reading

A Gobbelino London PI short story, set in Whitby just before the events of A Menace of Mermaids, and just after a Worry of Weres.

It’s not just the bin she has to worry about. There’s a problem with names, too …

Discover just what the bins are up to in the first chapter of What Happened in London…

A round-up of my reading in 2022 in characteristically disorganised but enthusiastic style, featuring pandemics, big bad wolves, and not-vampires.

Seven wonderful things – and a plague of photos – about the south of France, and Antibes and Caille in particular.

A very serious look at the important ingredients in the reader’s life, because these things matter.

Reading chapter three of ‘Beast-Laid Plans’, and the risks of upsetting women of a certain age, especially where there are dragons involved …

DI Adams has accepted dragons. Even an invisible dog. But a Beast…? Read chapter two in the seventh Beaufort Scales cozy mystery now!

Missing dragons. Rampaging beasts. Ladies of a certain age and temperament … Read chapter one in Beaufort Scales’ seventh cozy mystery here!

A book chat containing surprisingly few books, but some thoughts about changing reading patterns and book love.