Spent yesterday pottering, and avoiding starting to work through my Libya photos on my frustratingly slow eMac. The time is fast approaching when I'll need to spend a relative fortune on a new Mac. The day's successes included buying two... Read more
Slowly digesting my 14 days in Libya courtesy of Peregrine Adventures. The highs were: drinking in the Milky Way in the desert silence of the Tadrart Acacus walking around the empty streets of Ghat's old medina (although the absence of... Read more
Having just read Exit Music, I jumped right back to the start of the Rebus saga, to a now-distant 1987 and pre-PC (computer, not constable or correctness) police investigations. A relatively quick read, as this first novel is shorter than... Read more
A rare encounter with Marshal Guarnaccia, largely due to there not being many of Magdalen Nabb's novels on the shelves of the Barbican library. That's a sorry state of affairs, as when I do find one of her books they... Read more
A London lawyer moves himself and his beautiful family out to Shanghai, in search of partnership and ex pat package (ie wealth). His wife doesn't settle, his child's asthma is made worse by the Shanghai smog, and he spends all... Read more
i was persuaded to read this by the recommendation from Philippa Gregory on the cover, and the PG-esque illustration, and it wasn't bad - it just wasn't as good as Philippa Gregory and unparalleled Dorothy Dunnett (I must reread the... Read more