Desperate Reader

This was my bargain buy from the bank holiday, it did indeed turn out to be a harrowing read but almost a hundred years after it's fi...

I have a new phone, I don't understand what it does, can't stop it doing whatever it is it does, and have somehow spent all aft...

It's been a real treat having a long bank holiday weekend, working in retail it doesn't often work out that way for me but this t...

I left town this weekend to spend in the countryside, my weekend has been rather quieter than the one Bainbridge gives us here. Highlight...

I know a couple of people who adore ' The Blue Castle ' and I loved ' Anne of Green Gables ' when I was younger so when I...

I thought ' Miss Buncle Married ' would make for nice gentle holiday reading (how long ago that seems now) and I was right. It...

I am familiar with Meike Ziervogel in her role as founder of  Peirene Press  but now I've had the chance to think of her as a novelist....

battered but comfortable old bedroom emptied, dusted, and de spidered  I've been planning on re-decorating my bedroom for ages,...

This is a Penguin press release for a competition that sounds amazing, if I could commit the time I'd be doing my damnedest to win it,...

Pottering around my kitchen (radio 4 on in the background) browsing through cook books, a cup of tea or coffee to hand, and planning th...