Most workplaces have someone like Martin – competent, capable, reliable but also just a little bit of a ‘weirdo’ who never joins in with the other guys.
Most people – if they give it a thought – assume the Martins of this world choose their solitary existence.
But what if Martin, the unassuming hero of Cultivating a Fuji, isn’t simply shy and retiring? What if hiding his feelings is the only way he knows to survive?
Author Miriam Drori has written a compelling, heart-warming and thought-provoking UpLit exploration of loneliness and social anxiety. Continue reading
Very occasionally, I’m grateful I can’t roll back the years and become a young adult again.
Just the thought of dating a different man every night of the week is exhausting.
Former detective sergeant Charlie Bell has come a long way since he was first locked up for the murder of Phillip Mansel-Jones, a ‘scumbag of the worse degree’.
What happens when you read a book that’s so good, you can’t find the words to adequately describe how much you enjoyed it?
Do you believe in Christmas Miracles?
What happens when the good man you married isn’t all he seems to be?
Everyone needs the right mix of Hope and Christmas Spirit and the mysterious Natalie Hope has both in abundance.
Hopefully CM Taylor won’t take this the wrong way, but I thought the author of Staying On must be a woman.
Christmas came early to the Featherstone household this morning when the postman brought a very special present: The People’s Friend Christmas Special, featuring my short story A House of Prayer.