Hello knackered parents! We are week eight of lockdown and our worlds have shrunk considerably. I had a sudden urge for a soya hot chocolate from Costa this ...

This month will be the first book club where we do not meet in person. The world has changed. We seem to find ourselves living in a dystopian fiction, worthy...

February has come to a close and the rain has fallen incessantly for what has seemed an eternity. However, as I write this, looking out of my window, there ...

Hello everybody. It is January and I am cold and fed up with the rain and the lack of sun. January is officially the most depressing month of the year, but ...

Happy Christmas everybody! This will be the last review before we all eat our body weight in chocolate and experience a frenzied unwrapping of presents that...

Following on from last month, this month’s book is ‘The Testaments’, which is the much -awaited sequel to ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’. It seeks to answer all the q...

Hello all. Our book this month has been ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’ by Margaret Atwood. A dystopian novel, which is set in the near future, in the American fundam...

Hello tired parents, we have made it through the summer holidays! I’ve been trying to assess whether I have enjoyed the last six weeks. I have to honestly sa...

It’s the start of the summer holidays and the thought of six long weeks stretching ahead like a deserted road, surrounded by desert, might seem overwhelming....

Hello all. I am writing this review from my sick bed, as a weekend of hot tubs and gin has given me a throat and ear infection. I realise that I have just ...

16 books! Our 16th book is not really a book, but a piece of literary non-fiction in the form of an essay. It is very short and I am thankful for that this...

Happy Easter! Is it too late to say that? Time is flying by and we have now read our 14th book! Well done to everyone for struggling though the exhaustion an...

Hello everyone, I hope March is treating you well. It is March madness at my house, with tantrums and volatile reactions to the wrong plate colour seemingly ...

I want to congratulate all the tired mums and dads out there who are battling work and family life and a brutal lack of sleep. You are not alone! Despite a...

Hello and Happy New Year! Christmas went by in a blur of chocolate and a predictable lack of sleep. The book club has almost been going for a year now and ou...

I am writing this review from my kitchen table, surrounded by amazon boxes that my husband and I frantically ordered when the pressure of Christmas became al...

This month we went all cultural with the 1920's classic The Great Gatsby. It depicts the overindulgence and materialism of the 'jazz age'. It's basically T...

Before children I was never really a worrier. The glass was nearly always half full and I didn't constantly think about worse case scenario situations. Hav...

I want to start this by saying I believe in people. I try my hardest not to judge others, as we don't know what's going on in each other's lives. Above all...

It has been a long old summer and I was really looking forward to catching up with the book club over a few drinks and discussing our latest book. However, m...