Knitting on the Green

Knitting with rainbows: making the most of gradient yarns, by Carol Feller. Available through Ravelry, or at Carol's website . The kni...

Port mortuary, by Patricia Cornwell. London: Sphere, 2010. Sometimes I wonder why I keep reading Scarpetta novels.  This is one which is b...

My brilliant friend, by Elena Ferrante. Translated from the Italian by Ann Goldstein. New York: Europa, 2012. Elena and Lila are growing u...

Missing you, by Harlan Coben [audiobook]. Read by Kerry Shale. Rearsby, Leics.: Clipper, 2014. Detective Kat Donovan is signed up for an o...

Gone to ground, by John Harvey [audiobook]. Read by Andrew Wincott. Rearsby, Leics.: WF Howes, 2007. Stephen Bryan, a Cambridge academic, ...

Coffin road,  by Peter May.  London: Quercus, 2016. A man wakes up, soaking wet, on a beach.  He has absolutely no memory of how he got th...

To rise again at a decent hour, by Joshua Ferris. London: Penguin, 2014. A book group book. Again, one I'd not have read otherwise; un...

Bury your dead, by Louise Penny [audiobook]. Read by Adam Sims. Oxford: Isis, 2011. Armand Gamache is in Québec City, recovering from the ...

The moth catcher, by Ann Cleeves [audiobook]. Read by Janine Birkett. Oxford: Isis, 2015. Valley Farm is a tiny community, a big house and...

The climb, by Chris Froome, with David Walsh. London: Penguin, 2015. I enjoyed Cav's first autobiography (see last reviews post); but ...

Netherland , by Joseph O'Neill [audiobook]. Read by David Thorpe.  Bath: Oakhill, 2010. I wanted to read this because it was about c...

Make me, by Lee Child [audiobook]. Read by Jeff Harding. Whitley Bay: Soundings, 2015. Another excellent Jack Reacher book; I really don...

The pie at night: in search of the North at play , by Stuart Maconie. London: Ebury, 2015. Mr Maconie does it again, with his combination ...

Kennedy's brain , by Henning Mankell [audiobook]. Read by Anna Bentinck. Oxford: Isis, 2008. When archaeologist Louise Cantor's so...

The hour: sporting immortality the hard way, by Michael Hutchinson. London: Yellow Jersey Press, 2007. Hutchinson ( @Doctor_Hutch on Twitt...

The citadel, by A J Cronin. London: Vista, 1996. Originally published in 1937, this is a powerful, semi-autobiographical novel about a doc...

The next stop on Woolly's 10 year anniversary blog tour after Susan Crawford's lovely post - this is editors' week!  Introducin...

The scarf I finished on Friday night/Saturday morning while listening to the news from Paris on the radio.  Destined for a Christmas present...

To Festiwool at Hitchin.  Given that I'd been up until after 3am listening to French radio, wandering around the house and ranting, I wa...

I had an idea for a post tonight; but there are no words compared to what's going on in Paris. Other than maybe, dear God, not agai...