Desperate Reader

I've been thinking about Christmas a lot over the last few days - it's the time of year when friends start asking what I want for th...

This is my second Christmas out of retail, and for all the crap that 2020 has bought, it's also the year that I've got autumn back. ...

When Oxford University Press published Zola's 'Doctor Pascal' this summer it completed their set of the Rougon-Macquart cycle, a...

This lockdown has been radically different, and much easier for me. There's a big difference between being in the city and the countrysi...

Back at the end of October, inspired by the  Backlisted Halloween  episode, I sorted out the two editions of Beowulf I had with a definite i...

 Nancy Spain's name rang a bell when I saw Virago were going to republish some of her books, but I couldn't quite place it. I think ...

I'm at my mother's dog sitting and hoovering for the foreseeable future whilst she recovers from a hip operation. It's both real...

This edition of  'The Progress of a Crime' comes with a bonus short story - 'The Tigers of Subtopia' which I read before the...

 I really liked  Stuck in a Book's  post about book buying reasons, not least because so many of them struck a chord with me. Liked it s...

 Although I'm not judging if it is. Amazon are successful because of all the things they do well, which includes the customer service an...