I’m a big fan of crime fiction (see my blog on Addiction to Crime Fiction) and am an even bigger fan of Jane Austen, so…
About this time five years ago I was preparing my big trip to Australia – to spend three and a half weeks on my own…
This weekend I finished reading The Marriage Plot by Jeffrey Eugenides, one of the books I got for my birthday in July. I chose it having enjoyed Middlesex by…
As I’ve written about before, I have an Addiction to Crime Fiction. So it was a bit shocking that I’ve never read Raymond Chandler. My…
The Golden Apples by Eudora Welty was given to me by my friends Ben and Claire for my birthday. I am not normally a fan of a…
Having started a fascination with the Tudors when reading Wolf Hall last year (see my blog Reading the Tudors) I was looking forward to its sequel Bring…
As holiday reading lying by the pool and on the beach this week in Corfu, Shadow of the Moon by M M Kaye could not be beaten….
Like so many others I was captivated when Chocolat by Joanne Harris came out in 1999. It is a book of the senses, with descriptions of…
In terms of writers who’ve made the biggest impression on me and who have inspired me to do something on the basis of reading their…
I have to admit to having really enjoyed immersing myself in the world of the Tudors in the last year or so. It all started with…
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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