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The Past is a Dangerous Driver by Neal Mason
Neal Mason is a mature poet who has been publishing collections of his work since the early 1990s and has appeared in many poetry magazines. I had not previously come…
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The Language of Bees by Rae Howells
I often wonder how difficult it is for writers to select which pieces of their work they will include in a collection. The burning question for them must be -…
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The Herring Man by Cyril James Morris
There’s something of an innocence to great storytelling, and a story that tells of great friendships and emotions, and in The Herring Man, Cyril James Morris encapsulates the passion for…
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So, Stranger by Topaz Winters
So, Stranger is the third collection of poems by Topaz Winters and my first foray into her work, so wasn’t entirely sure what to expect, which in some ways creates…
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An Open Door: New Travel Writing for a Precarious Century Edited by Steven Lovatt
I hardly know Wales at all. There was that one of our irregular summer childhood holidays when we exchanged the constant drizzle of Frinton for the interminable downpours of Aberdaron…
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Where Light in Darkness Lies by Veronica della Dora
I love lighthouses, although I'm not sure why is something I could place my finger on but I find something 'otherworldly' about them, representing the edge of our world, standing…
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Antarctic Pioneer The Trailblazing Life of Jackie Ronne by Joanna Kafarowski
Jackie Ronne reclaims her rightful place in polar history as the first American woman in Antarctica. The aim of this book is clearly to set the record straight and to…
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A Moroccan Trilogy: Rabat, Marrakesh and Fez by Jerome and Jean Tharaud
I'd been wanting to read A Moroccan Trilogy: Rabat, Marrakesh and Fez by Jerome and Jean Tharaud for quite a while, Morocco is not a country I know very much…
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A River Runs Through Me by Andrew Douglas-Home
A clever title by a man with a name incredibly familiar to those of us of a certain age. In A River Runs Through Me, Andrew Douglas-Home gets the details…
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Crossed Off the Map: Travels in Bolivia by Shafik Meghji
An almost certainly apocryphal story about Queen Victoria’s defacement of a map of South America which gives the superb Crossed Off the Map: Travels in Bolivia its title. According to the legend…