Desperate Reader

I applied for a review copy of this book at work last year, and then gave up on it before it unexpectedly arrived on the 22nd of December - ...

It's been a Sylvia Townsend Warner kind of week - which is always a good thing. The newly produced Faber collection 'Winter in the A...

It's the season for likely stocking fillers to start appearing at work, and as I'm a sucker for a vintage cocktail book I fell for t...

It's a while since I read a crime classic from the British Library and Death if Jezebel was a good book to dive back in with, although I...

I didn't realise how quiet I'd been here so far this month - it's been a busy 10 days of work, visiting family in Scotland, back...

Until 'The Little Blue Flames' I'd more or less managed to resist this particular hardback series from the British Library - yes...

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...