It’s a Grey, Grey Christmas…

First of all, apologies for the delayed Persephone Secret Santa reveal and thank you to my co-host Verity for holding down the fort and providing a full list of this year’s recipients. I have had a crazy week month year and have been feeling a little under-the-weather. However, it is often in times of manic [...]

One Day by David Nicholls

For the first post in, again, quite some time, I have entered into dialogue my fellow blogger and friend, Simon of Stuck in a Book. Please enjoy our ramblings about One Day by David Nicholls (the obligatory orange jacket for the book accompany this post – it appears everywhere else so why not here?!) SIMON: [...]

Persephone Secret Santa is Coming to Town!

When my dear friend Verity asked if I would be organising Persephone Secret Santa again this year and whether I needed a co-host this time, I knew I had been presented with the best opportunity to return to blogging. Persephone Books and blogging have, in many ways, become synonymous for me as they are [...]

Congratulations to Verity and Ken!

It has been said often but bears repeating: one of the most surprising but wonderful by-products of blogging are the friendships that have been forged through a shared passion for books. I consider myself blessed to have met (in real life and virtually) so many people who I have an affinity with, “kindred spirits” as [...]

Absence Makes the Heart Grow Fonder…

Hello. This is becoming a habit… In July I was in Florida, on the Gulf Coast reading and rejuvenating; in Orlando wrapped in the magic of The Wizarding World of Harry Potter and Disney. I now aspire to having my own lazy river that I can float around on a inflatable ring all day every [...]

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