After deciding to dip into Project Gutenberg and see what was there, and to postpone getting bogged down further in the Dostoyevsky I'...

In a last ditch effort to try to have a go at using an e-reader I fired up the Nook on the tube to work this morning and taking advantage ...

Mikhail Bulgakov is world renowned for the brilliant The Master and Margarita but if you go back to the start of his writing career you g...

Having been thinking about things now for most of this week the decision that has been reached is to opt for an area that I could read about...

Thinking about what this blog should be about has lef me to a few possible options. When I was a child I remember going into a stamp shop an...

It's hard to believe that when I started blogging I took great pride in the output and used to pat myself on the back for doing at least...

This is the second book about the Vietnam war I have read in recent weeks as I amble through the history of that conflict that might see m...

I have read a great many books about the Vietnam War because it has always interested me. I came to this book wondering if there's anyth...

The London Eye Mystery Siobhan Dowd David Fickling Books 2007 PLOT Ted and Kat, a brother and sister from London, have their ...

When you start a book that is the first of a trilogy there is a part of you that starts to prepare for a long literary journey. You expect...

The Heathrow writer in residence is something that has happened over the last few years with some well known names spending a week at the ...

there are times when a book transcends across the best seller lists and into the must read category because it provides pleasure to so many ...

With the Leveson inquiry fresh in the mind the idea of someone having their life destroyed by the press perhaps isn't too surprising. ...

True life can often be much more gripping than fiction and it proves it again here as the case of a murdered child unravels with the reader ...

The premise of this book is a great one in the sense that going back in time can be treated like a trip to a specific destination. Pack fo...