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• The Last Wilderness

  

  Nature writing is such an intriguing genre. It’s so quiet and unassuming in its PR that you might not expect it to have such an honorable and long-standing... Read more

  Posted on 31 March 2018 BOOKS, CULTURE

• After Weinstein: How Do Good Things Come From Bad Things?

  As ever, it’s Radio 4 that tipped me over the edge. I’ve thought often of writing about the complex fallout from the Harvey Weinstein affair, because I feared... Read more

  Posted on 03 November 2017 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Mata Hari, We Hardly Knew You

  

  Mata Hari must be one of the very few women in history whose name has turned into common terminology, as the spy who seduces to gain knowledge. Read more

  Posted on 09 October 2017 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Teenage Kicks

  

  The Baltimore Boys by Joel Dicker is a novel in which The Sorrows of Young Werther meets Sidney Sheldon, a sentence I’ve been looking forward to writing ever... Read more

  Posted on 17 September 2017 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Hot Milk Or What Kind of Critic Am I?

  

  When I began this blog way back in the mists of 2006, I was a proper academic literary critic, which meant that I read books according to a number of... Read more

  Posted on 03 September 2017 BOOKS, CULTURE

• In Which We Consider Moominmamma Closely

  

  In a bid to remind myself that I still know how to read a book, I recently picked up Comet in Moominland by Tove Jansson. It was short and easy, with pictures. Read more

  Posted on 20 August 2017 BOOKS, CULTURE

• My Last Essay And Other Stories

  Well, the middle of August is not the best time to pop up in the blogworld after a lengthy absence, but the lovely Numero Cinq online magazine is coming to a... Read more

  Posted on 14 August 2017 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Absence Makes the Heart Grow Fonder?

  I do hope so. There’s been a lot going on here lately that I will tell you all about soon. But in the meantime, I’ve got an essay on Henry Miller up at Numero... Read more

  Posted on 16 July 2017 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Hilary Mantel and Elizabeth Strout

  

  There was a moment, a few weeks back, when I was listening to four audio books (not simultaneously, obvs): Bring Up The Bodies by Hilary Mantel, Autumn by Ali... Read more

  Posted on 18 June 2017 BOOKS, CULTURE

• New at Numéro Cinq

  Way back in January I had a properly wonderful experience. I went to the studios of two very talented women: the painter, Miranda Boulton, and the poet, Kaddy... Read more

  Posted on 05 June 2017 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Each To Their Own

  So I’m standing at the kitchen sink doing the washing up the other evening, when Mr Litlove looms out of the darkness coming up the garden path. He’s been out... Read more

  Posted on 28 May 2017 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Storytelling and Compassion

  

  One of the many wonderful things about books is that they give us a safe space in which to encounter difficult and frightening thoughts. Read more

  Posted on 24 May 2017 BOOKS, CULTURE

• When CFS Meets the NHS and No One Wins

  So, last week was an unusual one for us because Mr Litlove was unwell. I always find it intriguing when he falls ill, because I get to witness what happens... Read more

  Posted on 15 May 2017 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Artful

  

  So long as that woman from the Rijksmuseum in painted quiet and concentration keeps pouring milk day after day from the pitcher to the bowl the World hasn’t... Read more

  Posted on 07 May 2017 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Snooping, Blinking and a Controversial Chair

  

  As you may remember, while my eyes have been troublesome, Mr Litlove has been reading to me most days after lunch – a sort of bookish siesta. Read more

  Posted on 29 April 2017 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Forty Great Books By Women About Women

  

  Last week my friend sent me a link to a list of 40 Books Every Woman Should Read in Red magazine. It seemed such an odd, eclectic list that it has tempted me... Read more

  Posted on 24 April 2017 BOOKS, CULTURE

• From the Ridiculous to the Sublime

  

  Although the title of this post is definitely a Mr-Litlove-esque one, I am sorry to say that Mr Litlove has not done anything comical for several weeks and so... Read more

  Posted on 15 April 2017 BOOKS, CULTURE

• The Penguin Rocker and More Books

  

  I have been very remiss in not showing you a photo of the chair Mr Litlove made me for my birthday. Yes, I know what you are thinking: how many more chairs can... Read more

  Posted on 06 April 2017 BOOKS, CULTURE

• All Kinds of Everything Bookish

  

  Mr Litlove quoted something mildly alarming to me the other day when reading Originals by Adam Grant, a non-fiction title about creativity. Read more

  Posted on 31 March 2017 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Agent Hunter and Other Stories

  So, where were we? Ah yes, we had finished the Barbara Pym part of the narrative concerning Mr Litlove and we were moving onto the Stephen King part of the... Read more

  Posted on 11 March 2017 BOOKS, CULTURE