Desperate Reader

It has been a long and exceptionally trying day, one that started with being woken at 4.20 am by the sound of a lot of water hitting the flo...

It's the time of year when I like to look back at the books I've read over the last twelve months and make a totally subjective choi...

Thank god for Georgette Heyer. I'm reading avidly at the moment - newspapers, instructions, journals (well 'Friday's Child'...

My Georgette Heyer binge shows no sign of abating, there's a direct correlation to what's going on at work with this, the last 3 ...

Still engrossed in Heyer (I might consider reading someone else in a  day or two) and it's on to ' The Grand Sophy '. This on...

Yes, here it is, another Heyer related post (better get used to it, as I'm happily rediscovering more and more of her books)... I som...

My Heyer odyssey continues, I've read 4 since Monday and wish I'd bought a 5th away with me this weekend. It's about 4 years ...

Having finally noticed that Arrow Books had re-jacketed six Georgette Heyer titles I got mildly excited, certainly excited enough to ma...

I find the books I read lead one to another in a fairly natural progression; something will catch my interest and send me down a path, no...

This will (probably) be the last Heyer post for a while, though I could happily spend the winter reading through her entire output, new ...

This book was a very kind gift from Elaine Random Jottings who quite correctly thought I would be interested in a life of one of my favo...

This is Simon Stuck in a Books idea, I liked it last time he did it, I like it even more now because after all what appeals more to any re...

It’s been a busy sort of week starting off with some energetic box shifting and winding down with a course on presentation skills and th...

It’s probably true that you learn something new every day; on Tuesday for example I learnt that Georgette Heyer wrote through the night ...