One of the weirder tangents my thesis has taken me on is the depiction of Satan in 20th-century literature... not a topic I feel entirely at...

The lovely people at Bloomsbury have got in touch with me: they have eights sets of Mrs. Harris MP  and Mrs. Harris Goes To Moscow  to give ...

Despite packing and moving and all sorts, I have managed (just in time) to finish Dusty Answer  by Rosamond Lehmann, and thus I am participa...

Let's take a moment, before I begin, to praise how beautiful this book is - the book-as-object, I mean.  Well, you can only see the pict...

Moving house today...  I have a post automated to come out tomorrow, but no guarantees after that!  See you on the other side...

When I was given  A Card From Angela Carter  at a Bloomsbury party a while ago, I was excited to read it - but, at the same time, I worrie...

Twins. Theatre. Shakespeare. Eccentrics.  There was never really any chance that I wouldn't like Wise Children  (1991) by Angela Carter,...