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War and Peace 2026 starts tomorrow!

Wolf Crawl #52: And now no more

Midnight's Children: Further Resources

Welcome to Footnotes & Tangents!

W&P #50–52: The Eve of St Nicholas

Reading Schedule: Midnight's Children

Wolf Crawl #51: Mercy

The Blue Flower #7: Born for joy

Wolf Crawl #50: What light there is

W&P #49: Sorrow and Joy

The Blue Flower #6: A curious sensation

Will 2026 be the year of the slow read?

Wolf Crawl #49: Roll back time

W&P #48: Tell Your Story

The Blue Flower #5: What is pain?

Join the 2026 'War and Peace' Slow Read

Wolf Crawl #48: The longest night

W&P #47: We Are Stardust

The Blue Flower #4: Nothing happened

THREAD: What have you been reading?

2026 War and Peace Reading Schedule

Wolf Crawl #47: Eel boy, are you tired of life?

W&P #46: Life After Death

The Blue Flower #3: Something happened

So now, read Wolf Hall with us!

Wolf Crawl #46: Old enemies

W&P #45: The Drowned and the Saved

The Blue Flower #2: Everything was illuminated

2026 Wolf Crawl Reading Schedule

Wolf Crawl #45: Goodnight Master Cromwell

W&P #44: No More Heroes

The Blue Flower #1: The golden age

Footpaths #13: Numberblocks

Wolf Crawl #44: Bone-weary

W&P #43: Negative Numbers

The Blue Flower: Further Resources

Things Fall Apart #5: We have fallen apart

Wolf Crawl #43: The dogs of London

W&P #42: Happy Feet

Reading Schedule: The Blue Flower

Things Fall Apart #4: Seven wasted years

THREAD: What have you been reading?

Footnotes & Tangents Testimonials

Wolf Crawl #42: So many words

W&P #41: Fighting with Ghosts

Things Fall Apart #3: Owner of the future

Join our slow reads in 2026

The Children's Book

Treacle Walker

The Inheritors

Regeneration

Midnight's Children

Wolf Crawl #41: The dead watch us

War and Peace 2026

W&P #40: Death's Door

Things Fall Apart #2: The sap of life

Wolf Crawl #40: A list of his sins

W&P #39: Beyond Understanding

Things Fall Apart #1: Like a man

Wolf Crawl #39: No way forward

W&P #38: Phantoms and Reflections

Wolf Crawl #38: The king's body

W&P #37: The Unsettled Question

APOGS #20: The shadow-play world

THREAD: What have you been reading?

Reading Schedule: Things Fall Apart

Wolf Crawl #37: Strange to himself

W&P #36: How Bees Die

APOGS #19: Nothing but a machine

Wolf Crawl #36: Matters that corrupt

Things Fall Apart: Further Resources

W&P #35: The Value of Things

APOGS #18: Once in, never out

Wolf Crawl #35: Bone-pickers

W&P #34: Evasive Manoeuvres

APOGS #17: The order of the day

Wolf Crawl #34: No smoke without fire

W&P #33: This Terrible Affair

APOGS #16: To live is a crime

THREAD: What have you been reading?

Wolf Crawl #33: The dead do not negotiate

W&P #32: Borodino

APOGS #15: For the public safety

Footpaths #12: Malham deep time

Wolf Crawl #32: To the underworld

W&P #31: The Longest Night

APOGS #14: Stumbling towards death

Slow reading news & summer sale

Wolf Crawl #31: Never look back

W&P #30: Time and Patience

APOGS #13: Here comes hell

Footpaths #11: My heart is excited

Wolf Crawl #30: The Damascene cat

Footpaths #10: Extra Time

W&P #29: Marya's World

APOGS #12: As long as we win

Wolf Crawl #29: It is done

W&P #28: Life's Retreat

APOGS #11: More complications

THREAD: What have you been reading?

Footpaths #9: What Mantel does

Wolf Crawl #28: The axe in your hand

Footpaths #8: The Boggle Hole

W&P #27: The Madding Crowd

APOGS #10: Live without illusions

Wolf Crawl #27: Guilty men

W&P #26: Growing Pains

APOGS #9: Death will overtake you

#7: So today I wrote 10,000 words, what now?

Read 'The Mirror and the Light' with us!

Wolf Crawl #26: A contest of corpses

#6: Splashing around

W&P #25: The Emperor's New Clothes

#5: Cecily's ghost

APOGS #8: Extraordinary events

#4: A still life

#3: A whirlpool of inspiration

Footpaths: a writer's diary

Wolf Crawl #25: Hunting dogs

#2: Stupid o'clock

Chabot

Philippe Lebas

Chauveau-Lagarde

W&P #24: The Great Comet of 1812

#1: Under the hood

APOGS #7: Enthusiasts for murder

Reading Journal

My TBR

THREAD: What have you been reading?

Wolf Crawl #24: All in hazard

W&P #23: A dramatic interlude

APOGS #6: Hell released

Wolf Crawl #23: The cutting wind

W&P #22: Natasha's battlefield

APOGS #5: The overthrowing of everything

Endnotes #12: This forest is alive and singing

Alan Garner Resources

Wolf Crawl #22: Defeat your instinct

W&P #21: If life could write

APOGS #4: Five years from now

Wolf Crawl #21: Death is your prince

W&P #20: The enchanted forest

APOGS #3: Do you want a revolution?

Wolf Crawl #20: Teeter-totter

W&P #19: Never Never Land

APOGS #2: The death of us

THREAD: Suggest a slow read for 2026

Wolf Crawl #19: Between England and Hell

W&P #18: Lovers of light

APOGS #1: History is fiction

Endnotes #11: Reading dangerously

Wolf Crawl #18: Pity no one

W&P #17: The colour of the soul

Wolf Crawl #17: Words, words, just words

W&P #16: A semblance of life

Wolf Crawl #16: Now he is a sorcerer

W&P #15: A hundred days of War and Peace

THREAD: What are you reading?

Wolf Crawl #15: A buried empire

W&P #14: Two men in a boat

Wolf Crawl #14: A quaking world

W&P #13: Regenerate me

Henri Sanson

Laflotte

Fabricius Pâris

Liendon

Fleuriot

Dumas

Hermann

Etienne Panis

Robert Lindet

Couthon

Barère

Saint-André

Pierre Philippeaux

Citizen de Sade

Delaunay

Basire

Abbé d’Espanac

Diedrichsen

Guzman

Siegmund Gotleb

Emmanuel Dobruska

Proli

Julien

Vadier

Chauveau-Legarde

Father Kéravenen

Renaudin

Souberbielle

Claude Dupin

Charlotte Corday

David

Jean-François Lacroix

Defermon

Simone Evrard

Albertine Marat

Charles Barbaroux

Jean-Baptiste Louvet

Pierre Vergniaud

Jeanette

Antoine Fouquier-Tinville

Charles Dumouriez

Elisabeth Duplay

Victoire Duplay

Eléonore Duplay

Françoise Duplay

Maurice Duplay

Jean-Baptiste Louvet

François-Léonard Buzot

Manon Roland

Jean-Marie Roland

Antoine Saint-Just

Pére Duchesne

Caroline Rémy

Father Bérardier

Father Pancemont

Collot d’Herbois

Louis-Sébastien Mercier

Arthur Dillon

Jean-Paul Marat

The Marquis de Lafayette

M. Soulès

De Launay

Hanriot

Réveillon

Momoro

Jean-Pierre Brissot

Duroveray

Dumont

Clavière

Teutch

Honoré-Gabriel Riquetti, Comte de Mirabeau

Jean-Sylvain Bailly

Dr Guillotin

Jérôme Pétion

Antoine Barnave

Anne Théroigne

René Hébert

Louise de Kéralio

François Robert

Legendre

Marie

Catherine Motin

Louise Gély

Antoine Gély

Mme Gély

Billaud-Varenne

François Deforgues

Jules Paré

Axel von Fersen

Grace Elliot

Agnés de Buffon

Choderlos de Laclos

Charles-Alexis Brulard de Sillery

Félicité de Genlis

Philippe, Duke of Orléans

Hermann

Louise de Kéralio

Anaïs Deshorties

Lazare Carnot

Joseph Fouché

Rose-Fleur Godard

Endnotes #10: April books & Mantel May

Abbé Laudréville

Lucile Duplessis

Adèle Duplessis

Annette Duplessis

Claude Duplessis

Wolf Crawl #13: Tomorrow is another world

W&P #12: The house of love and ruin

Françoise-Julie Duhauttoir

Gabrielle Charpentier

Angélique Charpentier

François-Jérôme Charpentier

Jean-Marie Hérault de Séchelles

Maître Perrin

Maître Vinot

Fabre d’Églantine

Stanislas Fréron

Louis Suleau

Father Herivaux

Father Proyart

Father Poignard

Aunt Henriette

Aunt Eulalie

Grandfather Carraut

Jacqueline de Robespierre

Augustin de Robespierre

Henriette de Robespierre

Charlotte de Robespierre

Maximilien Robespierre

François de Robespierre

Marie-Cécile Danton

Pierrette Danton

Anne Madeleine Danton

Georges-Jacques Danton

Jean Recordain

Marie-Madeleine Danton

The Prince de Condé

Jean-Louis de Viefville

Adrien de Viefville

Clément Desmoulins

Anne-Clothilde Desmoulins

Armand Desmoulins

Henriette Desmoulins

Elisabeth Desmoulins

Camille Desmoulins

Madeleine Desmoulins

Jean-Nicolas Desmoulins

Wolf Crawl #12: The great persuader

W&P #11: The hazards of love

Reading Schedule: A Place of Greater Safety

THREAD: What are you reading?

Wolf Crawl #11: Gambling is not a vice

W&P #10: Rostovaganza!

APOGS: Cast of Characters

The last act

Wolf Crawl #10: The balance of power

W&P #9: Infinite Sky

State of dejection

Endnotes #9: Mimi's world

Wolf Crawl #9: Bear keeper's a steady job

W&P #8: Young Blood

Amputated hope

The Art of Dissimulation

Wolf Crawl #8: Pick your prince

W&P #7: Daydreams and Nightmares

Gravediggers

Jolly Tom and the Kingdom of the Undead

Milkman

Tangents

The Bone Clocks

THREAD: What are you reading?

Wolf Crawl #7: The cardinal is alive

W&P #6: Waiting for History to Happen

A superior culture

Wolf Crawl #6: They want you upstairs

W&P #5: A Beautiful World Made Ugly

A Place of Greater Safety: Further Resources

Hilary Mantel General Resources

The world is a bridge

Endnotes #8: Learning to swim

Wolf Crawl #5: The ghosts are gathering

Footnotes & Tangents Library

W&P #4: Fear and Love at Bald Hills

An engine has no heart

Wolf Crawl #4: Drowned men

W&P #3: A Heart Needs a Home

A serious chat about civilisation

Wolf Crawl #3: Butcher's dog

W&P #2: Life at Both Ends

A beneficial disease

THREAD: What are you reading?

Wolf Crawl #2: A man beyond price

W&P #1: An Invitation to a Soirée

The Siege of Krishnapur: Further Resources

Wolf Crawl #1: So now get up