I recently had the pleasure and privilege of reading “Between Boy and Man”, the first novel (of three) by the late Peter Farquhar. Published by AuthorHouse in 2010, it tells a contemporary story set in a co-ed public boarding school, giving the perspectives of some staff...
(News about "The Servant's Voice" at the end of this post...
I thought I would post slightly obliquely about the current political and legal chaos. The Supreme Court’s decision reminded me of two court cases long ago. In the early 1980s, Ken Livingstone’s Greater London Council (later abolished) introduced radically cheap transport fares. This was challenged in the...
The Blogger apologises for lack of a post this week: she is off travelling for the weekend....
It’s now respectable to like and enjoy Agatha Christie, and I do, as I think previous posts have amply shown. I've read nearly all the Christies, most of them more than once, and they are a great go-to comfort read; but some of them are perhaps...
I am currently enmeshed in proof-reading, which is a very pleasant task. But also dangerous, in more ways than one. For example, I described a character as wearing green. Later in the story he was wearing brown, and although it was a different day, he was...