Read Around the Rainbow: Setting Books where you Live

24 Jun 202224 Jun 2022

I chose the topic for this month’s webring blogpost, but oddly I tend not to set books in the place I currently live. I’m not sure why that is, but…

Birmingham Blues

12 May 201712 May 2017

Last weekend we dashed down to Birmingham for a very last-minute treat - a concert by the Robert Cray Band. I've been a fan of Cray for years, ever since…

‘From Blue to Black’ by Joel Lane

10 May 200822 May 2008

  The title of this book is wonderfully appropriate, both in its suggestion of the book's noir genre and in its reflection of the incredible monochromatic atmosphere Joel Lane conjures…