I'm back!  Hope you had a good week - I was dashing all over the place, from the south coast to the northern reaches of England (so, er,...

A lot of books I'm mentioning this year seem either to be about Jane Austen or by Sylvia Townsend Warner... so it is appropriate that on...

A series of pamphlets called Writers and Their Work was issued by British Book News in the early 1950s, and I happen to have got my hands on...

I'm away this week, off up to Newcastle to give a conference paper, then to one of very my best friends' wedding in Worcester at the...

That's right - today Stuck-in-a-Book is five years old! ( photo source ) Thanks everyone who has made this such a fun and valuabl...

I'm off to Somerset for a long weekend, so have a wonderful Easter when it comes.  Rejoice, rejoice! ( picture source )

I'm on some pretty heavy-duty painkillers at the moment, having managed to damage a muscle in my chest (by the extreme sport of sleep...