Blog Posts

Claire Keegan wins 2022 Orwell Political Fiction Book Prize with ‘Small Things Like These’

I discovered Ada Limón’s poems today

Why I won’t be buying another Kindle until Amazon fix the Paperwhite

Happy Birthday to the NHS – 74 years old today

A Summer Of Witches – a new set of Terry Pratchett audiobooks, a new reading challenge

An unplanned read – ‘At First Light’ by Barbara Nickless – I’m hooked so far.

The thing about grief…

Perhaps books are my ‘Wild Geese’? Some thoughts on a poem by Mary Oliver

Some thoughts on Victor Hugo’s exhortation to ‘Be like the bird’