Last week we drove to Perth to visit Branklyn Garden again, it’s a lovely National Trust for Scotland location. It was a lovely warm (ish) sunny (ish) day, well it didn’t rain, and the rhodod...
https://piningforthewest.co.uk/2024/05/01/branklyn-garden-perth-scotland-2/
Offshore by Penelope Fitzgerald was first published in 1979 and this book won the Booker prize that year. I’m often puzzled by the books that win prizes and that’s the way I feel about this b...
https://piningforthewest.co.uk/2024/04/28/offshore-by-penelope-fitzgerald/
Amazingly it was a blue sky day on Wednesday and we had absolutely no rain at all, but that east wind was still blowing, and a friend told me that she had had to scrape ice off her windscreen in ...
https://piningforthewest.co.uk/2024/04/26/my-garden-in-fife-5/
I decided to read Killers of the King by Charles Spencer when it was mentioned by the author S.G. MacLean as one of the books that she had found interesting when she was doing her research for on...
https://piningforthewest.co.uk/2024/04/24/killers-of-the-king-by-charles-spencer/
The Bookseller of Inverness by S.G. MacLean was published in 2022, I found it to be a cracking read, in fact it would make a great film. Iain MacGillivray had been one of the many Jacobites on Dr...
https://piningforthewest.co.uk/2024/04/22/the-bookseller-of-inverness-by-s-g-maclean/
I was having a tough time finding a 1937 book to read that I hadn’t already read, until I realised that I had a copy of Theatre by W. Somerset Maugham in a Far and Wide omnibus edition. I reall...
https://piningforthewest.co.uk/2024/04/21/theatre-by-w-somerset-maugham-the-1937-club/
The Classics Club spin number has been chosen and it’s number 8 which means that by the 2nd of June I’ll be reading and reviewing The Wrench by Primo Levi. It’s a slim volume at just 170 pa...
https://piningforthewest.co.uk/2024/04/21/the-result-number-8/
It’s Classics Club Spin time again, number 37. Make a list of twenty of the classic books that are on your Classics Club list of 50. I’m going to have different categories this time around. ...
https://piningforthewest.co.uk/2024/04/20/the-classics-club-spin-37/
Whenever it has been a bit drier (not often) I’ve gone out to take some photos of what’s flowering in my garden. Thankfully the primroses, primula, cowslips are always colourful and happily s...
https://piningforthewest.co.uk/2024/04/19/my-garden-fife-scotland/
Someone from the Past by Margot Bennett was first published in 1958 but it was reprinted by British Library in 2023. This book won the Crime Writers’ Association’s Award for the best crime ...
https://piningforthewest.co.uk/2024/04/15/someone-from-the-past-by-margot-bennett/