The Quality Steep Book Club read Wonder by R J Palacio. Nicholas Sparks’s review says Wonder is: well written, engaging, and so much fun to read that the pages almost turn themselves. More than that, Wonder touches the heart in the most life-affirming, unexpected ways, delivering in August Pullman a character whom readers will remember […]
Differently packaged personalities, all keen to unwrap, share and thoroughly read and inwardly digest good books, many of which we would never have read if the choice was ours alone. The Quality Steep Book Club is based in a rather scattered village in a beautiful part of east Hampshire near a lively market town and just […]
With a little help from airbnb Phyllida Barnes takes a much-needed, affordable break in the charming Italian city of Verona Verbatim email below from Balazs, Hungarian/Italian owner of delightful flat in the middle of old Verona, rented by us through www.airbnb.co.uk : [quote]think..dependly by the weather, of course I suggest you try to explore garda […]
Want to Volunteer? Like those brilliant Olympic people? Here’s another fantastic, active and uplifting success story to be a part of Ever since childhood and the long walks my father used to take us on when my mother was having afternoon rests after a much later baby, I have loved walking. In my life, it […]