
28 Books for Spring
June 1st is bustin’ out all over, and I’m back at the Tyrone Guthrie Centre in beautiful County Monaghan, in the Republic of Ireland, having first visited here over seven…
Read MoreJune 1st is bustin’ out all over, and I’m back at the Tyrone Guthrie Centre in beautiful County Monaghan, in the Republic of Ireland, having first visited here over seven…
Read MoreAnother year of muddling through despite cancelled travel plans and brushes with the plague. We’ve been and remain much luckier than most given the war in the Ukraine, the UK’s…
Read MoreI was already compiling my booklist from 2022 when I realised I had forgotten to post this list from 2021 due to… well, who knows what? Apathy? Melancholy? Forgetfulness? Rage?…
Read MoreAs a voracious reader, I jumped at the opportunity to be part of the shadow panel for this year’s Scotland’s National Book Award for Fiction. Despite being born and raised…
Read MoreThis past October, I recommended some eerie books––one per day, in the hope of getting everyone in a heebie-jeebie frame of mind, and distract us from the dire news cycle.…
Read More2020, what a year. I’m going to go with the old maxim, ‘if you can’t say something nice, say nothing at all,’ and simply share my year’s reading. Four months…
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