What’s a ‘bawn’?

Reading time: Less than 1 minute Increase your vocabulary and you’ll make your writing much more precise. That’s why I provide a word of the week. Today’s word: bawn When I read the book The Innocents by Newfoundland writer Michael Crummey, I sometimes felt as though I was reading a work written simultaneously in two […]

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Recommended books: summer 2023

Reading time: About 4 minutes Looking for some recommended books in time for summer reading? Here’s my semi-annual roundup of books I’ve read this year.  I aim to read 52 books every 12 months, and my habit is to post a complete list of the names of them for you, twice a year. Here is a description

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