A.S. Thomson

  • Over The Sea to…..

    My husband is a QHSE advisor – Quality, Health & Safety and Environmental Systems. Working in the oil industry, as most folk do in Aberdeenshire, this involves a bit of travel. Thankfully, George has to fly to the places he visits – Stavangar, Bergen, Abu Dhabi – but some poor souls have to travel to…

  • The Humans by Matt Haig

    You hear a lot of people talk about an author’s ‘voice’, discussing how it is one of the most important things to get right. In The Humans, Matt Haig’s writerly voice is so good, it’s only after finishing the book that you are aware of how well he nailed it. Professor Andrew Martin has solved the…

  • Fancy Meeting You here!

    Welcome to my new, super-duper, all singing and dancing, fabulous new site. Looking good, eh? Since I have spent many hours in prettifying this, I plan on updating the blog more often. Book reviews and snippets of conversations with my mum will appear as they occur, but there should be a new post at least…

  • I’m Moving!

    Lovely, lovely readers, I am on the move. My Blog address isn’t changing, but I am moving to a self-hosted site so I can take advantage of the flexibility of wordpress.org. This means that until such times as I finish building my new web-site, this one may disappear. I hope to be up and running…

  • Carniepunk by Various

    I have always found carnivals and traveling fairs very sinister places; places where the ‘freaks’ and dispossessed gather together and, at least in my imagination, seduce the unaware into the underworld, never to be seen again. It seems I’m not alone in my madness as Carniepunk, an anthology of urban fantasy stories set in and…

  • Inferno by Dan Brown

    Dan Brown gets an awful lot of stick, doesn’t he? After The Lost Symbol, I was one of the grumblers, complaining that he couldn’t write for toffee and that he wasted no opportunity to show us how clever he was and how much research he did. I vowed never to read another Dan Brown book.…

  • Emerald City by Chris Nickson

    Mention Seattle to me and what comes to mind is Microsoft, Frasier and rain. But Seattle is also the setting for Emerald City, the new book by Chris Nickson. It’s 1988 and Laura Benton is a music journalist at The Rocket, a publication at which the author also worked in the 1980s. It’s a male-dominated…

  • No Such Thing As A Free Book

    I have over a hundred books in my Kindle cloud. Probably more than two hundred. I don’t know the exact number but trust me when I say there are lots. And I’ve paid for only a fraction of these. Before you go getting your knickers in a twist, I came by each and every one…

  • Z is for ZZZZZzzzzzzzzz…

    I was going to write this final post in the A to Z Challenge about Glasgow Zoo and the various small ‘zoos’ which existed all over the city in the 19th and early 20th centuries, but I am totally sick of the sound of my own voice and by. now, I’m sure I have sent…

  • Y is for Young Nettie

    I have wracked my brains and can’t think of anything Weegie beginning with Y. No doubt  I’ll remember 27 of them as soon as I hit ‘publish’, but in place of anything vaguely interesting, here are some pictures of me as a youngster.

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