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How 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…
Continue readingBoneland by Alan Garner When I discovered that Alan Garner had written a new Alderley book I was both excited and nervous. His later books have a tendency to be weird, or, in the case of Thursbitch, down right incomprehensible……
Continue readingBoneland by Alan Garner When I discovered that Alan Garner had written a new Alderley book I was both excited and nervous. His later books have a tendency to be weird, or, in the case of Thursbitch, down right incomprehensible……
Continue readingToday has been gorgeous in the extreme; cold but not freezing with the perfect light that only a Spring day can deliver. It’s been kind of day that makes you want to be alive. Of course it would been all…
Continue readingToday has been gorgeous in the extreme; cold but not freezing with the perfect light that only a Spring day can deliver. It’s been kind of day that makes you want to be alive. Of course it would been all…
Continue readingThe Moon of Gomrath by Alan Garner Like with The Weirdstone of Brisingamen that came before it, The Moon of Gomrath is packed with strong imagery and years of research into old mythology and legend. It also has a strong…
Continue readingThe Moon of Gomrath by Alan Garner Like with The Weirdstone of Brisingamen that came before it, The Moon of Gomrath is packed with strong imagery and years of research into old mythology and legend. It also has a strong…
Continue readingThe Weirdstone of Brisingamen by Alan Garner I first read this book around the age of 10, and I remember being blown away by it, and for a story written in the 1960s I remember it having a timeless quality…
Continue readingRunemarks by Joanne Harris As soon as I found out that this book existed I wanted to read it, but I didn't have any idea of what to expect. If you are familiar with Joanne Harris' more famous Chocolat then…
Continue readingReflections: on the magic of writing by Diana Wynne Jones This is a must-read book for anyone who has a love of stories and of making thing up. It’s also the book to read if you’ve read even just one…
Continue readingThere has been talk of late that sales of the humble eInk eReader will fall this year as people move to now cheaper tablets, and also the environmental pros and cons of eReaders vs. paper books. A friend has also…
Continue reading2012 has been a year dominated by books and by reading and writing. At the beginning of year I set myself the Goodreads reading challenge to read at least 20 books in the year. I didn’t manage to reach this,…
Continue readingOne of the joys of the post-Christmas and pre-New Year holidays is those long afternoons in the fading light, tucked up on the sofa with the Christmas tree across the room, reading… reading lots and lots. So, a roundup of…
Continue readingThere’s an article in today’s Guardian which seems to want to suggest the rise of traditional print book sales eBooks. It seems obvious to me that in the run up to Christmas that you will see more physical books sold…
Continue readingIt’s not an easy read; a portrait of a land, and a people, and a person – Bjartur of Summerhouses. It’s definitely easier to read this if you have visited Iceland; seen, and felt, the landscape. If you have you…
Continue readingOverheard in an independent bookshop: Customer: Do you have Ray Bradbury’s Farenheit 451 Bookseller: Of course. Isn’t that the temperature at which Kindles burn? Not actually an exchange that I overheard, or exactly a true transcript of the conversation, but…
Continue readingSince receiving the latest version of The End Of All Worlds and my bravery of taking it into Cole’s Books, I’ve taken it up myself to read. It’s an odd experience reading back one’s own words. I’m used to it…
Continue readingJust after 10 o’clock this morning the revised edition of The End Of All Worlds plopped through the letterbox in its shiny new all colour cover. I still find it hard to believe that it was less than 24 hours…
Continue readingSo, The End Of All Worlds has been out in the world for 6 weeks now. Whilst sales have not rocketed to 4 figures (!!) they are nonetheless keeping themselves respectable. Earlier this month I did a free promotion for…
Continue readingThe 17 June is Þjóðhátíðardagurinn (Icelandic National Day) and celebrates the day in 1944 that The Republic of Iceland (Lýðveldið Ísland) was formed. The date of 17 June was chosen because it is the birthday of Jón Sigurðsson, a major…
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