It’s been a great year for reading. I may not have read as many books as usual (or, if Goodreads is correct, as many pages) but I have stil...

  I used to have a workmate who told me I really had to read The Count of Monte Cristo . She’d tell me often and pester me frequently and fo...

  I was a little unsure about what Siân Rees’s Moll was. At first it appeared to be a biography of the fictional protagonist of Daniel Defo...

In the last weekend of November, I had the great pleasure of going to see a colony of seals. These animals have their pups in a place called...