So many books, so many great writers and so little time to discover them all. You know what that’s like. And I have never been…
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Whatever Gets You Through The Night These are not easy times right now. So, as John Lennon once sang, whatever gets you through the night,…
Leave a CommentI think I may have found a new guilty pleasure. I recently came across an American writer, Katherine Center. Well, I assume she’s American otherwise…
Leave a CommentCS Lewis: The Screwtape Letters, a novel far ahead of its time!
Leave a CommentLooking Forward to Looking Back As plenty of people have been at pains to point out over the last few weeks, 2020 is not in…
Leave a CommentChristmas Traditions If ever there is a month associated with tradition, it is December, dominated as it is by the repeated patterns of Christmas. Whether…
Leave a CommentIt’s October and that means many things. Pumpkins won’t just find their way into soups and stews but out onto window ledges and doorsteps. Questionable…
Leave a CommentA Book About Trees At the risk of sounding like an M&S advert, this is not just a novel, this is Richard Powers’ ‘The Overstory’–and…
Leave a CommentIt’s a Word-Nerd Kind of Summer Back in February I wrote my Ode to February…a bleak month in many senses coming as it does in…
Leave a CommentThe Green-Eyed Monster According to psychologists, there are two types of envy: malicious envy and benign envy. In the former, we feel tormented by another…
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