Desperate Reader

I loved the ' Anne of Green Gables ' books as a child reading my way through the series a few times but until fairly recently was ...

Summer homework before I started my English A level was a reading list from which we had to choose a book ready to talk about it at the be...

I've written about this book before back in July 2012 (it was a cold summer, certainly cold enough to make a wintery cookbook very att...

It's almost Burns night (25th January) so is the very height of haggis season. My personal appreciation of haggis came late in life bu...

But none greater than not buying more bookshelves when I moved into this flat, unless I count buying a flat so near the top of the propert...

Penguin's decision to package a series of epics and sagas to tie in with the interest in all things Just looks better Tolkien as w...

The Vikings are coming and I'm quite excited about it. The ' Vikings: Life and Legend ' exhibition opens at the British Museum o...

This was a Christmas present from my mother (what is it about Christmas that brings out a need for a bit of noir?) and is a particularly goo...

' Tea by the Nursery Fire ' feels like an appropriate book to write about tonight - I have spent all day trying to bring some sort o...

I'm finding it hard to adjust to being back at work - basically even at my advanced age I'm not capable of getting myself to bed o...