Desperate Reader

I had plans for this week - mostly involving rather more reading and blogging about Barbara Pym but a series of minor frustrations and di...

Today would have been Barbara Pym's 100th birthday and there's something particularly satisfying about the idea that it's bei...

Barbara Pym reading week is here and the first thing I need to do is finish my book... it

' Crampton Hodnet ' has a curious history, Pym wrote it in the early days of the war and it was finished by spring 1940 - when she ...

The latest Barbara Pym to be reissued by Virago is a bit of a departure from the Pym I'm used to. It hails from her time in the wilde...

It sometimes seems that my mission in life is to accumulate; books of course, but also shells, little pebbles, shoes, postcards, pictures ge...

I loved this book and thought it would be so easy to write about – which in a way it has been– I’ve written literally thousands of words abo...