Knitting on the Green

This boy: a memoir of a childhood , by Alan Johnson. London: Bantam, 2013. This could so very easily be a misery memoir. Alan Johnson desc...

One for the books, by Joe Queenan. New York: Penguin, 2012. Joe Queenan is an inveterate reader, and has quite definite opinions on readin...

So, I went on PodRetreat in February, and I have photos; but striking while the iron is still reasonably luke-warm, this was last Friday...

Lost river, by Stephen Booth. London: Harper, 2011. On May Bank Holiday afternoon, Ben Cooper pulls a dead child from a river; the inciden...

A land more kind than home , by Wiley Cash [audiobook]. Read by Lorna Raver, Mark Bramhall and Nick Sullivan. Rearsby, Leics.: Clipper, 2012...

Sycamore Row , by John Grisham. London: Hodder and Stoughton, 2013. This is a (very belated) sequel to A time to kill , which was made int...

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...