A couple Bloomsbury Group (Virginia et al, rather than Bloomsbury publishing) things to mention today - one being the CD I got from Our Vica...

It's one of those unusual (possibly unique?) trips where I come back without having bought any books. Perhaps not entirely unexpected, ...

I'm off to Switzerland for the weekend with my housemates - all very exciting - so unless I'm very organised tomorrow, there won...

Yes, the Weekend Miscellany has been visiting a Great-Aunt for the past few weeks, and obviously it is now not the weekend - nor, in fact, i...

On Friday Becca (whom you will know as Oxford Reader ) and I took a trip to Abingdon, to hear Susan Hill talk about Howards End is on the La...

Oh dear... I was promising for so long to write about that book, the single woman in the 1990s, and I still haven't. And now it's t...

Did anybody see the programme Enid this week, a biopic of Enid Blyton starring Helena Bonham Carter? It was on BBC4, and is still availabl...