Desperate Reader

Once or twice a year I'll be out shopping and see a bunch of beetroots that look so firm and fat, so purple and earthy, that I can't...

February has been hard in all sorts of small ways, but there's a definite sense of spring in the air which is both inspiring me to get m...

I got my first Covid Vaccine dose on wednesday afternoon. It was a well organized and painless process, very much like getting a flue jab, a...

I've got a couple of things on at the moment that seem to involve an inordinate amount of emailing and not much to show for all the acti...

These are words I never thought I'd say, but Valentine's day has cheered me up. Maybe because this year there's been a bit more ...

I've been aware of ' The Scribbler'  for a while but have only just got around to ordering a copy of the most recent number (iss...

The most exciting thing about independent presses is that they can be what they want, whilst still offering a sign post for readers, and a m...

As a reader, if there was one thing I could change about publishing in England it would be to have one of the really big publishing houses m...

I finished my Stoorbra socks, I love them, everybody who's seen them (my mum and her dog) loves them, as well as a few friends and relat...

 I put off writing about this book from  Greyladies  last week so that it could be part of  Kaggsy and Lizzie's  celebration of Indie pu...