Chris Mills

LATEST ARTICLES ( 249 )

• A Tale of Four Sisters: Revisiting Little Women

  

  The March familyA few posts ago, I mentioned that I had bought a biography of Louisa May Alcott at the Trinity College Booksale. Read more

  Posted on 07 June 2012 BOOKS

• Studying the Shelves: Part I

  

  I have arrived at a point where I have become extremely sidetracked into reading books other than those on the landing, so I thought I’d do a quick tour to... Read more

  Posted on 31 May 2012 BOOKS

• Yet Another Detour from the Landing: Heroines of Education

  

  This post came about because I have been reading a couple of biographies at the same time: one about the Crimean heroine Mary Seacole (Jane Robinson) and the... Read more

  Posted on 17 May 2012 BOOKS

• An Enlightening Journey with the Traveller of the Century (Andrés Neuman)

  

  Traveller of the CenturyAfter my last post, which featured the Q and A with Argentinian/Spanish writer Andrés Neuman here is my piece on his novel Traveller of... Read more

  Posted on 29 April 2012 BOOKS

• Traveller on the Landing: Andrés Neuman Answers Some Questions

  

  1, You have been featured on the list of Granta‘s Best Young Spanish language novelists and on the Bogotá 39 list. Do you feel that these lists achieve the... Read more

  Posted on 25 April 2012 BOOKS

• Author on the Landing Bookshelves: Andrés Neuman (Traveller of the Century)

  

  By no stretch of the imagination can I claim that Traveller of the Century has been lurking unread on the (admittedly over populated) landing bookshelves,... Read more

  Posted on 22 April 2012 BOOKS

• Stories and Storytellers: Musings on the Importance of Stories

  

  While tidying up some old files I came across a piece I had written last year for a guest blog spot on the topic of stories. As it seemed to fit with the theme... Read more

  Posted on 15 April 2012 BOOKS

• Georgette Heyer: Doyenne of the Regency Period Novel

  

  Georgette HeyerFor Christmas, I bought my mum a copy of Jennifer Kloester’s Georgette Heyer: Biography of a Bestseller, about one of my all time favourite... Read more

  Posted on 09 April 2012 BOOKS

• A Dickens of a Challenge: a Little Light Relief

  

  My book challenge has just taken a useful turn, as the members of my book club (all four of us) have decided to read Charles Dickens this month as a contributio... Read more

  Posted on 21 March 2012 BOOKS