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#EdwardArdizzone’s illustration of the girl in #TheLittleTrain looks in every way like it could be Sarah having stepped out of the pages of my own #MrTumnal! #books???? #amreading
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I detect a theme here… thank you to everyone for my presents. I feel truly spoilt! #Christmas???? #presents #books???? #illustration #edwardardizzone #drawing
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Carols from Kings, Christmas tree, and a Christmas classic makes my 48th book of the year… #Christmas???? #ChurchMice???? #amreading #goodreads #books???? #bookstagram #illustratedbooks
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Forty-four years ago Christmas presents were a simpler beast (and dare I say it, meant more)… #TheDarkIsReading #TheDarkIsRising #books???? #amreading #SusanCooper @robgmacfarlane
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Is this what it’s like for a #bookaholic to be “double-parked”? #amreading #books???? #drinkingterminology
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#thenightcircus???? by @erinmorgenstern is what I call a quiet novel, but there is some imagery in it that just absolutely delights… “Only the ship is made of books, its sails thousands of overlapping pages, and the sea it floats upon…
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Close Encounters of the Furred Kind by Tom Cox You can’t read this book, the fourth in the quartet of Tom Cox ‘catoirs’, without feeling a poignant weight of sadness that it is nearing the end for The Bear aka @mySADcat who…
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J. M. Barrie’s Peter Pan: The Story of the Play by Eleanor Graham, Edward Ardizzone It has been a bit of a woeful embarrassment that I’ve never actually read Peter Pan, even more so because I’ve been in possession of this gorgeous volume for…
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La Belle Sauvage (The Book of Dust, #1) by Philip Pullman ** Caution: this post may contain spoilers ** This is the long-awaited and much anticipated companion to Philip Pullman’s His Dark Materials series, and after the 17 year wait, I have been apprehensive…
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Hey Sam, I knew I had more Edward Ardizzone books. Too be honest I’m sure I have at least two more but stupid me hasn’t categorised them by illustrator. I picked up Nurse Matilda I an adorable little bookshop in…
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Love my favourite #indie bookshop. Now to brew the pot of tea, settle back, and enjoy… #indiebookstores #personaltouch #shoplocal #philippullman #labellesauvage #thebookofdust #books
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The Amber Spyglass by Philip Pullman This is the book that concludes Philip Pullman’s epic trilogy, and it is the most complex of the three. In Northern Lights we are introduced to the recognisable but different Oxford of Lyra Belaqua’s world with a self-contained,…
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In preparation for the release of Philip Pullman’s long-awaited La Belle Sauvage: The Book of Dust Volume One on the 19 October, I have been re-reading (should that be devouring?) the original His Dark Materials series. Aside from being awed yet again…
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Norse Mythology by Neil Gaiman I’m going to get pilloried by the Gaimanites out there, but this book falls a little flat for me. Neil Gaiman has an authoritative voice and clearly knows the stories in and out, but this I fear…
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I swore I wouldn’t buy anymore books in September! But then I saw this bargain of a boxset of 16 Michael Morpurgo books for a fiver in the charity shop… #books #bookaddict #bookaholic #bookaholicsannonymous #booksofinstagram #ihaveaproblem
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Friend Request by Laura Marshall The book that is, from the title on, all about Facebook this is a psychological thriller for the FriendsReunited generation. It concerns our protagonist, Louise (I am loath to say heroine as Laura Marshall deliberately paints her…
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The Subtle Knife by Philip Pullman This is the second book in Philip Pullman’s His Dark Materialstrilogy and has such it does exist in that slightly awkward middle-book-between-the-beginning-and-the-end way. It starts though, in scenes that is as vivid a beginning as it’s predecessor, Northern…
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How is @davidjalmond’s #Skellig 15 years old already? #books #modernclassic #DavidAlmond @colesbooksbicester
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A garden is for relaxing in and #amreading in the late summer sunshine… #tea #books #flowers #garden #peace
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The Music Shop by Rachel Joyce Everyone knows the power of music to transform lives don’t they? It’s why music is so important. It’s why it’s so sad that when governments through the ages look for things to cut they cut the…
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