Cabbie Monaco

This summer I embarked on a bus and rail tour of Wales. Mad, I know, but using Traveline Cymru 's journey planner the trip went relative...

Claire Douglas isn't writing books for people like me, but nevertheless I do have some positive things to say about The Couple at No. 9...

Lengthy family sagas don't appeal to me and I'd never normally have opened the covers of Jane Smiley's A Thousand Acres . Howe...

So NaPoWriMo has ended. Actually, 2024 is the first time I've participated, and I only managed one new poem throughout April. The Poet...

I knew nothing of Ian McEwan's Saturday before picking it up. It was just another one of his books, another that I wanted to read bef...

If your reading preference is for door-stop sized sagas featuring families or fantasies, Muriel Sparks's 134-page The Girls of Slender...

I have no idea how Anita Brookner's 1983 book Look At Me came into my possession. It's an old paperback copy with yellowed pages ...