PLACES & BOOKS

Here are some reading recommendations from Bookstagram friends’ favourite reads of 2022 to give you some bookish inspiration!

Have a go at my 100 question 2022 Lit Quiz!

Come and read my 2022 reading wrap up. It’s chock full of great books and recommendations.

A reading-travelogue of my hill walking, exploring and discovering Norwegian literature during a week’s holiday in Norway.

2021. My best ever reading year. Well, since records began, in 2006. I suspect that between the ages of 18-25 I read 150-200 books a...

It's been over three years now since I listed my favourite 100 books and it's time for a review. I've read about 300 books in that time,...

A bit about me and the world’s biggest book club - how I got into it, and what I love about it .

“Autobiography is usually honest but never truthful.” So wrote Robert A. Heinlein in his novel Friday, and I’m inclined to agree. I’ve...

2020. The weirdest year ever. The world turned upside down. But for a moment let's try to ignore Covid-19, Brexit and politics as much as...

Hi again bibliophiles! Today’s blog is about Reading Slumps – what they are, how to recognise them and how to ease yourself out of them…...

2019. What a big year. Crikey – so much happened! There was · A level results for youngest daughter and her going off for her first year...

Losing yourself in a book. We’ve all done it. Entering the world, becoming the character, forgetting yourself. It’s a wonderful and...

In my last blog I asked What is a Classic? and I considered that possibly the best we could do would be to cumulate all our “100 books...

I saw a fascinating-looking book the other day which I'd have bought if I'd not been on a book buying ban. It was called 'Why read the...

Let me take you down to the borders of Wales and England, to a small and beautiful town nestling in the hills on the edge of the Brecon...

30 books, Marie? Really? Well of course we all now know that’s not what she said. Or at least I hope we know that. What she said was ““I...

Do books you have previously read call to you? Or do you just want to keep discovering new books and new authors? Today I am considering...

How diverse are your bookshelves? I'm constantly asking myself that question, challenging my assumptions - for why read if not to...

2018. There it goes. Whoosh. Bye! While others were obsessed with Brexit, I was busy reading (and doing other stuff). Mostly reading...

In memory of my favourite bookshop... I still feel a sense of loss whenever I walk past a particular shop-front in my town. All the...