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According to this article on the BBC website, Iceland is a country where one in 10 people will publish a book. I can understand that. The winter months in Iceland are long, dark, and cold, and for years the winter…
Continue readingGobbolino The Witch’s Cat by Ursula Moray Williams This has been a childhood favourite of mine for years, but it is also years and years since I last read it. Michelle Harrison, the author of the 13 Treasures series, put…
Continue readingThe Owl Service by Alan Garner “…why didn’t you cut the pattern into flowers from the start, you silly girl?” Roger asks his step sister at the end… because we wouldn’t have been given this gloriously enjoyable story if she…
Continue readingGhost Hawk by Susan Cooper Ever since I read Susan Cooper’s The Dark is Rising, and the sequence of which it is part I have loved Susan Cooper’s books and she she has remained one of my favoured authors. Probably…
Continue readingI’ve always loved reading, and have never not had a ‘book on the go’. I also like writing them too. I can pinpoint the moment that I became a writer to my ninth birthday when my Grandpa gave me a…
Continue readingThe Red House by Mark Haddon This is the story of two families who haven’t really spoken in 20 years who decide to holiday together in a cottage on the Welsh borders after, and for the sake of, their recently…
Continue readingBracelet of Bones by Kevin Crossley-Holland From the beginning, the first book in Kevin Crossley-Holland’s Viking trilogy reads like an old Norse myth or saga. The language is, as you would expect from the author, beautiful and poetic, and he…
Continue readingA Thread Through Time by Deborah Shepherd This is Deborah Shepherd’s second novel, after her debut, The Underhill Buttons, and like with Buttons it is a classic time-shift novel of the kind that Penelope Lively used to write when she…
Continue readingThe 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 readingThe 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…
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