Desperate Reader

This book was on my Christmas wish list because it sounded interesting - I'd already read some of Alexander Afanasyev's collected ta...

 It's been a trying week - this lockdown feels harder than the previous ones - maybe because it's a new year, partly because of Brex...

After enjoying ' O, The Brave Music'  so much it felt like a good time to read Rose Macaulay's 'Dangerous Ages' - anothe...

This was a Christmas present from a friend who I have exchanged Jackie Morris and Robert Macfarlane inspired gifts with for a while now - we...

This is one of the British Library's  Women Writers  series, the second I've read of them, and another surprise. For no particular r...

As it's somehow, unbelievably, almost the middle of January I thought I'd better have a look at the almanacs I bought last year, and...

There are points in every year when I look at the stacks of books that weigh down every surface in my sitting room (not just my sitting room...

For a while I didn't think I'd be able to get a copy of this book - it's not a particularly cheap one and ordered direct from  L...

I've spent today with what I can only describe as a politics/current affairs hangover. Between Covid, Brexit, and whatever that was in A...

As the world looks set to continue with the crazy (America really doing its bit on that front tonight) I'm mostly focused on eating more...