The Mountains of Instead

Championing fiction as an escape from pandemics, politics and bad TV.

We Have A Winner (Shade Giveaway)

Normally, my giveaways (such as they have been) attract a very manageable amount  of entries - leaving me able to scribble names on bits of paper and then pick one out of a hat. However, it would appear that the lovely Jeri Smith-Ready (quite deservedly) attracts a lot of interest as my competition…

All Hallows Read

As you all know, I am all about the book-sharing love. It's the way forward and I regularly force people to leave my house laden down with books. And no, this is in no way a nefarious plan to unburden my overworked book cases.  Not at all. Nope. No Way. Well, maybe just a little bit.


But I digre…