Category: Miscellaneous

• Tea or Books

  If you’ve not yet discovered the Tea or Books podcast hosted by the lovely Simon (from Stuck in a Book) and Rachel (from Book Snob), then pop over and listen to their latest offering, which is all about novels based on real events and real people. They’ve been looking specifically at A Pin To See The Peepshow,…

  chrisharding53

  February 21, 2017

  Miscellaneous, Novels

  Book Snob, Books Based on Real Life, Stuck in a Book, Tea or Books Podcast

• The White Road

  “Other things in the world are white but, for me, porcelain comes first.” Here is a piece about The White Road: A Pilgrimage of Sorts, by Edmund de Waal, which was panned by most professional reviewers, and I can’t understand why, because I absolutely loved it. I heard it first when Radio 4 abridged it for a Book of…

  chrisharding53

  February 3, 2017

  Miscellaneous, Non-fiction

  clay, Edmund de Waal, porcelain, The White Road

• Books, Booze, and Gardens!

  This is a Happy Post about the day in  London I enjoyed last week with my Younger Daughter (the Speech Therapist), because she thought I needed cheering up! On the train there I was fortunate to snap up what seemed to be the only spare seat (occupied by a pink suitcase which was bigger than me,…

  chrisharding53

  January 31, 2017

  Miscellaneous

  books, Bookshops, cake, Gardens, London, Rhubarb Gin