It’s time for another look at what I’ve been reading – and what was good or not-so-good this month. It was another month of travelling for me, so more airplane books. That means nothing too dark and heavy. I started with a favourite… Robyn Carr’s Bring Me Home For Christmas
I usually don’t say much about my books until they are finished, but I’m about to make an exeption. Last week my dear friend and fellow writer Jean Fullerton tagged me in the “next big thing” round. That just happened to coincide with me typing ‘the end’, which is always a reason to celebrate. Except…
Have you ever fallen for a young man with deep dark eyes, long dark lashes and a habit of.. well.. moaning? Last weekend I was swept off my feet by a serious dose of llama love.
Not long ago, a friend asked me what books I had been reading lately – and apart from one or two that had left a strong impact – I had trouble remembering all the books I had read. She suggested it would be nice to have some sort of record of the books one…
This morning I received these in the post – copies of the Norwegian edition of my novel “The Farmer Needs A Wife”. It’s such a pretty cover- it made me smile immediately.. But now I’m wondering what the title is …
Look at those mountains – Wow! Yes – I do look smug – not because I climbed them (because I didn’t) – but because I am somewhere I never dreamed I would be… The mountains of Kazakhstan – and it was AMAZING!
I was wandering around London’s South Bank the other day, soaking up the atmosphere of my favourite city, when I stumbled across something rather fabulous in the ballroom of the Royal Festival Hall. It’s called aMAZEme – and it’s a maze made of a quarter of a million books – with the design based…
I had a rare treat last week – while back in the UK for a few days, I was taken on a walk through the pages of a book My friend Jean Fullerton writes fabulous books – set in the East End of London. I had read three of them – and the fourth was…
A while back, I mentioned that I’d heard a reading by Audrey Niffenegger – author of The Time Traveler’s Wife. It was a wonderful story about the death – and afterlife – of independent book stores. I’ve just discovered it’s available to listen to on NPR – National Public Radio – site. I don’t know…
