My Favourite Books of 2022
What a year. At least it ended slightly better than it began, at least for me. However, 2022 was not a year when I read a lot of new novels. Looking at my book journal, I either didn’t read many new...
View ArticleWhat I Read On My Holidays
Yes, those holidays that ended last month. Better late than never. Here are the books I found the most interesting. I enjoyed The Guggenheim Mystery by Robin Stevens, an entertaining middle grade...
View ArticleWhat I’ve Been Doing Lately
Not writing, unfortunately, and not much book reading either, hence the lack of blog posts. What I have been doing is: – growing big, crunchy, delicious radishes. Apparently what you need to grow large...
View ArticleWhat I’ve Been Reading: Non-fiction about Mid-20th Century England
London’s Lost Department Stores: A Vanished World of Dazzle and Dreams by Tessa Boase was a short, engrossing history of the grand and not-quite-so-grand department stores of London. In the early...
View ArticleWhat I’ve Been Reading
The Deadly Daylight by Ash Harrier was an enjoyable middle grade mystery, the first in a series featuring Alice England. Alice is an unusual twelve-year-old who works in her father’s funeral parlour...
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