Amazingly, I read 232 books in 2002. I’m sure it’s the highest number of books I’ve read in any year.…
Despite the cover design and the title, this isn’t a seasonal book. The snow is metaphorical, referring to the protagonist…
If you enjoyed reading Crooked Heart and Old Baggage then this book is a must-read. It does include some of…
I’ve read and reviewed so many books this year! Here are 20 of my favourite reads – a mixture of…
A light contemporary novel for bibliophiles, this is a fun read which also discusses serious issues. It’s set in a…
A marvellously spooky collection of festive stories from the late 19th century to the 1950s. Quite appropriately there are 13…
A strange novel which is a bit like Irvine Welsh without so much dialect. I’m not sure that I actually…
I’m afraid this is one for the Stella Gibbons completists only. This was the last to be published in her…
If I had to sum up this book in one word, it would be ‘cinematic’. Everything about it relates to…
An odd little novella, maybe a hallucination or a piece of magic realism. Compared to Mike Russell’s other work, this…