Desperate Reader

One of the things I like about my job is that we have corporate membership to the RA and today I've been making the most of it. I'd ...

One of the things that I particularly like about Little Toller is how beautiful their books are. They're lovely to touch and look at in ...

This mornings bus read was Stefan Zweig's 'The Invisible Collection', the collector in it had amassed portfolios of Dürer's ...

On Saturday I finally made it to Falls farm in Harrington (Northamptonshire) to see the Warner Edwards distillery. I've wanted to do thi...

Most of this year has been spent in a bit of a reading slump. I've been more than usually indecisive about what I might be in the mood f...

I've been putting off reading this for a while now, mostly because I loved  Bird in a Cage  so much, and was half afraid that nothing el...

Yesterday's trip to the beach already feels like it happened weeks ago. A wet, and cold again, Monday at work would have been quite enou...

Humour me with this, but Tally is my mother's dog, and today is her birthday. She's two, and since she came into our lives (which wi...

I'm trying to have a bit of a spring clean at the moment (so far I've regretfully thrown away two mugs with cracked handles, and put...

There are a few Selkie myths around, but I think the best known one will be some version of the story of the fisherman who finds himself wat...