Andy’s Places and Books
Places and BooksMy blog is all about books I have read, reviews, the bookshops I love, book recs, literary festivals and book chat. Oh and travel!
| Platform |  | Pricing | Only free issues | Publishes | Twice weekly |
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The Guardian’s 100 Best Books of All Time - my reaction
On Saturday the Guardian published the 100 Best Books of all time and I had to respond.
Now I am a glazomaniac (a lover of making lists). Ask me my favourite tea flavours and I will give you a top ten before the kettle’s boiled. I could e...
Andy’s Sunday Lit Quiz - 2026/20
It’s Sunday Lit Quiz time!
This week it’s all about houses…
Twenty questions. One point for each correct answer. Spelling optional. Always mark yourself generously. Answers at the bottom.
Let’s go.
Name the writer
- The Haunting of...
Six books to take a chance on, part two
Last month I did a piece about a few books I loved but which I rarely recommend - Six books to take a chance on, pt 1. They were Darkness at Noon, Ice, Too Loud a Solitude, Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard, Come Back Charleston Blue and The...
Andy’s Sunday Lit Quiz - 2026/19
It’s Sunday Lit Quiz time!
After last week’s tricky quiz, something a bit different this week. Simply name the country that each book is principally set in.
Twenty questions. One point for each correct answer. Spelling optional. Always ma...
À la recherche du bookshops perdu
The ghosts of many former businesses haunt my local town centre. Many pubs - The Bull, The Horse and Groom, the Blackfriars - and many shops: bakeries, department stores, toy shops, and one very special bookshop - Thomas Thorp’s Books.
Whe...
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