3/21/2014

10 Gift Ideas for Literature Lovers

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Happy springtime! I hope you're all enjoying the sunshine and blue sky that we're being graced with here in the UK! Spring time for ...
1/21/2014

HNY, and Murakami Review for Soapbox Press

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Happy 2014 you beautiful readers! Apologies for the sparseness of my blog, I will be writing content soon! In the meanwhile, I reviewed the ...
9/27/2013

David Gilmour: Teacher of the Year.

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You may have heard the outcry from various media outlets about a somewhat ill-advised blog post on the Random House run 'Shelf Esteem...
3/26/2013

Hilary Mantel at the Oxford Literary Festival

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On Sunday evening, I was lucky enough to see Hilary Mantel (who I often mention on this blog) speak to a packed out crowd at the beautiful S...
2/17/2013

Chichester: Book City

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Chichester, West Sussex is twenty minutes from my family home, and a city I know and love well. It's most famous for it's world...
1/09/2013

Happy New Year!

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Just a quick post to confirm that I have successfully dug myself out of the mound of Quality Streets and rasberry vodka I ensconsed myself ...
11/28/2012

Twitter Fiction Festival - yay or nay?

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Later on today sees the launch of a new 'Twitter Fiction Festival', as announced on the official Twitter Blog from the 18th October...
11/23/2012

Review: 'Housekeeping' by Marilynne Robinson

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I can't believe it's late November already...I'm living in a very cold and blustery Oxford with some very chapped lips and hands...
11/01/2012

Blogs to follow!

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Thought I'd share a little blog love with you all.... Soapbox Press: http://soapboxpress.wordpress.com/ Started by students at Winch...
10/29/2012

How do you cope with a really disappointing book?

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When I picked up The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov , I was sure I was on to a winner. Russian novelist? Brilli...