I read magazines (lots) and I read books (lots).

My favourite magazines include:

The Spectator
New Scientist
Private Eye
Threads
Fabrications
Quilting Arts
Sewing World
Sew Today
Australian Patchwork and Quilting
Fiberarts

I'll get round to making the list clickable eventually, but Google will get them all.

I don't propose to list every book I've ever read, or even every book I've read last week, because I'm too busy reading...

However, I will try to get round to noting and (eventually) linking to any which have particularly caught my fancy.

To kick off with, I've just ploughed my way through Ruth Dudley Edwards's series of murder mysteries which although a bit thin on plot are cracking in characterisation and location - and often very funny. The correct order in which to read them (I didn't) is Corridors of Death, The Saint Valentine's Day Murders, The English School of Murder, Clubbed to Death, Matricide at St. Martha's, Ten Lords A-Leaping, Murder in a Cathedral, Publish and Be Murdered, The Anglo-Irish Murders, Carnage on the Committee, Murdering Americans. They get better and better...

I'm about half way through the full set of Patrick O'Brian's Aubrey and Maturin novels, set in the Royal Navy during the Napoleonic Wars. I came rather late to these; I love CS Forester's Hornblower, and Bernard Cornwell's Sharpe, but was rather disappointed with my first O'Brian (The Ionian Mission) which I found rather slow and full of unappealing characters. However, eventually the recommendations of so many amateur and professional reviewers got to me, so I started again, this time at the beginning (Master & Commander) and now, reading them in the right order, I find them absolutely riveting. My current volume is Treason's Harbour.

I wouldn't normally use this page to talk about a P&Q book - they're a specialised taste. However, Making Mathematics with Needlework is lots of fun and covers several different needlework techniques, including knitting, cross stitch and blackwork as well as patchwork, and rather playfully applies them to some fundamental pure maths. My next few projects will include a quilted Mobius strip...