When you pick up a Di Morrissey book you are not expecting high literature, or even medium-high. You are expecting a rollocking saga with beautiful women and unreachable men set in an exotic location with a nod to the local culture. In this novel...

Go and see this movie. You might think it is some worthy foreign flick but it is not. It's gritty, inspiring, pacey, uplifting and shocking all at the same time. If a film could be a pageturner - this would be. Compared to the last Hollywood flick...

Here's the massive coincidence. The last two books I've read have been The Islands by Di Morrissey and Careless in Red by Elizabeth George. (I know I'm supposed to have been reading The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga - the Booker Prize-winning novel -...

The things I do for this blog. The extremes I will go to. Take the other night. Hugamuga suggested we have a family swim down the beach. Never mind that the news had been full of shark sightings and that someone had actually been taken. Never mind...

One of the most famous images of Lady Di - before she married Chuck - was the picture of her outside the daycare centre with the see-through skirt. Remember that? Well I discovered that when I walk in sunlight the same thing happens to my dress. Yes...