Hello! This is Minnie Karsan, a pseudonym I am using to hide my real identity. I want to be known by my pseudonym as I – ahem- am writing a novel . And ...

Dubai oh Dubai! A continuation of the travails and tribulations and the struggles I’m going through in my writing. These are just little hints I’m ...

In the past few years I've loved discovering books by Wilkie Collins such as “The Moonstone” and “The Woman in White”. There are echoes of these ...

Here are my 10 favourite books that I've read this year so far! A new video is up on my YouTube channel discussing why these titles are so memorable: ...

Hello friends! Let me cut to the chase! The “experts” tell me I have to blog rrrreggggularly. By that they mean, every day, every week or every other ...

I was a bit uncertain what to expect reading this new novel because on the surface it's somewhat challenging to summarise its plot or understand what its ...

Another season of The Women’s Prize has come to a close! As always, it’s been such a pleasure reading many of the titles from both the fiction and ...

Between plagues, marauders and horrific weather (destructive storms and unpredictable ice locking in the cove) I'm certainly glad I didn't live on the ...

I was naturally drawn to reading this novel because when I was younger I loved movies about time travel such as 'The Time Machine' (1960), 'Somewhere in ...

I felt very tense reading this story set in the near future given how plausible and real it feels. Lalami's tale taps into an anxiety many of us probably ...