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

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 dysto...

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 ...

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 mon...

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

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...

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...

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...

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

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 reali...

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 th...

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 thou...

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

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 n...

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 f...

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

This month we went all cultural with the 1920's classic The Great Gatsby. It depicts the overindulgence and materialism of the 'jazz age...

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

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...

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 lat...