A few years ago we visited Iceland for a long weekend and I absolutely fell in love with the country. Darren dived at Silfra between the European and North American continental shelf while I mooched around Reykjavik taking photos and being mesmerised by the water and the mountains…
Strictly Between Us
13 January 2016 by Leave a Comment
One of the first books I read last year was Jane Fallon’s Getting Rid of Matthew and in an unintended coincidence the third book I’ve read in 2016 is the new Fallon novel Strictly Between Us, published on January 14th this year…
Carrying Albert Home
12 January 2016 by Leave a Comment
There’s an anecdote that my husband loves to recount about a holiday we took to Kenya. We were sleeping in tents (very posh tents) on the side of a lake and I looked at the furtherest tent which had a number of crocodiles nearby. “The poor buggers in that tent” I sympathised…
Turkey Seconds
17 December 2015 by Leave a Comment
Yesterday in my mini-focus on Christmas books, I reviewed Mandy Baggot’s One Wish in Manhattan – my initial reservations about the novel were overcome when I got to like the main characters. Today I have exactly the opposite issue. I couldn’t stand the main character …
One Wish in Manhattan
16 December 2015 by Leave a Comment
I’m continuing my brief focus on Christmas books this week with Mandy Baggott’s One Wish in Manhattan, a New York set romance between a British girl and an American billionaire – thankfully one without a red room. Single mum Hayley Walker is spending Christmas with her brother Dean in New York…
Never Kiss A Man In A Christmas Jumper
15 December 2015 by Leave a Comment
This week I’m pretty much focusing on Christmas books. I’ve spent the past few days reading nothing but Christmas stories and I might actually be overdosing on sweetness and festive fun. I’m taking a break for a bit after this week for Christmas, my 40th birthday, New Year and a holiday to Egypt…
The Theory of Everything
10 December 2015 by Leave a Comment
Because I’ve given up on going to the local cinema I have to wait until films are on DVD or Sky Movies until I see them, which means coming completely late to all of this year’s Oscar Winners. I’m just now starting to catch up with most of the films (or at least the ones I want to see…)
Holiday Inn
8 December 2015 by Leave a Comment
One of my favourite Christmas films, in fact one of my favourite films, is White Christmas. I’ve been known to cry when the soldiers turn up at the end to honour the General, and I was DESTROYED one Christmas Day when I was watching it with my mum and we looked outside and it was actually snowing…
The Silent Dead
7 December 2015 by Leave a Comment
Last year I reviewed Claire McGowan’s The Dead Ground, the second in her Paula Maguire series about a forensic pathologist who returns to Northern Ireland from London and works with a Missing Person’s Unit to solve crimes. I enjoyed The Dead Ground…
Follow Me
30 November 2015 by 4 Comments
I managed to shut my computer down the other night without saving the document I had written. It was a book review and the loss of it was doubly irritating, first because it was a couple of hours work down the drain but more importantly because it meant I have to spend more time thinking about a book…