Is it horror? Science fiction? Romance? Spiritual guidance disguised as a YA novel? The Starlight Crystal is all of these…
I’ve DNFed a record number of books this year, giving up on them after a few chapters. Mostly they were…
This is the book which kicked off the ‘funny diary’ genre (or that’s what I call it anyway). First serialised…
What bibliophile can resist a book about books? Dear Reader is a charming and heartfelt memoir from total book obsessive…
Most of us know Edward Lear as the ‘nonsense poet’, writer of such well-loved gems as ‘The Owl and the…
A notorious box office failure, this was the first Disney animated film to have a PG rating. It had no…
I was pleasantly surprised by how much I enjoyed this re-read of Jane Austen’s third published novel. I’d only read…
I’d describe the theme of this famous and influential book as the decline of the Roman Empire, but on an…
Classical music. Elitist, stuffy and boring, right? Wrong! In this memoir and unconventional exploration of classical music, Paul Morley seeks…
A real oddity, this book. I bought it for a few pence from my school library’s book sale a long…