Desperate Reader

It's the time to make some resolutions for 2018, and I'm going to keep mine realistic (and champagne based). This year will end and ...

As ever, after the long months of build up to Christmas at work, the hectic and exhausting sprint through the last couple of weeks as we sel...

There's a quote from Lily Bollinger, that obvious marketing potential aside, sums up how I feel about champagne: “I drink Champagne when...

I noticed the recipe for Burnt Coffee in 'Good Drinks' when I was looking for one for  Lambswool  the other day and thought it might...

For the first time in 8 years, and only the second time in the last 20 years, I won't be working in Christmas Eve. I can't tell you ...

I'm beginning to feel like I'm in a one woman mission to mull things this year (it's not something I'd thought of as habit f...

An omnibus edition of 'The Dark is Rising Sequence' was my Christmas present in 1984 (when I had just turned 11, the same age as Wil...

I had meant to write properly about Ruth Ball's 'Rough Spirits and High Society: The Culture of Drink' weeks ago, but things hav...

This is the book that single handedly changed all my prejudices about classic Russian literature. Before I read this (because it was short a...

My flat is currently in a state of pre Christmas chaos (so much as it always is, but with cards hiding books, a fine layer of glitter over e...