Here’s a fun post for you, which I thought of while walking home through heavy rain one afternoon during lockdown.…
Health visitor. An easy job, right? Sitting on people’s sofas drinking tea and cooing over babies? Not exactly… Rachael Hearson’s…
I know this book well, having studied it and seen maybe two or three adaptations. It’s not really an accessible…
This is a brilliant collection of 30 short sci-fi stories, arranged chronologically from ‘The Land Ironclads’ by H G Wells…
I thought it would be fun to do an A-Z of my blog (too much time on my hands?) so…
Self-help books. Are they a load of rubbish? Or do they actually work? Which ones are worth following and which…
Today is Queen Victoria’s birthday. We think of her as round and grim, the symbol of empire and the Victorian…
‘There would be tears and there would be strange laughter. Fierce births and deaths beneath umbrageous ceilings. And dreams, and…
I found this novel so dull that I ended up skim-reading the last half of it to see if anything…
I had mixed feelings about the second volume of The Book of Dust. I liked it a lot better than…