What makes you decide to try a new author? Sometimes it will be the blurb, sometimes it might be the cover and other times it might be the...

  When journalist Henry Aldridge is sent to write a story about the renovations at Montagu Manor, he is initially reluctant. The year now is...

Every month when I share the statistics for The Historical Fiction Reading challenge I go around and look at the books that everyone has bee...

  I am pretty sure that I heard about this book as part of last year's Paris in July. I bought it and then patiently waited for the righ...

Sometimes, if I think about things too much, it surprises me where the gaps in my reading are. For example, take Natasha Lester. This book i...

This weekend was the start of one of my favourite times in Melbourne. Melbourne Writers Festival officially started on Thursday night and co...

It is that time of year (ie the end) where I need to share the stats for my reading year in 2010 or I will never actually get around to doin...

Italy, 1456. The Renaissance is in glorious bloom. A Carmelite monk, the great artist Fra Filippo Lippi acts as chaplain to the nuns of the ...

At the end of last year I was chatting with Allie from Hist-fic Chick and we agreed to set each other a book to read. This book was the boo...

Whilst it is really time to do some kind of summary of my whole 2009 reading year, first I am going to do my regular monthly round up. In ...

Despite saying that I wasn't going to finish this year's Art History Reading Challenge, I have already signed up for next year ! ...

Before we get too much further into December, I really should do my November round up! At first I thought that I had had a pretty good month...

I am no longer as good as I used to be at writing reviews of everything I read. I have loads and loads of half written reviews sitting in dr...