August 2009

  Just begun this novel and delighted to find it in the library after my new thrift policy eschewing spending lots in Tesco or Amazon! Very atmospheric from the first page.… Read More »Val McDermid The Distant Echo

This Wordsworth Edition of Sherlock Holmes’ stories combines the stories elected by Conan Doyle as his very best, with a group selected by the editor. The resulting edition is pure… Read More »Sir Arthur Conan Doyle: The Best of Sherlock Holmes edited by Stuart Davies

“Don’t ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive, and go do it. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.” – Howard Thurman… Read More »Follow your BLISS!!!

  Gaiman’s American Gods- What an engrossing read! Something I can’t quite identify about the ‘flavour’ of this book…reminds me of a combination of Beckett, Sachar and even- maybe expecially… Read More »Neil Gaiman: American Gods

  Just read this over a couple of days and really enjoyed the easeful sequencing of past and nearly present. Manages to combine a high profile kidnapping narrative with a… Read More »A Darker Domain: Val McDermid

Behind the furthest end of the brewery, was a rank garden with an old wall: not so high but that I could struggle up and hold on long enough to… Read More »Great Expectations: Walking Away from me even then!