Secluded Charm

As regular readers of either this blog or my excruciating Twitter feed (@CharmedLassie) will know, I'm a stay-at-home research student a...

This was another book I bought during my undergraduate degree (for my Colonialism and Post-Colonialism unit, I believe) and never read for w...

Whenever I hear the phrase above - or a variation of it - I'm immediately transported back to Seven Brides for Seven Brothers . Cook and...

This week our darling Education Secretary, Michael Gove, was reported to have suggested that children just hitting secondary school age shou...

As part of my ongoing quest to preserve anything I may want from my grandmother's home as she prepares to move, I spent two afternoons ...

Well, here we are. Eleven months after starting this blog I'm hitting my hundredth post. To be honest, I'm amazed. This is the longe...

There are only two authors whose books I would rush out to buy on the day of release. Generally, I can starve myself until the paperback com...