Desperate Reader

Literary Landscapes: Charting the real life settings of the world's favourite fiction - I couldn't resist this book when I was offer...

I found a copy of Caroline Eden's 'Black Sea Dispatches and Recipes' in Waterstones on Thursday, which was pay day, so it made t...

I've been putting off writing about this book because I was disappointed by it, and generally I only choose to write about things I'...

I like hunting out books for lists like this, mostly because I find all sorts of things I forgot I had along with the stuff that I knew I wa...

Like many people I have a copy of Proust's 'Swann's Way', and like a good number of that demographic I've never made it ...

For everything I've ever read about, or from, the Second World War nothing has ever made more of an impact than a great aunt quietly men...

It took me a long time to read this book, and I've spent a few more weeks thinking about it since. The reason it took all that time was ...

It's wet (and thankfully after the sticky weather of the last few days) cold outside, I'm feeling distinctly low, and am procrastina...

I've bought a few of the Pushkin editions of Teffi's books over the years because they all sound amazing, but until now I've nev...

There are so many books that I want to write about at the moment, but yet again the day has run away from me, and as I probably have less to...