Secluded Charm

Last week I toddled off down to London again. I'd had everything booked for months but I wasn't expecting to be in such a precarious...

I've mentioned in the past that our terrier, Rosie, is having some stress problems. We put the last bout down to the death of the last ...

Nobody likes to fail. I rarely set out to do something if I feel like I might hit a wall. That may make me a coward but it prevents situatio...

I'm only a quarter of the way into Uncle Silas , the 1864 suspenseful and sensational work by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu. I originally boug...

Thank you to Penguin Books and @Francesca_PR who supplied this book to me for the purpose of reviewing. Dani's Story  documents the tr...

As part of my PhD research I'm reading lots of sensation novels and trying to write a brief summary of events so that I don't get to...

One warning before I kick off this review: Of Human Bondage is an exceptionally long book. The copy I've got (from the Vintage imprint) ...