How has the first quarter of 2022 flown by? One minute it was January, dark, cold, wet - perfect weather for reading indoors under warm blankets, and the next we're facing April with a week of sun and warm weather. What a ride! It's been a busy few months but wanted to check in with … Continue reading A Mini Reading Update
Welcome to 2022! When it comes to reading habits, mine have changed a fair amount over the past few years. I've worked in the book industry for around 7 years, and as a bookseller was introduced to a variety of different genres. I made myself a list of book goals last year and quietly worked … Continue reading Book Goals 2022
Next on the list is The Heeding by Rob Cowen and illustrated by Nick Hayes. Released in hardback on the 17th June 2021. Blurb The world changed in 2020. Gradually at first, then quickly and irreversibly, the patterns by which we once lived altered completely. Across four seasons and a luminous series of poems and … Continue reading Review in 5 – The Heeding by Rob Cowen
Today I'm taking part in the blog tour for the Cheltenham Literary Festival running from the 8th to the 17th of October both online and in-person! Blurb China’s story is extraordinarily rich and dramatic. Now Michael Wood, one of the UK's pre-eminent historians, brings it all together in a major new one-volume history of China … Continue reading The Story of China by Michael Wood | Cheltenham Literary Festival
Hello all! After inadvertently taking a few months off I’m back with reviews. I spent the past few months getting the bookshop ready for reopening, getting used to a busy bookshop again and taking some time out to read some previously published books that had been sat on my TBR for a while. And let … Continue reading Where the Wildness Starts | The Wild Places | A Review
Our First Year Here 