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Chris Mills is a bookseller at 'Liberties Upstairs', the Liberties Press Bookshop, in Dublin. Originally from Birmingham, she's been living and working in Ireland for several years. She blogs at http://talesfromthelandingbookselves.com and http://curiouslycreatively.wordpress.com/ Her work has also been published on Writing.ie, Irish News Review, Hackwriters, Paragraph Planet and The Bookseller blog.

Literature Features

Introducing| The Golden Girls of Crime Fiction

Chris Mills Jun 16, 2016 0

Jane Marple, Beatrice Adela Lestrange Bradley and Maud Silver would be more accurately described as Golden Girls of the Golden Age of Crime Fiction, but that would make for a cumbersome title. All three characters found their way into print…

History

Exploring a Wartime Diarist: Vere Hodgson

Chris Mills May 15, 2015 1

I have long had a fondness for reading other peoples’ letters and diaries (published ones, I hasten to add), and recently I discovered a new diary for my collection. Thanks to the Hodges Figgis bargain section (which sadly is not as…

Literature

Mary Wollstonecraft: A Hyena in petticoats, or was she just misunderstood?

Chris Mills Jan 28, 2015 0

Last year, I wrote an article for Headstuff about one of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley’s books, her only children’s novel Maurice. In so doing, I realised that perhaps I should have begun with her mother Mary Wollstonecraft (1759-1795) since…

Literature Features

Inspired by a Facebook challenge: Paddington Bear makes a lasting impression

Chris Mills Oct 2, 2014 1

Recently on the ‘sharing is caring’ site, a challenge to readers to list the ten books that have made a lasting impression on them has been busily doing the timeline rounds. As I have many bookish friends, not only was I tagged into this…

Literature Features

Maurice or The Fisher’s Cot: a long lost tale by Mary Shelley

Chris Mills Jul 25, 2014 0

Maurice is a short three part children’s story by a writer who remains best known for the gothic horror of Frankenstein. I came upon Maurice by accident and I can hazard a guess that I am not the only gothic fiction reader who wasn’t aware…