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I'm away this week, off up to Newcastle to give a conference paper, then to one of very my best friends' wedding in Worcester at the...

This is an idle question, but perhaps an entertaining one too.  I was thinking to myself, while reading a biography of Ivy Compton-Burnett, ...

I've mentioned it before - I'm always fascinated by the behind-the-scenes of blogging.  I know when, how, and where I write my own b...

I wouldn't usually write a book review for the weekend (although this self-imposed rule might well be something nobody notices?) but tod...

Look what arrived in the post the other day! That was a very pleasant surprise - Penguin kindly sent me the Penguin Lines  collection - a se...

"Dear, dear, what clever talk it all is!" "It sounds so," said Jenney, on a puzzled note.  "And yet it is all about...

About 15 months ago, I got a gift from a lady at my book group: Ella Minnow Pea  (2001) by Mark Dunn. Fast forward a bit, and I finally got ...

I was having lunch with Naomi (of the erstwhile blog Bloomsbury Bell) the other day, and in amongst bookish chatter and catching-up, she hap...

Out of all the books I'm reading for Reading Presently, this is the one I should have read before now... Tanya very kindly sent me The ...

For the sake of A Century of Books , I must record that I have read Truman Capote's In Cold Blood (1966) - but I have no desire to wr...