Advent Reading Challenge Day Two
A Book with Snow on the Cover Happily my copy of The Murder at the Old Vicarage by Jill McGown is the paperback edition from…
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Happy St Andrew’s Day and other things
At this time of year the book world is full of reading challenges for December. A number have come my way, and I've decided to…
What Would Jane Austen Do? by Linda Corbett
Linda Corbett set herself up for a fall by putting words into the mouth of her heroine. Maddy waxes lyrical, and at length, on the…
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The Hideaway by Pam Smy
The Hideaway is a work of art. I rarely get precious or over-excited about books as objects. I buy and collect them for their contents.…
The Colour of Reading
Back in the days when Moray Libraries still needed me and my expertise, I had some responsibility for our Facebook page. For a while we…
Interview with Linda Newbery
Linda Newbery's writing career to date begins and ends with animal rights. In between is a diverse selection of topics, themes and genres for a…
The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club by Dorothy L Sayers
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…
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Elizabeth Wein
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…
A Town Like Alice
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…
Eva Ibbotson’s Memories of Vienna
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.…
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