A fool on a hill

 There really should be snother review up by now. The reason there isn't, is that I have a slight case of the end-of-summer blues, and t...

 Books set in Japan seem to be having a moment just now - there are several on the display tables in Waterstones. (If you scroll down a bit,...

 I've recently been following some of the BBC Maestro courses about writing, and very interesting I've found them. (For more about t...

  This book is quite luscious. I've just finished it, and I really wish I hadn't. As I mentioned in my last post, about The Seal on ...

  Full disclosure: Mara Bergman is an excellent editor as well as a writer, and some years ago, she edited two of my books, The Willow Man ...

  Full disclosure - I read this book in the spring, and this would be a better review if I'd done it then - but there we are, I didn...

It's a glorious object, the Red Dress.  Made out of burgundy silk dupion, it has a fitted, boned bodice with a v-neck and long sleeves, ...