What are you reading?

As with most writers, I looooooooove to read. I adore discovering new books, especially through the recommendations of others. In that spirit, I have decided to post up a weekly recommendation of a book I love in the hope that you will post me one back. Instruments of Darkness by Imogen Robertson. I finished Instruments of […]

The Woman Who Gave Birth To Rabbits

The Woman Who Gave Birth To Rabbits is a collection of short stories by Emma Donoghue based on bizarre tales she came across while researching her novels. Fascinating snippets of history are brought to life with considerable skill and followed up with a brief authors note, mostly as interesting as the stories themselves. Donoghue starts […]

Death Comes To Pemberley

This Christmas I was a very lucky girl. My husband gave me a Kindle *cheeks still aching from all the smiling *. I then got even luckier: my mother gave me amazon vouchers. The first book I purchased on my sparkly new Kindle? Death Comes To Pemberley by P.D. James (pub. 2011). As a huge […]

Morning pages

I was very happy when Hilary Mantel won the Booker Prize last year for Wolf Hall as I felt she richly deserved it, both for the book and for being such an inspirational writer. Although I could happily talk at length about how much I loved the book, the reason for my blog entry is […]

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