Dying Fall is number 5 in Elly Griffiths’ Ruth Galloway series, and it’s a cracking read. I discovered books 6 and 7 waiting on my shelf, purchased at Noirwich (when I met the author). It’s fair to say I’m a big
Book Review | The Janus Stone by Elly Griffiths
Picking up The Janus Stone was such a relief – I was reading natural English with a sense of place that made me feel fully at home again. It was after the Victorian style of The Princess and Curdie and
Friday flash non-fiction
Yes, you read that right. Chuck’s flash fiction challenge was a car chase. I can’t think of anything more boring to write about, although I can think of a couple of car chases in movies I enjoyed – Bullitt, The
Raised beaches
Raised beaches. These are yet another geological feature I love. Once upon a time there was a beach. It was a nice beach, washed by the waves, getting built up and eroded like all beaches do. Then there was a
Book Review|Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
This is an odd book for me, in the nicest possible way. It’s not an author I’ve read before, and it might fit into the Oddity Odyssey definition of odd author for that reason. I wanted to read it because,
Book Review: Coot Club by Arthur Ransome
Last year I did a Classic Children’s Book Challenge, and this would have been ideal for it. However it does sit in my personal Norfolk Books Challenge, and very good it is too. Arthur Ransome definitely spent a long time
Book Review: Norfolk Folk Tales by Hugh Lupton
This lovely book is a must read for anyone living in, or visiting, Norfolk, England. The tales have been lovingly garnered by Hugh Lupton, “a central figure in the British story-telling revival.” They range from the fanciful ‘once upon a
Tuesday Haiku – Norfolk
Norfolk is not flat. Not as flat as Cambridgeshire. It has Broads, not Fens!
The Norfolk Reading Challenge
This is NORFOLK WEEK on my blog. Maybe I’ll make it an annual event! I’m challenging myself to read SIX books this year set in Norfolk, UK. This is where I live. You could challenge yourself to read books set
I found Patricia Paris
I think I found her (@PatriciaParis1) … or she found me by twittering via someone else. I went to her blog and found loads of witty, interesting blog stories. Some read more like a short story, others sounded like the
Book review: Floodland by Marcus Sedgwick
In a world not very far in the future, Zoe has been stranded on the island of Norwich. She and her parents were in two boats transferring them to the last ship to enable them to escape, but hers failed