Vicarious Thrills and Spills
Vicarious Thrills and Spills I think I’m developing a taste for book reviewing from my sofa this winter. Most-recently sent a new murder mystery The Chanteuse from Cape Town by John Constable (published by Ink!), to report on for an online book tour organised by...
Other Voices
Other Voices Being read aloud to is such a treat. Starting a new year with a new project is a tonic. I’m indulging in both. Every book I read in silence to myself, comes freighted with the colours, echoes and images it conjures in my mind; and each character’s...
Touching the past
Touching the past It’s 100 years this November since Egyptologist Howard Carter found King Tutankhamun’s c.3,300 year old tomb beneath the sands of the Valley of the Kings. An elderly man I met by chance, in my youth, once told me about his old friend Carter taking...