Saturday Poem – The Cat’s Protection League
I am not a cat person. Really, really not – I’m allergic. More than an hour or so in a house with felines and my eyes water and itch and […]
Month: January 2015
Review: Be Awesome – Modern Life for Modern Ladies, Hadley Freeman
Most people who know me are aware that I adore the Guardian. Despite my notoriously skinflintish ways (as a student I collected all my stationery as free gifts from society fairs […]
Readalong #2 – Alias Grace
The Readalong is back! So, this month Kirsty from the Literary Sisters and I hosted the Wuthering Heights Readalong – many thanks are due to Lory, CGrace and Rachel for […]
Review: The Raven’s Head, Karen Maitland
Karen Maitland is a very successful writer of historical fiction and the lovely History Girls blog but unlike certain other writers (*cough* Philippa Gregory *cough*) she tends to veer away […]
Top Ten Most Irritating Characters in Fiction
There are the literary heroes we love. There are the literary villains we hate. Then there are the characters in the middle who we love to hate. But then there […]
Review: Thornfield Hall, Jane Stubbs
More than anything, this book felt opportunistic. Last year, Jo Baker wrote the wonderful Longbourn, which looked at Pride and Prejudice from the point of view of the servants and now […]