Just spent a very nice weekend at The Carbon Copy's in Bristol, wandering the parks and getting lost, that sort of thing. Since his ha...

Though I now space them out, a new Persephone Books read is always a wonderful treat, and something to be treasured. When I first found ou...

Time for a bit of a library update, I think, before we plunge back into the world of literature - review coming up tomorrow of one of the la...

I saw The Jane Austen Book Club at the cinema tonight, and thought I'd use its various links to literature to excuse a rather more pop-c...

D oes anyone remember the BBC’s Big Read? It was in 2003, and is sadly also the last bookish programme they’ve shown on terrestrial, so fa...

Inspiration is dry tonight, so shall try to show you a cartoon Mel drew for me a while ago. My natural inclination for accuracy, and genero...

Goodness, Booking Through Thursday brought out some strong opinions, didn't it? How strange - we all love the contents of books, but ha...