Books to read when you’re hiding from Hallowe’en

If you find yourself switching off all the lights and pretending you're not home on Hallowe'en, you are not alone, my friend. Give me a good book over trick or treating (and trick or treaters) any day of the week. However, if you want to get into the spirit a little bit, why not pick…

We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves

Although I've been a member of a book group in Whitley Bay for a couple of years now; during 2015 I'd not made it to many meetings. A mixture of crazy times at work and then no time at all at work meant that before I knew it, we'd arrived at Christmas and I was left…

World Book Day 2016

Happy World Book Day! Today marks a worldwide celebration of books and reading; in over 100 countries around the world. Amazing stuff! In the UK and Ireland; the main aim of World Book Day is to encourage young children to pick up a book and learn how much fun reading is. Across the country; hoards…

Cravings of the Literary Variety

For the last couple of days, I have had a very prominent craving. I am craving a book. A very specific kind of book. We are not short of them in our house. In fact, I would go so far as to say that we have books coming out of our ears; and I am…