My housemate Melissa (not to be confused with a different housemate Melissa, who has also written the odd book review for SIAB) wanted to b...

I can't remember exactly how it came about - begging, borrowing, or stealing (or, y'know, a present), but when I stayed with Thomas ...

One of the greatest pleasures I have had in blogging is getting to know Claire's blog. We all know and love her as The Captive Reader ...

It's no secret that I love Tove Jansson, and I was pleased to get the chance to read the latest collection of her work from Sort Of Book...

I know I usually point you in the direction of my Vulpes Libris posts, but I really, really  encourage you to read my review of Eudora ...

My stream of reading Muriel Spark doesn't look likely to come to an end any time soon - so was just so wonderfully prolific - and the la...

Picture nabbed from Hayley's review ... I seem to be on a little run of lovely books at the moment, although Tea by the Nursery Fir...

Last year I read, and very much enjoyed, The Egg & I by Betty Macdonald (and discovered that there is a thriving Betty Macdonald com...

Some of you might be sick of hearing about Ivy Compton-Burnett on Stuck-in-a-Book, as I know she is an author who divides people absolu...

I've already teased you with one excerpt from Mollie Panter-Downes' London War Notes 1939-1945 (collected together in 1972) an...

As I mentioned before Christmas (in the post from which I swiped this photo) I got a lovely  Slightly Foxed  edition of Edward Ardizzone...

I’ve done it! I’ve done it! My book for 1970 is finished, and with it is finished my Century of Books. I was so fearful that I might stal...

Yesterday I wrote about Monica Dickens' The Winds of Heaven , and told you that it was towards the fluffier end of the Persephone Books ...

It has come to my notice that it is December, and there are only 27 days left this year.  I have almost 20 reviews to write for A Century of...

I’ve probably mentioned before my envy of those readers who can eagerly await the latest novels from their favourite writers, doubtles...

My favourite thing in the blogosphere in 2012 has been Claire discovering, and loving, A.A. Milne.  Every time one of her AAM reviews come ...

Sweet William  is my second Bainbridge novel, published in 1975 - so, a couple years before Injury Time , which I reviewed earlier this week...