3 Books to add to your TBR pile today

March 14, 2023.Reading time 6 minutes.

Still Life by Sarah Winman :: 1944, Italy. As bombs fall around them, two strangers meet in the ruined wine cellar of a Tuscan villa and share an extraordinary evening. Ulysses Temper is a young British soldier, Evelyn Skinner a 64-year-old art historian living life on her own terms. She has come to salvage paintings […]

5 Books I couldn’t put down…

June 28, 2022.Reading time 9 minutes.

O mam bach, I’ve forgotten how to do this and can’t think of an opening line…but here are 5 books I have really enjoyed recently…saying that, I can’t quite remember how long ago it was that I read ‘West with Giraffes’ but the fact that it’s one that I wanted to tell you about just […]

The Book Matchmaker Reading Retreat

March 3, 2019.Reading time 14 minutes.

Ever wondered what goes on at these retreats that are popping up everywhere now?! Me too. Well, last weekend, I got to go to The Book Matchmaker’s first ever ‘Reading Retreat’ as a small member of the Team behind it all, and I’m here to tell you all about it. {*Spoiler Alert* It was such […]

The Boy Made Of Snow

January 21, 2018.Reading time 2 minutes.

By Chloe Mayer I dropped a hint, {as in sent Paul a photo of the front cover of the book, as you do}, as soon as I’d seen it advertised, knowing I just had to read this! I was not wrong. The Boy Made Of Snow tells the story of a mother and her son, […]

What I’m reading and Another Date with The Blind Date Book Company, lucky me!

February 7, 2017.Reading time 5 minutes.

“One more chapter…” I whispered to myself, two hours ago… In a perfect world, an ideal evening for me would go something like this. I light the open fire, dim the lights, light the candle, pour myself a glass of red wine and crack open a great book and lose myself in it for a […]