Happy Halloween everyone. A good excuse to eat some sweets and look slightly more stupid than usual.

At this time of year, with the clocks going back and the cold dark nights enveloping you as you head home from work it’s a good time to thin...

As a result of twitter this year has been one experiencing contact with a different collection of book bloggers. It has been great not only ...

It has been great this week to get some free books with The Times but I’m afraid at the risk of looking a gift horse in the mouth a slight c...

Right time to get back into Wolf Hall and pick up the story of Cromwell and his master Cardinal Wolsey. The Cardinal seems to be being playe...

This is one of several books that has been opened and started but not really got underway. There is no obvious excuse for that because the w...

This is a magnetic Wallace and Gromit bookmark. I'm a great fan on W&G and there is something quite appealing about the merchandise....

The idea of boasting about how many books you have read might seem to be a bit crude but for those that rank the activity as their main hobb...

What I might not have mentioned in all the thoughts about this book over the course of this week is just how much sex dominates. The glass r...

As the family leaves the house the story of the glass room is told via those that stated behind with it initially being taken over as a base...

With Austria taken over by Hitler and the refugees starting to come through to the Czech Republic the Nazi threat is now just 50km from the ...

The storm clouds are gathering not just in terms of European politics, with the rise of Hitler, but also perhaps in the relationships of the...

This is another book that was in the running for the recent Booker prize and my god fortunate is to work with colleagues who care enough abo...

Every year in the US the libraries put together a list of banned books and encourage readers not only to find out why they were banned but t...

When you pick up a book it’s interesting to see how long you give it to prove its worth. I usually let things go until around 100 pages and ...