THIS WEEK I AM READING... 29 AUGUST 2016 This Blog series should really be titled 'Travels of a Book Slut' on account of the fact that I...

25 June 2016 Never one to only settle for one book at a time, and eager to escape the real world for the fictional one, this week I have...

19 June 2016 This week I have returned to an old favourite, The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank. It's been many many years since I...

21 My 2016 I have gone back to visit a very old friend. I am re-visiting Robin Hobb's fantasy novels about the Fool and Fitz! She is now...

(and it is exquisite!) 10th May 2016 Update: Its a dystopian novel set in a world very like our own, but after a cataclysmic event. The...

15 March 2016 One of the questions I am frequently asked about Nature Mystics, is ‘how did you select which writers to include? Because...

15 November 2015 I had an important insight into the mind of Mary Webb this weekend, which is really important to the work I am doing at...

30 October 2015 One of the skills I am learning as I grow older is in not trying too hard. There is a skill to be honed in just letting...

18 July 2015 I learned something terribly important in the last few weeks, and it is really important to record it for my own reference...

13th September 2014 Good writing is not something that requires the reader to be completely passive; it is a dialogue, in which the...

9th August 2014 When I started on my spiritual path some fifteen or so years ago, someone shared a very special piece of wisdom with me,...

Posted @ 11:42:21 on 13 July 2013 Yesterday was a scorcher! While hordes of people were heading for Hampstead Heath, I snuck away down a...

Posted @ 11:42:21 on 13 July 2013 Well, I must confess I have been a little quiet on here. I have been buried deep in the research, and...

Posted @ 10:43:38 on 20 January 2013 The best moment of my week was running into a teenager on the tube who really surprised me. I...

Posted @ 15:52:04 on 04 August 2012 I took a little naughty detour from my dissertation a couple of weeks ago, to read a really fantastic...

Posted @ 11:32:12 on 04 June 2012 It is never a good sign when I start a new post thinking "My goodness, is it really that long since I...

Posted @ 12:24:03 on 28 May 2011 It is a long time since I have posted anything here. It is a busy busy time at the moment, and all...

Posted @ 10:12:44 on 22 September 2010 Dear JJ, I felt I had to write this letter to you, after the way you gave me such a reproachful...

Posted @ 10:09:44 on 16 September 2010 A few years ago, when I was very unhappy and unsatisfied in my old life, I used to have a little...

Posted @ 08:58:56 on 22 April 2010 I have been having a really interesting foray into the world of Archetypes this last few weeks, from...