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A Good Man in Africa 27 Aug 2013 | 09:50 am
If you were asked ten years ago to pick the continent that would become the home to cosy crime fiction you probably wouldn't have chosen Africa, but thanks to Alexander McCall Smith, his delightful cr...
£2,415 26 Aug 2013 | 12:09 pm
That's how much my charity auction ended up raising for Bag Books. For those who missed it, I flogged a signed first edition of The Cuckoo's Calling to raise money for a wonderful charity that create...
A Song for Sunday 25 Aug 2013 | 10:38 am
The Curse by Agnes Obel.
Reading Miss Read: News from Thrush Green 24 Aug 2013 | 11:53 am
Just when I thought Miss Read was getting a bit predictable she throws in a novel, News from Thrush Green, which toys with the readers’ expectations and throws in a few surprises. A new resident in T...
An Unremarkable Life 23 Aug 2013 | 07:28 am
You have probably heard about Stoner, it is one of the most talked about novels of the summer, which is pretty good going when you consider it was first published in 1965. At first glance this is qui...
The Pack Family Book Group 21 Aug 2013 | 09:25 am
While on holiday last month we had a sort of family book group thing where we all read the same book and chatted about it over dinner in the evening. Yes, it does sound a bit twee but it was in a good...
Not Much Cop 19 Aug 2013 | 08:12 am
Peter Grant is a seemingly normal probationary policeman for the London Met when, during a long night guarding a murder scene, he meets a ghost. This is, of course, a trifle odd but when it turns out ...
A Song for Sunday 18 Aug 2013 | 12:55 pm
A House released Endless Art, a roll call of the great and the good, back in 1990. When they realised that it was somewhat (i.e. completely) male biased they re-recorded it. And here's a live unisex ...
Reading Miss Read: Fairacre Festival 17 Aug 2013 | 10:40 am
Fairacre Festival is a slim novella which ticks pretty much every box on the Quaint Village Story list: storm damages church roof, locals organize events to raise funds, vicar worries and rubs the bri...
The Real Moonfleet 16 Aug 2013 | 09:57 am
This was one of the resident volumes on my holiday home bookshelf: a personal recollection of life on the south coast of the Isle of Wight full of stories of shipwrecks, rescues and smuggling. Freder...
