Desperate Reader

My very local Waterstones is closing down. The news was in the Leicester Mercury today and for all the world I felt like I was reading an o...

I realise I haven't been posting much here over the last few weeks, nor have I been reading as many books (though I've bought mor...

' Peking Picnic ' was written at much the same time as ' Heat Lightning ' and both are in some way concerned with finding a...

' Heat Lightning ' is exactly the sort of book I associate with Persephone (and then I'm constantly surprised by how varied t...

Danielle at  A Work In Progress  has asked me to take part in her Lost In The Stacks series, as I love looking at other peoples bookshelves ...

As any regular reader here will know I don't read much new fiction at all, less that could come under the  heading of historical fic...

A month or so ago  Stuck-in-a-Book  wrote a piece about not knowing much about art, there are a number of interesting comments at the end o...

Penguin modern classics have led me to some fantastic Noir crime finds over the last couple of years (long may it continue) of which Ross M...

Sadly it's almost over and time for me to go back to work (bank holidays don't really happen in retail) but I'm till feeling ...

The joy of having a day off and messing about in the kitchen would be unparalleled if it wasn't for all the tidying up it creates... ...