Desperate Reader

I've read this collection of short stories many times before, both in its original form of Pistols For Two and this expanded version, in...

An oddity this one. An early T Kingfisher that was self-published back in 2013 and has had a new release now with Titan, it's more or le...

My job has changed somewhat and I'm spending a lot more time on a laptop at work which is making it less appealing to come home and get ...

February has more or less escaped me - I'm having trouble with fibroids again, which has left me anemic and exhausted. Any energy left o...

I've been knitting a lot and not reading as much as I should; some of my reading has been re-reading at that (Gaudy Night again), but I ...

Work took up a lot of energy last year, and amongst other things, knitting fell a bit by the wayside. On New Year's day I finally finish...

It's been a long time since December was a boozy month for me. I don't find the pressure of the busiest time of year mixes well with...

After a very busy peak period at work I managed to get the first week of January off (worked on the 2nd, but missed the last weekend of the ...

A real change of mood for my second reprint of the year nomination - Nina Bawden's The Odd Flamingo lands us in the sultry heat of Augus...

My first nomination for Crime Reprint of the year is this year's British Library Crime Classics Christmas special. I loved this. In my o...