Desperate Reader

I've been reading this (excellent) book about the Stevenson's lighthouses in Orkney and Shetland to review for 60 North magazine whi...

Leicester has had a street art thing going on this weekend - well all week really because there's far more than a days work in these. I ...

The bombing in Manchester on Monday night is throwing a long shadow over this week, and even though I know I've got nothing but platitud...

I've been following Meike's work since the early days of her publishing house,  Peirene Press , and later as a novelist with great i...

Given that we're well into the second half of May it's not particularly cheering that I could still happily be wearing this latest e...

Whatever else 2017 brings it has at least improved my knowledge and understanding of the Russian revolution. It's not something that we ...

I thought I had managed to resist this book but it turns out that was wishful thinking - I kept seeing it in Scotland last month, and every ...

This is another British Library publication that I've been sitting in for far to long, this time from the crime classics series. My gene...

The day seems to be speeding past with absolutely no inclination to tackle any of the jobs that want doing kicking in whatsoever. That inclu...

I've had one of those exhaustingly productive days off where I've done almost every job on my list along with a few unexpected ones ...