Desperate Reader

Pheasants are everywhere at the moment - in the fields, on the high street, and finally in paperback. I like pheasants, I even like them en...

Autumn with it's mists and mellow fruitfulness (though sadly this year it's more fruitless than otherwise) is when the lure of the ...

After reading the books it seemed like a plan to watch the films, especially after I found a very reasonably priced box set in HMV. Reading...

Tea and cakes aren't going away... Of all the vaguely retro traditions and fashions doing the rounds the institution of afternoon tea...

When I get to work on Monday morning Christmas will have officially begun, I would say it's to early but the stock has been an unwelcom...

Years ago I got a really good book about preserving called, of all things, ' Preserved ' by Nick Sandler and Johnny Acton. It...

'But what do you find to do up there?' Plenty, says Marsali Taylor, author of newly-published Shetland-set detective novel Death...

My stock of prohibition era American novels has all but run out leaving me a little bit bereft, so it was a timely visit from the postman w...

Mae West must have been a hell of a woman to know if ' She Done Him Wrong ' and ' The Constant Sinner '  are anything to ju...

Last week I heard the very sad news that my A level history teacher had passed away. Today there was a memorial service for him which I reg...