Chris Mills

LATEST ARTICLES ( 240 )

• Splitting Books, Not Hairs: It’s Back to School Again!

  

  Back to school bagI’m finally back on The Landing after the summer hiatus. That time of year always has a strange effect on my routine and good intentions and... Read more

  Posted on 11 September 2014 BOOKS, CULTURE

• What’s Your First Draft Like? – Louise Phillips

  

  Chris Mills:I’m re-blogging this piece from Rebecca Bradley’s crime blog since I’ve recently finished Louise Phillips’ Last Kiss. Read more

  Posted on 05 September 2014 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Not So Quiet by Helen Zenna Smith

  

  While I was working on Juliet Greenwood’s guest material, I was reminded of a short review that I wrote of Not So Quiet by Helen Zenna Smith (my edition is... Read more

  Posted on 15 August 2014 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Landing Author: Juliet Greenwood on WWI Food

  

  As I promised here is Juliet Greenwood’s guest post. Picking up on my interest in the theme of growing and preparing nutritious food during the war, I asked... Read more

  Posted on 09 August 2014 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Introducing Landing Author Juliet Greenwood

  

  As there are still plenty of summer days left for reading (albeit that you might be reading in mac and wellingtons) I thought I would feature one of my recent... Read more

  Posted on 06 August 2014 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Summer of Heritage 2014: Tours Of Dún Laoghaire Rathdown

  

  Chris Mills:I wrote this piece for the Irish News Review this week after having a tour round Cabinteely House, so I thought I’d re-post this here in case... Read more

  Posted on 24 July 2014 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Leskov and Shostakovich on The Landing

  

  Following on from the Landing Book Shelves foray into Russian literature, with Tolstoy and Pasternak, we have Nikolai Leskov (1831-1895) with The Enchanted... Read more

  Posted on 20 July 2014 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Summer at the Bookshop: It Started with a Sketch…

  

  In honour of bookselling summers gone by (and fellow booksellers), I am re-posting an edited version of a blog article that I originally wrote for Writing.ie... Read more

  Posted on 10 July 2014 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Cranford on the Small Screen

  After reading Cranford recently, The Bookworm and I decided to indulge in a DVD binge and we watched the entire BBC Cranford production from 2007 in one day of... Read more

  Posted on 03 July 2014 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Ladies Who Take Tea: Cranford

  

  Over the last wee while, I have been reading Mrs Gaskell’s Cranford aloud to the Bookworm (usually on a Sunday morning for some reason) and we are now roughly... Read more

  Posted on 01 June 2014 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Words on the Street: Literary Dublin

  It’s been a while since I featured anything of an excursionary (I think I made that word up) nature on The Landing so I’m taking the opportunity offered by... Read more

  Posted on 19 May 2014 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Westwood by Stella Gibbons

  

  Alighting on Westwood as the next Landing read was the first result of my rummage and dusting session, and it is a mere whippersnapper at only a couple of... Read more

  Posted on 14 May 2014 BOOKS, CULTURE

• A Maytime Poetic Interlude: London Bells

  

  Browsing through the ‘One City One Book’ poetry book, If Ever You Go brought to my mind last year’s birthday present from my daughter. Read more

  Posted on 08 May 2014 BOOKS, CULTURE

• The Landing (The TBR Pile) Spring Clean

  

  Recently I have been contemplating the prospect of tackling a spring-cleaning session in the magic realm known as  The Landing. Read more

  Posted on 30 April 2014 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Books and Grief: Talking to Ourselves by Andrés Neuman

  

  A recent addition to the Landing Bookshelves has been Andrés Neuman’s Talking to Ourselves (courtesy of the publishers, Pushkin Press). Read more

  Posted on 10 April 2014 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Books Are for Everyone

  

  Chris Mills:As a bookseller my heart sank into my boots every time a customer asked for the ‘boys’ or the ‘girls’ books. I used to do my best to convince... Read more

  Posted on 25 March 2014 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Daniel Seery: A Model #LandingAuthor

  

  As promised yesterday, and just in time to liven up a chilly Monday morning in Dublin are a few questions that I put to Daniel Seery, author of A Model Partner... Read more

  Posted on 24 March 2014 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Introducing #LandingAuthor Daniel Seery

  

  As I mentioned on Twitter earlier this week, I am due to host debut author Daniel Seery (A Model Partner, Liberties Press) on The Landing. Read more

  Posted on 23 March 2014 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Spoils from the Trinity College Book Sale

  

  As regular readers probably realise, I  don’t need to be adding any more books to the huge TBR Pile that is the Landing Book Shelves but nevertheless I brought ... Read more

  Posted on 19 March 2014 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Boris Pasternak: Doctor Zhivago

  

  As I mentioned previously I’m continuing with my Russian theme by reading Doctor Zhivago (Boris Pasternak) which I had for Christmas (it seems ages ago now! Read more

  Posted on 12 March 2014 BOOKS, CULTURE