Unfortunately, the Strange Tales site is going into a temporary hiatus but will return at some point in the near future. In the meantime, fu...

As regular readers of the blog will know, I've been friends with  Sue Moorcroft  since we first met at the Kettering Writers Group in 19...

And so 2023 draws to a close. It's been another up-and-down year for me (Dude left for university in September and I can report that not...

I am pleased to be part of the blog tour for Anna Willett's new novel from  The Book Folks ,  The ideal Couple . When detectives try to ...

I am pleased to be part of the blog tour for Iain Henn's new novel from The Book Folks , The Piper's Children . A baffling mystery s...

Regular readers of the blog will know I've been friends with  Sue Moorcroft  since we first met at the Kettering Writers Group in 1999 (...

I am pleased to be part of the blog tour for Julie Highmore, making her debut with The Book Folks with her novel The Missing American . New ...

I am pleased to be the first port of call on the latest blog tour from John Dean, a stablemate of mine at The Book Folks, who is promoting h...

This MEME originally did the rounds way back when but I thought it'd be nice to revisit it. "This is not about the best movies yo...

Back in the day, when I was at Junior school, we had a thing called The Bookworm Club.  It must have been a nationwide organisation (I vague...