These two books ( Midsummer Night in the Workhouse and other stories  by Diana Athill and Black Sheep  by Susan Hill) have very little in co...

I think Together and Apart  (1936) by Margaret Kennedy might just be the most 1930s novel I have ever read.  Not that it is the best (thou...

I don't usually do much in the way of seasonal reading, but I draw the line at reading anything with 'Christmas' in the title ...

I've been away from the internet for a few days, and with a stinking post-Christmas cold (which won't go away and has left me exhaus...

A fun yearly meme I've done at least once or twice is the Year in First Lines created by Melwyk at The Indextrious Reader . It's ver...

I shall share my favourite lines from a carol, as I believe I have done before: Oh hush the noise, ye men of strife And hear the an...

Happy Christmas Eve!  It seems the right time for a Slightly Foxed memoir - and another Reading Presently candidate, since this book was a b...