I love books (obviously) and I really enjoying reading the stories/travels of the books on the site and sending my books on a journey too!

I am always happy to swap with anyone for things on my available list - just PM me. Alternatively, if you see something you'd like to read on my TBR pile, I'll happily move it up the pile to read - I like having a reason to choose one book over another!

Books read in 2024:
1. Tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow - Gabrielle Zevin (non bc)...10/10
2. The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle - Stuart Turton (non bc)...5/10

Books read in 2023:
1. The Satsuma Complex - Bob Mortimer (non bc)...6/10
2. The Switch - Beth O'Leary (non bc)...6.5/10
3. Grief is the thing with feathers - Max Porter (non bc)...4/10
4. The Party - Elizabeth Day...7/10
5. Still Life - Sarah Waters (non bc)...6/10
6. Forgive Me - Susan Lewis (non bc)...6/10
7. Shoe Dog - Phil Knight (non bc)...6/10
8. Born a crime - Trevor Noah (non BC)...5/10
9. Lioness - Beth Mead (non BC)...7/10
10. Forever, Interrupted - Taylor Jenkins Reid...8/10
11. The Paper Palace - Miranda Cowley Heller (non bc)...7/10
12. Magpie - Elizabeth Day (non bc)...7/10
13. Rachel's Holiday - Marian Keyes (re-read and non bc)...10/10
14. Again, Rachel - Marian Keyes (non bc)...8/10
15. Mad Honey - Jodi Picoult & Jennifer Finney Boylan (non bc)...6/10
16. This Time Tomorrow - Emma Straub (non bc)...7/10
17. Fleishman is in trouble - Taffy Brodesser-Akner (non bc)...8/10
18. Lessons in chemistry - Bonnie Garmus (non bc)...9/10

Books read in 2022:

1. Reasons to be cheerful - Nina Stibbe (non bc)...6/10
2. Magpie Murders - Anthony Horowitz...5/10
3. Ready Player Two - Ernest Cline (non bc)...10/10
4. The Giver of Stars - Jojo Moyes...8/10
5. The Accidental - Ali Smith...1/10
6. Tatiana and Alexander - Paullina Simons...8/10
7. Malibu Rising - Taylor Jenkins Reid (non bc)...9/10
8. How to kill your family - Bella Mackie...8/10
9. The Night She Disappeared - Lisa Jewell (non bc)...8/10
10. Daisy Jones and the Six - Taylor Jenkins Reid (non bc)...8/10
11. The Hypnotist's Love Story - Liane Moriarty (non bc)...7/10
12. Touching the Void - Joe Simpson...7/10

Books read in 2021:

1. The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo - Taylor Jenkins Reid (non bc)...9/10
2. Just My Luck - Adele Parks (non bc)...5/10
3. The Hand That First Held Mine - Maggie O'Farrell...8/10
4. Where The Crawdads Sing - Delia Owens...9/10
5. The Radium Girls - Kate Moore (non bc)...6/10
6. He Said/She Said - Erin Kelly... 8/10
7. The Family Upstairs - Lisa Jewell (non bc)...8/10
8. Dissolution - C.J.Sansom...5/10
9. My Name is Asher Lev - Chaim Potok...6/10
10. Queenie - Candice Carty-Williams (non bc)...6/10
11. The Sisters - Claire Douglas (non bc)...6/10

Books read in 2020:

1. The Peacock Summer - Hannah Richell (non bc)
2. The Mother-in-law - Sally Hepworth
3.The Memory Book - Rowan Coleman
4. The Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Attwood
5. Major Pettigrew's Last Stand - Helen Simonson
6. Airhead - Emily Maitlis
7. This is Going To Hurt - Adam Kay
8. Ready Player One - Ernest Cline
9. Never Greener - Ruth Jones
10. Bel Canto - Ann Patchett
11. Out of my depth - Anne Darwin
12. Spoonbenders - Daryl Gregory (non bc)
13. D is for Deadbeat - Sue Grafton
14. E is for Evidence - Sue Grafton
15. Grown Ups - Marian Keyes (non bc)
16. The Binding - Bridget Collins
17. The Language of Kindness: A Nurse's Story - Christie Watson
18. The Road Home - Rose Tremain
19. The Tattooist of Auschwitz - Heather Morris
20. The October List - Jeffery Deaver (non bc)
21. Letters to my daughter - Maya Angelou (non BC)
22. Eve of Man - Giovanna & Tom Fletcher (non bc)
23. Broken Promise - Linwood Barclay (non bc)
24. Far From True - Linwood Barclay (non bc)
25. The Twenty-three - Linwood Barclay (non bc)
26. Once upon a river - Diane Setterfield (non bc)

Books read in 2019:

1. Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone - JK Rowling (non bc)
2. Go Went Gone - Jenny Erpenbeck
3. Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets - JK Rowling (non bc)
4. Between Silk and Cyanide: A Code Maker's War 1941 - 1945 - Leo Marks (non bc)
5. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban - JK Rowling (non bc)
6. The Immortalists - Chloe Benjamin
7. Women and Power - Mary Beard (non bc)
8. Eat, Drink, Run - Bryony Gordon (non bc)
9. Falling - Julie Cohen (non bc)
10. Scaredy Cat - Mark Billingham
11. The Lacuna - Barbara Kingsolver (non bc)
12. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire - JK Rowling (non bc)
13. Normal People - Sally Rooney (non bc)
14. Googlewhack - Dave Gorman (non nc)
15. How to stop time - Matt Haig (non bc)
16. Lincoln in the Bardo - George Saunders (non bc)
17. Harry Potter and The Order of the Phoenix - JK Rowling (non bc)
18. Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince - JK Rowling (non bc)
19. Transcription - Kate Atkinson (non bc)
20. Let Me Lie - Clare Mackintosh (non bc)
21. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows - JK Rowling (non bc)
22. I Am I Am I Am - Maggie O'Farrell

Books read in 2018:

1. The Summer of Impossible Things - Rowan Coleman
2. The Black Echo - Michael Connelly
3. The Black Ice - Michael Connelly
4. Blood Sisters - Jane Corry
5. Lie with me - Sabine Durrant
6. The Keeper of Lost Things - Ruth Hogan
7. The Husband's Secret - Liane Moriarty
8. Then She Was Gone - Lisa Jewell
9. What Alice Forgot - Liane Moriarty
10. B is for Burglar - Sue Grafton
11. C is for Corpse - Sue Grafton
12. The Good Daughter - Karin Slaughter
13. The Dry - Jane Harper
14. Lullaby - Leila Slimani
15. Crazy Rich Asians - Kevin Kwan

Books read in 2017:

1. Portobello - Ruth Rendell
2. Pillars of the earth - Ken Follett
3. The Ghost - Robert Harris
4. Missing You - Harlan Coben (non bc)
5. The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Society - Mary Ann Shaffer (non bc)
6. The Wonder - Emma Donoghue (non bc)
7. Every Day - David Levithan (non bc)
8. The Power - Naomi Alderman (non bc)
9. Lunch in Paris - Elizabeth Bard (non bc)
10. The Hate U Give - Angie Thomas (non bc)
11. I Found You - Lisa Jewell (non bc)
12. Incendiary - Chris Cleave
13. Behind Closed Doors - B A Paris (non bc)
14. The Bronze Horseman - Paullina Simons (non bc)
15. Eleanor Oliphant is completely fine - Gail Honeyman (non bc)
16. Station Eleven - Emily St John Mandel

Books read in 2016:
1. The Miniaturist - Jesse Burton (non bc)
2. The Third Wife - Lisa Jewell (non bc)
3. Us - David Nicholls
4. The Girl on the train - Paula Hawkins (non bc)
5. It's not what you think - Chris Evans
6. Prime Suspect - Lynda La Plante
7. The Winter Ghosts - Kate Mosse
8. The Girls - Lisa Jewell (non bc)
9. Big Little Lies - Liane Moriarty (non bc)
10. Tennison - Lynda La Plante (non bc)
11. Slam - Nick Hornby
12. The Outcast - Sadie Jones

Books read in 2015:
1. Life After Life - Kate Atkinson
2. The State We're In - Adele Parks (non bc) 7/10
3. The Eyre Affair - Jasper Fforde
4. Sleepyhead - Mark Billingham
5. The Secret Life of Bees - Sue Monk Kidd (non bc)
6. Chasing Windmills - Catherine Ryan Hyde (non bc)
7. The Girl in Times Square - Paullina Simons (non bc)
8. We are all made of glue - Marina Lewycka
9. Elizabeth is missing - Emma Healey (non bc)
10. Gone Girl - Gillian Flynn (non bc)

Books read in 2014:
1. Noah 's Compass - Anne Tyler
2. Mad About The Boy - Helen Fielding (non bc)
3. Saturday - Ian McEwan
3. The Island - Victoria Hislop
4. Playing for Pizza - John Grisham (non bc)
5. The Confession - John Grisham (non bc)
6. The Hunger Games - Suzanne Collins (non bc)
7. Catching Fire - Suzanne Collins (non bc)
8. The Mockingjay - Suzanne Collins (non bc)
9. Very British Problems - Rob Temple (non bc)
10. My Autobiography - Alex Ferguson (non bc)

2013 - selected to give away 20 copies of The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency by Alexander McCall Smith for World Book Night 2013.
Books read:
1. Salmon Fishing In The Yemen - Paul Torday
2. Beloved - Toni Morrison
3. Our Iceberg is Melting - John Kotter (non bookcrossing)
4. The Gargoyle - Andrew Davidson
5. Skins and other stories - Roald Dahl (non bc)
6. Room - Emma Donoghue (non bc)
7. Agent Zigzag - Ben Macintyre
8. Oh, Sweet Mystery of Life - Roald Dahl (non bc)
9. The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed out of a window and disappeared (non bc)
10. The Making of Us - Lisa Jewell (non bc)

2012 - selected to give away 24 copies of The Book Thief by Markus Zusak for World Book Night 2012.
Books read:
1. Stuart - Alexander Masters
2. Before I Go To Sleep - S J Watson (non bookcrossing)
3. Frank Skinner - Frank Skinner
4. The Reluctant Fundamentalist - Mohsin Hamid
5. Neither Here Nor There - Bill Bryson
6. Notes from a Small Island - Bill Bryson
7. Pigeon English - Stephen Kelman
8. Tuesdays with Morrie - Mitch Albom
9. Q and A - Vikas Swarup
10. The Hypnotist - Lars Kepler (non bookcrossing)
11. Cleo - Helen Brown
12. Never Let Me Go - Kazuo Ishiguro
13. The Bone Collector - Jeffery Deaver
14. Fingersmith - Sarah Waters
15. Me Before You - Jojo Moyes (non bookcrossing)

2011 - selected to give away 48 copies of Case Histories by Kate Atkinson for World Book Night 2011.
Books read = 34:
1. The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde - Robert Louis Stevenson
2. 84 Charing Cross Road - Helene Hanff
3. Dear Fatty - Dawn French (non bookcrossing)
4. Needful Things - Stephen King
5. The Reluctant Tycoon (Mills & Boon) - Emma Richmond
6. The Post-Birthday World - Lionel Shriver
7. After The Party - Lisa Jewell
8. When Will There Be Good News - Kate Atkinson
9. Started Early, Took My Dog - Kate Atkinson
10. A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry
11. Toast - Nigel Slater
12. Velocity - Dean Koontz
13. Pies and Prejudice - Stuart Maconie
14. The Ring - Danielle Steele
15. Everything Changes - Jonathan Tropper
16. The Secret Shopper's Revenge - Kate Harrison
17. Any Human Heart - William Boyd
18. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Arthur Conan Doyle
19. The Five People You Meet in Heaven - Mitch Albom
20. Pay It Forward - Catherine Ryan Hyde
21. She Stood There Laughing - Stephen Foster
22. Killing Floor - Lee Child
23. A Prayer for Owen Meany - John Irving
24. Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe - Fannie Flagg
25. Die Trying - Lee Child
26. The Memory Keeper's Daughter - Kim Edwards
27. Notes from a Big Country - Bill Bryson
28. The Radleys - Matt Haig (non bookcrossing)
29. A Clockwork Orange - Anthony Burgess
30. A Visit from the Goon Squad - Jennifer Egan
31. Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck
32. Freakonomics - Steven Levitt & Stephen Dubner
33. The Distant Hours - Kate Morton
34. When God was a Rabbit - Sarah Winman

Books read in 2010 = 35:
1. Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold
2. Lucky Man: A Memoir - Michael J. Fox
3. Pet Sematary - Stephen King
4. Going Dutch - Katie Fforde
5. We Need to Talk About Kevin - Lionel Shriver
6. The Truth About Melody Browne - Lisa Jewell
7. The Sunday Philosophy Club - Alexander McCall Smith
8. Turning Thirty - Mike Gayle
9. The Silver Linings Playbook - Matthew Quick
10. The Tenth Circle - Jodi Picoult
11. Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas - Hunter S Thompson
12. Dear John - Nicholas Sparks
13. Chocolat - Joanne Harris
14. Stardust - Neil Gaiman
15. Getting Rid of Matthew - Jane Fallon
16. The Other Hand - Chris Cleave
17. Noughts & Crosses - Malorie Blackman
18. Hearts and Minds - Amanda Craig
19. Lucky You - Carl Hiaasen
20. Good To A Fault - Marina Endicott
21. One Day - David Nicholls
22. The Tent, The Bucket and Me - Emma Kennedy
23. Beautiful People - Simon Doonan (non bookcrossing)
24. The Book Thief - Markus Zusak (non bookcrossing)
25. The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo - Steig Larsson (non bookcrossing)
26. The Girl Who Played With Fire - Steig Larsson (non bookcrossing)
27. The Girl Who Kicked The Hornets' Nest - Steig Larsson (non bc)
28. The Outsiders - S.E.Hinton
29. A Thousand Splendid Suns - Khaled Hosseini
30. The Forgotten Garden - Kate Morton (non bookcrossing)
31. Something To Fall Back On - Maureen Lipman
31. Lessons in Heartbreak - Cathy Kelly
32. The Ice Cream Girls - Dorothy Koomson
33. The Good Guy - Dean Koontz
34. The Last Time They Met - Anita Shreve
35. How To Talk To A Widower - Jonathan Tropper (non bookcrossing)

Books read in 2009 = 28:
1. The Three Day Rule - Emyln Rees, Josie Lloyd
2. The Best A Man Can Get - John O'Farrell
3. The Chocolate Run - Dorothy Koomson
4. Void Moon - Michael Connolly
5. Why Don't Penguins Feet Freeze - Various
6. No Time For Goodbye - Linwood Barclay
7. The Steep Approach to Garbadale - Iain Banks
8. Rescuing Rose - Isabel Wolff
9. Emotionally Weird - Kate Atkinson
10. America Unchained - Dave Gorman (non bookcrossing)
11.Stormy Weather - Carl Hiaasen
12.My Sister's Keeper - Jodi Picoult
13.Vile Bodies - Evelyn Waugh
14.The Death & Life of Charlie St. Cloud - Ben Sherwood
15.The Boy In The Striped Pyjamas - John Boyle
16.Hotel World - Ali Smith
17.The Curious Tale of Benjamin Button, etc - F Scott Fitzgerald
18.Marshmallows for Breakfast - Dorothy Koomson
19.Brick Lane - Monica Ali (did not finish)
20.Sick Puppy - Carl Hiaasen
21.The Night Watch - Sarah Waters
22.The Ex-Girlfriend Club - Matt Dunn
23.My Favourite Wife - Tony Parsons
24.Nineteen Minutes - Jodi Picoult
25.The Girl Next Door - Elizabeth Noble
26.Harry Potter and The Half Blood Prince - J K Rowling
27.Fourplay - Jane Moore
28.I Heart New York - Lindsey Kelk