My twelve favourite books from 2014 featuring non-fiction memoirs, novels and more than one detective story! Read more

Eight. I love how sharp and firm and high-pitched that word is. Eight books in one month. I won't lie to you; it feels good. Much better than three certainly. Of course, a holiday in a relaxing, luxurious hotel helped. If only there could be a read more

I knew this month would come, but I didn't expect it to be May, a month that saw very little travel and not much of a social life. Because there was work.  Too much work. I'm pretty determined not to make the same mistake in June, if only because read more

This is a photo of me finishing the final edits for  Night Bus. It may explain why there was a much slower reading pace for April though I did manage a quick sprint at the end to ensure I at least averaged one book a week. It was also interesting read more

After an impressive start to the year (see January and February's long list of books) I have slowed to what I think is a much more realistic pace, six books in one month. One was read as a paperback,  the other five on my Kindle. One was by a self-published read more

A little late with this report, but happy to say that I read some really wonderful books in February. There were nine in  total, all but one of them were read on my Kindle - I was on holiday for two weeks of the month - and again there was read more

At the beginning of this new year, I honestly thought that 52 books in a year, or four books a month, was too ambitious. But I didn't sign up to the  Goodreads Reading Challenge for an easy ride. It was important to me that I read more as a writer. However, read more