PLACES & BOOKS

How diverse are your bookshelves? I'm constantly asking myself that question, challenging my assumptions - for why read if not to...

2018. There it goes. Whoosh. Bye! While others were obsessed with Brexit, I was busy reading (and doing other stuff). Mostly reading...

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...

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...

I’m lucky enough to work in the heart of Bloomsbury – Virginia Woolf territory – in London, so spend virtually every weekday there....

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...

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...

Good day lovely people. Today I am bringing you a list of my top hundred favourite books. These aren't necessarily the greatest books...