A fool on a hill

 I noticed the other day that this book, Voyage of the Sparrowhawk , has won the children's book category of the Costa award, and so I d...

 Since my writing group went online, I've mostly done the weekly tasks I've set them - and it's been fun and quite liberating tr...

 If there's one thing that the lockdown reminded many of us, it's that nature is immensely important to us. For reasons that should ...

 This book is a sequel to The Salt Path , which I reviewed here . That was the story of how Raynor Winn and her husband Moth, in their fifti...

I have just finished reading this book, which is a novel about the influential economist  J Maynard Keynes. I thoroughly enjoyed it and am o...

 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 ...