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Advent Reading Challenge Day Twenty Two

A Book Set in the Countryside A few days ago, I wrote about meeting and interviewing Sally Magnusson. She wasn't the first BBC journalist I worked…

Share a Shelfie If, for some terrible reason, I had to choose to keep the books of just one of the authors I collect, without…

Your Favourite Festive Treat For many years there were books that I read every Christmas. That habit died out the year I spent Christmas in…

A Book You'd Like to Spend Christmas In As with yesterday, there's a whole heap of books I could have chosen today. Some contain accounts…

Your Dream Christmas Destination Even as I start typing I'm not sure which book I'm going to write about. What is my dream Christmas destination…

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…

I really do love a map and I love Scotland even more! So this book always seemed like a good choice for me. If the…

In my less realistic and rational moments (I can't actually write and I don't own the copyright) I imagine writing a follow on novel for…

Regular readers of this blog will have been unable to avoid the revelation that my favourite mid twentieth century writer is Dorita Fairlie Bruce. I…

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…