Sometimes... With some authors; When you finish one of their works you have to give it time to settle in and 'become' before casting...

Today I treated myself. No writing. Well, what I mean is no creative writing as yet. There’s still four hours of today left, and after...

This week I’ve dipped my toe into horror twice. The first by reading Printer’s Devil Court, by the author Susan Hill, and the second by...

Have you ever heard of Cockayne Hatley? Nor had I until I stumbled upon it one day with my daughter, Finty. We were searching for...

Today I finished reading my first 'Poe'... Heathen, you may say, but I am English. In England, teachers only ever teach you about English...

The 39 Steps... I love the movie and had never read the book. So there I am in the library and in among the classics I see it, a chance...

This week I read two books. Sort of. The first was the small and skinny 'The Embassy of Cambodia' by Zadie Smith and the second the...

I really enjoyed this. What's more it the first 'long' novel I've read (other than Du Maurier) in recent years given my battle with the...

I really enjoyed this. Perhaps it was Du Maurier's 1940s voice in a 1970s setting that I loved. The eccentricity of the writing, of Mad...

A short story or novelette ... take your pick. My guess in the latter and I really quite enjoyed it. I picked it up in the local...