I mentioned a little while ago that I'd bought Edward Carey's Observatory Mansions and was excited about reading it, after loving h...

One or two of you were interested in finding out who was interviewing whom (or whom who, or something. Colin?) in the Virago book Writing L...

I spent the weekend with my brother in Bristol - of course I wanted to see him, but I also wanted to go to the Books for Amnesty shop. It h...

As promised, the recipe for this Chocolate Orange Cake. It's not the world's most complicated recipe, but it was rather yummy. Ap...

Those with a more encyclopediac knowledge of nursery rhymes than I might automatically finish the blog post title with: ...all went togeth...

This weekend miscellany malarkey seems to have settled into a blog , a book , and a link . Sorry that 'link' doesn't begin wit...

Have you ever settled down to a new author, really confident that you'll enjoy the book in front of you. You've heard great things...