I have written an article on Sherlock Holmes for The London Magazine Dec-Jan issue. It’s on the 125th Anniversary of the publication of ‘The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes’ and Sherlock Holmes / short stories / London. Continue reading Sherlock Holmes – The London Magazine
I like to think that this Christmas Gift Guide is a very realistic one. While glossy magazines show us gifts in the region of £1500 +, this blog is different! Something for all price points (from £3 to a smidge over £50) there’s a gift for everyone.
Imagine receiving a pile of books like this on Christmas Day! I, for one, would be thrilled. This is my list of To Be Read this Christmas. Some new releases, some that have been released this year or a bit before… Continue reading Christmas Book Gift Guide
Patterns are interesting to observe in literature. So when Alan Hollinghurst’s latest novel ‘The Sparsholt Affair’ was set to be released in the same month – this month – as John Banville’s ‘Mrs Osmond’, I knew I had to read both books. Continue reading The Sparsholt Affair by Alan Hollinghurst and Mrs Osmond by John Banville
Happy National Poetry Day! Continue reading A Poem for Every Day of the Year
I have particularly enjoyed reading some non-fiction this month… Continue reading Non-Fiction September
This month has kindled some new favourite things. Continue reading Favourite Things Of The Month
Two hundred years ago Jane Austen left her house in Chawton for Winchester for medical treatment, where she died in July 1817.
This is the house where Jane Austen lived from 1809 to 1817. Here, she revised her earlier novels Sense and Sensibility and Pride and Prejudice and saw them published. She wrote Mansfield Park, Emma and Persuasion and began her last and uncompleted novel, Sanditon. Continue reading Jane Austen’s House Museum
‘In a way it’s easier to do a short thing, all in one flight that a novel. Novels are frightfully clumsy and overpowering of course; still if one could only get hold of them it would be superb. I daresay one ought to invent a completely new form.’ Virginia Woolf. Continue reading Two Stories: Virginia Woolf and Mark Haddon
