Trees and walking, Shoguns and poor things, Dublin, Belfast and ripples.

War, friendship, Minnesota, French alp mysteries - all in a monthly round up.

Receiving an Advanced Reader Copy is one of the benefits of being a book blogger. But how do you go about getting your hands on this precious bounty?

Being a lover of literature means that we can be inspired to choose a bookish holiday. Do you have a favourite book/author/character inspired place you’d like to visit?

Snowdrops, not so festive movies, past lives and retreats.

My 2023 round up of my blogging year looking at my stats and favourite reads.

This months round up features dogs, dusty academics, booms & august gloom, but finishes with a much needed silver lining.

Shorts and petrichors, astronauts and green fields, bears and blossoms. Time for June’s round up.

Owls with telescopes, opioid books, Irish singers, drug dynasties and feuding families, rom com Aussies. A round up of May.

April flowers and showers, a serial killer on death row, Strauss in Belfast and Blue Danube in my head, monoliths and oligarchs.

Mushroom monsters, Chicago bears, snowdrops and books all feature heavily in this months round up.

A round up of banshees, bob, some books and quiet girls.

My 2022 reading year in stats. How did I get on with my various challenges and which format was the most popular?

My August round up, from Mexican Haciendas to Tokyo diners, Alburquerque law firms and Melbourne suburbs.