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Wasted Time Will be Refunded
I was going to blog on novels about Alice Perrers, mistress of Edward III, but there was an article in The New Yorker about The Phantom Tollbooth, which is 50 years old, so as I knew exactly where to lay… Continue reading
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Time for a Book Cull
It is, I fear, time for a cull – a book cull. I always feel it’s a kind of sacrilege to get rid of any reading matter, but unfortunately books seem to be taking over the house: without any effort… Continue reading
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The Hidden World Beneath London
“Tread carefully over the pavements of London for you are treading on skin, a skein of stone that covers rivers and labyrinths, tunnels and chambers, streams and caverns, pipes and cables, springs and passages, crypts and sewers, creeping things that… Continue reading
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I am a Guest Blogger!
WOOHOO! Today I am a guest blogger for Vulpes Libris, with a piece about my family’s somewhat eccentric reading habits. As a child most people have hidden a book under the bedclothes or beneath the lid of a school desk… Continue reading
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It’s Back to the Charity Shop for Inspector Felse
BOOKS can throw up surprises, as I found with the crime novels bagged during my forays into the own’s charity shops. I had expected to like Ellis Peters’ A Nice Derangement of Epitaphs, because I love her Cadfael mysteries. But… Continue reading
The Book Trunk 