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A literary blog covering a wide range of novels, but mostly literary fiction and with a focus on books from 1900-1950. Fun, quirky, and very, very bookish.

Latest Blog Posts

  • Making the Cat Laugh on Nov 19, 2009 in Truss

    Oh dear... I was promising for so long to write about that book, the single woman in the 1990s, and I still haven't. And now it's too late for me to remember what I liked about it, but anyway, here it is...This post has no pretensions to being a pro...

  • Enid on Nov 18, 2009

    Did anybody see the programme Enid this week, a biopic of Enid Blyton starring Helena Bonham Carter? It was on BBC4, and is still available as 'watch again' for UK residents. Apparently it got the third highest ever audience for BBC4. I've watched...

  • A Kind of Intimacy on Nov 17, 2009 in Ashworth

    I've spent a long weekend at home in Somerset with the rest of my family, doing restful things and enjoying the countryside (though the train journey home was a nightmare - took eight hours from door to door, and is two and half hours in a car...) W...

  • New Arrivals on Nov 13, 2009

    I promised to tell you the books which arrived over the past fortnight or so... and so I will! It's quite a big pile, and that has something to do with a rather incredible bookshop I've mentioned before. It's the Book & Comic Exchange in Notti...

  • Brute-Cult on Nov 12, 2009

    Another quick post, as I'm away from the homestead - I thought I'd draw your attention to an article I've been reading called 'Brute-Cult'. Well, it's quite long, but I'm just going to reproduce bits of it...‘I am, I suppose, the average Anglo-Sax...

  • Ivy Reviews on Nov 11, 2009

    Just a quick post to point you in the direction of various reviews of Manservant and Maidservant. Only a few of us read it, but there's still a nice variety of opinions already - everything from a new convert to someone who'll never read a word of I...

  • Birthday Fun on Nov 10, 2009

    Thanks everyone for your birthday wishes, and sorry I've been AWOL for a while - book thoughts will return soon, but tonight instead I'll take you through our birthday celebrations (the 'our' here being me and my housemate Mel, whose birthday is this...