Welcome to my 2023 review of books. Thanks to a broken leg, I read one hundred and ten books this year, surpassing all my previous records, which makes choosing the best reads of the year even harder! Some of the trends which pleased me this year were: more choice of...
Hello there. Sorry about the lack of newsletter in May. I simply ran out of time to write it – lots of boring and stressful things happening in my life. However I’ve taken a bit of time to re-think what I’m doing and to re-prioritise, and I do...
Until I turned twelve we lived in the middle of the countryside, where there was no library, no bookshop, and there were no other children within a few miles. Between games of imagination, I read whatever books were to hand, over and over and over. Some of these were...
April 2023. Small but difficult steps My Big Thing this year was The Leg. I’m finally out of the contraption which was holding bones and ligaments together and am now trying to build up strength. It’s depressing how weak my bad leg is after eight weeks of...
The last in my series about crime writing, this blog finishes with a personal selection of my favourite crime writers and their (IMO) best novel. So far in the series I have covered crime and thriller locations, top weird and wonderful narratives, crime and thriller...
March 2023. Spring is on its way. I’m still laid up in bed with that broken leg I mentioned last time. In fact it turned out to be not just a broken leg, but also torn ligaments on both sides of the knee. So a long recuperation. However I’m trying to work...
