Desperate Reader

I'm reading quite a lot of weird short stories at the moment - as readers have probably noticed. I considered calling it a day and findi...

The effect the Blitz continues to have on the British, and perhaps specifically the English, imagination is one of the minor but consistent ...

  Women's Weird: Strange Stories by Women  was a stand out collection from last year - it's still genuinely one of the most unsettli...

If ever a year was designed to turn a person to the 'Weird' it's 2020. All the uncertainties, paranoia, superstition, and outrig...

I've spent a long time over the last few years looking at images of Stanley Cursiter's 1923 painting 'The Fair Isle Jumper'....

We can meet again in private gardens in Leicester, so this afternoon I really enjoyed a cup of tea in the rain - with a friend I hadn't ...

 I'm reading a good bit of weird and horror at the moment - 'Women's Weird Volume 2', and 'British Weird' from Handh...

I've been on a little bit of a food related book spree recently ( The Little Library Christmas , The Food Almanac, and after she said it...

This weekend I received not one, but two, unexpected gifts, and made some really spectacular brownies - although I don't think brownie i...

There is a quote on the back of this collection that says "Denehan is sort of like Bukowski, if Bukowski wrote while drinking rather th...