular contributor Cara Fielder celebrates the launch of this year’s selection of great books for just £1 from Quick Reads, and explains why it’s not just the price that makes these...
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Cara & The Cupcake Craze
A while ago, Cara Fielder delved into the quirkier side of crafting and this week she wanted to introduce you to another pastime that has shaken its fuddy-duddy image and captured the hearts of young...
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Judged by their covers: Cara and the cult collections
With the popularity of eBooks, publishers are becoming more and more creative with the design of the physical book. Cara Fielder takes a look at books that are not only beautiful on their own, but...
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Top ten books for Mother’s Day
With Mother’s Day coming up next Sunday – don’t say we didn’t remind you – Cara Fielder pulls together her top ten suggestions for the perfect book treat for your mum. And this being Cara, you can be...
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The Future of Science Fiction: Adam Christopher & James Smythe
Cara Fielder takes a look at two rising stars in the SF universe, and is very excited about their upcoming new books… Up until about a year ago almost all of my science fiction choices came from...
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A short list of short stories…
Good short stories are miraculous creations. In just a few paragraphs, sometimes even just a few sentences, a talented author can evoke a multitude of emotions. They are also perfect for people with...
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Book of the Month – April
Cara Fielder explains why this month’s Waterstones Book of the Month, Kate Atkinson‘s Life After Life, has had her ignoring her real family and friends in favour of fiction… If you have managed to cast...
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The best is yet to come…
For Cara Fielder, books in 2013 just keep getting better and better… 2013 has already been a fabulous year for novels, seeing incredible stories from well known authors such as Kate Atkinson and Maggie...
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The art of tattooing
Cara Fielder, also known as The Tattooed Book on her own blog and Twitter, takes a look at some of the best books out now about tattoos. See what she did there? In the last few decades the world of...
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The first books to hit the big screen…
At the request of one of her Twitter followers, Cara Fielder takes a look at the first books that made it from paper to celluloid… Recently I asked my followers on Twitter if they had any questions...
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Picture books for young and old…
Cara Fielder finds that some picture books might be as hard to tear from grown-up hands as younger ones… There’s something magical about a good picture book, it can capture a child’s imagination and...
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Being human
Cara Fielder is taken by philosophical clarity of Matt Haig‘s new novel The Humans… The eternal philosophical question of what makes us human has raged on for centuries. Is it our hormones, our...
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The Book That Made Me… love reading again: Cara Fielder
Cara Fielder tells us how she is the creation of Mary Shelley‘s Frankenstein… For many avid readers they can pinpoint a moment in time and a certain book that changed their fondness of reading into...
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New paperbacks for your book group
With smash hit paperbacks such as Gone Girl, The Pilgrimage of Harold Fry and The Hundred Year Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared causing numerous new book groups to pop up all over the...
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Finches of Mars
Cara Fielder gives in and indulges her SF sensibilities with the latest from Brian Aldiss… With over forty novels and novellas, forty anthologies and over twenty-five collections of short stories under...
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When Gone Girl’s gone…
Has Gillian Flynn‘s Gone Girl left a page-turning edge-of-your-seat thriller shaped hole in your life? Cara Fielder is here to help you the perfect book to to bring back that buzz… Gone Girl by Gillian...
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Cara Fielder takes a look at the new Penguin Street Art series which matches up classic fiction with the best graffiti artists around… Once you become familiar with the different publishing houses...
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Cats Vs. Dogs
Our nation’s love for pets causes a constant argument. Forget the battle of the sexes, this is the battle between cats and dogs. Which is smarter and which makes a better companion? These are eternal...
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The best new Graphic Novels
As the market for graphic novels grows, so does their incredible range. Here our Guildford bookshop’s own Cara Fielder with her choice of the newest graphic novels that reflect the diversity of the...
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Review: The Goldfinch, by Donna Tartt
We wondered why we’d not heard from Cara Fielder in a while… Turns out she was lost amidst the pages of Donna Tartt‘s The Goldfinch - which is published today… As a bookseller there are certain books...
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Introducing Quick Reads 2014
Today sees the official publication day of six brand new novellas from Quick Reads. If you haven’t heard of the literacy charity then our own Cara Fielder is here to tell you why you are seriously...
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Waterstones Week In Books Quiz, – Quick Reads special
To celebrate the launch of Quick Reads, we’ve a specially themed quiz from the Quick Reads team this week… Some of these questions are based around the lives and work of the authors who have written...
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