I wonder when Wilkie Collins wrote The Woman in White in 1860 that more than 150 years later it would still be being read. I’d be fairly sure he had no idea that in 2013 a woman would be able to listen to it being read to her, via headphones from her phone as she […]
Are audiobooks cheating?
Andrew Nicoll’s If You’re Reading This I’m Already Dead – the women
I commend to you Andrew Nicoll’s latest novel, If You’re Reading This I’m Already Dead. Andy is a fellow news predator to the Panther and all-round good egg, so I’d read and buy his book anyway. However, it’s much, much better than that. A cracking read and worthy book-group discussion choice.For a writer who is a […]
My wild thing picks his favourite book
There aren’t many books I really remember having read to me in childhood – Beatrice Potter, especially the scary one with the squirrel, Anatole the French mouse and the Tiger Who Came To Tea (although I may have imagined that). But I still remember the way I felt about Where The Wild Things Are, by […]