If you've looked at my Twitter feed recently, or spoken to me in any context whatsoever, chances are that I've spoken excitedly ab...

I'm going to be spending my weekend doing some painting, I think (of the still life variety, rather than the walls-and-ceiling variety),...

I'm over at the foxes again... talking about The Guest Cat  by Takashi Hiraide, an impulse buy when I went to Foyle's recently. ...

I was recently contacted by Tombola about an initiative they've got going with Loose Women (which they sponsor) where they're askin...

Back in the days when I'd only dimly heard of David Sedaris, the book I had heard of was Me Talk Pretty One Day . Based on the title a...

An interesting question was posed today in my online book group - in passing, actually, in a discussion of Elizabeth von Arnim - about sil...

I can't remember exactly how it came about - begging, borrowing, or stealing (or, y'know, a present), but when I stayed with Thomas ...