Bridgerton: a guest post by Penny Hampson
There can be very few people who by now have not heard of or viewed Bridgerton, the Netflix series based on Julia Quinn’s book, The Duke and I. Some people love it and some people hate it, certainly everyone seems to have an opinion on it. As someone who read the book...
‘Dark Magic’ – the audiobook
I’m excited to tell you that my audiobook of ‘Dark Magic’ is now available at the following stores: Scribd: https://www.scribd.com/audiobook/489919335/Dark-Magic BingeBooks: https://bingebooks.com/book/dark-magic-4...
This is not a book blog
This is not a book blog. There are lots of book bloggers out there who review lots of books. I’m not one of them. I keep trying to cut down on the number of books I review here. Despite this, in 2020 I reviewed more than twenty. How does this keep happening? Firstly,...
‘The Girl Who Died’: Ragnar Jonasson
I've read a couple of books by Ragnar Jonasson before, so his publisher kindly offered to send me a NetGalley review copy of his latest, The Girl Who Died. I'm very thrown by it. Nowadays writers are continually told to "show not tell". It's become a mantra that...
New Year reflections
Thiis is the time when traditionally we look back over the year just passed and ahead to the year to come. I nearly didn’t bother this year. It has, most people would agree, been a terrible year. What is there to look back on with any pleasure? Well, at a personal...
How many words must a writer write down, before he can rest with a beer?
With Christmas and lockdowns and my promising that I'm going to spend less time blogging, I haven't really written anything here for a bit. But today I saw somebody on Twitter talking about word count and targets and it reminded me that this is such a hardy perennial...
Merry Christmas
We're just a week off the big day – or as big a day as people are going to allow themselves at the end of a quite extraordinary year. I don't want to dwell on a miserable past few months and an uncertain future. If I'm going to write a downbeat blog post, it's going...
Two historical novels reviewed
Since I started limiting myself to blogging just once a week, a lot of my posts here have been book reviews. I really don't want this to turn into a book blog, but there are a lot of good books out there and I like to help promote them. This week I finished two very...
Christmas Reads
It can't have escaped your notice that it’s December and we are very firmly in the run-up to Christmas.That means it’s the time of year when starving authors try to fill their Christmas stockings by persuading you to buy their books. So here, in case you are...
It’s that time of year again … (and a free gift)
It’s that time of year when I blog my annual reminder that books make ideal Christmas presents. Amazon has now introduced the option to send Kindle books as a gift in the UK. (This service has been available in the US for a while.) Look for the button on the right of...
