Currently reading 'Tilly and the Bookwanderers' by Anna James
In an everlasting winter, sisters Mila and Pipa set out in search for their brother Oskar. Mila is certain that he didn’t accompany the stranger of his own accord, that he didn’t leave like their father did. Her other sister, Sanna feels…
Well, in the second book of Maz Evans series we find out that it is not only QEII that has an interesting skill set, the rest of the royal family has certain aptitudes and attitudes. Nice to know that everyone enjoys a…
A new monthly feature where I do a round up of the books I’m most anxious to read. Fiction, non-fiction and children’s books are all included. Fiction Sea Prayer by Khaled Hosseini (9781526602718) As with Journey and Illegal, this is a story…
QUESTIONS TO YOURSELF Ask yourself these questions applying them to work you’ve already done or to work you are about to do. Or even they could be used on other people, seminars, etc. have I made this work with the attitude of…
From the moment you start reading Mortal Engines it pulls you along at a furious pace through a thrilling adventure set in the far future where cities are now mobile and follow the tenets of Municipal Darwinism. The two main characters Tom…
After reading umpteen posts on ‘How to Blog for your Audience’, ‘Blogging for Cash’, ‘Incentivise Your Blogging’, Money and Blogging, ‘Blogging Will Help Your Pension Fund’, etc. I thought I would let you in on my secret for writing the perfect blog…
The Woman in Black has always been a book that has been floating around my head as a book to read, talked about, mentioned when a good ghost story was required, but that I had never read, not even after the film…
I was in Skinningrove for a course a while back and took the opportunity to take some photographs as it was quite misty making the area look quite sinister and I just don’t get to Skinningrove that often as it’s off the…
This is the story of Cymbeline and his family, Cymbeline is nine-years old and his mother has avoided to teach him to swim in all those years. Then due to a school trip to the swimming pool the past unfolds itself into…
I was so privileged to receive a reading copy of this from Laurence King Publishing, and it even came with a beautiful poster. Everything else I was reading had to be put on hold until I had finished this, though I could…