I love reading funny, thought-provoking and beautiful sentences in books. As a writer, I hope I’ll create sentences that readers will also love and quote for themselves in the future. Here are some of my favourite book quotes… “I want to change my punctuation. I long for exclamation marks, but I’m drowning in ellipses.”― Isaac Marion, Warm […]
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Many bookworms would gasp at the idea of a movie adaptation being better than the original book, and in most cases the book is usually better than the movie. There are some movie adaptations that are awful, some that are good, and only one that I personally think is better than the book. Here are […]
It’s coming up to that time of year again where we end up patting our pockets and wondering what an Earth we are going to get Auntie Jackie this year for Christmas. Well I don’t have all the answers, but if you have a friend or a relative who is really into books and you […]
You may have had to read the title of this blog twice, because if you know me at all then you will know I rarely read non-fiction, let alone WW2 history. I was never a world war history fan when I was at school, I found all the battle names and date recollection boring. I […]
So recently, I decided to commission an artist to draw some digital illustrations of some of my characters from my new book ‘Lost Frequencies’. I had never done this before as I thought it would be far too expensive, and I didn’t really know where to look for a suitable artist. Being a hobby artist, […]
If you’re a bookworm like me then you probably have a lot of books, but you might not know how best to protect them. There are a nunber of ways to improve and protect both old and new books, here are a few that I have learnt from working in a bookshop… Before we get […]
You may be a little relieved to read that there isn’t really a right or wrong answer to this question. There are so many factors and variables to include; Is it your first book? Tenth book? Do you have children? Are you a student? Do you have a full-time or part-time job? Are you a […]
In no particular order, I have a very long list of books which I will hopefully attempt to reduce in 2019. I’ve banned myself from buying new books as I have no room on my bookshelves. I need to read the books that I already have and decide which ones I will be keeping and […]
Happy New Year! So it has been just over two years since I first started working in a second-hand bookshop, and as a follow-up to my blog ‘One Year In A Bookshop’, I thought I would write another blog to update you on my experiences and see if anything has changed. As many of you […]
Have you finished your Christmas shopping yet? Are you still searching for last minute gifts? Have you just found out that your great aunt from Australia is coming over to spend Christmas with the family? Fear not, I have some book recommendations for you for all ages and genders, but you may need to pop […]