Desperate Reader

I'm having one of those moments that I assume are familiar to all enthusiastic book owners and collectors (or perhaps more accurately ...

' Summer Half ' was the only book I managed to finish on holiday, I'm easily distracted at the moment - maybe it's the hea...

This is sheer self indulgence on my part but there are a few more pictures I wanted to post here as a holiday reminder so here goes... Di...

'Maria Chapdelaine' came my way as a postal book group read, as a classic of French Canadian literature it's perhaps not entirel...

Well I'm back from my holidays and back from a typical Monday at work, it already seems like a long time since I was away - how is it th...

As I start to write this post it's 11pm and deep twilight outside, the darkest I've seen it in the almost 2 weeks I've been in S...

Because I'm not always as organised as I'd like to be it turns out that it's 100 years and a day since Maxwell was born. Regardl...

Or the 'joys' of cooking in somebody else's kitchen... Maybe I'm getting stuck in my ways (I'm obviously stuck in my way...

The second issue of Shiny New Books is live (there's a lot to look at) including bits I've written. Please go and look at this bit h...

After what I can only politely refer to as a challenging spell at work my holidays have finally arrived and I've decamped to Shetland fo...