Way back when (in a land of myth and a time of magic) I was listening to Lucy Mangan’s Bookworm,…
Lullaby (Leïla Slimani, translated by Sam Taylor)
The baby is dead. It only took a few seconds. Lullaby I feel I need to write a little context…
Practical Magic (Alice Hoffman)
(Happy New Year!) As I love magic and mayhem and romances, I’ve been frequently recommended the Sandra Bullock and Nicole…
Things I should probably read in 2019…
It’s late, and I stupidly started thinking about my TBR list, and how I was going to approach my 2019…
Best reads of 2018! (How is it the end of the year again?)
Here we are again! I’m not sure how it happens, but it is the end of 2018 and I’m incredibly…
Bookworm: A Memoir of Childhood Reading (Lucy Mangan)
I had a big Christmas party at work – and me being me, I decided to make a fairy dress…
Throne Of Jade (Temaraire #2) (Naomi Novik)
I have an inability to walk into a library to return a book without walking out with at least two…
Mythos (Stephen Fry)
Stephen Fry as writer and narrator on the Greek Mythologies is absoultuely as hilariously entertaining as it sounds. I was…
Temeraire (Temeraire #1) (Naomi Novik)
Dragons? Sign me up. Not only are there dragons, there are dragons fighting in the Napoleonic war like some sort…
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time (Mark Haddon) (National Theatre)
This is a bit of a dual review. This weekend, I re-read The Curious Incident of the Dog in the…
