Last week we had ten under ten, this week it’s five under five. Next week, who knows? Two under two? Ha! That’ll cut my workload down… Actually, it’s really quite unexpectedly hard to find good things online for less than a fiver, unless it’s all beauty stuff… So first of all, the book that many of you…
Something a bit different, this week: the books that are on my reading list. I’ll be ploughing through these over the course of the summer, whenever I get to snatch a sunny moment in the deckchair or a couple of hours before bed. I’ve just finished The Girls, which was excellent – very soft focus and dreamlike but…
I wrote a novel, years ago, when I was doing my Master’s Degree, and I thought that it was about time I finished it off. Because what sort of madman writes a novel and then does nothing with it? We’re talking over 160,000 words here; admittedly it’s not War and Peace, but it did take a bloody…
I’m on holiday. Last week we went to Cornwall for four nights and stayed in a lovely house in Polzeath with Perfect Stays (post coming up) and then by the time we got back (to a broken boiler and a freezing cold house) it was the double-bank-holiday and so I decided to just stay off. When…
I haven’t been this excited by a book in a long time: Nathan Filer’s The Shock of the Fall is one of those novels that reaches out, grabs you firmly by both ears and refuses to let go until you’ve finished. I polished it off in just over twenty-four hours and I have to say that…