I often get asked what book people should read when travelling. My first question is 'What  country?' as I love finding a book set in their destination. Many people love to read a book steeped in the culture of whatever country or region they are travelling around. You...

A refrain that is often declaimed in the shop, ‘Oh why am I buying more books? I have so many on my ‘To Be Read’ Pile!’ (TBR). I often quip in return, ‘Well, it’s not like they go off!’ And it’s true - the books will sit and wait patiently for you to be in just the rig...

Once when visiting relatives I ran out of books (I know - how disorganised of me!). Sitting on a shelf

was Ken Follett’s Fall of Giants, the beginning of his family epic set during WWI. Once I started it, I couldn’t put it down and finished the tome in two days. I lear...