• Review: The Marlow Murder Club by Robert Thorogood

    Review: The Marlow Murder Club by Robert Thorogood

    The Marlow Murder Club is set in the town of Marlow in Buckinghamshire, England. It’s a very picturesque, wealthy town located on the River Thames and Thorogood’s descriptions do capture that perfectly. Marlow is…

  • Review: The Man Who Died Twice by Richard Osman

    Review: The Man Who Died Twice by Richard Osman

    The Man Who Died Twice sees us back at Cooper’s Chase Retirement Village for the next installment in The Thursday Murder Club series. What will the four loveable pensioners get involved in this time?…

  • Reading Challenges: Goodreads Reading Challenge 2025

    Reading Challenges: Goodreads Reading Challenge 2025

    At the start of the New Year, I signed up for the Goodreads Reading Challenge for 2025 to help me discover my joy of reading again. I set a realistic goal to read 30…

  • News: The Thursday Murder Club Film

    News: The Thursday Murder Club Film

    Now this is ‘the’ event I have been waiting for; The Thursday Murder Club being turned into a film! I hope it’s as good as the book (keeping all my fingers crossed I won’t…

  • Books: Happy National Book Lovers Day

    Books: Happy National Book Lovers Day

    National Book Lovers Day is an unofficial holiday for everyone who enjoys reading. It’s a day to celebrate books and the joy what they bring. Whether you love diving into epic fantasies, solving thrilling…

  • Review: The Thursday Murder Club by Richard Osman

    Review: The Thursday Murder Club by Richard Osman

    The Thursday Murder Club is set in Cooper’s Chase, a retirement village in the town of Fairhaven in Kent. Both the retirement village and the town are fictitious, however Kent is a real county…

  • Events: Author event and Q&A

    Events: Author event and Q&A

    I was lucky to be able to attend an author talk and Q&A event with award-winning fantasy novelist Ben Aaronovitch at the John Peel Centre in Stowmarket. I’m not the one that reads his…

  • Self Care: Top tips for Bookworms

    Self Care: Top tips for Bookworms

    Looking after our physical and mental wellbeing is not just limited to our daily lives, but can also be a part of our pastimes too, including the love of reading that so many of…

  • Review: The Suspect by Robert Rinder

    Review: The Suspect by Robert Rinder

    The Suspect is set in London, within the worlds of commercial television and the legal system, and opens with the death of Jessica Holby, a popular TV presenter, on live television during a cooking…