I cannot believe it’s a year since I was enthralled by Capital Crime at the fabulous Leonardo Royal Hotel, St Pauls in London. Having had such ...

Having been a very late reader because no-one actually realised I couldn’t see the words on the page, children’s fiction feels especially important to ...

I think it may be Penguin’s Marie-Louise Patton I need to thank for sending me a surprise copy of Hunchback by Saou Ichikawa, translated by Polly ...

  There’s a slightly convoluted story behind my ‘meeting’ Suze of Suze’s Reading Club. We are both members of a Facebook group where I was recently ...

I’m not quite sure how it happened, but today marks exactly ten years since I began blogging. What a decade it’s been and my goodness hasn’t the world ...

My goodness 2024 has been tough going. Despite the fact that I don’t believe that adding 5 instead of 4 to the end of the year will make any ...