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 […]

More Books For Your TBR Pile

September 24, 2020.Reading time 8 minutes.

A book reviewer I’m not. I’m not here to tell you which character I connected with etc. I can tell you what books I have read and loved {Falling Blossom – loved it so much, I named my stationery business after it all those years ago!}, those I haven’t loved as much {Eleanor Oliphant is […]

Lockdown Reading

June 11, 2020.Reading time 9 minutes.

If I haven’t been eating, napping, some sort of “homeschooling” or binge-watching tv programmes during lockdown, I’ve been reading. I read a lot anyway, but it’s been lovely to just sit back in the gorgeous sunshine we’ve had over the past few weeks and devour a book in a matter of days…and then wake up […]

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, […]