Desperate Reader

This is George Mackay Brown's centenary year and amongst the general celebrations (Orkney Libraries  A Hat For George  project seems a p...

I've been reading this book as part of the Georgette Heyer Readalong on Twitter, where we have mixed feelings about it but have raced ah...

August has been remarkably kind to me this year right down to throwing some particularly nice review books my way. 'Murder by the Book, ...

In the end, this was the only book I managed to read whilst I was away - I had high hopes for getting through lots of things, but between th...

I read this one as part of a reading group, and more than a few chapters in a rush during a post-lunch dip on a Saturday afternoon when I wa...

Today is my friend Clover's birthday, and she tells me it's not a proper summer without Shetland pictures, so these are basically fo...

I didn't mean to be quiet for so long, but it's been an eventful 10 days. I've been to Aberdeen and had a nostalgic wander aroun...

This is the second book from the Northus project and the first of the volume of poetry. Novels are much easier to write about which is one r...

I've sold the books that I could bear to part with - my sitting room wall looks oddly empty now that the couple of hundred volumes stack...

I'm late reading this and unsettled by how quickly this year, and especially this summer, is passing. Walking the dog for my mother this...