A fool on a hill

Something a little bit different for today's post. I volunteer on the SS Great Britain, Brunel's famous ship, permanently moored n...

A friend recommended this book to me, and I'm so grateful to her! It concerns Count Alexander Rostov, a Russian aristocrat who in 1922 i...

This is a riveting read, though not a comfortable one: indeed, how could it be in any way comfortable when at the heart of it is a brutal ra...

As it says on the cover, this is a mathematical mystery. But don't be frightened. I'm utterly useless at maths, but I managed! I...

Today, a review. It's always difficult to assign an age range to a book, but I'd say this is somewhere in the region of 10+. It'...

Mr B’s, in case you haven’t heard of it, is a wonderful independent book shop in Bath. I’m about an hour away from Bath, and my nearest book...

This book has absolutely rightly done really well, so probably lots of you have read it already. And I can’t say mouth about it because it w...