20 Favourite Books from my 20s

My 20s were perhaps the most exciting reading period of my life. When they began I was studying literature at university, including two…

Visiting Hours: Top 10 Medical Dramas

One of the title characters in my novel Whiskey and Charlie is in a coma. (Don’t panic – that’s not a spoiler – it…

Greetings, bookworms and welcome back to Six Degrees of Separation, a monthly meme in which myself and fellow author Emma Chapman invite you to…

Welcome back to Six Degrees of Separation: a monthly meme in which you’re invited to link six books in a chain, with connections…

This month I have spent much of my usual reading time working on getting The Ark ready for publication, but I’ve still managed to chew…

I often find myself at odds with the average reader, and tend to avoid books that are surrounded by as much hype as…

Some books just grab you from the very first lines, don’t you think? I absolutely love it when that happens. Here’s my list…

In 1929, Hungarian writer and poet Frigyes Karinthy wrote a short story called ‘Chains’ in which he coined the phrase six degrees of separation….

December was a bit hit-and-miss for me in the reading department, with some enjoyable reads but without anything that really knocked my socks…

I’ve just started reading Jami Attenberg’s The Middlesteins and it is my favourite kind of book – an analysis of an ordinary family’s…