Wandering the world

A little bit of background This post is part of a series that documents our 1996 adventure, the first time we'd been further afield than...

A little bit of background📝 The year is 1996. My husband (W) and I, aged 25, are on our first ever bus tour. The tour was part of our 6-week first ever world wandering. The trip was the culmination of years of dreaming and 12 months of planning and saving. I wrote this post in 2024 (and updated it in 2025), using my memories to guide me and the journal I kept at the time. This post is as much about documenting our experience as it is looking back in time to travel in the 199

I had not heard of British author, Margie Orford, before I picked up her novel, The eye of the beholder, at my local library. Orford was born in London but raised in Namibia and South Africa. She is the author of the Clare Hart detective series set in Cape Town. There is not a lot to go by in the book's blurb and I quite liked that I went into it without too many expectations. Three women are central to the story - Cora, her daughter, Freya, and Angel - and they are entwined

Sophie Hannah is an award-winning British poet and novelist. Two of her novels have been adapted for television and her poetry is studied at senior high school levels across the UK. She lives with her family in Cambridge, where she is a Fellow Commoner at Lucy Cavendish College. Her current collection of works includes standalone stories and two series: Spilling CID and the New Hercule Poirot Mysteries. This post review two of the eleven books in the Spilling CID series publi