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Maggie Ritchie reading from Paris Kiss at the Glasgow Women's Library story cafe. A story of women artists denied credit for their work, but living life to the full.

The Story Café

Glasgow Women’s Library welcomed Maggie Ritchie to the Story Café, where she read a gorgeous excerpt from her debut novel: Paris Kiss.

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The Jerwood Fiction Uncovered prize 2015 long list shelfie. Another few for the TBR pile.

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Un.miss.a.ble ...

Ways of the Doomed/Sun Song Trilogy trailer.

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The passport to freedom is truth

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Getting excited about Jim Crumley's next talk - at the Pitlochry Theatre for Winter Words, Feb 15th. He will be talking about the reintroduction of sea eagles and how it's been working out as they cross paths with the goldens. Birds of prey are amazing!

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"You can call me Mongol, because it's who I am." Uuganaa Ramsay is inspirational. Her radio documentary, the Meaning of Mongol, airs on BBC world service this month.

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The arrival of Michael J Malone's 'funny and brutal, heartfelt and compelling' Beyond the Rage fast approaches but for those who can't wait for the hard copy, it's already available on Kindle! http://www.amazon.co.uk/Beyond-Rage-Michael-J-Malone-ebook/dp/B00R7RFKVI/

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Paris Kiss is an engaging, sumptuous historical novel set in 1880s Paris in the atelier of sculptor Auguste Rodin. Focusing on the two young women who worked in his studio, Camille Claudel and Jessie Lipscomb, this debut by Maggie Ritchie takes you right to the heart of the bohemian art world in the city of light.

...and there's a whole new Pinterest board for Paris Kiss, full of indulgent images of Paris and fascinating photos from the album of Rodin's studio. Meet Camille and Jessie and wander through the city streets.

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Get to know the Saraband and Contraband authors

We've been posting some new images to a couple of our Pinterest pages today. Come and take a look around!

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Things to look forward to in 2015: Coming in February, the sumptuous historical novel from Maggie Ritchie, Paris Kiss. #books #paris #art

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Beautiful.

ASSELIN Maurice

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Plenty of love coming in for the cover of our forthcoming release set in the Bohemian Paris art world in the late 19th C. Camille Claudel, Jessie Lipscomb and Rodin: one of them is feeling something of a spare wheel.

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As the day draws to a close, a family prepares for Christmas. Outside, the world slowly turns to white … This animation, using the illustrations of Caroline Rabei, is based on a beautiful new picture book of Walter de la Mare’s poem ‘Snow’.

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TBT: Uuganaa with the first copies of her memoir Mongol before its publication date.

Her BBC Radio 4 documentary ‘The Meaning of Mongol’ which explores the issues at the heart of her memoir can be found here.

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'"Is a life spent reading worth living?" I'd once asked.

She'd shrugged and, only half-joking, said, "Two things make life worth living: sex and books."'

- Oh Marina Girl by Graham Lironi (coming April 2015)

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On the whole, he reflected, it could have been a lot worse.

Terry Pratchett, from Men at Arms (via the-final-sentence)