It's not been a pleasant weekend with gales and rain battering these shores, but something landed in my email inbox earlier that I thought I'd share with you. There is nothing like the wisdom of children to lighten the mood. So, here we have a few...

With There Goes the Bride, M. C. Beaton is on her twentieth novel in the Agatha Raisin series and I have to confess that I have not read any of the previous nineteen. This did not prove a hindrance as all series characters were introduced with a little...

Partly to further investigate authors in The Curzon Group and partly to support a recent job application - thus keeping me in the mood and 'with' the culture - I embarked on reading a few financial thrillers. Published by No Exit Press, the author of...

Academi is holding "Criminal Intent: Crime Writing Conference for the Valleys 2009" on Saturday 14 November 2009 at St Mary's Priory in Abergavenny from 10am to 4pm. Participants include Katherine John, Bernard Knight, John Williams, Caspar Walsh, Glen...

Most countries have rustic dishes of some sort, using up bits and pieces and leftovers. The Welsh version would have to be Cawl, which essentially uses up winter root vegetables and the traditional, good old Welsh leek. It can be made with lamb or...