Clik here to view.
CROOKED HOUSE
I wouldn’t have believed it possible, but I either blocked Crooked House from my mind – or I’d never read it. A Christie I haven’t read? Scandalous! It’s hard to believe I could’ve forgotten this...
View ArticleClik here to view.
A Spot of Folly
A Spot of Folly (Profile Books, 2017) by Ruth Rendell – Ten and a Quarter New Tales of Murder and Mayhem. I loved this posthumously published collection. Ruth Rendell (Baroness Rendell of Babergh...
View ArticleClik here to view.
CHANGE
2018 has been a year of transformation. Although it has had its challenges, it has also been a year of stronger focus for me. One of the really wonderful happenings is that I have just signed with...
View ArticleClik here to view.
THREE HOURS
And You? When will you begin that long journey into yourself? Rumi (1207-1273) I’m superstitious when it comes to Rosamund Lupton. Not only is she one of my favourite writers, but after reading...
View ArticleClik here to view.
THE MURDER AT THE VICARAGE AND DEAR OLD TABBIES
‘There is no detective in England equal to a spinster lady of uncertain age with plenty of time on her hands.’ Even before Coronavirus stopped the world, I had begun re-reading my Miss Marple...
View ArticleClik here to view.
RE-VISITING REBECCA
This weekend it snowed in the Blue Mountains, always a joyful event. I spent the time in bed with the fire glowing (no cosier sight), snowflakes drifting outside, wind gusting, dog snoozing beside me,...
View ArticleClik here to view.
VALE CLARE, MY ENGLISH ROSE
This week I lost my beautiful, brilliant friend, Clare, aka Mo Hayder/Theo Clare to motor neurone disease. photo credit: Robin Matthews On December 2, 2020, as I was about to board a train to Sydney...
View ArticleClik here to view.
WHAT’S DONE IN DARKNESS – BOOK REVIEW
I read everything Laura writes and collect hardcover editions of her work. WHAT’S DONE IN DARKNESS contains her trademark tropes of small-town secrets in the Ozarks, poverty, intergenerational abuse...
View ArticleClik here to view.
THE BOOK OF SAND REVIEW
I know I am deathless… Walt Whitman, ‘Song of Myself, 20 – from The Book of Sand This was never going to be an unbiased review as I was friends with the author of The Book of Sand. Even though I...
View ArticleClik here to view.
DANGEROUS DEVOTIONS
It was a joy and privilege to be in conversation onstage with local author Ann aka A D Penhall in Katoomba today for the launch of her very clever, gripping crime novel, Dangerous Devotions. Ann and I...
View Article
