Anthony Horowitz : The Twist of a Knife

As my days are currently being consumed by a deep de-cluttering, I am only capable of reading books that require little thought. I dropped into the library for some crime reading and, even though I said I wouldn’t do it again, came away with the latest Anthony Horowitz.

Cluttercore

Gert is delighted to hear of the new TikTok fashion for “cluttercore”. This involves showing your house as it actually looks – discarded toys all over the floor, clothes slung over the sofa, the dog’s dish tipped over into the cat’s bed…you get the picture.

Sarah Krasnostein: The Trauma Cleaner

The backyard is vast. A Hills hoist is stuck like a cocktail umbrella in the dead centre of the dead lawn; debris everywhere in the spongy yellow grass. Despite it being the end of summer, the bushes and trees along the fence line are devoid of leaves. An entropic mound of trash and broken furniture oozes towards the house from the far corner of the yard. This is where Kim deposited the stuff that was crowded up to the ceiling inside the house during the last inspection. (17)

The Queen of Clean and the Duchess of Much Less

Flavour of the month in France, we hear, is Marie Kondo’s  The LIfe-Changing Magic of Tidying, which brings the ceremonial spirituality of the tea-ceremony to the art of tidying up, with a few added benefits.