Free Valentine’s story

20 Feb 2022

Wow, where did the time go? It's hard to believe that it's that time of the month again already, but my next newsletter is due out in the next couple…

January newsletter – ghosts galore!

21 Jan 2022

My regular monthly newsletter is due out in the next couple of days and this month it includes lots and lots of ghosts. For starters there's a snippet from the…

A smattering of reviews

11 Jul 2008

I've been having problems finishing books lately; I've picked up several and ended up putting them down again, for various reasons. Some I'm hoping to go back to in a…

Holidays

31 May 2008

There won't be any new reviews on the site for a few days, because I'm off on holiday for a week to ten days.  I've got a stack of books…

New review

13 May 200822 May 2008

Just a note to say I've put a review of Bill Bryson's 'Notes From a Small Island' up at the new Britwriters' Blog; if you'd like to read it feel…

‘The Linguist’ by Sebastian Beaumont

10 May 200822 May 2008

This book sounded absolutely wonderful when I first picked it up off the library shelf. "A chilling story of the aftermath of a love triangle and the complexities of self…

A boxfull of book reviews

9 May 20089 May 2008

Hi and welcome to The Sharpened Quill, where over the next few weeks I'll be transferring some of my vast and growing collection of book reviews.  I rarely have my…