The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club is one of the early Lord Peter Wimsey titles, written before Harriet Vane appeared on the horizon. It's my…
Continue reading → The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club by Dorothy L Sayers
I only meant, last night, to read the first few pages of The Enigma Game to get a feel for it but I ended up…
From the Ghan As I've written elsewhere, my early life was full of stories and memories of Australia. My parents' stories and memories. It was…
I have never been to Vienna, although I have long wished to go. I've seen photographs and travelogues of the city and it looks splendid.…
My first foray into books that were published for adults takes me very close to home. I've known Peebles in the Scottish Borders since I…
In 1914, a year of significant anniversaries, Flying Eye Books chose to mark a less heralded one in Shackleton’s Journey. This beautiful book, written and…
Yes, I know that I’ve already written about one of LM Montgomery’s books but it’s my birthday so I’m indulging myself. No-one is surprised that…
My childhood was filled with books published by Pickering & Inglis, purveyors of Christian literature. As a daughter of the manse the basic premise of…
Every so often, but not often enough, a book comes across my desk that makes me laugh and laugh. Cue: Weasels by Elys Dolan and…
Eleanor Updale is an intelligent, imaginative and beguiling writer and I have enjoyed all her books. I've been fortunate enough to work with her a…
