Generally speaking, ravens, rooks and crows have a pretty bad press. Think about their literary appearances and you’ll find they are usually rather sinister – what about Edgar Allan Poe, or traditional ballads like The Twa Corbies? And Ted Hughes… Continue reading

My copy of Macmillan’s 1947 four-in-oneThe Provincial Lady doesn’t have a dustjacket, bit would originally have had onelike this. One of the great joys of volunteering in a charity bookshop is that occasionally – well, fairly frequently if I am… Continue reading

A print version of the book, publishedby Sort Of Books. According to the Oxford Dictionary a sightline (or sight-line, or even sight line) is a ‘straight line extending from the eye of a spectator to an object or area being… Continue reading

 The bench , trees and lamp show where the bank usually is. I seem to have had one of those weeks where I haven’t really felt like doing much, and curling up with a book seemed much the best option to… Continue reading

Sometimes, when you love a book, it is quite difficult to write about it, especially when lots of other people have already said lots of terribly clever and erudite things – and Miss Pettigrew Livesfor a Day is just such… Continue reading