Desperate Reader

This is part of the classic voices in food series that Quadrille are producing (I quite fancy the Eliza Acton as well) and the first thi...

I love whisky – it wasn’t always so, single malt is not generally the first drink of choice for a young woman – my nights in the student...

I wanted this book after reading ‘Red Pottage ’ – I was hankering after more New Women and Victorian lushness and thought it would hit t...

Oxford world’s classics have a new edition of ‘Lady Audley’s Secret’ out which is worth celebrating, and perhaps more to the point, rea...

Stir up Sunday - Wikipedia tells me that the name comes from the collect in the Book of Common Prayer which is read on the last Sunday b...

The wartime secrets of London’s grand hotels – I quite liked the sound of this book but wasn’t entirely sure so cheekily asked Faber if ...

I don’t know how he knew it was what I wanted (unless it was the incessant hinting) but the Scottish one has given me a kitchen aid (i...

I’ve been feeling slightly sorry for myself recently, work has been hard with no promise of let up until after Christmas (actually it’s ...

I have never made a Christmas cake before, or for that matter baked a proper fruit cake. This is partly because fruit cake isn’t my favo...

My introduction to Nancy Mitford came in the form of an omnibus edition containing ‘ Love in a Cold Climate’, ‘The Pursuit of Love’, ‘The ...