Knitting on the Green

Garment of shadows, by Laurie R. King. London: Allison and Busby, 2012. I did enjoy The pirate king  on first reading, checking back ... ...

Eventually!  It's been a very busy last few weekends, and photo-heavy posts are always a bit awkward to put together...  but seeing the ...

Bloodline :  a Dick Francis novel, by Felix Francis [audiobook]. Read by Michael Maloney.  Bath: AudioGO, 2012. This is a classic from t...

Joss Whedon's Much Ado about Nothing - bunked off work early to see it yesterday afternoon and it's wonderful.  See it if you can! ...

Pigeon English, by Stephen Kelman. London: Bloomsbury, 2011. Harrison Opoku is eleven and a recent immigrant from Ghana; when he sees a bo...

So - next day dawned... not exactly bright and clear, but it dawned. Set off for my first goal, the Musée des tissus et Musée des arts d...

So: I went on holiday. I last went abroad at the end of 2010 and had a two-day holiday in Luxembourg after a conference; this year, I was ...

Fear in the sunlight, by Nicola Upson [audiobook]. Read by Sandra Duncan. Rearsby, Leics.: Clipper, 2012. Another excellent Josephine Tey ...

Rubbernecker, by Belinda Bauer [audiobook]. Read by Andrew Wincott. Oxford: Isis, 2013. A man recovering from a coma thinks he's seen ...

Entombed, by Linda Fairstein [audiobook]. Read by Barbara Rosenblat. Rearsby, Leics: WF Howes, 2004. This was excellent; while Barbara R...

Legal briefs: stories by today's best thriller writers. Edited by William Bernhardt.   London: Headline, 1998. I'm never sure how ...

The racketeer, by John Grisham. London: Hodder and Stoughton, 2012. This is quite a departure from Grisham.  His main character, Malcolm B...

The last witness, by Joel Goldman.   Part of the Dead times four anthology, available for the Kindle. Wilson "Blues" Bluestone,...

Seems to be taking longer than usual to get through books; but it's been a ridiculous couple of weeks. The water clock, by Jim Kelly [...

Mrs Robinson's disgrace: the private diary of a Victorian lady, by Kate Summerscale [audiobook]. Read by Jenny Agutter.  Bath: AudioGO, ...

I was intending to do one post a week when I started this - thankfully, I never said that, as it turns out this is the 4th post and we'r...

Hadn't made a great deal of progress on this by the end of last weekend; and then managed to lose the battery-charger for the camera (wh...

On the map: why the world looks the way it does , by Simon Garfield. London: Profile, 2012. A history of mapmaking and the makers, but don...

I ended up leaving work at 2pm this afternoon - the trains were slowly starting to get a little more dodgy-sounding, the snow had been comin...

Went to station this morning, stood there for a very long time waiting for either a train or a replacement bus, until I'd completely mis...