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The Ocean at the End of the Lane by Neil Gaiman I bought this book on impulse after reading a review from a good friend. I didn’t have any idea what the book was going to be like. What I…
Continue readingRunelight by Joanne Harris This is the follow-up to Runemarks and picks up the story three years on from the conclusion of that story. It’s a big book, and a big story with a large cat of characters made all the…
Continue readingRunelight by Joanne Harris This is the follow-up to Runemarks and picks up the story three years on from the conclusion of that story. It’s a big book, and a big story with a large cat of characters made all the…
Continue readingAlexandra Fry, Private Eye: The Curse of the Lion’s Heart by Angella Graff It’s very fitting that half the proceeds of this book are going to the Tucson Alliance for Autism as people with Aspergers or Autism often find it…
Continue readingAlexandra Fry, Private Eye: The Curse of the Lion’s Heart by Angella Graff It’s very fitting that half the proceeds of this book are going to the Tucson Alliance for Autism as people with Aspergers or Autism often find it…
Continue readingTrains and Lovers by Alexander McCall Smith I think everybody has met at least one person on a train and this is a story of four people who do just that; thrown together by chance and circumstance. For myself I met Carole…
Continue readingTrains and Lovers by Alexander McCall Smith I think everybody has met at least one person on a train and this is a story of four people who do just that; thrown together by chance and circumstance. For myself I met Carole…
Continue readingLark Rise to Candleford by Flora Thompson I always new that the book of Lark Rise to Candleford was completely different to the Sunday night TV series, but other than that I didn’t know what to expect… What you get is memoir…
Continue readingLark Rise to Candleford by Flora Thompson I always new that the book of Lark Rise to Candleford was completely different to the Sunday night TV series, but other than that I didn’t know what to expect… What you get is memoir…
Continue readingIn Search of Rex Whistler: His Life and His Work by Mirabel Cecil, Hugh Cecil The artist, illustrator, and muralist that was Rex Whistler is one of my favourite artists having discovered him 23 years ago now whilst visiting Plas…
Continue readingIn Search of Rex Whistler: His Life and His Work by Mirabel Cecil, Hugh Cecil The artist, illustrator, and muralist that was Rex Whistler is one of my favourite artists having discovered him 23 years ago now whilst visiting Plas…
Continue readingSomehow, I seem to have agreed to read from my debut novel, The End Of All Worlds, at a book reading event a the Oxfam Bookshop in Reading. I’ve never done a book reading before, and already I’m pretty nervous…
Continue readingSomehow, I seem to have agreed to read from my debut novel, The End Of All Worlds, at a book reading event a the Oxfam Bookshop in Reading. I’ve never done a book reading before, and already I’m pretty nervous…
Continue readingPrecious Bane by Mary Webb I had never heard of this book until Lucy suggested it as a read for the inaugural meeting of the Bicester Booklings, and so I had little idea of what to expect from it. It’s…
Continue readingPrecious Bane by Mary Webb I had never heard of this book until Lucy suggested it as a read for the inaugural meeting of the Bicester Booklings, and so I had little idea of what to expect from it. It’s…
Continue readingWhat I Was by Meg Rosoff When I picked up this book to read something about it seemed vaguely reminiscent of I Captured The Castle and not just for its rural, Suffolk setting. The cover (of my addition at least)…
Continue readingWhat I Was by Meg Rosoff When I picked up this book to read something about it seemed vaguely reminiscent of I Captured The Castle and not just for its rural, Suffolk setting. The cover (of my addition at least)…
Continue readingMy Name Is Mina by David Almond I remember discovering David Almond shortly after he first published Skellig, although think it must have been a little late to the party as I think the follow up of Kit’s Wilderness was…
Continue readingMy Name Is Mina by David Almond I remember discovering David Almond shortly after he first published Skellig, although think it must have been a little late to the party as I think the follow up of Kit’s Wilderness was…
Continue readingHow I Live Now by Meg Rosoff This book has been on my TBR shelf for too long, and I really don’t know why. It’s not a long book but even so I don’t often race through a book like…
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