With the prospect of another long lockdown ahead, it seemed entirely justifiable to spend January revelling in detective fiction that I had been given for…
One of the 13 books given to me as Christmas presents this year was the latest in the Cormoran Strike crime fiction series – Troubled Blood…
I spent a lovely bank holiday in Salcombe last weekend and took the opportunity to read the fabulous ‘My Sister, The Serial Killer‘ by Oyinkan…
I heard Marian Keyes talking about her new book Grown Ups on one of my favourite podcasts and she was so fantastic that I put…
I was lucky enough to have ten days in Cornwall walking 100 miles of the wild North Atlantic coast from Padstow to Penzance in late…
As lockdown began to ease my desire to read returned and I dove into three escapist thrillers. The first was A Perfect Spy by John…
On the flight to Cape Town on a two week holiday in March I read Westwind, by one of my favourite authors, Ian Rankin (see…
I’d forgotten I’d pre-ordered The Lantern Men by Elly Griffiths, the latest in the Ruth Galloway series (see my blogs on Ruth Galloway and The Stranger Diaries), so it…
One of my first books of the New Year was Still Life by Louise Penny, a crime fiction novel from a writer I hadn’t tried…
My sister bought me two Donna Leon books for Christmas and I enjoyed reading them both in front of an open fire relaxing at home…
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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