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The Flower Thesaurus by Liz Potter
There are many ways organise planting in the garden. By geographical location often dependent on the soil, e.g. a mediterranean bed or by plant shape,…
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The writer’s map ed. by Huw Lewis-Jones
I love maps real or imagined so this book with the subtitle An Atlas of Imaginary Lands is something I could pore over for weeks.…
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Loitering with intent by Muriel Spark
A poet and novelist looks back on her life as a penniless author and describes her transformation into someone who lives for writing, who will…
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There are rivers in the sky by Elif Shafak
This story starts with a raindrop falling on the head of King Ashurbanipal, ruler and murderer of people but also holder of the most miraculous…
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Now we shall be entirely free by Andrew miller
In the early 1800s John Lacroix returns home from fighting in Spain. His injuries are not obvious, but injured he is and exhausted. His housemaid…
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Snowdrops by A. D. Miller
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I haven’t had a great reading year in terms of books that I have loved or even scored 4 out of 5 but this book,…
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Set in the future when the waters have risen, The Morningside shows us a world that could be ours. Not too far away to be…
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This was a book chosen for our book group and sparked wide-ranging discussions from AI to the number of ‘Lawrences’ that we know and so…
Trying to read all the good books 