Desperate Reader

Most of my week so far has been spent knitting and reading Jilly Cooper's 'Jump' - well the little bit of week left when I'm...

I read this book almost 2 months ago - shockingly lax blogging on my part to be only just getting round to it now - and my memories of it a...

  Still on a Shetland theme, this is a herring girl's story. Shetland has an excellent main museum and some very good heritage centres, ...

I always find it hard to write about books which elicit a really personal response, and as this one touches on something I've never been...

I've been meaning to write about Mellisa Harrison's 'At Hawthorn Time' basically since hawthorn time, but it's a book th...

Please bear with me on this... The perhaps not terribly impressive bit of knitwear I'm presenting here (in all its unfinished glory) r...

The Sundial - Shirley Jackson I thought Shirley Jackson reading week was a month ago and had been annoyed with myself for not finishing ...

the latest issue of Shiny New Books has been posted, and is as ever full of temptations. My contribution is a piece on Sir Walter Scott'...

I think I'm still recovering from the effects of our long trek home - after the night in the boat I can't seem to get enough sleep. ...

There is an Age Concern bookshop on my way to work that I sometimes manage to hit for a magical five minutes after it's opened and befor...