It's been a strange month with the momentum of January dipping a little bit as the weeks went on. February is always a challenge because...

At one stage I had a plan to buy a book from every bookshop in london and I still aim to visit a lot more of the ones I am yet to discover b...

A bit of catching up to do as tonight saw another book read but not yet blogged about. Aware that reviews need to be posted for Strength in ...

It has been a long time since anything ghostly set the hairs on the back of my neck up but already by the half way point in this book it has...

Forgot to take a book with me on the train today but averted a potential reading crisis by dipping into my print outs of the excellent and e...

For the first half of this book you are gripped by what you believe to be a well researched by fictional account of a man's journey from...

Recently had a day trip to Winchester and the town is famous for a couple of things that are shown on this bookmark. The first is the cathed...

when I lived in Cambridge as a child the large bookshop full of clever students looking for inspiration was Heffers and although it is no lo...

"She had followed him from the courthouse steps across the Brooklyn Bridge. He shied his suit coat and his buttondown in the heat witho...

"The urge to return to the source is irresitable, for it's reassuring to think that life is easier to grasp in the place where it p...

The main aim is to read the latest from Joshua Ferris The Unnamed , which I want to have finished by the end of the week. It would also be g...

This is one of those magnetic bookmarks that is one of a series. I already own one of the others but have very fond memories of Paddington f...

In my second part of recollections about great bookshops in bath have to mention Mr B's which has a fantastic selection, great vibe and...

Occasionaly you get one of those 'ahhhh so that's it' moments in life when something that you didn't quite understand become...

'Don't you ever read detective stories?' 'No' 'I read tons of them. Anything. And forget most of it as soon as I...