Desperate Reader

Whilst Shetland is having the best summer anyone can seem to remember (sunnier than Cornwall in July, and no crowds on the beaches) Leiceste...

The Story of Classic Crime in 100 Books with a Tom Collins I've been happily working my way through Martin Edwards 'The Story of C...

still in 1942, but this time in Barsetshire and the War is everywhere. It's a very different atmosphere to George Bellairs 'Death of...

It turned out that two of the books I took on holiday with me were first published in 1942, and as both were basically always intended as li...

I've had the last lot of Virago Thirkell reprints sitting around since November waiting to be dusted down and read, took 'Marling Ha...

I've spent a lovely day off with my yarn (all sorted and catalogued, now just waiting to become things). It should go into draws or boxe...

I had fully intended to write a post about the Catalogue for the Whalsay Fair Isle Knitting Through the Decades exhibition tonight but I got...

I was cross with myself when I came back from Shetland last year for missing what everyone said was a brilliant exhibition on the island of ...

Or where you get to see some of my holiday pictures. I got back to Leicester this afternoon with very mixed feelings. I could have done with...

My holiday day is almost over, I'm not looking forward to going back to work - not least because I've been so busy doing so many nic...