Sarah Smit

April brought plenty of rainy days so lots of opportunities for reading. I've been a bit busier with work stuff so my reading rate has slowed to about a book a week. So this...

Where has April gone? I only just finished March and April is more than halfway gone. I have been much busier with work and, owning my own business, I have been trying to make...

Time to wrap up the short month of February. The year seems to be skipping by already. But if I can count my achievements in books read then it’s going well. Last month I...

January is always a two faced Janus of a month. On the one hand I have lots of resolve, a clean slate and a desire to attack some of the books that have been...

Happy Twixmas! We're in that limbo time between Christmas and New Year where not a great deal happens and somehow you feel a little bit like time is suspended pending the big kick off...

Meet Detective Inspector Matt Lockyer. Lucky to still have a job at all, he’s heading up the cold cases team for the Wiltshire Constabulary. In this second book of the series, he finds himself...

Over the last three months, I’ve read more books than in any other period in my life. The grand total of 22. Some people are lucky to get through that many in a year,...

Thanks to Netgalley and Storm Publishing for sharing with me an advance reader copy in return for an honest review. Debbie Johnson is an author that I have returned to for a guaranteed feelgood read....

I’d like a friend like Nina Stibbe. I might already have one. The thing is I haven’t read the diaries of my friends, but I have read Nina’s. Or at least the one she...

“You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view . . . until you climb into his skin and walk around in it.“ To kill a mockingbird by...