Top 10 Books of My 30s

After the halcyon days of my twenties, when I was reading a couple of books a week, my son was born when I…

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…

I rarely read non-fiction but one form I am drawn to is the memoir. I recently enjoyed Cheryl Strayed’s memoir Wild (the starting point for…

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

After saying last month that I hardly read non-fiction, I read three non-fiction titles in November. Having said that, the label non-fiction is so…

1. Garden of Eden by Ernest Hemingway (1961) I know this book finds its way onto a lot of my lists but I…

I’m a big fan of the films of Spanish director Pedro Almodovar, and on the weekend rented his early classic Women on the…