Category Archives: Books

I read a lot of books.  In the main, they are for entertainment, but interspersed with the less serious, I’ll delve into a range of more serious matters relating to life, current (or past) affairs, and literature.  I’ve just finished a book called ‘The Eagle Tree’ by Ned Hayes, a novel that I would rank… Read More »

It was a few years ago, browsing through the local library that I found myself leafing through a book by James Hamilton-Paterson entitled ‘Cooking With Fernet Branca‘.  I hadn’t heard of James Hamilton-Paterson, had no idea what (or who) Fernet Branca was, and didn’t understand why I would be looking at a supposed cookery book. … Read More »