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• Question Time

  

  For those of you who don’t know (where have you been?!), Simon at Stuck in a Book and I have been doing a podcast called Tea or Books? Read more

  Posted on 09 December 2017 BOOKS, CULTURE

• The Sense of an Ending by Julian Barnes

  

  I’ve been meaning to read this for ages, because I heard a lot of hype about it back when it won the Booker in 2011, and then when the film came out this year, ... Read more

  Posted on 16 November 2017 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Autumnal Ambles

  

  I love autumn. It’s my absolute favourite season. Nothing beats kicking piles of golden, crunchy leaves, watching the sky fade from watery blue into... Read more

  Posted on 05 November 2017 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Autumnal Reading

  

  Golden Autumn by Sir Alfred EastDespite saying on the last Tea or Books? podcast that I don’t read several books concurrently, I’ve found that this autumn,... Read more

  Posted on 07 October 2017 BOOKS, CULTURE

• London Open House

  

  This weekend was London Open House and despite already suffering from back to school lurgy, I was determined to make the most of it and have a look at some... Read more

  Posted on 17 September 2017 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Period Piece by Gwen Raverat

  

  I love childhood memoirs. As someone who often rhapsodies about the sun-soaked halcyon days of childhood summers, spent lying spreadeagled on the cool grass... Read more

  Posted on 03 September 2017 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Scotland

  

  As part of my mission to explore more of the UK, this year I decided my summer holidays would not involve taking any planes. I might be kissing goodbye to any... Read more

  Posted on 25 August 2017 BOOKS, CULTURE

• News of the World by Paulette Jiles

  

  When my wonderful friend Ellen, who took me under her wing many moons ago during my time living in New York, recommends a book to me, I never hesitate to read... Read more

  Posted on 06 August 2017 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Cornwall

  

  My recent addiction to the BBC TV series Poldark made me desperate to go to Cornwall and see the beautiful scenery that forms the background to the characters’... Read more

  Posted on 30 July 2017 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Miss Boston and Miss Hargreaves by Rachel Malik

  

  The beautiful, Ravilious-style cover of this debut novel is what initially compelled me to pick it up when I saw it sitting on the shelf in Daunt Books. Read more

  Posted on 19 July 2017 BOOKS, CULTURE

• On Being Wrong

  

  Eating humble pie is not something I enjoy doing, but when I’m wrong, I’m willing to admit it. As an English teacher, one of the aspects of my job that I enjoy... Read more

  Posted on 13 July 2017 BOOKS, CULTURE

• The Signature of All Things by Elizabeth Gilbert

  

  It’s always rather galling when you come across a book that’s exactly the sort of thing you wish you had written yourself. Victorian people who enjoy learning... Read more

  Posted on 12 June 2017 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Florence

  

  I have just spent a lovely four days in Florence, which is a city I have so often heard people gush over that I went with sky-high expectations of being... Read more

  Posted on 03 June 2017 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Fancy Reading Some of My Fiction?

  

  I’ve been toying with putting some of my fiction on here for a while, but I’ve been quite nervous about it for a number of reasons. Read more

  Posted on 27 May 2017 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Long Live Great Bardfield by Tirzah Garwood

  

  Tirzah Garwood was the wife of the mid century artist Eric Ravilious, whose work has been enjoying a much-deserved renaissance in recent years. Read more

  Posted on 17 May 2017 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Northumberland

  

  Over the Easter holidays, a friend and I went on a lovely week-long break to Northumberland, the border county between England and Scotland. Read more

  Posted on 03 May 2017 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Idaho by Emily Ruskovich

  

  Every December I look on Amazon to see what books are coming out in the following year, and I have lots of fun scrolling through different genres and adding... Read more

  Posted on 23 April 2017 BOOKS, CULTURE

• A Winter Away by Elizabeth Fair

  

  I was kindly sent this to review by Dean Street Press, who have recently reprinted a whole host of female middlebrow authors from the mid 20th century in... Read more

  Posted on 10 April 2017 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Spring Sojourns

  

  The sun has finally come out in London, and the smell of spring is in the air. Over the past couple of weekends, I’ve been out and about in the city, and found... Read more

  Posted on 03 April 2017 BOOKS, CULTURE

• The Way We Live Now by Anthony Trollope

  

  I think Anthony Trollope might be my new favourite novelist. His books might be ridiculously long, but they’re so much fun that the pages whip by in an ecstasy... Read more

  Posted on 20 March 2017 BOOKS, CULTURE