Rooksmoor's Tablets of Lead

Fiction ‘Red Chrysanthemum’ by Laura Joh Rowland I have been reading Rowland’s detective stories featuring Sano Ichiro and set in late...

As I have noted on this blog before, I suffer from Type 1 Diabetes.   I developed this in 1988 but have only been considered disabled since...

Following on from my reminder four years ago: http://rooksmoor.blogspot.co.uk/2009/04/bitter-legacy-of-margaret-thatcher.html   I guess I a...

Non-Fiction ‘When Swan Lake Comes to Sarajevo’ by Ruth Waterman My parents were evacuated from Croatia where they had been holidayi...

I have commented over the past few years how traditional modes of residence have come back into style as work in the UK has become more ge...

I recognise that almost inadvertently, since I was encouraged into writing e-books, this blog has mutated into being a bit of a writer’s blo...

Non-Fiction ‘Hugh Gaitskell’ by Brian Brivati I read this as a complementary book to ‘Clem Attlee’ by Francis Beckett that I read back in J...