Newsletter 15 February 2025

When did you start reading? I can’t remember a time when I didn’t read so I think I must have been very little. My favourite books were The Cat In The Hat, all of Roald Dahl’s books, The Water Babies and Anne of Green Gables. Unfortunately, some of these books are...

Newsletter 6 February 2025

Welcome to my new newsletter! I’m bringing in a few changes, including committing to sending this out once a week. Yikes! Well, at least I’ll give it a go… Do you participate in yearly reading challenges? So this is a bit controversial…but I’m not a...

Famous Last Words by Gillian McAllister

‘Famous Last Words’ is an excellent book that starts with a bang. Cam’s husband is the perpetrator in a deadly hostage situation. The novel fast forwards to seven years later, but although Cam has moved on, she’s never been able to reconcile what Luke...
Tragedy, True Crime and Random Acts of Kindness

Tragedy, True Crime and Random Acts of Kindness

I’ve always known that my great-grandmother perished in a concentration camp. When my grandparents escaped Czechoslovakia for England in 1940, she refused to go with them. In her last letter to my grandmother, she wrote: ‘So my dear, may God give you more happiness in...