It’s St David’s Day, and as I hail from Carmarthen, a little town in South West Wales, I feel it’s my duty to inject some Welshness into my blog post…

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1880. Everyday life in London’s slums is hard enough for Jane Roberts and her three children, but when her ne’er-do-well husband Bert walks out on his family, times are particularly…

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…of Sam’s younger son and namesake, and the loneliness and anxiety of Robert’s beloved youngest daughter, Ellie, For Many a Long Day is a story of courage and friendship, of…

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Fourth Day, by Zoë Sharp – the latest book in the acclaimed series featuring female bodyguard Charlie Fox – has been shortlisted for a Barry Award for Best British Novel…

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Saturday 27th November, 1:30-2.30pm COUNCIL HOUSE, NOTTINGHAM Enjoy a full day of author events celebrating Nottinghamshire’s Reader’s Day taking place at the Nottingham City Council, The Council House, Old Market…

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I was going to merely comment on One Day, by David Nicholls in our Currently we are reading column, but realise I have too much to say about it… Proof…

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In this first instalment of the Bow Street Rivals series a riot breaks out in Dartmoor prison, enabling some American inmates to escape. The twin detectives Peter and Paul Skillen…

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The second book in the Mercia Blakewood historical crime series that spans Restoration London and the New World Following adventures she would sooner forget in the newly renamed New York,…

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The lone swimmer, turning over now to switch to a perfectly executed back crawl wasn’t a man. It was a woman, a girl. It was Catherine. Of course it was…

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Tube advertising isn’t often the most riveting of art forms, particularly if you travel the same route day in and day out, and fall into the habit as I do…

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Lovatt Island is one of a group of beautiful, uninhabited islands, near the isolated village of Innellan in south-west Scotland. The skeleton found in one of its sea-caves, shackled to…

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Matt Hunter lost his faith a long time ago. Formerly a minister, now a professor of sociology, he’s writing a book that debunks the Christian faith while assisting the police…

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…chart at Waterstone’s in Harrow – number one out of their 100 top bestsellers. And yes, that’s ahead of One Day, by David NIchols, which you make out in 2nd…

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Little Clare Hamilton is just nine years old when her childhood is abruptly ended by the sudden death of both her parents in a typhoid epidemic. Although part of a…

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Today is International Talk like a Pirate Day! (I’ve not made this up, it’s actually official.) If you entered Laurie R King’s Parrot King Competition, you can check out all…

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In honour of today, Pancake Day, an excuse to share a pertinent poem from one of my all-time-favourite books by illustrator-and-poet Shel Silvertein (as featured in his collection Where the…

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…Rose McQuinn series), Maggie Craig, James Robertson and Sara Sheridan will be leading various book group sessions at a Reader’s Day in Wellwood, 28 Eglinton Street, Irvine KA12 8AS. They…

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Today is Freedom Day – South Africa’s National Holiday. So, tonight I’m inviting a few of my South African friends over for dinner to celebrate – really just an excuse…

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..and I mean specifically day dreaming about a world beyond London and this inconsistent summer weather. Yesterday was grey, rainy and rather miserable. At least today the sun is gracing…

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On Saturday 24th January, Penguin Random House, together with Goodreads, Mashable and the National Book Foundation, celebrated National Readathon Day by encouraging people all across the world to read between…

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…McQuinn mysteries – including her latest releases Murder in Paradise and Quest for a Killer – at the Reader’s Day at Bedford Central Library, Harpur Street, Bedford, MK40 1PG. For…

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