Review: Fierce Bad Rabbits, Clare Pollard
Those searching for the perfect gift for the bibliophiles in their lives need look no further. The relationship we have with the books we read in childhood is incredibly potent […]
Bibliomemoir
Review: The Year of Reading Dangerously, Andy Miller
Another day, another bibliomemoir. Published in 2012, this is actually one of the first, meaning that Andy Miller is one of the pioneers of the genre. As with many things […]
Review: Mrs Gaskell & Me, Nell Stevens
I read The Life of Charlotte Brontë when I was thirteen and was appalled. I couldn’t believe someone had written a biography so demonstrably false. About ten years later, I watched the […]
Review: A Girl Walks Into A Book, Miranda K. Pennington
The bibliomemoir is a genre which has been on the rise over the last five years although it has been around a good deal longer. From Francis Spufford’s The Child That […]
Review: Bookworm, Lucy Mangan
This was one of those rare and wonderful books that I had the vague feeling might actually have been written with me in mind. I followed journalist and author Lucy […]
Review: How To Be A Heroine, Samantha Ellis
By title alone I was always going to want to read this. Reading the synopsis turned it into an over-whelming need, particularly since nearly all the books on the cover […]