Desperate Reader

This is the second bibliomystery of the summer from the British Library crime classics series and I particularly enjoyed this one. Athelstan...

I have a backlog of basically everything to get through right now, but specifically the British Library Women Writers series, I have at last...

About three years ago (which seems impossible) I saved one of  Anna Koska's  photographs on Instagram - honeysuckle taken in very low mo...

My reading, and in this case listening, is still skewing towards easy/comforting. I've looked at this Garth Nix title a couple of times ...

As the temperature around here creeps up closer to 30 degrees, there are various warnings for thunderstorms, and the flying ants have emerge...

I read a proof of Bookshops and Bonedust (excellent) which comes out in November and liked it so much that I went and bought Legends and Lat...

It looks like Celia Fremlin's moment for a revival has finally arrived - 'Uncle Paul' isn't the first attempt that Faber ...

I think I've mentioned a couple of times here that a very dear friend had cancer. We lost her on Monday - she was in the local hospice w...

This week Virago celebrated its 50th birthday - or at least the 50th anniversary of Carman Callil starting a publishing venture - the first ...

It's been hot (which I hate) and humid (makes me wilt faster than salad leaves right now) with lots of thunderstorms that do not clear t...