Desperate Reader

It has been a long week at work (our Sundays count as the start of the week which is a common but weird retail thing, so I feel like I'v...

I'm very late reading this - I had meant to review it in time for its release date but getting married and getting covid intervened. I t...

It's been a busy week at work (that's only going to get intensify over the next couple of months) with some mixed news in it, but we...

I'm genuinely sad to hear about the death of Carmen Callil yesterday, Virago, the publishing house she founded changed how I saw the wor...

A book that very loosely fits into my thematic October reading. Once Upon A Tome is one of those books that appear in the run-up to Christma...

'Sally Jones and the False Rose' is the second outing for gorilla and ships engineer Sally Jones, but the first one that I've re...

In a change from the weird, it's time to embrace the other thing that autumn is big on  - new cookbooks. I've bought so many and hav...

My plan to whittle a few books out of an entirely beyond-my-control TBR heap by picking on the vaguely spooky-themed ones is sort of working...

A second vaguely spooky book for October, but unlike the absolute delight that is ' Strange Relics' , 'Horseman' is a mess w...

It's October, which I'm reluctantly going to accept is now considered 'spooky' season - I do at least like a good ghost stor...