A Serving of Scandal

This is my new author for January and it is a book that was lent to me by one of my book club friends. The author: “Prue Leith is an expert on gastronomy and one of the UK’s foremost authorities on all things culinary. She is one of the UK’s most renowned restaurateurs and caterers,…

An unusual read for me

I am not someone who reads fantasy or books that involve ghosts but I became thoroughly hooked by this book after I persevered with the first fifty or so pages. The book was one I borrowed from a member of our bookclub.  We swap our books when we meet and talk about books we have…

Books bought as a present to me from me.

Three Things about Elsie by Joanna Cannon. I am not sure where I read a review of this book but it was encouragement enough for me to buy it.  I am so glad I did. “There are three things you should know about Elsie. The first thing is that she is my best friend. The…

Did I meet my target?

Last year (2016) my reading challenge was to read more non-fiction books. I think I read more than the previous year although I didn’t review many of them on my blog. This year (2017) I just want to read more books. I found that I didn’t read as much as I would have liked so…

A fictional woman or fictional women?

I have recently finished reading a non-fiction book by the crime-fiction writer Tara Moss. She has written several crime-fiction novels and is a successful writer of fiction.  I have read several of her crime fiction novels and I have now read her first non-fiction book which is called The Fictional Woman. Tara Moss has worn…

No matter what kind of life you have led, ageing is reversible!

With a blurb like that, what ageing individual wouldn’t want to read this book? As you can see I borrowed this one from the library.  I was sucked in by all that was written on the back of the book. The doctors taking the US by storm, Drs Michael F Roizen and Mehmet C Oz, have…