A fool on a hill

 It was announced that  Hamnet had won the Women's Prize for Fiction just after I had finished reading it. I haven't read any of the...

First of all, an apology: I read this book some weeks ago. I always intend my thoughts down straight away, but what usually happens is that ...

I was very sad to hear yesterday that Ken Robinson has died at the age of 70. He was an author, speaker, and international advisor on educat...

After finishing Overstory , I felt I wanted to read something that was easier, less emotionally demanding. Non-fiction, I thought. And right...

I hardly know where to start with this book, which I've just finished. It is quite extraordinary. It's about trees. It's a novel...

Michelle Lovric writes fiction for adults and children: a common theme of all her novels is a Venetian setting, and it's very clear from...

We have experimented this year with a mini-meadow in our front garden, and it’s giving us - and, I hope, lots of insects - a great deal of p...