Last week I wrote about my Top Ten Films of 2013 (so far), now it’s time for my Top Ten Reads. Unlike the films list this one isn’t confined to books released this year. I hardly ever read books in the year that they are first published, partly because of the cost of hardback books compared to their paperback counterparts…
Astray
18 June 2013 by Leave a Comment
One of the best books that I’ve read in the last couple of years was Emma Donoghue’s amazing Booker nominated Room – the story of a young woman kidnapped and imprisoned and her son, a child has only ever known life in one small room. I adored the book…
The Santaland Diaries
19 December 2011 by Leave a Comment
One of my favourite memories from childhood is of visiting House of Fraser in Glasgow every Christmas Eve. Normally the Salvation Army brass band would be playing at the entrance…
The Collected Short Stories of Roald Dahl
24 October 2011 by Leave a Comment
I know what you’re thinking. This is horror week – what is a classic children’s writer like Roald Dahl doing here? The BFG wasn’t that scary…. True, but one of the most terrifying things in life is the thought of what humans can do…
Maybe This Time
27 September 2011 by 1 Comment
When the Kindle and other e-readers first came on the scene I proudly shunned them. Nothing would ever better the feeling of having a real book in your hands and the happy sight of a full bookshelf. Then I got my iPad, downloaded the Kindle App and all my high-minded objections to e-readers were forgotten…