How many books should we keep?
30 books, Marie? Really? Well of course we all now know that’s not what she said. Or at least I hope we know that. What she said was ““I...
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The Magic Re-reading Formula
Do books you have previously read call to you? Or do you just want to keep discovering new books and new authors? Today I am considering...
Reading the World
How diverse are your bookshelves? I'm constantly asking myself that question, challenging my assumptions - for why read if not to...
My Book of the Year 2018
2018. There it goes. Whoosh. Bye! While others were obsessed with Brexit, I was busy reading (and doing other stuff). Mostly reading...
A la recherche du bookshop perdu
In memory of my favourite bookshop... I still feel a sense of loss whenever I walk past a particular shop-front in my town. All the...
Voices in my head (phones)
Do you listen to podcasts? What about audio books? Me, I’m a relative latecomer to these worlds of wonder. Until about a year ago, I...
A literary lunchtime walk
I’m lucky enough to work in the heart of Bloomsbury – Virginia Woolf territory – in London, so spend virtually every weekday there....
The books that raised me
A little while ago I squeezed a longer article into bookstagram format, so here I am going to unpack it a little. The post was called The...
What is it about reading?
Why read fiction? Hmmm? Of all the ways to pass your short time on this planet, why stick your head in the midst of a few hundred pages...
My top 100 books - 2018
Good day lovely people. Today I am bringing you a list of my top hundred favourite books. These aren't necessarily the greatest books...
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