I stumbled across this on the trawl for festive fiction. I adored my Collins Christmas Treasury as a child so was in the mood for something similar. But with The Penguin Book […]
I’ve had In Cold Blood on my To Be Read pile for years without it ever making it to the top. Truman Capote is one of those writers where you feel […]
I should explain that this book has been my personal Everest. I have been planning to read Middlemarch for about the last nine years. Actually beginning the novel felt a little unreal […]
Described various as the novel which Dickens held as his ‘favourite child’ or his most ‘likable’ work, I have been meaning to get to it since I first saw the […]
Weighing in at nearly one and a half thousand pages, The Mysteries of Paris is an intimidating book by anyone’s standards. Serialised over a sixteen month period in the 1840s, it was […]
Love and Freindship and Other Youthful Writings is a new paperback release from Penguin, offering an anthology collection of Jane Austen’s juvenilia, including snippets dating back to when the author was […]
For my second Austen in August post, I decided to re-read Persuasion, a task that is in no way onerous. I first read it aged twelve and have revisited it […]
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