I have recently read three fantastic books that deconstruct and explain how to write good fiction: The Art of Fiction by David Lodge, How Novels…
Whilst on holiday in Malaysia in April I came across the story of Freddy Spencer Chapman, a British army officer who survived behind enemy lines…
I was given Unsheltered by Barbara Kingsolver for my birthday in July and finally got the chance to read it on a flight to Cyprus…
Paris Echo by Sebastian Faulks had been on my reading list for a year, so it was great to finally have the time to read…
I got a lovely pile of books for my birthday in July and have enjoyed some eclectic late summer reading in the last few weeks….
I Am, I Am, I Am: Seventeen Brushes with Death by Maggie O’Farrell was given to me for my birthday by my sister. I wasn’t sure…
Having recently enjoyed reading Fall of Giants by Ken Follett (see my blog), I was looking forward to the second in the trilogy Winter of the World that…
I haven’t had a chance to read for a few weeks, so a walking holiday in Cornwall at the end of June provided an excellent…
On a weekend in late March my partner and I went to Arundel for the day and found ourselves browsing in a fabulous secondhand bookshop…
A weekend afternoon when I had hurt my lower back and had been told not to walk or run, seemed like the perfect time to…
I love reading and always have. I'm also a big fan of writing, hence writing a blog about reading. I read lots for both work and pleasure and thankfully the boundary between the two is nicely blurred.
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