I am very pleased  to welcome author A S Stuart to my blog today. A S Stuart also writes under the name Alison Stuart, and under that name h...

Whilst I am not reading anywhere near as many books as I used to, things are much better than they have been over the last few years when it...

Giselle "Gigi" Barrington is quite an unusual young lady for her time. She travels around Europe as her father's companion, ...

I have long been a fan of C W Gortner, not only because of how much I enjoy his books, but also because of the gracious way in which he in...

Just like a good trifle, a good mystery has several different layers so that when you dig into the concoction it is full of the flavour an...

I don't think I have made any secret of the fact that I am a bit Tudored out and so I am being very selective about the books that I r...

This year the tenth book in the Maisie Dobbs series by Jacqueline Winspear is being released. To celebrate, there is a month long blog t...

I have mentioned here one or two times that I am a sucker for a series, and I will stick around for the long term to continue a series. I ...

Like most readers, I have my favourite types of books. For example, tell me a book is set in either World War I or World War II then I wi...

Today my bookish scrollish quote comes from Poseidon's Gold by Lindsey Davis, the fifth book in the Marcus Didius Falco series of mys...

As a longtime reader of Kerry Greenwood's Phryne Fisher series set in 1920s Melbourne, I knew that I would eventually get to her other s...

Having put off reading the first Maisie Dobb s books for years, I was determined to not do the same thing with the second book. It took me ...