Desperate Reader

For all the stress this time of year can bring, I love winter, and the older I get the more I love it. As soon as the clocks go back I perk ...

Around about this time last year I was getting excited about Mary Beard's 'Women and Power', this year I've got Jeanette Win...

Back in 2015 we went to visit the not long opened to the public  Stoneywell Cottage . It is a beautiful place, and made me think I should re...

I'm old enough to remember encyclopaedias, and lucky to have grown up in a house that had a Victorian collection of books. We weren'...

I like winter, more or less preferring cold to heat, and perhaps because it's the best time to live in a city. I don't miss having a...

I got up at 6 this morning to check the sky, it was cloudy. Had it been clear I would have set off to walk across the still dark city to be ...

I am literally surrounded by excellent books at the moment (they're at my feet, piled on both arms of the chair I'm sitting on, ther...

I work in retail, so as far as I'm concerned Christmas has been happening for a while now - though thanks to the increasing popularity o...

Because I have hundreds of cookbooks kicking around the place making it look untidy I normally ignore the recipe cards in supermarkets, no m...

I've started to many things recently, so nothing is getting finished very quickly. This is especially true of the several books I have i...