I, for one, welcome our 2021 overlords
That’s been a bit of a year then hasn’t it. Though there have been some ups and downs, personally and at work, thankfully the ‘worst’ […]
Year: 2020
Vesper Flights
Helen Macdonald. Vintage. (272p) ISBN 9780099575467 I’ve just returned to work after almost nine months of furlough and decided to use the walk to and […]
Norse Mythology
Neil Gaiman. Bloomsbury. (304p) ISBN 9781408891957 Another of those books that’s been adorning my shelves for many months, but Norse Mythology felt like another book […]
Children of Blood and Bone
Tomi Adeyemi. Pan Macmillan. (544p) ISBN 9781509871353 There has been so much hype about Children of Blood and Bones that I was a bit leery […]
Jólabókaflóð
In Iceland, books are exchanged as Christmas Eve presents, then you spend the rest of the night in bed reading them and eating chocolate. The […]
October Update
Twenty-one posts published this month, so a really good month for blog content as in my head as long as I write at least one […]
Five Rivers Met on a Wooded Plain
Barney Norris. Transworld. (288p) ISBN 9781784161354 Before I started working as a bookseller for Waterstones I would never have contemplated reading a book such as […]
September Update
Another good and productive month, my reading plan is a minimum of six books a month and again I’ve achieved that though I stalled a […]
Still Water: The Deep Life of the Pond
John Lewis-Stempel. Transworld. (304p) ISBN 9781784162429 I was given Still Water: The Deep Life of the Pond as it is well known that I love […]
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