Friday, 25 April 2025

Our Lady of Sorrows

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 My latest short story is out now on Fictionable World …  https://www.fictionable.world/stories/our-lady-of-sorrows-p-r-woods/  (Paywall, bu...
Saturday, 15 February 2025

Bats, bad guys and a Bronte: my year in books 2024

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'You're upside down. No, YOU'RE upside down' Image by tomatomicek from Pixabay   No doubt both many of you who read this ...
Sunday, 11 February 2024

From Angevins to apocalypse: my year in books 2023

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Some kid, some where The night after we brought newborn Séany back from the hospital, no one slept a wink. He wouldn't feed, he wouldn...
Friday, 6 January 2023

One-line book reviews: my best reads in 2022

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  Image by Pexels from Pixabay   And so another year passes and the weight of memories begins to balance out the weight of the living.  In ...
Friday, 21 January 2022

One-line book reviews: my best reads in 2021

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Image by Mariusz Matuszewski from Pixabay   Another year of reading passes … and writing these blogs really does help cement the books in m...
Wednesday, 30 December 2020

One-line book reviews: my best reads in 2020

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Image by egowkand from Pixabay Escapism, a conversation with someone other than those I live with, fantasy, humour, a dose of the old reali...
Friday, 24 January 2020

Green fatigue: is there a cure?

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Image by Ieva Karklina from Pixabay Shopping for raspberries in January: that’s when it all went wrong. There were none in the loca...