In a life of ups and downs, reading is a constant
I have been fortunate enough to cuddle, squeeze and smell two babies who were only months old recently. It has…
I have been fortunate enough to cuddle, squeeze and smell two babies who were only months old recently. It has…
There is plenty to be learnt from fiction, where you can inhabit someone else’s reality for a time. But when…
Some books are all about character, while others depend on their plot. Then there is another type of book altogether…
In my mind, my favourite writers are organised in a heirarchy of how desperately I will try to get my…
I have to admit that I felt more than a little uneasy reading Katherine Dunn’s cult classic, Geek Love ……
There are a lot of reasons to disagree at the moment. We can argue endlessly about the advantages and disadvantages…
The last book I read was fabulous. Lisa Taddeo’s Three Women shocked me, and moved me, and changed me. When…
I visited the charity shop earlier in the week and was thrilled to find Hilary Mantel’s Bring Up the Bodies,…
I’m about to start reading The Dictionary of Lost Words and I can’t get into it quickly enough. You see,…
Elliot Perlman’s Maybe the Horse Will Talk is entirely different from his other books I have read – Three Dollars…