Kate Writes and Reads

I have yet to finish the patchwork quilt I began in 1975 (one day … ) but I am fascinated by patchwork that other people do a...

I read five books in February (must do better). Four of them are reviewed here; the fifth will be in a separate post. The...

This story is published in Woman’s Weekly (17 March 2015). I’ve mentioned in a previous post the creative writing class ...

I post here about books I’ve read each month. There are other titles that I have on the go, that I pick up and put down and don...

I read six books in January: Die Hard by Lee Childs (from Christian Aid book sale 2014) In which Jack Reacher, our act...

In 2011 I had a serial published in The People's Friend: which the magazine illustrated very nicely: I blogged here about h...

English and American English. ‘Two nations divided by a common language’ is a saying attributed variously to Oscar Wilde, George Be...