The What’s In A Name Challenge is being hosted again for 2026 by Andrea at Carolina Book Nook. I managed - just - to complete the challenge last year so I'm going to join in again.   The challenge runs from 1st January to 31st December 2026. You can sign up at any time but can only count books you read between those dates.

Book reviews, snippets of book news, and alerts about books outside the glare of the publicity spotlight.

I've enjoyed taking part in this challenge in the past, and so I'm signing up again for 2026 😀  Originally hosted by Charlie at The Worm Hole, it was taken over by Andrea @ Carolina Book Nook in 2019 who's hosted ever since, and is hosting again in 2026! These are the rules: The challenge runs from January 1, 2026 to December 31, 2026.

Linking to: It’s Monday! What Are You Reading? at BookDate; Sunday Post @ Caffeinated Reviewer; and the Sunday Salon @ ReaderBuzz Life… I haven’t had much going …

On the blog last week Monday - I published my review of Supremacy: AI, ChatGPT and the Race That Will Change the World by Parmy Olson. Tuesday - This week's Top Ten Tuesday topic was New Authors I Discovered in 2025. Wednesday – As always WWW Wednesday is a weekly opportunity to share what I've just read, what I'm currently reading and what I plan to read next...

About the Book On 9 July 1857, Angus MacPhee, a labourer from Liniclate on the island of Benbecula, murdered his father, mother and aunt. At trial in Inverness he was found to be criminally insane and confined in the Criminal Lunatic Department of Perth Prison. Some years later, Angus’s older brother Malcolm recounts the events leading up to the murders while trying to keep a grip on his own sanity.

I'm delighted to be joined by Alan Fisk today, author of Cupid and The Silent Goddess. Cupid and The Silent Goddess was published in May 2022: full book details are below. Over to Alan to tell us more. Tell me THREE things about your latest book It is a fictional account of the creation of a famous, or notorious, Italian Renaissance painting: …

Six on Saturday is a weekly meme originally hosted by The Propagator but now in the tender care of Jim at Garden Ruminations. Another week where I haven't been out in the garden much. I don't even have the excuse of the dreadful weather some parts of the UK have been getting. And it's still a challenge to find six things worthy of sharing.

Book reviews, snippets of book news, and alerts about books outside the glare of the publicity spotlight.

Hosted by Lipsy Lost and Found, my Wednesday post gives you a taste of what I’m reading this week. A similar meme is run by Taking on a World of Words.  Twelve-year-old Zach is cauti…

What am I currently reading? I'm reading Jill Mansell's Just One Look at You for a blogtour near the beginning of February and I've enjoyed my virtual trip to Venice although she has certainly thrown in plenty of surprises! I've also just started reading Sons of Great Men by Edinburgh author Adrian Ross. This isn't due out till March but I was approached by the author and asked if I would like to read it and I promised to try to read it early.

Hosted by Taking on a World of Words, this meme is all about the three Ws: What are you currently reading? What did you recently finish reading? What do you think you’ll read next? Why not join in too? Leave a comment with your link at Taking on a World of Words and then go blog hopping! What I'm…

About the Book She set men's hearts on fire and scandalized a country. In Regency London, the only way for a woman to succeed is to beat men at their own game. So when Mary Anne Clarke seeks an escape from her squalid surroundings in Bowling Inn Alley, she ventures first into the scurrilous world of the pamphleteers. Her personal charms are such, however, that before long she comes to the notice of the Duke of York.

This week's topic: Ten from my book shelf This week's topic should be ten bookish discoveries I made in 2025 but I wasn't really coming up with anything. So I'm changing it to be ten books from my own book shelf that I have good intentions of reading this year. In other words, books I haven't agreed to read for a blogtour or books which are on my Netgalley shelf.

Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly meme created by The Broke and the Bookish, which is now being hosted by Jana at That Artsy Reader Girl. The rules are simple: Each Tuesday, Jana assigns a new topic. Cre…

Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly meme created by The Broke and the Bookish and now hosted by Jana at That Artsy Reader Girl. The rules are simple: Each Tuesday, Jana assigns a new topic. Create your own Top Ten list that fits that topic – putting your unique spin on it if you want. Everyone is welcome to join but please link back to…