Desperate Reader

A Halloween (and beyond) themed read for today's mini-review. I'm still not convinced by the formatting of this book - it's a pl...

I've missed writing here over the last 18 months - life has been busy, often stressful, and as I fast approach 50 there's the fun of...

I grew up in a house that my father inherited from his Godmother, She'd inherited it from her Uncle via her mother and spent many years ...

One of the perks of my job is the number of books publishers are willing to send for review - we get a lot turn up and a lot we can choose t...

This is the first book I've managed to finish since the beginning of September - it's been full on at work, mum had Covid and then e...

Yesterday I went for my covid vaccination - number 5 I think, and for the first time have had something like an adverse reaction to it beyon...

Every year I tell myself I'm not really interested in going to wool week, and every year I mean it in that I'm not especially intere...

Sorry for the longish silence - I spent  2 amazing weeks in Shetland and then it's been straight back to work and routine but necessary ...

Regardless of the actual date and the occasional properly hot moment in the sun it already feels like autumn around here - there's a chi...

The mention of Kit Williams Masquerade was enough to get my interest in this book and I was intrigued by the gothic look of it - not another...