Desperate Reader

This is the latest book the Georgette Heyer Redalong has finished and the first one where I've really felt my opinion of the book has be...

This is an odd mystery from the Crime Classics series - it slightly defies categorisation, it's not quite a whodunnit, or even a whydunn...

When I first started blogging I was reading a lot of Virago Modern Classics, 12 - 13 years ago was a good time to be collecting the old edit...

I've been meaning to get, and read, this book since it came out (beginning of April, so I'm not doing badly), and as I got it just b...

There's a slight irony in that I was looking for a cake to bake because I was seeing a very good friend inside for the first time in ove...

I'm going to try very hard to avoid spoilers in this post, but just in case I don't manage it particularly well the short version of...

This is essentially a response to Simon's post on  Should Offensive Books be Republished  from earlier in the week. Both his post and th...

My relationship with Daphne Du Maurier has not been a happy one. She really seems like a writer I should love, but time and again I've f...

This is the third title Tom Parker Bowles has done for Fortnum and Mason, and I had resolved to resist it. Then I saw a copy and that was th...

The last play I saw in an actual theatre was Juliet Gilkes Romero's ' The Whip' . It was excellent, which makes me miss going to...