Chiswick Library was the setting (sadly for me) for the only event of the 2014 Chiswick Book Festival that I managed to get along to this year. Debut author…
Saturday 13th September was Roald Dahl day. In honour of this, and because I can never think of Roald Dahl without smiling I wanted to…
I have to start by saying I enjoyed this accomplished debut novel by Louise Walters very much. The story opens with Roberta. Roberta works in…
This is my first foray into #1day12pics. This months chosen day was 6th September. #1day12pics is organised by Michelle at My Creative Photography and Emma Davies at Photography for blogs. The…
Patrick Gale is another of my favourite authors and this is another book I had been squirrelling away for my holiday reading. Like Ann Tyler,…
I need no excuse to visit Hampstead, but if I did Burgh House on a warm September evening to hear Nina Stibbe talk about her…
This was an unexpected holiday read, and probably not one I would have chosen for myself. However I make no secret of the fact that…
Happy the Man Happy the man, and happy he alone, He who can call today his own: He who, secure within, can say, Tomorrow do…
