Island Summers by Tilly Culme-Seymour is a memoir of her family childhood told around the landscape and events which happen on their family’s island summer home in Norway. The house is not well enough insulated to be lived in during the harsh winters but it makes an ideal vacation spot for the extended family over … Continue reading “Island Summers” by Tilly Culme-Seymour- a memoir about holidays on the family’s own Norwegian island

I summarise February and talk about where to get books when shops are shut

An excellent crime novel set on the Shetlands

Rubbernecker by Belinda Bauer is a crime novel where you are not sure for most of the book that there is a crime. The main character, Patrick, has Asperger’s Syndrome and a lot of the book is told from his point of view. The author has, I assume, done her research and what happens is … Continue reading “Rubbernecker” by Belinda Bauer – a crime novel with a very unusual main character

A tender and beautify book about many things including love

Five excellent urban fantasy novels set in Toronto

A young woman is employed to work in the nursery of a middle class family just before WW2

Two dramatic presentations about women's bodies and how they feel about them

Five books I read this month that are worth reading

A fairground engineer dies and meets people from his past who help to give his life meaning.