This might seem like a navel-gazing post, but I'm going to try hard to make it more general.  It's responding to something I've ...

photo source More Slightly Foxed !  Yay!  Well, this one was actually a little bonus - earlier in the year, when they sent me the fabulo...

Last month I (coincidentally) read a spate of successful authors' first books - Agatha Christie's , Katherine Mansfield's , A.A....

Most of you probably know Natalie Imbruglia's song 'Torn', and thought her something of a one-hit wonder.  Well, I've always...

It's all rather damp and miserable chez Stuck-in-a-Book at the moment.  Damp house, damp streets, even a book gone mouldy because I fool...

As if to act as an antidote to Emma's disdain for the theatre, in Margaret Drabble's The Garrick Year , I have just finished readi...

I started the year resisting any sort of organisation to A Century of Books - I didn't want to decide my books in advance, as that woul...