Sian Williams

Sian Williams is a former Readings Carlton bookseller

Review — 23 Sep 2014

The Assassination of Margaret Thatcher by Hilary Mantel

Unlike Hilary Mantel’s historical fiction, such as Wolf Hall and Bring up the Bodies, this unsettling collection of brilliantly oblique short stories is situated firmly in a modern England…

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Review — 23 Oct 2016

The Weirdstone of Brisingamen by Alan Garner

I have re-read The Weirdstone of Brisingamen many times since I first read it on a beach holiday when I was about 10 years old. What captured my imagination then…

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