Chris Mills

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• Books on the Bus

  

  Crime on the commuteI noted in the last blog post that I was listening to The Word is Murder by Anthony Horowitz (read by Roy Kinnear) on my commute. Read more

  Posted on 28 February 2022 BOOKS, CULTURE

• The New Year Resolution That Wasn’t

  

  The germ of this first blog post of 2022 is a resolution that I probably ought to make this year, should have made in previous years and in all likelihood will... Read more

  Posted on 30 January 2022 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Pondering on Those Interminable Book Lists

  

  Book of BooksYet again, I have to account for a long blogging gap on the Landing Book Shelves, as it has been a few months since my last optimistic post. Yet... Read more

  Posted on 03 October 2021 BOOKS, CULTURE

• A Brief Notice: The Landing Book Shelves is on the Move!

  

  You may think that things are never-changing here on The Landing, but that is not in fact the case. There is always a certain degree of book shuffling going on... Read more

  Posted on 30 March 2021 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Ireland Reads Day: Squeezing in a Read (or Two)

  

  Today’s Landing Tales post is written in support of the #Ireland Reads day, so I want to talk a little about my memories of my early reading life (once upon a... Read more

  Posted on 25 February 2021 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Armchair Travelling: The Silent Traveller in Edinburgh by Chiang Yee

  

  This book was a Christmas present from The Bookworm, so it hasn’t been on the Landing Book Shelves for long. In fact, it is more of a bedside table guest, befor... Read more

  Posted on 31 January 2021 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Recipes: from an Old Farmhouse by Alison Uttley

  

  An evocative imageI wanted to follow up on the last Landing post on foraging-related books with another foody feature. This book is part memoir of a Derbyshire... Read more

  Posted on 31 July 2020 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Two ‘Wild Food’ Books: Food for Free and Wild and Free

  

  Before we go any further I would just like to say that it’s a moot point whether these books a) really count as Landing Tales reads as they don’t live in that... Read more

  Posted on 12 June 2020 BOOKS, CULTURE

• School Adventure: Dimsie Among the Prefects

  

  DimsieFor this post, I have lighted on a book that pre-dates the Landing Bookshelves by many years as it is one that my mother had as a child. Read more

  Posted on 20 May 2020 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Frankly Feminine: A Little Worldly Advice from the 60s

  

  Frankly Feminine, 1965Frankly Feminine: A book of comprehensive information and advice for the woman of today was edited by Eileen McCarthy, published by The... Read more

  Posted on 21 January 2020 BOOKS, CULTURE

• The Benefactress by Elizabeth Von Arnim

  

  I have been searching around on The Landing to find ideas for a new series of blog posts. Obviously, at this stage my projected spring Renaissance has turned... Read more

  Posted on 03 December 2019 BOOKS, CULTURE

• A Landing New Beginning…

  

  A few more to read…As I am sure I don’t need to point out, it’s been a while since I visited the Landing Bookshelves, so things are a little dusty around here a... Read more

  Posted on 24 March 2019 BOOKS, CULTURE

• This is Not Your Final Form: Emma Press

  

  For this post I am having a change of direction and featuring a poetry book as I have not done so for a quite a while (sadly remiss of me). Read more

  Posted on 22 March 2018 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Month of Letters Round-Up: Final Stages

  

  I did say on an earlier post that I would give you an update on my Month of Letters progress and so here it is. The short version is that I am still keeping... Read more

  Posted on 27 February 2018 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Daphne Du Maurier’s Letters to Oriel Malet

  

  As regular readers of this blog will know, I have been following the Month of Letters February challenge for the past few years, I think since its first year.... Read more

  Posted on 16 February 2018 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Fanny Burney: Novelist and Diarist

  

  For today’s post, I want to return to one of the books I mentioned in my summer 2017 round-up, a biography of Fanny Burney (1752-1840) to talk about her in a... Read more

  Posted on 30 January 2018 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Diary of a Provincial Lady

  

  For this, my first post of the year I want to introduce the The Diary of a Provincial Lady (E.M. Delafield) to anyone who hasn’t come across her before. Read more

  Posted on 17 January 2018 BOOKS, CULTURE

• A Child’s Christmas in Wales: Dylan Thomas

  As the snow is falling on the blog pages (courtesy of WordPress wizardry) and was recently attempting to fall perilously near to the The Landing Bookshelves... Read more

  Posted on 23 December 2017 BOOKS, CULTURE

• A Victorian Crime Wave

  For the last few weeks, I have been indulging in my own mini crime wave, wallowing in two collections of short stories. The first anthology, The Oxford Book of... Read more

  Posted on 06 December 2017 BOOKS, CULTURE

• A Pre-Raphaelite Summer (Reading Part 2)

  

  As you will probably have guessed, this art-themed post is to be the second part of my belated round up of summer reading. Very belated, considering that... Read more

  Posted on 01 November 2017 BOOKS, CULTURE