Desperate Reader

My New Year trip to the borders has become something of a tradition, indeed a host of traditions including this one; from the moment I buy m...

Due to events of a festive nature my contribution to Virago reading week is a little late in coming, but Virago is defiantly a publisher I w...

I’ve managed to spend an awful lot of time procrastinating today which from past experience seems to be something I’m powerless to resist ho...

The Borders is Walter Scott country and although on a previous visit I made it over to Abbotsford it’s many years since I attempted to read ...

It feels like an age since the New Year (certainly more than 3 weeks) and my trip up north. I took a pile of books confidant through the haz...

Three words that are dominating my facebook account at the moment, and certainly dominated my television time last week. The issue's ar...

So much for the author, now what about the books? ‘ The Semi-attached Couple’ was written around 1830 but not published until 1860, the yea...

A while back Lyn at I Prefer Reading  did a blog about book covers and I liked the look of an Emily Eden – ‘ The Semi-attached Couple & ...

Ever since I discovered Dornford Yates I’ve had it in mind to try the world of Sapper – I bought a copy of ‘ Bulldog Drummond’ about seven ...

I’m hoping this post will get out soon, but (and fresh after my resolutions too) my internet connection has disappeared in a puff of frustra...