Secluded Charm

Why do I suddenly feel like Dolores Umbridge? I suppose I bear a passing resemblance to her at the moment as I turn bright red and begin to ...

I decided to buy this book after watching the BBC adaptation staring Anna Maxwell Martin. Although I loved the adaptation, I had hopes that ...

I spent yesterday with my sister, two small nieces and my brother's one year-old. It was a pretty enjoyable, if exhausting, day but one ...

I was listening to a short interview with Doris Day on BBC Radio 4 yesterday. She's doing a little promotion for her new collection of s...

Well, I found this out a week ago but only told a select few people because I was convinced I'd get an email saying they'd re-read t...

One of the first things you'd notice if you picked this book up in a shop and flicked through it is that it has a distinct lack of speec...

There's a huge difference between reading Victorian fiction religiously (or methodically, as my PhD has dictacted I do) and attempting t...