Desperate Reader

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...

December is exhausting, work is crazy right now and any writing time has been exclusively reserved for Christmas cards - all the ones to pos...

I didn't read Michael Morpurgo's Spring, partly because whilst it might be impossible to dislike spring, it really isn't my favo...

Yet again my fond belief that I'm ready for Christmas has hit the wall of it being a bare month away with a very busy work schedule betw...

I didn't mean to disappear again - or at least I did in so much as I'm on holiday and haven't managed to settle to much reading ...