Knitting on the Green

Dancing with the Virgins, by Stephen Booth. London: HarperCollins, 2001. The stone circle known as the Nine Virgins has stood on the Derby...

St Brigid's Day, and while I'm not sure posting a poem is still an internet Thing, I had a Collected Robert Frost for Christmas, and...

Refusal, by Felix Francis. London: Michael Joseph, 2013. Another extremely good book by Felix Francis; as Francis finds his stride, he...

Round up of the last few books of last year.  Not quite as many as last year, but I seem to have had a lot of audiobooks I rejected halfway ...

Black diamond, by Martin Walker.   London: Quercus, 2010. An Inspector Bruno novel.  In this one, Périgord's most prized product, the ...

Death's door, by Jim Kelly [audiobook].  Read by Roger May. Oxford: Isis, 2012. On a hot August day in 1994, 76 holidaymakers travel t...

The cemetery of secrets, by David Hewson. London: Pan 2009. Two intertwined narratives here from the start - one from 1733 and one from th...

The cuckoo's calling , by Robert Galbraith [audiobook]. Read by Robert Glenister. Oxford: Isis, 2013. I'm not sure I'd have co...

It's got to be Heaney, this year. Westering  (in California) I sit under Rand McNally's "Official Map of the Moon" - ...

So - for only the second time, I met someone yesterday who knows me entirely through this blog (hello Melanie; I tried to find you through R...

The chessmen, by Peter May. London: Quercus, 2013. The final part of the Lewis trilogy; and another very good book.  Fin is now working as...

My father and other working-class football heroes, by Gary Imlach. London: Yellow Jersey Press, 2006. This is a wonderful book.  Gary'...

Seamus Heaney,  13 April 1939 - 30 August 2013 Saddened and surprised to hear of Seamus Heaney's death today.  I still have the much-a...

On Canaan's side , by Sebastian Barry. London: Faber and Faber, 2011. Lilly and her fiancé Tadg flee Ireland for America; Tadg is in t...

Contributing to the announcement of a new collection by Woolly Wormhead.  But this one, with a difference. People who follow Woolly...

On the road bike: the search for a nation's cycling soul, or, Sniffing the yak-skin shoe, or, The great eccentrics of British cycling , ...

I've a week off this week, and one of the things I've vowed to do is catch up with blog posts, and projects on Ravelry, and paperwor...