Sample Saturday – a second chance, a plan, and a singer

Posted by Kate W in Stuff and Nonsense and tagged with Eleanor Kirk, grief-lit, Sample Saturday, Simon Van Booy, Sue Hincenbergs December 13, 2025

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Sample Saturday – a sister, Greece, and an imposter

Posted by Kate W in Stuff and Nonsense and tagged with Amy Taylor, Esther Freud, Neil Blackmore, Sample Saturday November 29, 2025

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Sample Saturday – a scam, a coma, and working

Posted by Kate W in Stuff and Nonsense and tagged with Adelle Waldman, Naima Brown, Sample Saturday, Sophie Quick November 22, 2025

Sample Saturday is when I wade through the eleventy billion samples I have downloaded on my Kindle. I’m slowly chipping away and deciding whether it’s buy or bye. Continue reading →

Sample Saturday – novellas

Posted by Kate W in Stuff and Nonsense and tagged with Asta Olivia Nordenhof, Beatriz Serrano, Claire Louise Bennett, Jeremy Cooper, Sample Saturday, Spanish, Swedish, translated November 15, 2025

Sample Saturday is when I wade through the eleventy billion samples I have downloaded on my Kindle. I’m slowly chipping away and deciding whether it’s buy or bye. Continue reading →

Sample Saturday – an apartment, names, and a catalogue

Posted by Kate W in Stuff and Nonsense and tagged with Florence Knapp, Leanne Shapton, Miranda Pountney, Sample Saturday November 8, 2025

Sample Saturday is when I wade through the eleventy billion samples I have downloaded on my Kindle. I’m slowly chipping away and deciding whether it’s buy or bye. Continue reading →

Sample Saturday – three memoirs

Posted by Kate W in Non-fiction, Stuff and Nonsense and tagged with 2025, Anna Marie Tendler, Joan Didion, John Gregory Dunne, memoir, Molly Kochan, nonfiction, novella, Sample Saturday October 25, 2025

Sample Saturday is when I wade through the eleventy billion samples I have downloaded on my Kindle. I’m slowly chipping away and deciding whether it’s buy or bye. Continue reading →

Sample Saturday – translation, friends, and anxiety

Posted by Kate W in Non-fiction, Stuff and Nonsense and tagged with 2025, Ellen Vora, fiction, Jen Calleja, nonfiction, Sample Saturday, Tiffany Watt Smith, translated October 18, 2025

Sample Saturday is when I wade through the eleventy billion samples I have downloaded on my Kindle. I’m slowly chipping away and deciding whether it’s buy or bye. Continue reading →

Sample Saturday – nonfiction picks

Posted by Kate W in Stuff and Nonsense and tagged with bibliotherapy, Daisy Buchanan, Edinburgh International Book Festival, Pamela Prickett, Sample Saturday, Stefan Timmermans, Suzanne O'Sullivan October 11, 2025

Sample Saturday is when I wade through the eleventy billion samples I have downloaded on my Kindle. I’m slowly chipping away and deciding whether it’s buy or bye. Continue reading →

Sample Saturday – in-laws, friends, and swimmers

Posted by Kate W in Stuff and Nonsense and tagged with Grainne O'Hare, Indian, Irish, Roisin Maguire, Sample Saturday, swimming, Uttama Kirit Patel September 27, 2025

Sample Saturday is when I wade through the eleventy billion samples I have downloaded on my Kindle. I’m slowly chipping away and deciding whether it’s buy or bye. Continue reading →

Sample Saturday – friends, an interpreter, and a wife

Posted by Kate W in Stuff and Nonsense and tagged with Fiona Scarlett, historical, Kimberley Freeman, Ledia Xhoga, Sample Saturday September 20, 2025

Sample Saturday is when I wade through the eleventy billion samples I have downloaded on my Kindle. I’m slowly chipping away and deciding whether it’s buy or bye. Continue reading →