Top Fives

Top Five: Sagacious Sleuths

In the first of our new series, we present our Top Five Sagacious Sleuths. These are the sleuths who stand out the most in literary memory: the detectives who don’t give up and who approach each case with their own eccentricity and quirks. Continue Reading

General Chatter

A note on performance poetry

performance poetry blog

Poetry for the Stage and the Page

You don’t need to wander lonely as a cloud to express your feelings and opinions, or compare your love to a summer’s day to be a poet. Poets of the 21st century are popularising performance poetry once again. Spoken word has become a genre of its own. Open mic poetry nights are popping up everywhere from urban main streets to small country towns. Continue Reading

Author Interviews

The Gifted Storyteller | An interview with Gregg Korrol

Here at World of Books, we are excited to hear of new authors across the globe. Gregg Korrol released his first novel The Gifted Storyteller in January this year.

Using his knowledge and expertise from working in the educational field for over 20 years, his novel/guide on creating a better personal journey has received 5 star reviews, across all booksellers. From Amazon.com to Goodreads you will find an array of happy readers across the globe.

We managed to catch up with him, to learn more about his writing process and how he spends his spare time.

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General Chatter, The Week in Books

World Book Day Costumes | The Do’s and Don’ts

Costume

By Sarah Kneath.

It’s coming close to that time of year again. The day parents up and down the country discuss in hushed tones in quiet corners, shuddering over the ghosts of World Book Day past. Sadly, for most parents, the days when children were just given a voucher and had a book fair are done, it’s all about the costumes these days. Now, before you go delving into the dressing up box in a blind panic, here are some handy tips to help you get prepared.

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General Chatter

Books to Look out for in 2019

Books we are looking forward to in 2019

By Admin

We are avid bookworms here at World of Books, and many of us are setting our reading goals quite high this year. Many fantastic books hit our shelves last year, discovering new authors, up and coming authors or even the next in a series got us rather excited here at World of Books. We have compiled a list of some cracking books that will be hitting our shelves and TBR piles in 2019.

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