Desperate Reader

I've been knitting a lot recently, or at least spent a lot of my free time knitting whilst catching up with a daunting backlog of podcas...

My sister gave me this (after very heavy hinting) for Christmas, it's a collection of classic tales about animal brides and grooms from ...

Despite it being bitterly cold (I mean serious, chilled to the bone, head straight to the cafe and hug that cup of coffee as hard as you can...

It doesn't really fit with my general intention to eat more salad, but it's ages since I've made, never mind written about, a sw...

I vaguely remember the debate around Kamila Shamsie's Challenge  a couple of years back that 2018 should be a year that the book industr...

I had plans for today, they involved me efficiently reading, writing, and knitting. Finishing all sorts of odd jobs, and generally getting s...

Way back in the mists of time (February 2014) I decided I would read my way through Zola's Rougon - Maquart cycle. Had I randomly starte...

The cold that was making me so miserable has gone, but as a final hangover it's left me in a bit of a reading slump. I'm struggling ...

Inspired by Alice Hawkins, and yesterday's centenary anniversary of the 1918 representation of the people act that gave some women the v...

There's a Facebook group devoted to what I'm going to refer to as the official Fair Isle Kep. I followed a link to it and immediatel...