I sit here tapping this blog on a quiet Easter Sunday morning in the kitchen of the very homely Esgair Cottage somewhere in the middle of nowhere but roughly near St Clears in South Wales. Outside the kitchen window, the view: a leaden sky hanging over tree shrouded rolling valleys and each day since we […]

Another Saturday, another bookstore, but this week we’ve broken away from the chain-gang and are at our first independent bookseller, David’s Bookshop, in Letchworth. A beautiful day‘n all (maybe the last of this unseasonably warm and sunny autumn weather?) made for a pleasant short ride to the store on both bikes where they took position […]

Last Saturday saw us attend our first ‘Mall’ book event. To date we have appeared in a number of busy high street shops with the two books, happy to natter and sign copies for contented customers. What then of the Mall? Our first ‘Mall’ then was Milton Keynes, set in the heart of that modern […]

A wet Saturday morning in St Albans.  Maggie and I ducked into Waterstone’s to get out of the rain that had eased to a steady downpour.  One of my favourite bookshops, so the rain wasn’t that much of an excuse.  There was a guy sat at a table signing books.  He was nobody famous and his book […]