Book Review | If it wasn’t for that dog! #memoir #deaf #booksky
So, I asked Michael Forester if he’d like me to review one of his books on my blog. Michael is one of my colleagues in the craft and gift fairs. We see each other probably every other weekend. I...
View ArticleFriday Flash | Tiger, Burning #flashfiction #booksky
Tiger, Burning is another of Chuck Wendig’s random titles. I didn’t really know how to write this one, I just had a vision of a tiger walking through flames. This is how it turned out, at just over 500...
View ArticleBooker Review | Wolf Hall and The Siege of Krishnapur #histfic #booksky
Wolf Hall, by the late and thoroughly lamented Hilary Mantel, and The Siege of Krishnapur by J G Farrell. Both Booker prize winners, both historical fiction, both redolent of the sights, sounds, smells...
View ArticleFriday Flash | The Alluring Song of September #flashfiction #booksky
Today’s inspiration is a quote from J Lenni Dorner which he used when commenting on my August Wrap-up post. I must check out where it comes from! It’s a short one today, only 250 words. But sweet 🙂 “As...
View ArticleBook Review | Book of Deacon 2 to 3.5 #fantasy #booksky
Joseph R Lallo’s epic fantasy The Book of Deacon continues with The Great Convergence, and nominally ends with The Battle of Verril. But 3.5 is Jade, which he describes as written before Verril, but...
View ArticleFriday Flash | The Apocalypse Ticket #flashfiction #booksky
The Apocalypse Ticket is another from Chuck Wendig’s prompt lists. I stored them for posterity under the Flash Fiction menu here. I confess that I have blurred memories of two short stories from the...
View ArticleIn which I reveal my ignorance | #IWSG
Reveal my ignorance? Surely I am all-knowing? Sadly not, as you will discover as I answer this month’s question. And don’t miss the birthday offer at the end. Kate Larkinsdale, SE White, JS Pailly,...
View ArticleAugust 26 Wrap-up … the other hot one, till it wasn’t
It’s time to join the August 26 version of the Monthly Wrap-up with Natalie the Explorer. And, if you’re in middle or southern England or Europe, it’s been hot. Again. Most places had some hot days,...
View ArticleBook Review | Finding Greyfriars Bobby #non-fiction #dogs #booksky
Finding Greyfriars Bobby is the sort of title that will mean nothing to Gen Z, and everything to Gen 1948-65. And if you’ve never heard of Greyfriars Bobby, but you like dogs, stories of loyalty,...
View ArticleFriday Flash | The Day of the Snowflake #flashfiction #booksky
The Day of the Snowflake. It’s a title drawn from Chuck Wendig’s lists of prompts… pick one word/phrase from each of two lists. I was reminded that I had saved these for posterity under my ‘Flash...
View ArticleBook Review | The Anomaly #sff #booksky
The Anomaly sounded different. I like my sci-fi to be different, so I was very grateful for the chance to review an ARC from the publisher. And it’s among a slew of new releases on 15th August, which...
View ArticleFriday Flashfiction | The Woman in the Water #flash #booksky
The Woman in the Water is inspired by a real artwork, The Solomon Siren, featured in a Guardian newsletter earlier this month. I was very taken with it. You can read more about it here. I apologise for...
View ArticleBook Review | Beyond the Fetters #booksky
For some reason I didn’t review Beyond the Fetters straight after I read it. I think it got squeezed out by the new books I tried to get in around their publication time. Whatever the reason, this...
View ArticleClandestine Ops #flashfiction #booksky
Clandestine Ops is a very poorly researched story I imagined based on connecting two books together. In Roald Dahl’s Going Solo he speaks of the odds the RAF were up against in Greece, and in Sinclair...
View ArticleBook Review | Hiroshima, 8:15 #memoir #booksky
The opportunity to read an eyewitness account of that event in Hiroshima came just as I finished The Secret Listeners, with its tale of WW 2 via morse code interception. Fittingly, it was published on...
View ArticleDigging Up the Past #flashfiction #booksky
A picture prompt for you today, mainly because for once I was a passenger going past some stones in a field last Sunday. It’s about 300 words… enjoy! Digging up the Past The archaeologist examined the...
View ArticleRegrets, I’ve had a few, but then again | #IWSG #booksky
This month’s IWSG question asks about our regrets. So I racked my brains and came up with something. I’d rather sing ‘my way’ though! Shannon Lawrence, Diedre Knight, Liza, and Pat Garcia Question of...
View ArticleBook Review | A Family Affair (Smallhope and Pennyroyal 2) #netgalley #booksky
Lady Amelia Smallhope and Pennyroyal (no other names given…by him, at any rate) are back, in A Family Affair. After I read the first, I set about the series that spawned them…the Chronicles of St....
View ArticleJuly 26 Wrap-up … the hot one
No flash fiction this week (unless I pop a short one in). It’s time to join the July 26 version of the Monthly Wrap-up with Natalie the Explorer. And, if you’re in middle or southern England or Europe,...
View ArticleBook Review | The Secret Listeners #nonfic #booksky
The Secret Listeners is another from my bookshelf. At this rate, I’ll have space to put some more on it from the piles scattered around the house! This, though, definitely was bought in Norfolk, when...
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