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Top Ten: Christmas Present Books

14 December 2015 by Louise Leave a Comment

A few days ago I published my top ten books of 2015, these are the books that appealed to me most during the year. I am aware though that these aren’t ten books that will appeal to everyone else. Here are ten books that I think would make brilliant Christmas presents for various family and friends…

Filed Under: Top 10 Tagged With: A Killing Moon, A Step in Time, Anna Karenina, Aussie Grit, Beth Miller, British crime, Christmas books, comedy, For The Love of The Archers, Formula One, Helen MacKinven, Kati Hiekkapelto, Kerry Barrett, Lisa Dickenson, Little Black Lies, Madame Bovary, Mark Webber, Nordic Noir, Paul E Hardisty, psychological thrillers, romance, Sharon Bolton, Steven Dunne, Strictly Come Dancing, Talk of the Toun, The 12 Dates of Christmas, The Abrupt Physics of Dying, The Archers, The Defenceless, The Hummingbird, thrillers, women's fiction

A Step In Time

27 October 2015 by Louise Leave a Comment

On the countdown to Christmas there’s always one very important marker which signals the end of summer, the beginning of autumn and highlights that advent isn’t so very far away. It’s nothing to do with the weather, or leafs changing colour. It’s BBC starting to show Strictly Come Dancing…

Filed Under: Books Tagged With: A Step in Time, Kerry Barrett, romance, Strictly Come Dancing, women's fiction

Brendan Cole Live and Unjudged

30 January 2012 by Louise Leave a Comment

A couple of weeks before Christmas I entered a competition to win tickets to see Strictly Come Dancing star and self-styled “bad boy of ballroom”, Brendan Cole’s show Live and Unjudged. I then forgot all about it…

Filed Under: Theatre Tagged With: audience participation, ballroom dancing, Brendan Cole, Brendan Cole Live and Unjudged, cha cha cha, Craig Revel Horwood, dancing, latin dancing, Len Goodman, Live and Unjudged, Lulu, Paso Doble, Scott Cole, Strictly Come Dancing, Viennese Waltz, Vincent Simone