Clearing out some old bookselves I came across this Lord of the Rings bookmark with the blurb about "one ring to rule them...". It...

Although on the look of it this sort of bookshop might scream out cheap and not worth going into it couldn’t be further from the truth. Insi...

Really pleased with the start to the year. Hit the ground running although a scatter gun approach means all sorts of things have been read w...

“At first he thought she had suffocated herself. Grabbing her by the shoulders, he turned her over, still clutching the pillow to hide her f...

There is a pace about Ballard that grabs you by the eyeballs and leads you into places that you fear to look at. You know that the relations...

This is a leather bookmark picked up on a day trip to Chichester Cathedral. Having never been to Chichester before it seemed like a great id...

In the strictest sense of the definition this is not a bookshop but upstairs there is a fantastic selection of books. Because there are a lo...

"All this - the house and the remnants of the pasture land, the seashore below the pale cliffs, the walk along it to the fishing villag...

"Luntz turned and flung himself to the ground, hearing gunshots, and his senses ceased functioning. When the darkness and silence ended...

There is an epic feeling to this story that you sense would have made it twice as long had it been written a century earlier. The echoes of ...

if there is one element that echoes Tree of Smoke, the only other Johnson I have read, then it is the dry humour. Apart from that this is a ...

yesterday I popped into the natural history Museum with my youngest son. he can be a bit of a handful but it was great to spend some time al...

This is the first in an occasional series, only made occasional by the fact that if I try to go to a bookshop every weekend there might be p...

"We who had come to discover found ourselves discovered and, in the process, discovered ourselves-" This book has been written wit...

There is a an ominous sense that what starts out as a camper deciding to stay on and carry out a few odd jobs is moving towards something mu...