Thank you Kelly at www.lovebookstours.com for organising this virtual book tour! And thanks to all the lovely book bloggers who participated…
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Mrs Book Burney
https://www.instagram.com/p/CMt0uGLrUNM/
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My Reading Narnia
https://www.instagram.com/p/CMti8G6r91f/
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Vicarioush Living
https://vicarioushome.com/joe-faber-and-the-optimists-gill-oliver/
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Tracey Wheeler
https://www.instagram.com/p/CMweZDkLv-D/
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The Wee Bookworm
https://www.instagram.com/p/CMzxw8TLB8u/
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Reading through the Looking Glass
https://readingthroughthelookinglass.wordpress.com/2021/03/24/joe-faber-and-the-optimists-by-gill-oliver/
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Daisy Says
https://www.instagram.com/p/CM3AQE3pdtv/
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Rhianydd Morris
https://www.instagram.com/p/CM7BSSTLXnc/
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breathe.andread
https://www.instagram.com/p/CM720jzL93t/
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Bianca Reads Books
https://www.instagram.com/p/CNBIRWALbk6/
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Lisa's Reading
https://lisasreading.com/joe-faber-and-the-optimists-book-tour/
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These Sisters Read
https://www.instagram.com/p/CNIp_rBLhON/
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Into the fold
Here’s a new thing. I was recently contacted by Ben Fox at Shepherd.com and invited to write a set of 5 short book reviews on
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First steps with audio
It was meeting with readers of Joe Faber and the Optimists that first got me thinking seriously about producing an audio book. Many stroke survivors
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Hark at them…
Another year, another Stroke Awareness month… I’m thrilled that Somerset libraries have taken the opportunity to join in, with this month’s podcast. Jeremy Thompson-Smith made
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Yevtushenko on untruth… a verse translation
https://youtu.be/d-fQFMO7654 Back in March, as the war in Ukraine gathered pace, I became obsessed with the memory of a poem I’d studied as a sixth-former,
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On getting stuck in a shed
Music to my ears from David Mitchell at this year’s Sidmouth Literary Festival Knowing neurosis from the inside ought to be really useful for a
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Book tour, March 2021
Thank you Kelly at www.lovebookstours.com for organising this virtual book tour! And to all the lovely book bloggers who participated.