BOOKPHACE

This blog is usually book reviews, author interviews and bookish matters. But today sees a deviation in that pattern. I do apologise.  ...

Well here’s another first for my blog - a book of essays. And it’s been quite intoxicating rediscovering this literary form that has sen...

*Updated Post A year ago Elizabeth Lowry’s second novel, Dark Water, was published to critical acclaim and long listed for two awar...

Okay now. I want you to form two queues. The first - all of you who HAVEN’T read  Ascension, the first volume in the Phobos series.  An...

An Interview with Ana Sampson McLaughlin Ana Sampson McLaughlin is a lady with several hats. Fellow bloggers may well know her as Deput...

  I was fortunate enough last year to receive an ARC of The Last Hours which I found vey exciting. A long time fan of Minette Walter’s p...

Well, this is a first for my blog - a poetry anthology! When I was younger I lived and breathed poetry. Read it, wrote it, quoted it. I ...