Nectarines – available now from your local bookseller or your local greengrocer – ready to read or ready to eat.
Eve Bonham’s deliciously concocted tall tales, short stories, and flash fiction (very short but not always sweet)
were published on 1st October […]
Published on 1st October 2026 by Dryad Books
NECTARINES SHORT STORIES AND FLASH FICTION
Eve Bonham launches another book – her fifth, and her second collection of stories, a form of fiction that she relishes and loves writing.
A sparkling array of short […]
Beware of imputing to others the opinions that you believe you share with many people, thinking they will be the same. It’s not so.
A few days ago, I finish shopping in a supermarket in my local town, and step into […]
This photograph is of a painting that I completed earlier this year, the second in a series of four watercolours entitled ‘Machines and Me’. […]
It is after 10pm on Tuesday the 5th of May 2006. I have finally finished my collection of short stories, that have been working on and off for some years. Amazingly I’m only 5 days later than I anticipated. I […]
Thursday 13th March, Eve slips on stone floor at home and falls. She can still walk and puts ice pack on her left foot which got twisted.
Saturday 15th: she goes to Minor Injuries Unit in Weymouth. After X-rays, discovers she […]
I was a bookworm as a child, I became a teenage book nerd, I read books all through college (not surprising as I studied English and Irish literature, and I have spent […]
An unprecedented attack on the satirical weekly magazine Charlie Hebdo on 7th January 2015 prompted an unprecedented collective response throughout France.
Crowds of people followed the government’s appeal to march in protest throughout the land: they held pencils to symbolize press […]
A month ago I had my left big toenail removed. It didn’t hurt at the time, but once the anaesthetic had worn off, it throbbed nastily for a few days. These things take a long time to heal and even […]
View from my bed, in Dorset at 8am on 1st January 2025.
A few fanciful thoughts: The bare trees symbolise the falling of the dead leaves and the ephemera of 2024. The Viburnham […]